Random-is.me

We’re 6 days into April, 6 days ago March ended (no sh*t)- Charitweet ended.

So here’s a little graph:

Total: 248
Average: 7.75/8
Most tweets in a day: 32 – Saturday March 20th

What is Charitweet?

Charitweet is an idea I came up with one night which came from the simple thought:

If people were charged 1AED for each tweet, would they tweet as much?

Then after a bit of thinking and good will, I came up with:

For every tweet I write in March, I will donate 1AED to charity.

Pretty simple, practical, and cool IMO.

So, what does this have to do with me?

You can do it with me! Doesn’t matter when you start, just do it for a month or week.

My currency isn’t AED..

Set a certain amount that won’t burn a huge hole in your pocket. It all helps eventually.

To which charity though?

Any trusted local/global charity will do. Either record how many tweets as you post them then donate the money at the end of the month or do it daily.

Great! How do I join?

Just tweet something saying that you’re gonna do it with a link to this post if you want. Oh, and don’t forget to add the hashtag – #charitweet.

Share your results if you want!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

-Margaret Mead

Capricorn, my first WordPress theme, has hit the 5000+ downloads mark. Just sayin’!

I’ve noticed the lack of keyboard shortcut documentation on the ‘Twitter For BlackBerry’ app. It’s in an invite-only beta stage so I guess that’s why (Thanks to @dumskull for the invite). Until it’s made public, here’s your little guide:

• Update: T
• Reply: R/L
• Retweet: F
• Direct Message: C
• Reply via Direct Message: C

Go to your twitter profile and scroll down to RSS feed and you’ll get something that looks like this:

Do you want to transfer this feed to FeedBurner? It’s simple, just follow these four easy steps:

1. Go To Your RSS Feed
   Go to your Twitter profile and scroll down to the end of the right column and you’ll see a RSS icon. Click it and copy the page address (or right click the link without clicking and copy). It should be something like this http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15391375.rss
2. Login to FeedBurner/Register
3. Add your username and password to the URL
   You need to change the http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15391375.rss to http://username:password@twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15391375.rss
4. Paste the modified URL to FeedBurner and modify your settings!

See, it’s that simple. Now you have your feed and you can do whatever with it. Submit to an RSS directory, use it on your blog etc.

FYI, I have a Tumblr blog @ Shaibani’s Tumblr blog

Happy Valentine’s Day by the way.

Over and out.

So Apple announced its new tablet coined as the “iPad.” As usual Steve Jobs gets on stage with the same sweater and jeans, talks then demos the thing then the other guy comes up and so on. So I decided I’ll post some thoughts of mine after all the hype wears off a bit.

By the way, I’m not buying this thing but if you wanna send me one for free my hands are open

On to the thoughts..

I really dislike the name. Apple, you had choices and you picked the worst one! You had iStale, iTablet, iBook, but you picked iPad?! When you’re skimming through headlines, you can easily mistake it for ‘iPod’. Oh and what of the period jokes! They’ll just never end.

Why would I want to use this thing anyway? Steve Jobs said its between the smartphone and the laptop, I just see it as an iPhone with a different interface. I just can’t stress this enough! The iPhone can do everything it does plus take pictures and videos. So can laptops, and they’re just as portable. On the other hand, it can act as a backup. Now I’m not the kind of guy that moves around a lot but if you are, you might actually benefit from its 10hr battery life. I’m not saying the thing sucks, I just don’t see where it fits.

Hold on.. What made the iPhone so ‘WOW!’? The touchscreen, it was something no one had ever seen before. The scrolling, the pinching, the accelormeter, the large screen etc. Why didn’t Apple do something different with the iPad? Why is it running iPhone OS? Why not OS X if it’s ‘like a laptop’? Or even better, why not its own OS? Something like Microsoft’s Surface PC would’ve been cool. Just think about it, playing around with stuff like that; it would’ve been a whole new experience! People would’ve gone crazy because of all the hype, and Apple wins again. Should’ve been, could’ve been, would’ve been, but wasn’t.

Oh and why the with or without 3G option? This is just like the 4GB iPhone, it’s going to be discontinued.

Flash on the iPad is a biggie. Why no Flash? You want the ‘best browsing experience’? You gotta have flash. Save it Steve, a computer browser holds that spot. End of story.