Archive for February, 2009

MacBuntu, Fill Your Ubuntu With Mac Lookalike Widget

MacBuntuHave you ever seen a Mac? Cool isn’t it? You’ll be amazed with the view of the desktop, the animation and the widget. Well, if you want to have a Mac lookalike, there are many transformation pack for your Ubuntu desktop, the famous one is Mac4Lin that could transform your standard Ubuntu to a cool Mac lookalike.

But if you don’t want an extreme Mac look, but still want Mac’s gadget on your Ubuntu (the Intrepid one I mean), you could have it without downloading the Mac4Lin or even adding a repo. Here’s the way.
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Obama’s Gadget, Should It be Connected with Nationalism?

Barack Obama (timesonline.typepad.com)

Barack Obama (timesonline.typepad.com)

There are two gadgets that Barack Obama famous with (at least on my opinion). They are Nintendo Wii and Blackberry.

One of Obama’s campaign says, “Turn off the TV, turn off the video games and start make history”, well it didn’t address straight to the Wii, but in the video it shows a Wii-mote (not a Dualshock or X-Box Controller). And the new President of USA has decided to bring the Wii to the White House.
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Takaful, an Introduction

Brief Explanation

Takaful means a scheme based on brotherhood, solidarity and mutual assistance which provides for mutual financial aid and assistance to the participants in case of need whereby the participants mutually agree to contribute for that purpose (Takaful Act 1984, article 2), for short it is an Islamic Insurance, which still bring sharia principles within which are the main differences with the conventional insurance. It’s been practiced for about 1400 years, historians believe that Muslim of Mecca and Medina has started a kind of mutual insurance, and it developed again with trade between Arabs and Asians which require a great time and length that increase the risk of robbery and loss.
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