Re: World Hunger

This post is connected to my older post about world hunger. In this post i would just like to talk about a photo taken in 1994 by photographer Kevin Carter. This "Pulitzer Prize" winning photo picture took place during the Sudan Famine, just a kilometer away from the United Nations camp. As the child tries to crawl its way to UN camp for food and shelter, the vulture in the behind waits the kid to give out its last breath to eat it! The photographer died 3 month later due to depression...

Yes! This is our world!

World Hunger

Main parts with world hunger

We all heard a lot about world hunger, but did we really HEAR about world hunger. I'm asking you people to open your ears wider and give an effort to JUST know a little bit more about this cause.





Quick Facts:

• 800 million people are living in what the world bank call "absolute poverty"!
• 15 million children die every year from starvation!
• For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children can eat for 5 years!
• 3 million people in the world today struggle to live up on $2 per day!
• In USA: 1 out of 8 children goes to bed "hungry" every night!
• Every 3.6 seconds, someone die of hunger!
• So if you are a fast reader, 8 persons have died from hunger since you started to read these facts.

Solution:

• Since 1997 alone, thanks to many noble people that are volunteering to help the hungry and donate, the vitamin A supplement programme has saved around 300,000 young children. Today even more. World hunger can be solved. Don't think that our world doesn't have enough money or food to feed, there is plenty and even more for all of us. The world agriculture produces 17% more calories per person today than it used to 30 years ago, despite the 70% population increase. Which is enough to provide at least 2,700 calories per person daily - A person needs an average of 2,000 calories daily (depending on the type of body). So there is a solution, and this is not a hopeless cause.Please spread the word around. E-mail this cause to a friend for more awareness about this subject.

• If you are willing to help and donate, please don't hesitate, and click on the donate button below.

Talking Images:

New Subject...

Our semester is almost to an end, and Mr. Auge has given us the opportunity to post about whatever subject we desire... So, I will try to use the last posts of this blog for a noble cause and to spread awareness among our readers. I believe that because most of our readers are from our class, which are majored in mass communication, hopefully will get great benefit from my upcoming posts in an educational manner and also in a humanitarian side as well.

Spreading

Awareness

Peace

Compassion

"Hand in hand, together we stand"

Posting video

How do I post a video to my blog?

Uploading a video to your personal blog doesn’t take much time. The amount of time depends on the size of the blog and the speed of the internet connection. The processing stage takes around 5 minutes.

Follow these steps to upload the video that you already have on your pc to your blog:

Firstly, go to settings/posting then click on the film strip icon on the post editor toolbar.
Secondly, click "Browse" to find the video on your computer and enter a title for your video.
Then, agree to the terms and conditions and finally click on the "upload video" button.

How do you upload a video to your blog from youtube?
The easiest way to embed a youtube video into a blog post is to copy the “Embed code” and paste it into your blog post.

The embed code are found next to the video that you are watching on http://www.youtube.com/.




Once you have pasted the code on your post, the video will be embedded for you. And the code will automatically change to a shorter one like this:

And for sure you can place the code wherever you want the video to be shown.

Another way to embed a YOUTUBE video, you can get it by following the steps bellow:
1- Copy the URL of the video.
2- Go to to the Add Media section in the page where you compose your blog posts.
3- Click on Add Video.
4- paste the URL into the box
5- click insert.

If you'd like to put music or audio on your blog, there are many options available to you. First you'll have to decide whether you want to host your own audio files or merely embed them from an existing third-party site
Embedding music/audio from third-party sites
If you'd like to embed a playlist or functionality from a third-party music service such as Last.fm or Imeem, Blogger's layouts feature makes it easy.
1. Visit your Template Page Elements tab.
2. Create a new widget by clicking "Add a Page Element."
3. Choose the "HTML/Javascript" widget.
4. Enter the HTML code provided by your third-party music service into the content window and click "Save Changes."



posted by: Ghyna kurdy

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Unlimited Mail Storage

We almost all have e-mails, and we always hate it when they send us that we have reached the end of our limited size. How about if i tell you "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!". Yahoo has gave us the chance to never ever know again that we have reached the end of our limit; therefor, UNLIMITED mail storage! As yahoo has reached its 10th year, it has given us this present (What shall we get yahoo?!).

Unlimited food storage!

Let us look at Yahoo's storage history:

• 1997: Yahoo! Mail lunches with 4Mbs of storage.
• 2004: Upgraded to 100Mbs.
• 2005: Followed by a jump of a 1Gbs!
• 2007/08/today!: Unlimited!!!
  
  

"We hope we’re setting a precedent for the future. Someday, can you imagine a hard drive that you can never fill? Never having to empty your photo card on your camera to get space back? Enough storage to fit the world’s music, and then some, on your iPod? Sounds like a future without limits. Beats a slice of birthday cake, eh?"

John KremerVice President, Yahoo! Mail

Posted By: Mayez Kabbara

Making two different Accounts on the same Blog

Follow these 9 steps make 2 accounts:



1-sign in to blogger.com

2-open the dashboard

3-click on the settings button

Manage: Posts, Settings, Layout


4-go to permissions


5-then, go to add authors, and send an invitation to the owner of the other account that you want to move your blog to.



Invite more people to write to your blog
Enter the email addresses of people you want to write to your blog (separated by commas)


6- Wait for the owner of Account 2 to accept the invitation, Once Account 2 has joined the blog; Account 1 can log in again and go back to the Settings Permissions tab.

7- Click the grand admin privileges link next to Account 2.


8- Click the remove link next to Account 1.

9-You'll still see any posts made on the blog by Account 1 with Account 1's display name. Account 2 can delete and repost these posts if they'd like to change the display name.
Account 1 cannot be removed until Account 2 has admin rights, since every blog must have at least one admin member at all times.

posted by: Ghyna Kurdy

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10 Largest online databases

Library of infinity



Talking about infinit numbers of multimedia! Can you imagine combining "multi" and "infinit" in the same sentence, so how much am i talking about?



All of us have tried to collect items in our childhood and maybe even now. But of course we can reach a huge number but not even close to infinity. We might do pir best to collect as much songs we could on our computers, but still, limited. If so, could there be somwhere an infinit number of data?! Many has confirmed that the closest to an "infinit library" is the internet. So in this post i would like to list the largest databases on our beloved net.



The question to be asked... could there be a limit to storage? or is infinity the number that we will reach?







10. Library of Congress:


Library of Congress (LC) boasts more than 130 million items ranging from cook books to colonial newspapers to U.S. government proceedings. 20 Terabytes of data.


9. Central Intelligence Agency


The CIA, do i have to explain? Of course, there is an unknown number of information in this database, and the exact number of size is remained mysterious, but it is known that each month 100 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) items are added with comprehensive statistics of 250 countries.


8. Amazon


A pretty famous database; Which is the largest retail store online. Containing more that 54 million customers worldwide, and more that 42 database of data.


7. YouTube


Another famouse database; Known for storing videos. It contains at least 45 terabytes of videos. "Given: 65,000 videos per day X 30 days per month = 1,950,000 videos per month; 1 terabyte = 1,048,576 megabytes. If we assume that each video has a size of 1MB, YouTube would expect to grow 1.86 terabytes next month. Similarly, if we assume that each video has a size of 10MB, YouTube would expect to grow 18.6 terabytes next month."


6. ChoicePoint


Imagine if this ChoicePoint database is a book, and you would have to search in a book of a billion pages for a phone number! This database contains information of 250 million people which leads to a big number of 250 terabytes of personal data! Are you able to comprehend the numbers?
5. Sprint


One of the largest telecommunication companies. It offers services to more than 53 million subscribers. 365 million call record processed by day, 70 thousand call detail recorded per second.
4. Google


Everybody knows "Google". This blog would be made if it werent for google. 91 million searches per day (Among them me!), with a countless number of users.
3. AT&T


Similar to "Sprint", the United States' oldest telecommunications company AT&T maintains one of the world's largest databases. Containing 1.9 trillion phone call record leading to a database of 323 terabytes of information.


2. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center


The second largest database in the world, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in Oakland, California, is owned by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy. Now we have reached a new number, we now can use the peta! For this database has 2.8 petabytes of data that is operated by 2,000 computational scientists.


1. World Data Centre for Climate

Operated by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and German Climate Computing Centre, The World Data Centre for Climate (WDCC) is the largest database in the world. Our winner has 220 terabytes of web data and 6 petabytes of additional data!

So if you ask me: Did we reach infinity yet? Now you can answer for yourself!



Posted by: Mayez Kabbara

Re: Restore your Deleted Files (Arabic)

In my older post: "Restore your Deleted Files", I spoke about how you can use the Freeware software "Undelete-Plus" to retrieve your deleted files. Many people told me that it isnt working in the way they wish it would (Even thouh it works great with me). Therefor I will i explain how about another way that hopefully will meet your expectations. Visit http://www.drd.ae/?gclid=CIalisrQy5MCFQyI1Qod6UZXkw. This site is related to the UAE (United Arab Emirates) which are developing in a noticeable fast pace in technology in the Arab world, and because of the fact that it is an Arabic country that had hand in making this site, then you can click on the left link on the top to check the arabic version of the site incase you had a difficulty understanding the steps in English.

Posted by: Mayez Kabbara

How to create a custom Search Engine for your Blog

Creating a search engine on your blog (powered by Google) is very easy. You can create one just like the search engine above on our blog. It could help you, or your visitors in various ways. You could even specify the sites you want the search engine to search on, this could help when you want to specify the topic of your search results so that it would be in the same topic your blog is about. Like on our blog, i specified the results to be from media and new technologies so that in case you would like to know more about certain topics of our blog you could simply search it in the the search engine in our blog.





Here are the steps to create a search engine on your blog (or personal site):

1. Go to http://www.google.com/coop/cse/?hl=en.
2. Then click on "Create a Custom Search Engine" (or to jump a step ahead, just click on the picture below).

3. Then a page of the first of 2 steps will appear asking you to name and other questions related to how you would like you search engine to be modified.
4. After you have agreed on the terms and conditions and after you have clicked "Next", the second page will open asking you to try it out.
5. then when your satisfied with it, click finish.
6. After you have created the search engine. Your next step is to put it on your blog. To do so, click on "Control Panel" of your search engine, then open the "Code" section.
7. In the "Code" page, select "on a Google-Hosted page".
8. Then highlight the search box code to where you wish your costumed search engine to appear on your blog. Just like how explained below.

You can always go back to the site: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/?hl=en to modify, delete or even create other search engines.

Posted by: Ghyna Kurdy.

Moving the briefcase from your desktop PC to your laptop

If you have a desktop computer and a laptop, and you want to have similar files on both devices. Then your "briefcase" is there for that service.

Create a briefcase in both your laptop and PC, then put files in either briefcase.

Then follow these steps:

1. Connect your laptop to your PC.
2. Open your briefcase that you want it to be updated, or changed like the other one.
3. Then click on "Update all Files" in the briefcase.
   
   
   

Using the briefcase is very practical and quick. So i advice anyone that have laptops and PCs to use this feature or at least check it and know how to use it. It is very simple.

There you go, you have your briefcase automatically updated and ready for the run!

Posted by: Mayez Kabbara