That tells me that I have invested a time period of over 4 years, translated into over 35,000 hours and I am happy and very much satisfied with what I have done. Heck! Technorati even tells me that this blog has surpassed most other tech blogs to be included in the list of 'Top 100 Technology' and 'Top 100 Gadgets' blog around the world.

However, with much satisfaction and success comes the challenge to maintain and live up to what people expect from you. This blog, I can proudly say, at least in Pakistan, started what I call the 'pedia frenzy' and since then things have gotten out of hands for me. Not only did people steal the identity of this blog (all the blogs of the same name on .net, .eu, .in, .org etc are not owned by me) but they declined to credit me for something that I started and to be honest I do not feel bad about it.

This blog, my baby as I call it, taught me how to love doing something in life and still make it lucrative. Trust me, it wasn't about the money, it was never about the money, it was about how one in the information-era is capable to consume and share information. That's what it was all about but in the course that I followed I found many people were there with me for their personal benefits, to which I feel no remorse; all of them probably had their reasons.

Then, a recent incident, with this blog made me re-think the whole strategy on which I am working. Google banned AdSense on this blog passing a reason that does not make a bit of sense to me. This blog, as Google says, is violating the Adsense quality guidelines for user-experience. For me, it doesn't make sense as this blog has always been in compliance with all policies and there is not a single reason why our blog's revenue should face such a major slump.

But then, it hit me. It's not just AdSense. It is how God wants to communicate with me and tell me that I need to move on. No one should put all their eggs in the same basket and that's what I have been doing for a very long time. This blog will always remain dear to me and this is in no way a good-bye, this blog will keep running even if we make any revenue out of it or not.

The purpose of this blog post is to let our readers and friends know what I am going through and how they can extract a lesson out of it. God is watching and trust me! karma is a bitch. What I want you to learn from my story is not how you can become a millionaire with blogging rather how you can make a living out of something you love and something you want to do.

I will be shifting my main focus to iPhoneism.com, a new blog that I recently started with Adnan Farooqui. He has served as the editor at this blog for quite some time and will be my partner in the new project. I would like to thank him for all his work and dedication.

For those who wonder what I am doing right now, I work for a digital media agency called bramerz and I am very happy with my day-time job.

Update: This blog is not shutting down and will continue to operation normally with new posts being updated daily.

Hold your breath as you're about to find out what this architectural gem is going to cost the Saudi government. $30 billion is the projected cost of the Kingdom Tower. Around the Kingdom Tower, a new city with a capacity of 80,000 people will be constructed which will approximately cover a total area of 23 million square metres.

Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, head of Kingdom Holding Company has given his approval for the Kingdom Tower, which is no doubt going to be the tallest man made structure in the world. One mile, as previously mentioned, is a phenomenal height for a tower.

Located in Jeddah, the Kingdom Tower will have multiple stories of office space, a number of stories for a hotel while four tiers of residential space are also going to be present. The top most tier is going to be reserved for "alternative energy generation" solutions.

It is needless to say that the view from Kingdom Tower's top is going to be mostly the desert that surrounds the city. However, for that view filled with sand, your elevator will take up to 12 minutes to ascend. If you ever thought how hard would it be to clean the windows of Burj Khalifah, think again.

A couple of videos to show what the Kingdom Tower is really going to be:

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There is no way that the Kingdom Tower can not be amazing. Remember, the services at Kingdom Tower will come at a very handsome price. So if you're a millionaire on the brink of becoming a billionaire, congratulations as work on your new summer house location is starting soon.

The application was released for iPhone in January 2009 and it also works on Windows Mobile, J2ME, Blackberry, and Symbian S60 phones. Benjamin Gauthey from Microsoft Tag team said, “We work to meet our commitment of ensuring that all Smartphone users can access Tag. We’re nearly there with the Tag Reader already working with the major mobile platforms”. A wave or rumours are spreading on the internet saying that Microsft will be releasing the Tag application to other mobile devices as well.

Android users can get the application from Android Marketplace by searching for “Microsoft Tag” or by opening gettag.mobi on their Android phone.

The company specializes in products using luminous fabric and has now launched a range of evening wear for both men and women including sexy bras and shawls.

Lumigram clothes are powered by 1.5V replaceable batteries, which light the top for more than 12 hours and a small switch on the battery allows the wearer to completely turn on/off the fiber glow. The light emitted by Lumitops is pleasing and attractive.

Valentine is just six months away and if you are planning to give something unique and innovative to your partner, don't forget to add LumiTop to the list. Thanks IS.

Though similar devices e.g. Rocket Belts, Rocket Packs etc have already been made and experimented but the Martin Jetpack will be the first ever propeller-device to be available for commercial purchase from next year.

Courtesy: New York Times

The Martin Jetpack was unveiled at an Air Show at Wisconsin by its inventor Glenn Martin. Despite its name, the Martin Jetpack is a small helicopter-like device and is capable of a 30-minute restless flight and can go as high as 8,000 feet.

Watch the video below for a live demonstration of the Martin Jetback at Wisconsin.

The Jetpack will be available for purchase from next year at a price of $100,000 and those who sign up to purchase the device will have to complete a 15 hour flight training course before claiming it.

Satya Paul has done quite the same in making the Google Saree. Saree is a popular traditional desi wear (particularly famous in India, Pakistan etc) which makes one look quite glamorous and appealing.

High-five to Keith for digging this up. If only I could somehow purchase this Saree online, it would have been the perfect gift to give to my girlfriend on her birthday

Yes you are not dreaming, these displays and the technology for these diplays has been finally perfected! IO2 Technologies have developed displays under the brand Heliodisplay, which projects any standard computer or video cable attached to the Heliodisplay system, and project video or images into mid-air.

Various models are available ranging sizes from 30", 50" and 100" (diagonal) areas. The 'i" version allows for a "virtual" touchscreen (new for December 2007). No special hardware or software is required to view images. The 30" Heliodisplay is now only 5.9" tall, and weighs 15lbs. The 50" and 100" are each only 10" tall and weigh 28lbs, and 68lbs respectively. All afford a wide range of flexibility and options.

Features:

The new M3 / M3i boasts "an improved tri-flow system for increased image stability and uniformity," enhanced brightness and clarity, a 1,024 x 768 resolution, 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratios, 2000:1 contrast ratio, VGA / S-Video / composite inputs, USB, NTSC / PAL compatibility, and "significantly quieter operation" to boot.

Marketed to the uber-wealthy and board room runners who'd like to teleconference on a free-space device (and blow the minds of clients), the basic M3 is available for a stiff $18,400, while the M3i -- which also serves as a "computer input device for cursor control in a desktop environment" -- will set you back a whooping $19,400.

Heliocast Interactivity

When the Heliodisplay is connected to a PC using a standard USB cable, and with the supplied IO2 Heliocast software installed, you can use your finger for touchscreen control to navigate and interact with content such as drag & drop, clicking, double clicking etc as one would on a standard PC. This is available starting December 2007. Remember Minority Report?

For further Information visit: IO2 Technologies, Helio Display Videos

They say that if you want to track the global progress and development of technology you should analyze the breakthroughs that take place in the automobile industry. New vehicles, cars and automobiles are a perfect reflection of how the technology of the world is pacing towards diversity and innovation.

Lately I shared a list of the 10 of the Most Sexy and Stylish Cars followed by a list of the Five Most Sexiest Electrically Powered Sports Car but today I am going to review a totally unique car featuring a technology that will allow people to drive above land as well as under water.

sQuba Car, being developed by Rinspeed is going to be the World's First Ever Amphibious Car. It means that the car will be able to be driven on land or can be even taken under water. It shall have the capability to go as deep as 10 meters under water as beyond that the buoyant force and the water pressure will make the conditions unsuitable for a stable drive.

How does the sQuba Car work?

The car has an electric motor with powerful torque drives the rear wheels. The propulsion on the water is ensured by two propellers in the stern and two powerful jet drives in the bow propel the vehicle under water while diving. With zero emissions, zero pollution in the seven seas of this world. The light weight body with components made of futuristic Carbon Nano Tubes encloses in a streamlined manner the driver and passenger who are supplied with fresh breathing air by the self-contained on-board system.

The car will be released on the upcoming Geneva motor show.

Though I hardly go off topic but being a representative of my country in the blogosphere and on the Internet world I must express the great sorrow that has overpowered my heart after the assasination of Benazir Bhutto.

She was a former prime-minister of Pakistan and had firm grounds of becoming the prime minister once again in 2008. They say that she wanted democracy but I say Benazir Bhutto is Democracy.

Here is the official assassination video of Benazir Bhutto as released by the Government of Pakistan. Though you will see gun shots being fired and a bomb blast but her actual death was caused due to a head injury and not because of any of the former.

I pray for her soul to rest in peace and may she get a place in heaven for serving her nation. Long live Benazir Bhutto!

I really don't have any serious interest in cars and vehicles but a lot of my readers enjoyed the 10 most sexiest and stylish cars post that was guest blogged by Hamad from TechnoInc some days ago. But when it comes to Sports Cars my heart really feels the attraction towards them because of their unmatchable speed and style. Inhabitat has recently shared a list of the Top 5 Sexiest Sports Cars and I will take the liberty to re share it with all of my readers.

1. Saab Aero-X

I really like the cool aero dynamic shape of this car and the white color seems a perfect blend to its beauty. It is said to take you from from 0 to 100kph/60mph in 4.2 seconds and has no doors rather the entire top canopy section of the car opens.

2. Venture Fetish

This is one of the only in production electric sports car with a production rate of 25 models per year. I really love the blue chrome look of this car. It can take you from 0-100kph/60mph in about 5 seconds.

3. Citroen C-Metisse

This diesel hybrid car has got a mixed mode engine i.e it can operate in a diesel mode as well as on a zero emission (all-electric) mode. This was unveiled at the Paris show last year.

4. Toyota FT-HS

This car is perhaps my favorite one in this list because of its stylish shape and eye-freshening color. The car can take you from 0 to 100kph/60mph in an astonishing four seconds flat and is set to go in production in 2009.

5. Tesla Roadster

The Tesla Roadster does seemingly look cool because of its black luster but didn't quite attract me that well. This car is fully electrically powered sports car with an acceleration of 0-100kph/60mph in a little over 4 seconds.

so which one are you buying ?

10 Most Sexiest and Stylish Cars

The list is according to my taste and persona choice. I will introduce to you 10 cars along with a little of their description and a sexy picture. If you would like to know more about any car just drop a comment here or on my blog and I should get to you right away and don't forget to tell us about your own choice of the most sexiest car.

1. Aston Martin V8 Vantage

Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the baby aston, its been released very recently and is creating huge ripples among consumers for its awesome engine and its brain rattling sound!

2. Audi TT Roadster

The new Audi TT Roadster, this is the most sold Audi in the world and now they have come up with a new one. This particular one is from Abt, an Audi tuner, the 3.2 liter version produces 355 bhp and catapults the car from 0~100 km/h in 5 secs.

3. Bentley Continental GT

New Bentley Continental GT Speed, this is the first Bentley ever to top 200 mph and also the first to have the biggest engine ever produced by Bentley a W12 which produces 600 bhp. A W12 is made by merging two V6's.

4. Mercielago LP 640

The most furious Lambo ever, The Mercielago LP 640, this car has a 6.5 liter V12, which produces 633 bhp and has a 0~100 km/h time of 3.5 secs! And a top speed of 340 km/h.

5. BMW M5

The BMW M5, this particular black beauty is the world's only M5 with two turbo chargers and inter cooler. With a top speed of 240 mph, this car is truely out of this world.

6. Koenigsegg CCX

Koenigsegg CCX, the only car ever to parallel the Bugati Veyron, with a top speed of 250 mph and an all around carbon fibre body, this car is a master piece.

7. Porsche 911 GT2

Porsche 911 GT2 is equipped with two turbo chargers which gives a max of 530 hp. Porsche have been known to have the best balanced chasis ever made which gives it the best handling you can get from a car.

8. Range Rover Sport

The Range Rover Sport, this is a particular gangster's choice car, with its 20 inch alloy wheels, turbo charger and sport exhaust system, this car is truely amazing.

9. Vauxhall Monaro

Vauxhall Monaro, an Australian based sports coupe which has all the powerand looks, this car has been said to be the best car ever to drift because of its amazing handling.

10. The Mercedes Benz CLK

The Mercedes Benz CLK DTM, a genuine track car with its base of a trueluxury sedan, this car has awesome power and looks that are out of this world.

Ok this article is a little off-topic to what I usually write on this blog but as I am a big Harry Potter fan so this was worth sharing.

We know its only 3 days left to the official release of the Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows which is the seventh and last part of the Harry Potter series. The book has already hit Torrent sites and I guess it is a matter of time till we see it being distributed illegally online.

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

There are lots and lots of rumors and spoilers about the book online and its almost impossible to save yourself from these rumors. This stage is so crucial and fragile that its even hard for the readers to decide what is fake and what is right. Thanks to a little of my Internet research I have finally managed to get my hands on some images of what look like the chapter indexes of the final book.

The Photographed Images of Deathly Hallows

I even got my hands on the pictures of almost the whole real book but lets just stick to the sharing of chapter images for now (Thats because I have no plans to get busted)

Below are (what I call) the real images of the chapters of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows though I take no responsibility of their authenticity as I myself found them over the Internet. So just see and enjoy.

Update: I am a very loyal Harry Potter Fan and don't want to get a bad name. I was contacted by Bloomsbury on behalf of J.K.Rowling so I had to remove the images.

Long live J.K.Rowling and Long live Harry Potter

Trust me I do not have any extra ordinary interest in galaxies and pictures taken through space telescopes but often one finds things that are worth mentioning to the masses. The thing to wonder is that what is so interesting about the galaxy picture you see above?

The Sharpest Galaxy Image Ever Taken

The picture you see above is rescaled and resized version of the sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81. The actual size of the original picture that was taken through the Hubble Space Telescope is no less than 700 MB alone (almost 1 GB wow!). The image was released on 9 June 2007 at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The Hubble Telescope and The Spiral Galaxy

Thanks to the sharp view of the Hubble Space Telescope it was successful enough to resolve individual stars, along with open star clusters, globular star clusters, and even glowing regions of fluorescent gas of the galaxy that is located 11.6 million light-years away.

The original image has a resolution of 22620x15200 pixels and a size of 706 MB only!

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0710a.tif

You can also download a low resolution 4000x2688 version of the image which is only 6.2 MB in size!

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/publicationjpg/heic0710a.jpg

and if you are lazy enough to give it a try. Just see the image posted on top of this story and it is just a smaller version of the original.

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Programming can be really fun sometimes. It all depends on how well you program and what you program? But in all cases it starts from the traditional Hello, World! program which has now become a trend in almost all programming languages.

The World's Biggest Hello World Program

An ambitious programmer all over from Germany decided to write the world's biggest Hello, World! code and did a job well done. The guy decided to show the words "Hello, World" in the form of a Semacode, in a Crop field, so that they are visible in aerial photos. Semacode is basically a visual code or a bar code that can be interpreted using machine language.

Hello World Project Description and Photos

Here does a link to the project description and you can view the project progress pictures on Flickr. Moreover you can navigate through Google Maps and view the Hello World image overlay in Google Earth.

[Source:GEarthBlog]

Cars and other vehicles are the heart of modern technology and can be referred to as heavy gadgets. Concept vehicles are basically hypothetical replicas or prototypes of the original creations and are used to demonstrate their features, looks, behavior and performance.

10 Most Strange Concept Vehicles

Below what you are going to see will be something totally unseen and new for you. The collection of vehicles is one of my favorite personal collections and can be called as the 10 most strange concept vehicles that you'll ever see. Probably you won't ever get to see these vehicles in real life but I certainly can cater your mind with some food of virtuality.

Here goes our sweet list:

1. The Modern UniCycle

2. The Chair Tank

3. The Whizz Bee

4. The Motor Shoe

5. The Wheel Hover

6. The Shark Jet

7. The Monster Truck

8. The Family Wagon

9. The Dark Limo

10. The Crazy Ride

Disclaimer: All the design concept images are property of their respective owners and all the names of vehicles are my property because I invented them lol

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Though Microsoft's new Operating System Windows Vista is gaining a lot of popularity these days but this fact can not be neglected that it has been a subject of big criticism at the time of its release.

Windows Vitsa : The Humor Unleashed

Due to its huge requirements and not-up-to-the-mark performance and stability users and people have created a lot of acronyms for the word "Vista" most of which are dead funny and really humorous.

Funny acronyms of "Vista"

Here go some of the funny acronyms that I found randomly on the Internet:

Very Inconsistent Software - Try Again

Virus Instability Spyware Trojans Adware

Virus Intrusions Spybots Trojans Adware

Very Irritating System - Try Another

Vista Is Stupid To Attempt

Volatility Isn't Something To Admire

Virtually Impossible Source To Avoid

Vastly Inferior Software To Apple's

Vaguely Innovative - Sucks The Ass

Venereal Infectious Sexually Transmitted Ailment

Vista Is Shittier Than Anything

Vastly Improved Solitaire Tiling Algorithms

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So here is Brain Teaser Mania for all

Lets see whos got the smartest ass around lol

here goes

1. What is the only word in the English language that ends in mt?
2. What do a 'racecar' and miss 'maham' have in common?
3. A man drove from Detroit to Chicago, leaving at 8 in the morning. The next day he leaves Chicago at 8 and drives the same highway back to Detroit. If his speed varies, will there be any spot along the route that he passes at exactly the same time each day?
4. When is this sentence true: There are eleven letters in the alphabet.
5. A boy has a peculiar quirk; he repeats everything he hears. However, when his father said dinner was at six, the boy said nothing. Why?
6. This is the only type of cheese that is made backwards. What kind is it?

I thought it was great way to share interactivity with my readers so I published it

Now lets see who gets the most answers correct The answers will be provided in 4-5 days shortly

Update: Though I did not receive much interactivity from my readers in this post still here goes the answers respectively:

Riddle Answers 1-6:

1. Dreamt
2. They are both spelled the same forward and backward
3. There has to be. To see it clearly, imagine two men driving the route on the same day, one leaving Detroit at 8 and the other leaving Chicago at 8. They have to pass each other at some point, and they'll be there at the same time
4. When "the alphabet" is in quotation marks. (count the letters)
5. Obviously he didn't hear him
6. Edam (it spells "made" backwards).

Oh yes, You heard it loud and proud

Harry Potter 7: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows the 7th and last book in the Harry Potter Series is releasing this July. The book will be released on Saturday, July 21st 2007, just one week after the Harry Potter 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hits the cinemas

The hardcover will sell for $39.99 with the deluxe edition being priced at $.65.00. The prices suggest that the book will be the longest in the series giving the Harry Potter Fans much delight however this could also be due to the fact that this is going to be the last book of the whole series

The release date has disappointed a lot of Harry Potter Fans because for them its the beginning of an end and seeing that the series is nearing its destiny makes HP Fans more emotional and sad.

Being a die-hard Harry Potter Fan myself I think that July will be The Magical Month as it will bring Harry Potter Fans delights followed by sorrows and grief.

I personally wish Jo continues Harry Potter Series even after the 7th book.

The Vista Coach is out on Tour The coach will be patrolling the East coast of the United States from January 16th to January 24th.

The Windows UX Design Team did the exterior wrap and the coach is one hell of a luxury with four flat-panel TVs with satellite reception, wireless Internet throughout, a full kitchen, and leather seating for 18!

Take a sneak peek of the beauty