When I first got to Paris, I thought that calling and sending SMS to my friends and family back home would cost me the same as International calling and SMS usually cost me in Lebanon, until I got my contract and discovered the enormous prices of calling abroad. All my friends here advised me to get some International calling cards (not SIM cards), they are ones that look like a credit card but have a special phone number and some credit added to them. I had to find a phone booth each time I needed to use them, plus their credit rolled out pretty quickly. I bought one of these cards once and quickly realized that I wasn’t going to get a second one, that’s when Vlad Bobleanta suggested I try Rebtel. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Free, International calls, International SMS, Rebtel, Wadja
Those who have ever been near my computer know that one application is always open and probably 95% of the time in the foreground: Firefox. Ever since I decided to ditch Internet Explorer some year ago I think (it took me long enough to do it, something that I’m not proud of), Firefox has given me nothing but reasons to stick with it. Some people have separate applications for email, RSS, uploads, blogging,… I stick to doing everything inside Firefox: why have many software running when I can only have one?
One way I have been able to maximize the use of Firefox is through Extensions. Many of you know that Firefox is an Open Source browser and that there is a very active developer community behind it, building extensions which are small add-ons that can be installed on top of Firefox to perform certain tasks. You can browse the full list of Firefox add-ons here, or you can keep you eyes on The Dotsisx Blog to see my favorite ones, and I’ll start with Undo Closed Tab. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been in Paris for almost 8 months now, and even though I ended up adapting to the life here and to the local population, my heart has been aching for my country. I am not one of those people who leave their country to find a life elsewhere and come back only on holidays, I will never be that person. Ever. I belong to Lebanon and I love every inch of it, even the inches that I don’t know. I love its oddities, I love its lack of political stability, I love its diversified population, its struggles, its food, its landscapes, its noise, its cultural diversity… I love everything about it, I even love the things that I hate about it. Odd.
Truth be told, no matter how well I adapt to Paris, I will never be “at home” here, I will always feel like a tourist who doesn’t belong here. That’s why I know that no matter how, I’m coming back.
But the way the local media here, as well as all international media, presents Lebanon and the political situation, makes it so hard for me to explain why I love this country so much. This is where the “It’s All In Lebanon”, an ad campaign by the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism, comes into play by capturing the essence of my country so amazingly well. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Lebanon, Ministry of Tourism, Tv Ad
Just a few hours ago, I decided that I SHOULD know what’s happening with the Lebanese elections. I had totally forgotten that the parliament elections were on June 7th and I had failed to see how soon they are, that’s just because I have been (what i call) an anti-politics person for a few years, even if no one believes me when I say that. Truth is that I think my opinion doesn’t matter, and all that I gain by following Lebanon’s politics is well, nothing. Or maybe headache. Some heartache also. And a pinch of psychological disorders. Point is that I never understood and will never understand how things happen on the political scene in Lebanon, it’s just too damn complicated and I’m a rational scientific girl at heart: anything I don’t understand, I just ignore. But I digress. Read the rest of this entry »
As an online blogger and a tech enthusiast, I find myself often times living on the edge of the portable memory. I am always looking for bigger memory cards and I keep losing my USB sticks, so every couple of months, I need to buy new items. This means that I have searched for a long time for the best online retailer to purchase memory cards and USB flash sticks.
As with DealExtreme which is my one-stop shop for small gadgets, I needed a retailer that accepted PayPal payments, offered decent prices as well as worldwide shipping and, if possible, for free. I ended up finding the best of the best, with free and fast worldwide shipping: MyMemory.co.uk. MyMemory has prices pretty similar to those of Amazon UK, but when you take count of the currency rate exchange, you end up sometimes with prices much lower than your local Amazon shop, or the other online retailers that deliver to your country. For example, currently MyMemory has the Sandisk 8gb microSDHC card for £19.99 (equivalent to 22.65 EUR), whereas the Amazon.fr site has it for prices starting 34.05 EUR: that’s around 50% increase in price if I wanted to shop in Paris! Read the rest of this entry »
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