Author: K. Shahzad

Technology

Another web design masterpiece from Pakistani Government sector

Above screen shot is of national savings organization which is the most visited website of all of sites from the Pakistan government sector. But seems like this site was once designed years ago and seems like the people who are responsible to update the website are even not able to keep up with that old design and updates are being added the bad way. Starting with the menu items the highlighted links which are added at bottom even don’t match to the ones which were part of original design of website. Also seems like the people responsible are too lazy to check the website for cross browser problems, as you can see the broken round corner. Then comes the search […]

Inside Story

Electricity load shedding in Pakistan only due to defective policies

The electricity load shedding in Pakistan would have not been a big problem to cope with but its made much bigger by adopting the defective policies. One of the causes of load shedding is called the circular debt, which means the private electricity generation companies keep generating the power but they do not get the money for the electricity they have provided, in that case they can generate the electricity for limited period and after that when the outstanding amount to be paid by government to these companies cross a limit, by being not able to fuel costs these companies stop the production till they have get paid back by government. This have been happening very much lately, current approach […]

Sports

Bahria town drag racing event April 2010

This is the second drag racing event of Islamabad, Pakistan going to be held on 25th of April 2010 in Bahria Town Phase 8 Islamabad. The previous one held on same place two months ago in Feb 2010. This one seems bigger as the sponsors include ARY Television Channel, FM 100 Radio channel and Cine Pax. The previous one was also gone awesome but this one seems to be much more organized. There is proper seating arrangement this time which consists of 2000 seats. The tickets of this event are available in Rs. 300 for individuals and for family of up to 5 people in 1000 on following places Islamabad – Haroon’s – Ye Olde Hangout – Book Fair – […]

Weather

A rare cool day for Rawalpindi and Islamabad in summer

Yes it is true, the weather forecasts telling the different story, despite today being very pleasant day the hostile heat is about to be back just on tomorrow. Today in Rawalpindi and Islamabad it kept raining in several little time spans of 5 to 20 minutes, some lightening and winds also witnessed and the temperature was mostly around 29 degrees or low. Weather forecasts for tomorrow show a real hot 37 and increasing temperatures from tomorrow and so on. Some rain in night is expected but the drying weather already back the facts provided by weather forecasts. Following are few images taken in ever in dual sunny and cloudy kind of atmosphere. Hope we keep getting such low temp days […]

Applications

Snaptu changes the way you browse the internet from Mobile

If you have tried, using the internet via mobile is nothing less than a misery. While going through the Nokia’s OVI store I came across this application called Snaptu. It not only changes the way we use internet but adds a whole new experience, after installing this on my Series 60 phone unlike past I was loving mobile internet experience. For Facebook and Twitter you have to provide the Username and Password once along with ticking the remember option and you done. Now you will get one click access to the sites, also even its sports or news of your interest, event local weather for casts of up to a week you will get all of this on single click. […]