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. […]

International

Volcanic eruption in Iceland halts air traffic

This European volcanic eruption bring the Air Travel across the Europe on halt on just first day of eruption. The ash cloud in the air formed by this volcanic eruption made it impossible for Air Planes see and navigate through the air space. On just first day it had affected about seventeen thousand flights and hundreds of thousand of passengers scheduled to board those flights. Eruption still going strong by putting more and more volcanic ash into the atmosphere making it impossible for any air plane to travel through the atmosphere and subsequently putting all the air traffic on halt across the most European airspace. This have been told the effects of eruption will last six months and these will […]

Technology

World’s First Underwater Tweet

Twitter which is mostly used for status updates and link sharing does not had any documented/witnessed underwater tweet from anywhere in the world but recently a Ukrainian Journalist turned the tables and sent the world’s first Underwater Tweet from about 6 meter or 19 feet deep underwater, this was organized event backed by National telecom operator as the tweet was sent by using their services. This underwater tweeting phenomenon is being called scuba tweeting. For world’s first under water tweet a mobile phone wrapped in plastic was used and the tweet was sent using the Opera mobile browser. This is just not a tweet but it tells the importance of technology, this shows even we go too much underwater today’s […]

Education Sector

HEC Pakistan gets 10GB of Internet bandwidth

PTCL will be the provider to 10GB internet Bandwidth to the Higher Education Commission, this bandwidth is going to be used to facilitate the universities by introducing the services like video conferencing, digital libraries and access to the International education and research networks. This is the highest bandwidth which have been taken by any organization ever in Pakistan and this  10 Bandwidth is going to be used to form the network between the universities and institutes spread all over Pakistan. The initiative have been taken to encourage and back the research. This contract is a Part of Pakistan Education and Research Network 2 (PERN2) which is initiated earlier by HEC Pakistan. PERN2 includes the plans to provide huge number of […]