Not 24 hours after Steve Jobs told his minions that Google’s Don’t Be Evil mantra was “B.S.” (or “crap” depending on who you listen to) Google answers by pushing out an Android update to Nexus One users that includes multi-touch (and other Android goodness).
Google, up until yesterday, left multi-touch off its U.S. Android phones, presumably in deference to Apple’s multi-touch patent.
It was also rumored that Apple asked Google not to release multitouch in the U.S. to avoid the IP aggression we’ve seen it take against Palm for including multi-touch in the Pre.
I’m not saying that Google released the Nexus One multi-touch update because of Jobs’ comments, but it may have been pushed out a little sooner because of them.
More evidence of how the relationship between Apple and Google has chilled lately.
The N1 update takes the Android/iPhone battle to a new level and frankly, the ball’s in Apple’s court. Jobs promised that the next iPhone would be A+ and that Android won’t be able to keep up with it.
Them’s fighting words, Steve!
If Apple doesn’t address a majority of the items on my iPhone wishlist (background apps, voice search, improved home/lock screens, widgets, etc.) with its “A+” release we’ll know that Jobs was just trash-talking and that Android has clearly taken the lead in the smartphone wars.
Note: Impatient Nexus One owners can force the firmware update by following this technique. It preserves your data and apps and doesn’t require root access.

Hereunder a set of backgrounds devided into folders, and the folders are:

Abstract  : 34 pics

under water : 46 pics

Vista: 118 pics

Black & White: 34 pics

Winter: 107 pics

Vista Black: 34 pics

Lastly,  Landscape: 52 pics

To download the set please click the picture below:

File Size/ 125 MB

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Till today, more than 400 Palestinian killed (shaheed) in Gaza between Baby, Young and Old men and women. The strange thing is the silence from the Security Council about this massacre. Unfortunately, most of western media “as usual” tries to overturn the facts by showing Israel as injustice.

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The last pic shows some jewish how are watching the massacre and happy for it!

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some of the Destruction made by Israel

A spokesman for the Oregon State Police, Lt. Gregg Hastings, said a Woodburn police officer died. He did not identify him.

He also said the blast seriously injured the Woodburn police chief.

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After nine months of searching for work, Ben Klausner thought he’d finally caught a break when he landed a contract gig in September doing security work for Microsoft’s cloud computing project.

Just a month after he started, though, he learned his contract was ending. Now Klausner, a 55-year-old former IBM worker finds himself again out of work. And the prospects for employment look even dimmer than they were before the Microsoft job.

Klausner

“It was frustrating,” he said of his brief Microsoft experience. “You go in and you expect to be there for a year or more and after a month they tell you you have another 30 days.”

Klausner’s story is the kind that unemployment statistics and headlines don’t often take into account. Unlike companies that have had widespread cuts, Microsoft hasn’t announced broad layoffs. However, that doesn’t mean the ranks of those doing work for Microsoft are as robust as they once were.

Microsoft has sharply slowed hiring and cut a significant–but unspecified–number of contractors. The company has also said it is looking to reduce its bills from its vendors, an action that could also trim the ranks of those who do business on Microsoft’s behalf.

“I don’t think many people are aware that Microsoft has cut back a lot of projects,” Klausner said.

Klausner said he tried to find another job either within Microsoft or at the consulting company through which he got the Microsoft work, but he came up empty. “They talked about finding other things, but they didn’t have anything,” he said.

Things haven’t worked out the way Klausner planned when he left his IBM job in Texas nearly a decade ago. Klausner, a ham radio enthusiast and science fiction fan, had grown tired of Texas and wasn’t enjoying his latest assignment at IBM. He headed to Seattle at the peak of the dot-com boom because of its low unemployment rate and fast-growing technology sector.

“It was the height of the boom, so I figured I could make a move,” said Klausner, whose resume includes work as a systems and network architect in addition to his security work. He found jobs at a couple of Seattle-area start-ups, but after the dot-com bust, he found steady work harder to come by.

Eventually, he settled on finding work as a contractor–one of the legions of tech workers that companies hire for specific projects. “I’ve been doing contract work for about four years; not so much by choice but by circumstance. It’s what was available.”

But now, Klausner said he doesn’t find very many jobs even for contractors. He said he applies for several jobs each day but that there’s a huge amount of competition, noting that the recent failure of Washington Mutual has put even more technical folks in competition for the slots that do come open. “There just aren’t that many coming up either,” he said.

For now, Klausner is also curtailing spending as best he can. “I’m going into what I think of as hermit mode,” he said. “I don’t go out much. I don’t buy much. I was on the verge of replacing my car and that went on hold.”

Instead, he is relying on his 12-year-old Ford Explorer as he searches for new work. That, he hopes, will make his savings last longer.

“Of course, investments have gone in the toilet so it’s not as big a cushion as I would have liked,” Klausner said. “I’ve got some savings for a couple of months, but it could be a real problem if this goes on.”

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The report is end but the crisis is going on. So, what’s coming next?

Source: CNET

Here is a rare pictures for Mecca, some of the pictures took at the last of 19th century.

AlAbas House near to Alka`aba

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AlMas`a , it was out the holy mosque

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Alka`aba without robe 

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old pic

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 The door of Alka`aba

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 The Black Stone

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rare pics

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Prophet Abraham Shrine

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AlSafa Door before 100 years

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Zamzam Water

 Zamzam Well, one of the god miracles

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Zamzam Water for visitors

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King Faisal Bin Abdulaziz

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Makkah Flood in 1941

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Prophet Abraham Shrine

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” Thousands more jobs are in danger after the world’s biggest bank announced a huge round of redundancies yesterday. Citigroup is cutting 52,000 jobs after losing £13billion over the past year. Chairman Win Bischoff warned that the axe would fall ‘particularly heavily’ at Citigroup’s European headquarters in Canary Wharf, East London, where the U.S. bank employs more than 10,000.

The purge at Citigroup –which comes on top of 23,000 job losses already announced - will intensify fears of further cuts in the banking sector. Royal Bank of Scotland is preparing to slash 3,000 positions at its investment banking division after losing billions on ‘toxic’ U.S. mortgages. And Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs is getting rid of 3,200 staff in a move that threatens hundreds of jobs at its City operation.

Even HSBC, which has emerged from the credit crisis relatively unscathed, is axing 450 staff in its Hong
Kong office as the Asian economy stalls. The cutbacks will see tens of thousands of posts go in industries servicing the banks, such as printers and catering and security firms.

The Centre for Economics and Business Research also predicts that more than 30,000 estate agents could lose their jobs as a result of the housing market collapse. Most of them work in sales, because this side of the business is virtually paralysed. Ben Read, the CEBR’s managing economist, said: ‘Estate agents are reducing staff to skeleton levels.’

Source: dailymail

Last week, I went to Jarir Bookstore to explore the new laptops in the computer market. I saw a great laptop which arrived recently, and the brand is ASUS co, 1st company in Mother Board. The model is “F6V multi-color”, and it cost arount 4590 SR (around 1224 $).

The model specification is:

Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium, Processor & Cache Memory Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor P8400 2.26 GHz -3MB Cache Chipset Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset +ICH9M Main Memory DDR2 3GB Display 13.3″ WXGA Color-Shine (Glare-type),Asus Splendid Video Intelligent Technology Video Graphics & Memory ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD 3470, External Hard Drive 2.5″ 9.5mm SATA 320GB,5400rpm Optical Drive 5.25″ , 12.7mm DVD Super Multi Card Reader 8 in 1 card reader: SD,MMC,MS,MS-Pro,mini SD w/ adapter,MS-Duo,MS-Pro Duo via adapter Video Camera 1.3 Mega Pixel swivel web camera Fax/Modem/LAN/WLAN Built-in Bluetooth™ V2.1+EDR (optional) AZWAVE NE771 802.11BGN Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 ABGN LED Status Indicator Power-on/Suspend Battery Charging/full/low Storage device access Capital / Scroll / Number Lock Wireless on status indicator(optional) Bluetooth on status indicator(optional) Interface 1 x Express card 1 x Microphone-in jack 1 x Headphone-out jack (S/PDIF) 1 x VGA port/Mini D-sub 15-pin for external monitor 3 x USB 2.0 ports 1 x IEEE 1394 port 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert 1 x HDMI 1 x E-SATA Hot Keys Instant launch Keys,2 buttons: Wireless Switch, Power4Gear eXtreme Function Keys: Fn+F1 Suspend switch Fn+F2 WLAN switch Fn+F2 Bluetooth switch Fn+F3 Access to the E-mail Fn+F4 Access to the Internet Fn+F5 Brightness down Fn+F6 Brightness up Fn+F7 LCD on/off Fn+F8 LCD/CRT switch display Fn+F9 TouchPad Lock Fn+F10 Volume on/mute Fn+F11 Volume down Fn+F12 Volume up Fn+Num Lk: Scroll Lock on/off Fn+Space Power 4Gear eXtreme Fn+C Splendid Fn+V Camera capture Fn+↑: Stop Fn+↓: Play/Pause Fn+ ←：Skip to Previous Track Fn+ →：Skip to Next Track Audio Built-in Azalia compliant audio chip, with 3D effect & full duplex Built-in speaker and microphone Keyboard 18.5 mm full size 88key with MS-Windows function keys Battery Pack & Life 3/6/9 cells: 2400/4800/7800 mAh, 26.6/53/86 Whrs AC Adapter Output: 19 V DC, 4.7 A, 90W Input: 100 -240 V AC, 50/60 Hz universal Dimension & Weight 31.6 x 23.27 x 2.7 ~ 3.52 cm (W x D x H) 1.99 kg (with 3 cell battery) Security BIOS Booting / HDD User Password Protection and security lock Kensington lock hole TPM(Trusted Platform Module) V1.2 Fingerprint(optional) Supplied Accessories Optical Mouse Carrying bag Multimedia Software ASUSDVD 6-in-1 Preinstall PowerDVD v7 (*For Basic & Business only) Preinstall Power2Go v5 Bundle ASUSDVD 6-in-1 CD (*For Basic & Business only) Bundle Power2Go CD (*For Premium & Ultimate) Note: Premium & Ultimate are with MCE from Windows Vista support Virus & Tool Software Norton™ Internet Security 2008 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 NERO 7 Essentials ASUS Utility Asus Win flash for BIOS and Driver live Update ASUS SmartLogon Asus Power4Gear eXtreme Asus Live Update Asus Multi-Frame Asus NB Probe + ASUS Life Frame 3 ASUS Wireless Console Asus Data Security Management(ADSM) Virtual Camera ASUS Splendid ASUS Express Gate Asus Screen Saver Instant Fun TPM Utility(with TPM Pre-installed) ASUS Setting Center Warranty & e-support 2-year limited global hardware warranty *different by country 1-year battery pack warranty On-line problem resolution through web interface (BIOS, Driver update) OS (Microsoft Windows Vista) install/uninstall consultation Bundled software install/uninstall consultation ASUS software supporting

The laptop have four kind of colors :

Black

Pink

Blue

Green

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After trail , the laptop is a great deal because of it’s price and specifications.

Here is a group of creative ads designed by experienced companies. These Ads contain a great and simple idea which aims to pull the customers attentions to specific product or service. Lets explror them!

LoL greate one

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The power of Milk ! 

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Again ،،

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KitKat

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Firefox = protection

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Cat food

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keep running

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keep away

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swimming =D

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nice idea

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hmmmm

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good usage for the lamp

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Morning Coffee

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nice one, the power of car lamps   !!

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Don’t smoke .. Ever 

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inside the bus

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3M for security glasses .. try to steal

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WoW

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Flyyyyy

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bad smell

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again

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and again

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The speed of Porsche

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Camra = tire

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STC , tell me the story

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where is the paint ?

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urgent medical operation

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Coca Cola

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Fitness Club

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That’s all, I hope u enjoying