A quest for the Arab Startup Formula - what does it take to create the most successful startups in the Arab Region? I work at EcommerceSea startup in Riyadh, trying to create the Home for Modern Saudi Fashion at Vanilla.sa - a platform for designers, manufacturers, and products that have a global appeal with an Arabic character.
May 27, 2006
nice article on Jordan's independence day
Nice job Batir.
May 24, 2006
Magical HDR images
![](http://i.pbase.com/o4/40/512640/1/57306044.bdp_5.jpg)
Our eyes see a huge amount of light-shades, but digital cameras can save only few of them at a time. The problem is exaggerated when an image has dim spots and strong-light ones. If the camera focuses on the dim spots, the strong-light ones are too white. And if the camera focueses on the strong-light spots, the dim ones are too dark.
A solution by HDR Soft company is to take several pictures with different exposure time/intensity, and then use their plug-in to merge them. Thus, the image will have 3x (or more) the number of light shades in a picture.
The resulting images are MAGICAL. Check this guy's album of China.
May 17, 2006
Pic of Wadi Rum
A picture of Wadi Rum. One must always wait for sunset/sunrise in any natural place. Pictures like this do not come with perpendicular rays.
May 12, 2006
Nancy overtook Amr Diab, according to Google
And Haifa Wehbe is no match!
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6862/385/320/nancy_amr_wehbe_google.jpg)
http://www.google.com/trends?q
Ah, technology, how useful art thee...... ;-)