Dubai Fountain at Burj Dubai Lake

It is so mesmerizing to see the world largest dancing fountain, set on the Burj Dubai Lake, shooting water as high as 500 ft.

The Dubai Fountain has daily shows scheduled every 20 minutes starting at 06:00 pm. Check out the daily schedule of the fountain show.

The fountain has 1.5 million lumens of projected light and uses 22,000 gallons of airborne water.

The below video has the show performed on the world renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, Con te partiro (Time to Say Goodbye).

Seasonal End to Sharjah Traffic Woes

Sharjah Municipality has set up dams near the Sharjah International Airport, Emirates Road, Al Dhaid Road heading toward Sharjah and industrial areas to avoid water logging during the rainy season.

Small dams have been built in these high traffic areas to ensure smooth flow of vehicles during rains.

Sharjah Municipality says please call the number emergency municipality number 993 in case of any complaints.

Cheers to the Sharjah Municipality for being proactive and taking the lead. Other emirate’s should get a cue from this move and take similar measures.

I hope this will bring an end to the traffic woes in Sharjah during the rainy season.Click here to read more.

Google Voice Search - Please Raise Your Voices

Google has gone one step further in the field of Search. Now you can search on the command of your voice. Google Search by voice is now available on Nokia S60 phones. S60 phones are any of your ESeries or NSeries phone running on a Symbion operating system. Yell any thing on your phone from Dubai to Digital and your effort will be recognized. Check out the below video for details.

The new application will also be allow Chinese users to search in Mandarin. Check out the post published on Official Google Blog for further reading.

Note that the application is for version 3 of Nokia S60 - more recent phones running version 5 (touch screen) are not yet supported. To download the application go to m.google.com

So what are you waiting for get you mobile phone and start yelling ;)

Cool Twitter Conference - Dubai

The Eighteenth Twitter Conference will be held in Dubai, on 18th Nov 2009. The event will be held at Media Rotana, Barsha. The event is being held in association with Total IT Solutions of Dubai.

The event is being organized world wide in association with a Washington, DC-based technology group, The Cool Blue Company LLC.

The Cool Twitter Conference provides an environment for developers, people in business, and buffs from several fields of discipline, who would like to enhance their understanding of maximizing the power of Twitter, and contribute to the discussion of how to benefit from this real time social media site.

For a complete list of speakers and other details click here or follow @SaleemFancy on twitter.

Some of the upcoming Cool Twitter Conferences: -

Orange County - Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Philadelphia - Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Pittsburgh - Friday, November 13th, 2009

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Minneapolis - Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Government 2.5 - Washington, DC - December 14th & 15th

Social Search - Be Part of the Experiment

Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search method that determines the relevance of search results by considering the interactions or contributions of users (courtesy Wikipedia)

Well Social Search in simple terms is ability to search content (blogs, pics, reviews etc) uploaded by people in your Social Circle. These people can be your connections on Linked in, your friends on Facebook, your Twitter buddies etc.

Guys….Google is giving us an opportunity to be part of their experiments. These experiments cover fields like Search Wiki with sound, Key board short cuts Accessible View and Google Social Search – my favourite. Now this is something really interesting. Oops you still haven’t signed on for the experiment ?

What are you waiting for click here and sign up :)

GeekFest 2.0 - Great Meet :)

This one was a really well organized event at an implausible location like Shelters. Thanks to Alex for getting all the geeks together under one roof. This was an event which didn't require registration/entrance fees/'wasta' ;) Some of the highlights of the evening were …

Catalin Marin – He spoke on the High Dynamic Range, photography and how can we master it using Photoshop. Thanks Catalin for sharing the techniques, it was a great help

James Piecowye and Giorgio Ungania – The Tedx Dubai heroes were also present to share with us the back stage chaos they went through to organize such an excellent event

Narain Jashanmal – Shared with us his views on e books and how this business model is shifting from print to online. He also informed us that Jashanmal is soon stepping into the online world with the launch of online website to sell books based on a Barnes and Nobles model.

I had left by the time the 4th speaker was expected to take control of the smart, private screening room - though I was keen to listen to him :(

Looking forward to Geek Fest 3.0