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New top price comparison site

Published on 24 August 2008 in Consumer and Internet. 0 Comments Tags: .

I’m not sure how long Offer of the Day has been around but I’ve recently discovered it and believe it’s the price comparison site worth bothering with for most purchases.

Unlike its competitors this one takes into account any current offers (even telling you what discount code to type in!) and gives you a sorted list by overall cost (including delivery). Coverage of retailers is not as extensive as, say, Google, Kelkoo or Pricerunner but it covers the main online discounters. Unless you are making a really expensive purchase I wouldn’t bother spending much time trying to beat it.

Server outage

Published on 6 June 2008 in Internet, Journal and Snippets. 5 Comments

My web hosting provider’s server was offline for a few days until yesterday. Apparently there had been a "major explosion" in the data centre where their servers were located. They have since setup a new server in a different data centre.

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Qiblah direction – no compass needed

Published on 1 April 2008 in Internet, Islam and Snippets. 1 Comment

Qiblah Locator is a great web site when you’re stuck without a compass or mosque to hand (and it’s too overcast to work out from the position of the sun in the sky vis-a-vis the time). Simply tap in the post code and it will overlay the qiblah direction over a Google Maps generated street map of the surrounding area. You should be able to easily work out which direction to pray with minimal orienteering skill.

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Interactive multi-lingual Qur’an

Published on 9 September 2007 in Internet, Islam and Smartphones. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Just in time for Ramdan… Someone’s come up with Qur’anExplorer.com. The site features an interactive system whereby you can select any down to an individual verse any part of the Qur’an and view Arabic script, listen to audio recitation and/or read/listen to any of several popular translations/commentaries in various Indo-European languages.

Pocket Islam does much the same thing, but as software for your Windows Mobile device.