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Do you listen to 104.2 - Cairo's Nile FM?
Not in Cairo? Ever tried to listen to it via satellite, or even via the internet at www.nilefmonline.com?

Ladies and Gents,
Nile FM is proud to announce that they are now on a Kamikaze mission. Yes sir. They have hired the "most" annoying voice in Cairo. The one and only Mr. Khaled Matar.

I first heard Khalad Matar in the "So you think you can Nile" show, when he was up against Yara Gendy. From that moment, he was awful and thank goodness that Yara won the competition.
But for some reason, some of the RJs had to go on vacation, and Nile FM could not find anybody more annoying than Mr. Matar to come and take their places.

He started off with the Nile on Demand, which was a show that I never liked, but could stay tuned and just listen to it on my long drives from one meeting to the other, but now it's a disaster on Air. It also seems that he will be replacing Zach from the evening session. So now you get 2 for the price of one.

1. You get your half day ruined for a full 3 hours with the Nile on Demand
2. It's not enough that we had to puke half way after lunch, now you should also get nightmares if you tune to Nile FM for the evening session.

So what's so annoying about Mr. Matar.
1. He has a freaking fake accent, that even Abdo the door keeper could spot it out.
2. The "Yaaaaay" he says during each and every request or some stupid SMS he reads is so Gay!
3. The dude is a Britney Spears fan.
4. Insider information from nile FM. He has a Beyoncé ring tone on his phone - that's just sweet.
5. Why the f*** should he mention his freaking annoying name a zillion times in an ad.

Let's take today for example, he was asking the "Capital Question" of What the f*** you did for the weekend? - Now how lame is that? But it just gets lamer.
Another loser SMSed that He/She will go to Paris tonight. Mr. Matar went with his "Yaaaaaaay" again and added.

Paris is a beautiful country

A beautiful country. I think we should not really judge him that bad, and be thankful that he did not think that she will be going to Paris Hilton.

Nile on Demand is sponsored by Beano's café, where daily they give out a prize of Coffee for 2 for 3 people (I'll leave you to do the math).

Mr. Matar got so popular now as well that he has even got his own Facebook fan Group, where you can check it here.

I sincerely hope that the Nile FM management gets back to their senses and find a solution fast. Listening to Khaled Matar is an experience that might lead to car accidents, seizures, nervous breakdowns, gastronomic disrturbances (although farts and burps sound better), nightmares and the list goes on.

It took some time to hear less of Alisson Esprit, but with Khaled Matar on Air, I praise the days when Alisson was around!

So you want to switch to Mac, and you got one main problem. Yes I know, your emails.
You have been using Outlook for ages, and you are now wondering how the hell you are going to move all your emails to Entourage specially that the clever monkeys at Microsoft have decided not to have .pst support in Entourage on Mac. bloody monkeys!!!

You don't have to worry about it though, as the solution is there, but it will cost you a few bucks. There might be some cheaper if not free solutions out there for you as well, but this I'm not aware of, and I just needed something to work and to get finished with moving my mails fast, without losing more time in finding solution that might or might not even work.

Well, the great guys at Little Machines have come up with a small piece of sofware called O2M, which is short for Outlook to MAC. O2M can be downloaded from here and it costs a mere 10 bucks. It's simple to use, might take some time till all the emails are exported, but looking at the bright side, you'll be able to make your switch to to your beloved new shiny Mac.

One piece of advise though. If you can avoid using Entourage, please do. It's sluggy, slow, heavy and it's a Microsoft product. Mail.app is much better IMHO.

June 17 is the set date. Go there and download FF3 and set the world record.

Since a month ago, we decided to switch from Mobinil to Vodafone for our business lines. After a meeting with the Vodafone rep, he advised us to wait till end of June, where the mobile portability system will also work for business accounts.

During that perioed, Vodafone has won the bid to distribute the iPhone in Egypt (Great, I am on the right track), and now they acquired ZYB (Couldn't get better).

I can't wait for the switch.

Vodafone acquires ZYB « ZYB blog

I accidentally found out that my Captchas were not working due to some settings glitch that happened during a Drupal upgrade.

For this I am sorry :)