Archive for December, 2011
Almost everyone who uses Internet regularly has a Facebook account. However, most of the time, people we have on our account are those we know in real life, i.e., our friends and family. This was also the case with me.However, as a tool for helping me market my blog, I created a new Facebook account [...]
December 30th, 2011 | Posted in Facebook, Karachi, Pakistan, Society, Technology | No Comments
It was about a year ago, when I first went to Port Grand at the preopening meet up of Port Grand Culture & Arts (PGCA). At that time, the food street portion was still under construction, but from what I saw I was really looking forward to the opening. The food street portion has now [...]
December 28th, 2011 | Posted in "Best of" series, Cafe, Dine out, Events, Karachi, Shopping, Things to do | No Comments
While everyone is crying about our economy and the rising inflation, the retail business seems to be going in the opposite direction. We have more hypermarts/supermarkets now than any point in past and the existing ones are expanding like crazy. All this is good news because the increased competition brings out lower prices to attract [...]
December 26th, 2011 | Posted in Karachi, Shopping | No Comments
On my way back from work, I thought I’d stop by to check out the Karachi International Book Fair as over the weekend it gets really crowded. Also I wanted to check out the books by myself before coming back with my kids. It was the same as every year, the good deals were mostly found [...]
December 17th, 2011 | Posted in Book Fairs, Books/Magazines, Bookshops, Events, Karachi, Pakistan, Things to do | No Comments
I have been using IDEOS for some time now. The only major problem I had with it was that after a couple of months use, its camera stopped working all of a sudden. Every time I turned on the camera, I would get a message saying “SD Card not found, please insert SD card”. The [...]
December 15th, 2011 | Posted in Android, Android Errors, Cellular, Technology | 2 Comments
It has been over three years now since I published the post titled “Camera Dealers in Karachi“. It’s about time I updated it. Following is the updated list of places to go for your digital photography requirements. If you know any other place, do let me know so that I can update it here: Nikon [...]
December 15th, 2011 | Posted in Digital Camera, Karachi, Photography, Shopping | 1 Comment
If you like photography and wanted to go to the cleanest most beautiful beach near Karachi but were afraid to because it was far away, now is your chance. Photo Club of Karachi (PCK) is arranging a photo meet up at Mubarak Village this Sunday, December 18, 2011. Head over to their Flickr group and [...]
December 14th, 2011 | Posted in Events, Karachi, Pakistan, Photography, Photography Meetups, Things to do | No Comments