Cool stuff on the internet

• Google Street View is a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth that provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic views from a row of positions along the street (one every approximately 10 or 20 metres) for many streets in the world, from a height of about 2.5 metres. It was launched on May 25, 2007, and has gradually expanded to include more cities, and in these cities more streets, and also some rural areas.[1] These photographs are currently available for the United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Coverage is shown by dragging a "pegman" icon from its position, onto a map of any scale (This quotation is from wikipedia).

Audio/Video

• GSpot is a video codec identification utility - identifies which video codec and audio compression method is used on .avi files, whether the matching codec is installed, and more.
• AVIcodec is a free multimedia file analyser for Windows. Last codec database : codecs.xml, to be put in AVIcodec directory
  

Islamic Literature

• "The Veil" song.
  

My Good Neighbors on Blogspot

• pathtoheaven
• Drawing
• Learning
• Al-marefah

Ever Heard of "Yvonne Ridley"?

She has an interesting story. She was captured by Taliban. Don't tell me you haven't heard about Taliban.

It was Yvonne's camera that betrayed her to the Taliban in September 2001, landing her in an Afghan cell for ten days and starting a long process in her life. In front of a Taliban soldier, it slipped from her shoulder when, disguised as an Afghan woman with a head-to-toe burka, she entered the country without her passport on the brink of the US -led invasion. The Sunday Express reporter wanted to talk to ordinary Afghans and write a human interest feature ...
Well, you can read more from the links below.

External Links:

• From Taliban captive to Muslim feminist: Interview with Yvonne Ridley.
• Yvonne Ridley: From captive to convert.
• Yvonne Ridley official website.
• How I came to love veil.
• Yvonne Ridley Explains the Role of Women in Islam and how she became Muslim.
  

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

Tools:

• iReasoning MIB Browser
• Oidview MIB Browser
• #SNMP Suite is a free set of SNMP tools based on an open source library for developers who target Microsoft .NET/Novell Mono platforms. It's developed in C# and can be used for VB.NET, Delphi Prism, and more.
• Simple command line tools for windows to get, set, and walk a MIB are available for free from SnmpSoft.

Links:

• http://www.snmplink.org - A collection of links related to SNMP

Good Readings

• Women in Islam versus women in the Judaeo-Christian tradition
• Photography 101 - part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 .
• Free Science and Video Lectures Online!
• Muhammad - The Prophet
• Photoshop Tutorials
• Wikileaks
• If Americans Knew
• Must read for Sami. It has a Starfall review here.
  

Hebron - الخليل

http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Hebron_534/