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CEO of Muxlim at Georgia Tech – June 6, 2009

MR — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:38:37 +0000

My Response to Shaykh Yasir Qadhi’s “Conversion” and to all Mac users

MR — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:24:43 +0000

Before reading my post, please read Shaykh iYQ’s post here in its entirety.

I bought a MacBook Pro a while ago as a gift and also so I can learn more about it to add to my resume. I’ve had it for a few months and it has many nice features. Ultimately the PC is far greater than the Mac in many ways. There are several articles online citing examples, but here are my points which I think are relevant.

1. PCs have an eject button

Ever try ejecting a CD/DVD from your Mac? Yeah go ahead and show me where the eject button is.

Edit: Some Mac users think a keyboard key for eject is equal to the eject button a drive on a PC. No it is not equal. When I press eject on my PC the tray opens. When you press the eject key on the top right, it may or may not eject the CD/DVD. Sometimes it will wait a long time or it will never do it and you have to restart.

2. Double click is default

Double clicking is extremely helpful and saves a lot of time. If a Mac user wants the double click feature on their mouse, they have to buy a *holds breath* PC mouse. You know what’s funny I’ve seen several people with Microsoft mouses connected to their Macs.

3. Hardware upgrades

Try upgrading your Mac. Oh wait, you can’t. Can you change the graphics card? Sorry, go buy another Mac for $3,000. With a PC, you can just buy a graphics card for $300 and you’ve upgraded to the latest technology. Memory is much cheaper than Mac memory and it’s easy to install and upgrade on PC desktops or laptops. Too bad Apple will just tell you to upgrade your entire computer by purchasing a new Mac.

4. PC Competition vs Mac Monopoly

How many PCs hardware companies are there? HP, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway, Acer, etc. are just a few of the many PC hardware companies that are all competing to get your money. You know what that means? Lower prices. You can buy a PC laptop with the same exact specifications as a MacBook Pro for around $500 bucks. And guess what?

Apple makes everything for Macs so they can charge whatever the heck they want to charge like $3,000 bucks for a laptop that’s worth $500.

5. Media industry standard

With the exception of graphic designers, almost all major media companies use PCs to edit their media. You think Macs can edit movies like X-Men or Spiderman? Done on a PC.

I’ll admit Macs are popular amongst graphic designers.

6. Market share?

This is pretty obvious.

7. Millions of software for PCs vs Thousands for Macs

Software developers develop more for the PC than Mac. There are millions of software that are compatible for the PC but only a few thousand compatible with the Mac.

8. Gamers only game on PCs

Ever seen anyone playing Starcraft on a Mac? Conquered the world in Civilization on a Mac? Nope. I’m a huge PC gamer and PCs are the way to go for gamers.

9. Custom built PCs – Can’t custom build Macs

Anyone can go to a computer store and buy all the necessary parts of a PC and custom build it to the exact byte of how they want it. Can you do this with a Mac? Nope.

10. Confusing Mac OS X versions

10.0.5? 10.2.5? 10.1.5? 10.1.3? Uh I have no idea. What version of Windows XP do you have? XP SP3. Oh okay, cool.

11. Batil: “Macs don’t crash!” – Haq: “Yes they do!”

The Macbook Pro has crashed on me several times and the only program I had open was Safari just surfing the web.

12. Google Chrome came out for the PC for a while now…Mac version still not out

Ever wonder why the top shaykh of internet searching and probably one of the greatest internet scholars of our time, Shaykh-ul-Internet al-Google, didn’t release a Mac version of Chrome yet?

13. Mac’s delete button is confused

It doesn’t delete, it acts like a backspace button on a PC. So if you want to delete you’ll have to move your cursor in front of the character of desired deletion. This is more time even it is just a few nanoseconds. It adds up over a lifetime.

14. The entire world runs on a PC

Cash registers, computer security systems, military technology, mobile technology (except the iPhone), satelites, TV networks, airplanes, etc. and basically anything that requires a computer is using a PC. If the Mac was so powerful, why doesnt NASA use it to on their satelites.

15. PCs are cute

Conclusion

So the next time you fly to Makkah or you buy an Islamic book online, you can thank a PC for that.

I love my Muslim Mac users for the sake of Allah but let’s be truthful PCs > Macs.

I’m Muslim and I’m a PC

And Allah knows best.

Blackberry Storm Islamic Theme

MR — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:35:01 +0000

There is an Islamic theme for the Blackberry Storm phone made my a convert sister. Click here for the details.

Screenshots:

Obama Starts Digg-Like System Called “Open For Questions”

MR — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:03:43 +0000

I think this is an amazing idea. Really innovative and if it really does go to the Obama government then we can bring about real serious change. Basically how this works is any user who registers at Open For Questions can submit questions and vote yes or no to questions that are already submitted. I did a quick search for the keyword “israel” and found a lot of positive questions that have a lot of “yes’s” that made me extremely happy.

I request everyone to share 2-3 minutes by registering for this site and submitting your questions as well as voting yes to the questions that matter to you most. Especially the ones related to Islam, Muslims and the Muslim world.

Where the Obama haters at?

First Mainstream TV Commercial featuring a Muslim

MR — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:09:58 +0000

I was watching the History Channel and I saw a commercial for Microsoft Vista and to my surprise for the first time I saw a Muslim on the commercial. It’s about time more companies started using Muslims as part of their commercials to normalize and humanize us as Americans and consumers as well.

Ramadan Mubarak and Google Chrome!

MR — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:37:54 +0000

Ramadan Mubarak to everyone!

Google has released their browser in comemoration of the holy month of Ramadan. Just kidding! haha

But still download it here!

One Page with RSS feed from many Muslim blogs and sites

MR — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:29:37 +0000

http://muslim.alltop.com/

IslamCrunch recently posted about a site which offers one entire page listing rss feeds from various Muslim news, sites, blogs and basically anything related to Islam and Muslims. This is really good to find out what’s hot in the online Muslim ummah. It is also good to find blogging material that or blogs that you never knew existed. The creator of the website is Guy Kawasaki, who was very friendly with me suggesting some sites to add. I told him about MuslimMatters.org, Seekers Digest and some other blogs. You can tweet him here and ask him to add any other Muslim blog or sites that you may not see on the page.

Amazing Story of a Young Boy from Malawi, Africa

MR — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:43:41 +0000

May God bless and guide William! This is his blog here. There is about 13 million people in Malawi, which is located in the Southern Eastern part of Africa. Eighty percent of the population is Christian while 13 percent is Muslim.

StumbleUpon Islam

MR — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:07:26 +0000

Have you used StumbleUpon or heard of it? I’ve been using for months now and it has greatly increased my traffic to my blog, alhamdulillah. They also have many different categories and topics, one of them includes Islam. This is a good opportunity to give a better picture of Islam to a younger audience worldwide that use StumbleUpon. It is also a great dawah tool. The only way it can work successful is if all Muslim Stumblers give a thumbs up for all the Muslim submitted content. For example if you like any of my posts or any other Muslim content online, you should give it a thumbs up and submit it to StumbleUpon. Egyptian Gumbo has written more about this. I highly recommend you to read it here.

On my blog you can click the “Share This” button at the bottom of every post and it will allow you to submit it to many of the social networking and news websites. StumbleUpon is one of them.

Robot Praying Salah

MR — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:26:31 +0000

Although the robot doesn’t pray that correct, its still really amazing that some person actually designed this.

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CEO of Muxlim at Georgia Tech – June 6, 2009

Related posts:

My Response to Shaykh Yasir Qadhi’s “Conversion” and to all Mac users

1. PCs have an eject button

2. Double click is default

3. Hardware upgrades

4. PC Competition vs Mac Monopoly

5. Media industry standard

6. Market share?

7. Millions of software for PCs vs Thousands for Macs

8. Gamers only game on PCs

9. Custom built PCs – Can’t custom build Macs

10. Confusing Mac OS X versions

11. Batil: “Macs don’t crash!” – Haq: “Yes they do!”

12. Google Chrome came out for the PC for a while now…Mac version still not out

13. Mac’s delete button is confused

14. The entire world runs on a PC

15. PCs are cute

Conclusion

I’m Muslim and I’m a PC

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