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Category: Lebanon

  • Woosh it at City Mall

    Have you noticed these new signs at the City Mall parking area?

    It seems like you’ll soon be able to have your car washed at any parking spot in City Mall since the service buttons are available everywhere.

    I just hope their pricing will not be ridiculous, I usually get my car washed for 5,000L.L at almost any gas station and I honestly am not ready to pay more no matter how eco-friendly their washing process is.

    Woosh by the way claims to be the first eco-friendly car care provider in Lebanon, and they clean cars through the use of special waterless products.

    Update:

    According to Joe who tried the service at City Mall, a car wash will cost you 12,000 L.L.

    the first eco-friendly car care provider in Lebanon

  • We love Mercedes Benz and we like them white

    Mireille, probably the geekiest blogger in Lebanon, made two interesting charts showing the most popular car brands and colors in Lebanon, most probably by making use of the Lebanese cars database that was leaked earlier.

    The most popular brand unsurprisingly turned to be Mercedes Benz with 22% (mostly taxis?), while the most popular color turned to be white with 19%.

    What was really interesting to know though is that 57% of the Lebanese cars are more than 20 years old, and 83% are more than 11 years old! Tells a lot about our purchasing power…

  • Typically Lebanese

    With a total of 43 Nokia handsets, 5 HTC, 1 Sony, 1 Alcatel, 1 Ericsson, 1 Blackberry, and 1 iPhone, George claims to have owned a total of 53 headsets over the last 13 and a half years! Which means an average of a new phone every 3 months or so.

    Very typical Lebanese eh! 😛

    On a serious note, all the handsets I’ve owned over the past 13 years were Nokia as well, except for the first one which was a big fat Nokia D160 that used to run on 4 AA rechargeable batteries!

  • iPhone app to keep track of electricity cut-offs in Beirut

    I guess I’m lucky to have a good memory and almost always remember the electricity cut-off schedule in my area of Beirut, but I know a lot of people who keep on forgetting it and can definitely make use of this new iPhone application by Mustafa Baalbaki.

    Only those living in Beirut would appreciate “Beirut Electricity” because they daily suffer forgetting when electricity is off.

    You need to know that electricity in Beirut city (capital of Lebanon) is off everyday for three hours, and each day these three hours are withdrawn backwards. For example, if the power today is off from 3:00 PM till 6:00 PM, so tomorrow it will be off from 12:00 PM till 3:00 PM and so forth until reaching 06:00 AM to 09:00 AM, and then it switches back to be off from 03:00 PM to 06:00 PM. It’s weird and this App is here to solve the calculation problem for you.

    When you first launch the App, you need to configure it by specifying the day and time cut range, and based on your input you can find when the electricity will be off at your location any time and on any day.

    The application works on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad but requires iOS 4.0 or later, and you can of course get it via the iTunes store.

    I don’t have an idea about the schedule of areas outside Beirut, but if they also follow a certain system then we’ll probably see some similar releases soon, or maybe an upgrade of the current application.

    Via Bilal Houri.

  • Happy Easter

    Special thanks to Lynn Bizri for allowing me to use this photo, Lynn and her sisters decorated all of these eggs by themselves, and through it I would like to wish you all a wonderful Easter time with your families.

  • Zaatar W Zeit and the missing Z’s

    I just got this in my e-mail:

    Other than a few photos and short videos of the “kidnap”, missingz.com account contained the following manifesto:

    We, the Z liberation cell, claim the responsibility behind the kidnapping of all the Zs from the Zaatar W Zeit signs.

    The Z Liberation cell has no affiliation to any political leader, military or religious group.

    Our cause is solely to liberate every single Z we find in town.

    We want change and we aim to evolve.

    More info to the public in due time. #MissingZ

    “change” could be a hint to probably new items on their menu… and I expect the whole thing to turn into a competition the find the missing Z’s… Let’s wait and see!

  • Guess who succeeded to upload a video to YouTube!

    It probably took them a LOT of time, but the people behind OntorNet have succeeded to upload the first video of a long series to come.

    I personally expect the series to be soon mentioned on some local news station.

  • Total Lebanon introduces Total Effimax

    Have you seen the latest billboard by Total Lebanon?

    They claim their new Effimax fuel has additives that reduce fuel consumption and extend the life of a car’s engine. With the current price we’re paying for fuel here, I definitely want to drive more for the same amount I’m paying, and I hope this is not false advertising!

    As compared to regular 95 and 98 octane fuels, TOTAL Effimax stands out by its unique proprieties and benefits:

    TOTAL Effimax reduces costs
    Thanks to its components the TOTAL formula improves combustion properties of fuels and gives them better performance. TOTAL Effimax reduces the fuel consumption and maintenance costs of the vehicle.

    Via Zawya

  • Cedarcom and their “Lebanese Want Fast Internet” campaign

    There’s no smoke without fire.

    And Samer Karam’s story today on Blogging Beirut comes to increase our doubts about the real intentions behind Cedarcom’s “Lebanese Want Fast Internet” page on Facebook that so far succeeded to gather more than 27,000 supporters.

    What drives an ISP to suddenly make such page and call for fast internet to become a “right” for every Lebanese citizen? And since when Lebanese telecom companies care about customers? Or do they suddenly felt they should be more socially responsible?

    Anyway, if you want to rally behind really transparent people demanding for better internet in Lebanon, make sure to join Ontornet page and Flip The Switch group on Facebook.

  • Mabrouk Shankaboot!!

    Via BlogBaladi.com

    I just found out Shankaboot won an Emmy last night at the International Emmy Awards held in Cannes. It’s the first Emmy win for Lebanon and one that I think is well deserved. [Link]

    In case you don’t know what Shankaboot is click [Here]