The Pearl-Qatar

On Saturday 18th of October 2008. My cousin took me to see the early construcion of The Pearl-Qatar. The Pearl-Qatar, A Riviera-style man-made island developed in an exclusive environment in Doha,Qatar and the Middle East's most glamorous address, covering 400 hectares of reclaimed land, is Qatar's first international urban development venture. It is a jewel in the arabian Gulf, The Pearl-Qatar is a multi-billion dollar rediscovered island spanning nearly 4-million square meters. Creating over 32 kilometers of new coastline, the island is Qatar’s first international real estate venture, and will be home to over 40,000 residents in more than 15,000 dwellings within 12 precincts by 2010.

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New Macbook Pro!

Get the best of both worlds.

The new MacBook Pro combines the efficiency of an integrated graphics processor with the desktop-class performance of a discrete graphics processor. That’s because it has both. Out of the box, it runs the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M processor, which provides plenty of performance for everyday use with up to 5 hours of battery life.* But when you need turbocharged performance for the most graphically intensive tasks, the discrete NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT processor delivers. And thanks to a new graphics architecture, it’s easy to switch between these two processors.

Play faster.

With faster performance and higher frame rates for graphically demanding 3D games like Quake, Call of Duty, and Spore, MacBook Pro plays like a console — an extremely portable one.

Create faster.

The combination of the powerful Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the discrete NVIDIA 9600M GT graphics processor, and the stunning 15-inch LED-backlit display makes the new MacBook Pro the perfect notebook for Adobe Creative Suite. MacBook Pro has all the power you need to design, illustrate, and animate — wherever and whenever inspiration strikes.

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New Macbooks!

Square one: a solid block of aluminum.

Instead of assembling a notebook from many minor parts, the new MacBook was reinvented from just one: the new, solid-aluminum unibody enclosure. It gets full credit for making MacBook thinner, lighter, and even more stunning. But it’s not all beauty. Because of the unibody, this MacBook is also durable. It was designed to take on your world. So slip it into your backpack or briefcase and pull it out wherever you go — it’s impressive in any setting.

Hey, where’s the button?

The amazing new trackpad doubles as a button — just press down anywhere and consider it clicked. No separate button means there’s 39 percent more room for your fingers to move on the silky glass surface. Now that Multi-Touch gestures have come to MacBook, all the function is in your fingers. Use two fingers to scroll up and down a page. Pinch to zoom in and out. Swipe with three fingers to flip through your photo libraries. Rotate to adjust an image with your fingertips. Using the new four-finger swipe gesture, swipe up or down to access Exposé modes and left or right to switch between open applications. If you’re coming from a right-click world, you can right-click with two fingers or configure a right-click area on the trackpad. The more you use the Multi-Touch trackpad, the more you’ll wonder what you ever did without it.

Cooler creatures. Richer worlds.

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M brings up to five times faster, discrete-level graphics performance to MacBook.¹ That means high-end, high-speed 3D game-playing power Graphics-intensive features in iPhoto and iMovie are smooth and responsive. Movies and video offer rich colors and fine details. NVIDIA performance even makes a difference as you flip through your music library with Cover Flow or use the Dashboard.

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