I Am Asif

We're bombarded with info every day from all over—Facebook, Twitter, Insta, WhatsApp—you name it. Politics, celebs, sports, religion... it's all there. And when we see something 'cool', we share it like wildfire. Reposting on our feeds or firing it off to everyone we know. But hold up—how often do we hit pause and think, "Is this actually true?" Not too often, right? And that's why there's so much fake stuff floating around. It's a big problem, as we all know. Those sneaky algorithms just want our eyeballs, so they'll push anything juicy, even if it's total nonsense. But here's the thing: we gotta be smarter. More mature. In this age of fake news, it's up to us to stop the spread.  One golden rule? Don't share stuff unless you're sure it's legit. Prophet Muhammad (S) stressed how serious it is to spread unverified info. He even called someone who does that a plain old liar! He said, “It is enough for a man to prove hims...

There are so many pieces of tech that we directly or indirectly benefit from that we take for granted completely. The sewing machine has been around for more than 200 years. Every piece of clothing we've ever worn surely has come through some sort of a sewing machine. But have we ever wondered about the brilliance of the human mind over several decades that's behind the development of this mechanical marvel? Yet another brilliant video by one of my favorite channels  @veritasium  !

It's always great when a new gadget is added to your arsenal, right? Well about half a month a ago, I've got myself a new laptop, Thanks to Allah. It's a netbook rather, an Asus EEE PC 1215T . Despite being tagged a netbook, which is usually synonymous to a low-end laptop, this little machine has a pretty decent configuration (surely you've checked out the specs by now via the above link). Well, I haven't bought this thing to play Crysis 2 right? It does whatever things I expect it to do pretty smoothly. Hey, it even runs AutoCAD 2012 nicely as well (which I'm currently learning). In an age where everyone's going for the latest android tablets or the iPad, buying a netbook might not sound very tech savvy. But IMHO, despite being super duper cool and great tools for browsing, communication, note-taking and awesome time killing entertainment, neither Android nor iOS are good enough to replace windows or mac, as far as productivity is concerned. May be all t...