Some thoughts on the YouTube ban
The Arabist - Sat, 2007-11-24 10:17 By arabist
The Guardian’s Brian Whitaker has highlighted YouTube’s decision to block the Egypt torture videos page, which we recently covered. In his post Brian says points how this removes a crucial tool at the hands of bloggers to distribute and publicize cases of human rights abuses and build a campaign against Egypt’s systematic use of torture. read more »
Del.icio.us links for November 21st
The Arabist - Thu, 2007-11-22 02:30 By arabist
Automatically posted links for November 21st: read more »
Yamli Search: Aywa Keda!
The Arabist - Mon, 2007-11-19 01:40 By arabist
Yamli Search is very intriguing new search engine that transliterates Arabic written in the Latin alphabet into Arabic proper, and then runs that query through Google. It’s really quite neat — for instance if you type “ikhwan al muslimeen” it will search for “اخوان المسلمين“. You have to try it out to see what I mean.
The idea behind Yamli is that Arabic speakers often have to work without Arabic keyboards and are more used to English keyboards anyway. This is what they say in their press release: read more »
AJAX Windows
< ? adjuster ? > - Wed, 2007-11-07 10:59 By adjuster
A whole new experience..
An operating system running on the web..
Try it
It's FREE & COOL..
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A whole new experience..
An operating system running on the web..
Try it
It's FREE & COOL..
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Google launches Android, a Mobile operating system
The Baheyeldin Dynasty - "The journey for wisdom starts with knowledge" - Tue, 2007-11-06 01:10 By Khalid
Finally, Google announced its mobile strategy. It is centered around the Open Handset Alliance (OHC), which has members such as HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung, T-Mobile and Sprint. Google's offering is Android, which is a mobile phone software stack licensed under an Open Source licesen (Apache V2). Advertisement:
Finally, Google announced its mobile strategy. It is centered around the Open Handset Alliance (OHC), which has members such as HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung, T-Mobile and Sprint. Google's offering is Android, which is a mobile phone software stack licensed under an Open Source licesen (Apache V2). Advertisement:
Google to unveil its gPhone wireless strategy tomorrow
The Baheyeldin Dynasty - "The journey for wisdom starts with knowledge" - Sun, 2007-11-04 21:11 By Khalid
Rumors are mounting that Google will unveil its gPhone strategy tomorrow. The buzz says that Google will announce an open source based platform supported via an alliance of most phone manufacturers. Here are some articles on the topic. Advertisement:
Rumors are mounting that Google will unveil its gPhone strategy tomorrow. The buzz says that Google will announce an open source based platform supported via an alliance of most phone manufacturers. Here are some articles on the topic. Advertisement:
Facebook Events to Google Calendar
Green Data - Sat, 2007-10-20 19:49 By
Hey, you can add your Facebook Events onto your Google Calendar. Here you are the steps for doing so.
Hey, you can add your Facebook Events onto your Google Calendar. Here you are the steps for doing so.
1. Click on the "Events" link found in the left menu of your Facebook account.read more »
2. On the top of the page you'll find a link called "Export Events". Click on it, and copy the URL that appears in the pop-up window.
3. Go to Google Calendar, and press on the "Add" button, found in the "Manage Calendars" box there. Then select "Add by URL".
4. Enter the URL you've just got from Facebook there, and click on the "Add" button.
5. Voila, here you go.
Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video
< ? adjuster ? > - Wed, 2007-09-26 12:09 By adjuster
Google asked the world to help them imagine how an email message travels around the world. All it took was a video camera, the Gmail M-velope (
), and some creativity — and, wow, did you get creative!
http://mail.google.com/mvideo
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Google asked the world to help them imagine how an email message travels around the world. All it took was a video camera, the Gmail M-velope (
), and some creativity — and, wow, did you get creative!http://mail.google.com/mvideo
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MSN Personal Messages III
Green Data - Sun, 2007-09-16 22:25 By
This is the third episode, of "MSN Personal Messages" series.
* No good deed goes unpunished.
* A hungry man is an angry man.
* People lose their health to make money, then lose their money to get their health back.
* To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
* Don't wake up a hungry tiger.
* Life is nothing but a big test.
* You are what you eat.
* We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
* I am not what you are searching for.
* Impossible is nothing.
* It's only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything.
* I am not supposed to love you, just because you love me. read more »
This is the third episode, of "MSN Personal Messages" series.
* No good deed goes unpunished.
* A hungry man is an angry man.
* People lose their health to make money, then lose their money to get their health back.
* To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
* Don't wake up a hungry tiger.
* Life is nothing but a big test.
* You are what you eat.
* We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
* I am not what you are searching for.
* Impossible is nothing.
* It's only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything.
* I am not supposed to love you, just because you love me. read more »
Blog Hacking
Green Data - Wed, 2007-09-05 09:22 By
I've received the following question a while ago, so I think it'd be nice to publish it here.
I've received the following question a while ago, so I think it'd be nice to publish it here.
Amre El-Abyad said:And here is my answer:
Dear Tarek,
What iss the best way to protect one's blog against hacking?
Dear Amr,read more »
First of all make sure that you have a strong password that no one can guess easily.
Also, some Add-On's and Widgets are not trusted, they can bring you Advertisements and steal your account credentials (user name and password), especially those free Toolbars and the untrusted programs that people add to their browsers.
Make sure you have the latest Antivirus in order to protect yourself from key-loggers and the other Malwares.
Captcha
Green Data - Sat, 2007-09-01 21:29 By
Tags: Captcha, Illustration, Gr33n Datahttp://gr33ndata.blogspot.com/
Tags: Captcha, Illustration, Gr33n Datahttp://gr33ndata.blogspot.com/
Favourite, favourite, favourite :P
Green Data - Mon, 2007-07-09 13:11 By
One of the cool features in Firefox is its built-in spell-checker. In fact I cannot live without spell-checker either in office or web applications, especially when writing an new blog post. But it used to annoy me each time I write the word "favourite" this way. I even started to believe that my spelling was wrong. But today I knew the reason after seeing this link. And the good news is that you can download different dictionaries for Firefox - including the one for British English - that work with the spell-checking feature in it.
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One of the cool features in Firefox is its built-in spell-checker. In fact I cannot live without spell-checker either in office or web applications, especially when writing an new blog post. But it used to annoy me each time I write the word "favourite" this way. I even started to believe that my spelling was wrong. But today I knew the reason after seeing this link. And the good news is that you can download different dictionaries for Firefox - including the one for British English - that work with the spell-checking feature in it.
read more »
Wget and DOS For Loop
Green Data - Fri, 2007-06-22 17:52 By
Most of the time when you want to download a file, you righ-click on its URL in your browser and choose "Save Target As", to save it somewhere in your local hard drive. But imagine the case where you want to download about 100 files, saving each file individually will be really boring and time consuming. So let me first introduce you to a tool called "wget"
"GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts", GNU Wget Page.
read more »
Most of the time when you want to download a file, you righ-click on its URL in your browser and choose "Save Target As", to save it somewhere in your local hard drive. But imagine the case where you want to download about 100 files, saving each file individually will be really boring and time consuming. So let me first introduce you to a tool called "wget"
"GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts", GNU Wget Page.
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America, America
kikhote - Sat, 2007-06-16 12:02 By p2
is the title of a film that was nominated for the Oscars in 1963 and was directed by Elia Kazan, based on a novel he wrote about his uncle. read more »
is the title of a film that was nominated for the Oscars in 1963 and was directed by Elia Kazan, based on a novel he wrote about his uncle. read more »
IP-TV: Joost and Babelgum
Green Data - Sat, 2007-06-09 20:05 By
If you're not that much into networking and TCP/IP stuff, please skip this paragraph. A long while ago a friend at work - he now works in Cisco Systems - was preparing for an IP TV and VoD (Video on Demand) demo for one of our customers. We then had a debate about Multicast. In fact I was never able to like nor understand such technology. In web content, you request a page from the server and it gives it to you, then another user requests the same page, and so on. But when it come to a continuous stream of data like TV broadcast, it is hard for a server to serve that huge number of subscribers continuously at the same time. read more »
If you're not that much into networking and TCP/IP stuff, please skip this paragraph. A long while ago a friend at work - he now works in Cisco Systems - was preparing for an IP TV and VoD (Video on Demand) demo for one of our customers. We then had a debate about Multicast. In fact I was never able to like nor understand such technology. In web content, you request a page from the server and it gives it to you, then another user requests the same page, and so on. But when it come to a continuous stream of data like TV broadcast, it is hard for a server to serve that huge number of subscribers continuously at the same time. read more »
Information Warfare
Green Data - Wed, 2007-05-30 13:09 By
The U.S. Department of Defense recently reported that the Chinese military "has established information warfare units to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems and networks"
Source: Computer World Magazine
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The U.S. Department of Defense recently reported that the Chinese military "has established information warfare units to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems and networks"
Source: Computer World Magazine
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Geek Hacks
Green Data - Mon, 2007-05-28 16:50 By
Since I have nothing in my mind to blog about now, so let me introduce you to some geek blogs that are on my Google Reader.
1- gHacks, I guess the 'G' in their name is for Geek. You can find there many tech news and geek hacks.
2- Life-Hacker, it is not always computer related stuff. As you can see from their name, it has info such as "How to tie a Tie", "How to speed up your Adobe Acrobat Reader", etc.
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Since I have nothing in my mind to blog about now, so let me introduce you to some geek blogs that are on my Google Reader.
1- gHacks, I guess the 'G' in their name is for Geek. You can find there many tech news and geek hacks.
2- Life-Hacker, it is not always computer related stuff. As you can see from their name, it has info such as "How to tie a Tie", "How to speed up your Adobe Acrobat Reader", etc.
read more »
Adobe's Apollo
Point studios - Mon, 2007-03-26 00:28 By Abdelrahman
What if you could take all your (X)HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, Flex to the desktop, we used to use those technologies on a browser but what's Adobe is offering now is a new cross-platform runtime environment called Apollo that lets building and deploying RIA available to the desktop.
Micro$oft.com in the new look
< ? adjuster ? > - Sun, 2006-12-24 15:12 By adjuster
In an earlier post i said Micro$oft will be redesigned..
well.. they made it finally.. Check here..
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In an earlier post i said Micro$oft will be redesigned..
well.. they made it finally.. Check here..
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