My MUST HAVE Android applications list

andro explorer
I mainly use this application for removing newly installed applications, as it can sort applications by date. it also can browse local networks.
One of the features that shows me as a geek that I can extract the .apk files  downloaded by the android market

tweet deck
This is the official application for twitter and you can never taste the real twitter without this application.
this application is based on columns each column can be specified for something; someone you follow, a list, a search result. you can easily look into tweeps details and see their previous tweets. Well, it is my best twitter app

droid wallet
If you always wonder where did your money go, then this application is for you.
the ting that sets this application apart is the fast data entry and the extreme ease of use.

barcode scanner
This is a must have application for android, and I guess that you have one already

memo (Preinstalled on some phones)
Just something to write anything quickly, but do not forget to tab save :(

2x
This is a nice application if you are using Windows Terminal Server or Windows Remote Desktop. just add the server name and your username and password and you are using your computer

alarm clock xtreme free
A MUST have for heavy headed guys, just like me. it is not only an alarm it is an annoying alarm
simply, you set the alarm, set the snooze method, is it by shaking the phone or solving a math problem or just by tabbing a button on the screen.
if you choose shaking the phone, for how long do you want to shake it?
if you choose solving a math problem, , how many math problems do you want to solve and what is the level of difficulty and after you are done with the snooze button, you have to configure the dismiss button as well.

Android Agenda Widget
This is a paid application that I downloaded freely from the Gold applications section of getjar.com
simply the best widget for you calendar

Andro zip
If you recieve an Email with a zip file attached you will need an application to unzip that file

AndSMB
a nice application to access your windows shares, I haven't looked into linux shares (I still can not use linux shares as I am the only one using linux on the network)

Opera Mobile
I love using opera anywhere, if there is an opera application for driving my car I would use it -- no further comments needed

Opera mini
I would keep an apk file for use when I am using GPRS or 3G, High compression which saves my money and data plans

Unite Converter lite
Ever want to convert a meter to inches or KGs to Lbs this is the app you need.

قصيدة: وانا اللي هيعزيني مين!

قصيدة

وانا اللي هيعزيني مين

بقلم مريم هاشم  

كان فيه كنيسة فمدرستنا .... بيروحوها كل اتنين

و احنا بنكمل حصتنا .... فالفصل مع استاذ حسين

ليه بيروحو و يسيبونا ... احنا ما كناش فاهمين

بعد كده عرّفونا ..ان دى اسمها حصة دين

وزعوا الكتب علينا ... كانو كتابين مختلفين

رُحت سألت صاحبة ليا ... انتو يعنى بتاخدو ايه؟
و عشان عارفة ان انا فضولية ... راحت قايلة عاللى فيه

قالتلى ربنا شايفنا .... لازم نصلى و لازم نصوم

و نراعى ضميرنا فحياتنا ... و نشارك بعض فالهموم

و الكذب و السرقة حرام .. . و النفاق مالوش لزوم

و نعامل بالحب اخواتنا ... و نشكر ربنا كل يوم

و نعمل دايما لآخرتنا ... اصل الدنيا دى مش هتدوم



روحت سألت امى عنها ..ينفع احب صاحبتى ؟؟

اصل دينى مش زى دينها ... هاعمل ايه فى محبتى

راحت قايلة و الضحكة فى عينها ... اسمعى كلامى يا قطتى


كلنا بنعبد ربنا
و هو أكيد بيحبنا
بس مش هيرضى عنّا
الا اما نحب بعضنا

بعد كدة دخلت الكلية .. و اتصاحبت على كارولين

من كتر الشبه اللى بينا ...كانو فاكرِنّا توأمتين

و لولا انى لابسة حجاب .... كان الشك بقى يقين

انا باعزيكى يا كارولين

اللى ماتو دول غاليين

بس فيه عندى سؤال

انا اللى هيعزينى مين؟؟

دول اصحابى طول حياتى ..حبى ليهم مش مزيّف
مش هتغير معتقداتى مهما تحاول مش هتعرف

ربنا قاللى فالقرآن ...دول اكتر الناس مودة

و كل ما زاد الايمان .... كل ما بتزيد الوِحدة

مع بعضنا من زمان .. افراحنا و احزانّا واحدة

طول عمرنا عايشين فى امان ..و البلد دى علينا شاهدة

اللى عمل كدة مش انسان .. ده جواه حريقة آيدة

بس بردو مهما كان ... اللى عمله ماجابش فايدة

طلعنا من كل الاحزان .. . أقوى و محبتنا زايدة


حتى رسولى وصّانى عليهم ... و قاللى استوصى بيهم خير


و لما جاتله ماريّا منهم . .. فِرح بيها فَرح كبير


و قال عليهم وعلى جنودهم ..أجمد ناس و السر خطيير

و هو رباطهم و محبتهم ... لحد النَفَس الأخير

مش هيقدرو يفرقونا ...مهما عملو ومهما سووا

اصلهم لو يعرفونا .... كانو سكتو كانو يئسوا

همّا عرفو ا يفوقونا ... بس يغيرونا ينسوا



مصرنا هتفضل سفينة ... قلوب ركابها مش هيئسوا

و عمر ما أى حد فينا ...هيبيع الحب اللى حاسه
مريم هاشم




بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

ولتجدن اقربهم مودة للذين آمنوا الذين قالوا إنا نصاري

صدق الله العطيم


قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم :
" ستفتح عليكم يعدى مصر فاستوصوا بقبطها خيرا فإن لكم منهم ذمة ورحمة "
صدق رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
رواه مسلم

ملحوظة: تم نقلها كما هي بدون ادنى تعديل

Fix Crashing #KDE in #Linux

Dear Linux Users,

Yesterday I was trying to make KDE look more appealing but it crashed. of course if this happened to windows the standard procedure would be to reinstall windows and spend a couple of hours reinstalling your productivity software but with linux it is totally different.
you can use this method can be used with any distro with a broken Desktop Enviroment

1. Press Ctrl + Alt +F6

this will start a new command prompt session where you will be prompted to enter your user name and password

2. install another Desktop Enviroment

There is a lot of Enviroments in linux ranging from very basic and super light like blackbox to eye candy like Enlightenment and Full Performance like KDE and Gnome... Here I will install Xfce

# urpmi xfce4

Note: if you are using another Distro other than mandriva then use the distro's package manager

3. Kill the running KDE Session

# killall kdm

4. Press Ctrl + Alt + F7 or Ctrl + Alt + F8

That will return you back to your Destop enviroment

5. Click on "Session Type" at the bottom of the login screen

Note: If you can not find the "Session Type" then go to the end of this tutorial

6. Choose Xfce4 from the drop down menu

7. Enter your username and password

8. Now reset all what you have done that caused the crash of KDE

9. Log off and click on "Session Type" at the bottom of the login screen

10. Choose KDE

Now KDE should be running properly if not then start Xfce again and see what have you done wrong

NOTE: This section is for Mandriva Only:
If you can not find "Session Type" in the Mandriva login screen then Press Ctrl + Alt + F6 and type:

# mcc

Follow the instructions on the screen to create a new user and log with that user

Start $ systemsettings and change the login screen

you should find the "Session Type" in the login screen

I hope this brief tutorial would help someone someday

How to:Mass Update your Contacts' mobile network codes

I have been thinking for a while about a swift way to mass edit my phonebook so I wouldn't have to edit my contacts one by one.

I read that the mobile networks will have to automatically redirect my calls to the new numbers for at least 4 months after that I am on my own. But I don't think I will need 4 days for this matter.

First here is the mobile network new codes: 

Right now I am using linux and the only application I will use is an advanced text editor called kwrite but since 99.999% of the people who will be using this method are windows users then I will sadly use windows for this tutorial.

Requirements:

• Export your contacts as a ONE file Vcard "*.vcf"
• Advanced Text Editor: I will use wordpad -- looks fancy :) (DO NOT USE Microsoft Word)
• An average knowledge of text editors use.

The Method:
1. From your phone Export your contacts as a VCard .vcf file. 

NOTE:On my Android phone I can export all my contacts as a one vcard file, some other phone can only export one contact per file which will take a lot of time to edit so we need to merge all those files into one file only. To Merge all your files Check the file Merge section at the end of the tutorial.

2. Click on "Start" the type "wordpad"

3. Click on the drop down menu at the top of the word pad and then select "Open"

 

3.  Select "All documents" from the drop down list beside the address box then browse to your .vcf contacts file then click "Open"

4. Click "Replace" in the top menu bar

5. In the "Find what" text box type the old network code number after a colon
    In the "Replace with" text box type the new network code number after a colon
    Click on "Replace All"

6. Repeat the previous step for the other network numbers as shown in the table in the beginning of this page.

7. After finishing all the networks click on the drop down menu and point on "Save As" then click on "Plain text document"

8. Change the "File name" in the text box and click "Save"

9. Delete all your contacts from your phone and import the new contacts file to it.

10. If anything goes wrong you can always delete your contacts and import your original file back to your phone

Warning: I did NOT try this method yet. I will try it on 6/10/2011

 File Merge from Creative World 9 Blog

• 1. First Copy all your vcf files into one Folder/directory.
• 2. Open Windows command prompt (Windows + R),and then type “CMD” to open command prompt and navigate to the destination folder where all your contact files are stored (you can type CD YOUR PATH command to reach to your destination).
  Ex: you have copied your vcf files in folder named “singlevcf” then in command prompt type in “E” drive
  E:
  cd singlevcf 
• 3. Enter the following DOS command: copy *.vcf all.vcf 

  

That will be all, Please refer to my blog if you find it useful.

Update:  I found an Android application for the same purpose, although I will use my own method :)
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.tazbeet.mobile.pbu 

Playing Terminal Velocity

One of the things that I really hate about Windows 7 is the lack of fullscreen support of the DOS applications.

I have been around computers since I was a little boy, and I still love the games I used to play then like: Prince of Persia 1 & 2, Sky Roads, Lomax, Death Rally and River Raid. and some games that I would love to play but being introduced to much smoother game perfomances I find playing such games is a bit confusing and annoying like per-historical 2 and a game about vikings. I love a classic typing applications called Typing Tutor which is not working anymore because of the 2000 problem (It can not react to current dates becuase the last year it could handle is 1999)

Terminal Velocity

 

So, after installing Windows 7 due to problems with my USB Modem I found out that I can not run such applications any more but today I remembered a game called "Terminal Velocity" and I was determined to play it even if I have to remove Windows 7. so I searched the internet and for ways to run full screen 16-bit DOS applications and the answer was simple, all you have to do is to disable your Display Adapter. And I disabled it.

I installed "Terminal Velocity" and ran the game, I played the first mission and enjoyed it so much. even though the display was not good by any means and there was Lagging but I found those minutes I spent playing this game are very enjoyable, I didn't enjoy playing a flight simulator since Freespace 2

The thing that reminded me of this game is the part where you fly in tunnels and those tunnels are full of traps, although this is not realistic it can not be found in any game I have played recently.

Freespace 2

PREHISTORIK

 

Prince of Persia 2

Prince of Persia

 

Lomax

 

Death Rally

 

Those are some images from the old games that I like and they are still on my Computer, contact me if you want any of them.

I joined #ElAdl Political Party

Yesterday I joined the El Adl political party, all they needed was 2 personal photos and a copy of my ID and I attended a meeting. it was nice, as usual most of the attendance was females and a few males, I filled the form, supplied the photos and ID copy and I became a member.

Dr Mohammad ElNekhely started be introducing the new members, their name, brief intro and age. (of course females argued a little with the age part) then he started taking about the party in general. 

• Stating that it lies in the middle-right wing. 
• It totally agrees with the second article of the Egyptian Constitution and have nothing against it.
• It is the party of the couch party. ie: people with no previous political interests or experiences and spent their time on their home couches infront of their TV sets in a very passive manner.
• Stating the Parties position relative to other parties and Ikhwan (El Adala wa AlHoreya) .

Before starting I asked about the Parliamentary Elections and Dr Mohammad ElNekhely said that the party has no candidates in Ismailia right now but it is negotiating with some of the dissembled National party members who want to enter the Parliamentary Elections under the El Adl umbrella .

After making that clear he started the meeting's schedule, some empty positions and the party's opening hours the next elections and the one who will be elected will be in that position for 4 years and some other stuff that I do not remember.

During the meeting they started passing around some fliers and the Party's identification notebook with the Party's codes and guidelines and a small piece of paper that contained azkar and do'aa (Islamic prayers) of course I tweeted that immediately and said that they are trying to prove that they belong to the right middle.

I was invited to the youth group which should do something remarkable in the next few days. The age range of that group is from 18 to 28, which means that I have one more year to go.

after the meeting I was supposed to meet the youth group to exchange phone numbers and agree on what are we going to do but I found no one so I went for to quick tasks and returned to find the heads of the party are sitting with members of the 6th April movement, I was invited to sit and I found people talking about a lot. It was mainly a [getting to know each other] meeting

That's all, I guess that the only thing I left out is: when they were talking about the second article of the constitution I was about to say that I do not care or I do not agree with it but I kept my mouth shut, well it is a matter of time until they realize that the second article is not about Islam but about justice

Emergency ambulance

In such times of insecurity it is strongly advised that you stop for no one under any circumstance specially on a highway.

I was driving home from Cairo, and a man with a "Galabeya" was waving of course I did not stop but she kept pointing to the other side of the road. After passing him I saw an accident on the other side of the road. I stopped after about 500 meters from the accident and returned to the guy, he said:" there is an Emergency ambulance unit about 4 km tell them to come" I went there and I told them about the accident.

the problem is there were not ready, some were without shirts, others without shoes and they took nearly 2 minutes to get on they way. considering that they are in the business of saving lives that is too much considering that there is a U turn they will take to be on the other side of the road.

the cars are new, powerful, fully equipped and ready. but the people are not. I imagined that once I tell them the location they would be on their way but they took time to wear their shirts and grab their shoes. one of them took his shoes with him in the car to wear it later.

I know it is summer and it is terribly hot weather it happened in ramadan so they were fasting but still they are in the business of saving lives, and they should be ready under any circumstances

I hope things would get better soon in Egypt and everything would be done perfectly, like the textbook says.

Blog Resurrection

I made this blog about 2 years ago. at that time I was a Linux geek and all the blogs I was following had daily updates and of course I did not keep up. it wasn't long before I quit the blog and left it as an archive with no intentions of further updates.

After the Egyptian revolution I have been following some new blogs, blogs written by Egyptians and I found something interesting; the updates were not frequent some write a post every a couple of weeks and some write a post whenever they feel like writing, in fact there are some who did not write a single update since subscribing to their blog. and of course there are some who write more than one post everyday.

I thought of my old blog and what had happened to it, I checked that stats site and found that there was 59 page loads since the start of the blog with about 38 visits. I am sure that I have the record of my blog visits and I did not dig any deeper, such numbers are not encouraging but I made a decision to write to myself and If there is anybody interested from my friends on twitter or facebook they can enjoy what I am writing as well.

Now, about the new guidelines for this blog. I will write nearly about everything: life, the revolution, news, work, technical analysis, maybe jokes I do not know exactly but I promise you whenever anything interesting comes through my mind I will blog about it. bloggin will still be in English because I lack the fast speed typing in arabic. (English is about 60 wpm more or less)

One of the things that made me happy when I opened this page today is the picture on the left side of this text stating, (we will not stop, we will not travel abroad, we will not let go. WE LOVE EGYPT). When someone asks me what did you do supporting the Egyptian revolution, I usually answer: "I had this revolution in my heart years before it happens but no one ever believed that there will be a change." This is a historical proof (at least for me) that I did believe that we have to be better. although I do not remember the occasion of putting this image but I know that is what I believed in then, I wanted Egypt to be a better place, so I was doing anything that was right, I was even very hesitant about starting a business because of the bribes and such corruption that I will have to deal with.

It's good to be back, I hope you enjoy my company and my words