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Ubiquity for Firefox

Let's see what's the awesome FLOSS world is introducing to us, lets see Firefox Ubiquity. You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking, typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task. And you haven’t even really sent a map or useful reviews—only links to them. Read more Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo . [tags] web mail service,message composition,ubiquity,floss,email,san francisco restaurant,search engine,map[/tags]

Ubiquity for Firefox

Let's see what's the awesome FLOSS world is introducing to us, lets see Firefox Ubiquity. You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking, typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task. And you haven’t even really sent a map or useful reviews—only links to them. Read more Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo . [tags] web mail service,message composition,ubiquity,floss,email,san francisco restaurant,search engine,map[/tags]

To Our Leaders: Free Us.

$427 million. That’s what the oil and coal industries spent during the first half of 2008 on lobbying and advertising. They’re protecting their interests – and hurting ours. This ad is running on TV right now, but we need millions more to see it. The special interests will outspend us, but we can compete head-to-head with them when we find ways to share these messages for free. We want 50,000 people to watch this ad in the next 72 hours. Will you help? [tags]coal industries,special interests, tv ad[/tags]

To Our Leaders: Free Us.

$427 million. That’s what the oil and coal industries spent during the first half of 2008 on lobbying and advertising. They’re protecting their interests – and hurting ours. This ad is running on TV right now, but we need millions more to see it. The special interests will outspend us, but we can compete head-to-head with them when we find ways to share these messages for free. We want 50,000 people to watch this ad in the next 72 hours. Will you help? [tags]coal industries,special interests, tv ad[/tags]
My niece approached me asking me to help her reinstalling Windows XP, Autocad, 3D max, Photoshop & Microsoft Office, for her I work in computers and I should be able to help her but in fact I can't. I cannot install illegal software so I asked her if she has the original CDs she said no but I can buy them if they are better, yet she didn't understand my point and she do not know how much would it cost to buy those apps; she's just a junior engineer student. so I decided to help her finding a place to buy them (Yet she have no idea how much that would cost her) and we started with Norton Anti Virus and the price was $99 why we started with Antivirus ? because Microsoft Windows doesn't last long without it. Then we googled for autocad online shopping option and it was there for $1200 and 3D max for $3,495 , Adobe C3 was for $649, Microsoft Office 2007 student license was for $149.95 and we kept searching for Microsoft Windows XP License but we couldn't find a

Boosting the translation process

First let me give you a brief background of the current Arabic translation status, We have 167 contributor, 266742 untranslated string which make %64.72, 8847 strings that needs review. I'm putting the following assumptions to build sort of road-map, one crucial way to way to boost the translation process is to get more contributors (I'll talk about how we can double the number later), lets say we can double our contributors 334 lets assume that 300 of them will translate 30 strings a day and others will review the translation that makes 9000 translated string a day on the other side each reviewer will review 60 string a day which should be around 2000 reviewed string a day. Having a 300 contributor translating to translate 266742 string would take 30 days to push our status 100% translated (which is kind of a dream) in the same month we will have 60000 string reviewed with 206742 strings that needs a review and by the way I'm putting the worst case scenario here which is

وضع العالم العربي بعد طعن مهند

طعن مهند و هو الان بين الحياه و الموت مصطفى أتاتورك يتحدث من قبره و يلوم الاتراك على التسيب في حمله التتريك و الذي ادى الى دبلجه المسلسلات التركيه للعربيه! اجتمع الشعراء العرب لتجهيز افضل ما لديهم لرثاء مهند ان لا سمح الله توفي و اليكم ما قاله الشعراء في رثاء مهند ستخرج الجماهير العربيه من كل مكان يوم الجمعه لرثاء مهند اقسمت نور بان تبقى مرتديه لفستان العرس لمماتها حتى لو خمج عليها طالبت عائله مهند الجماهير العربيه بعدم الخروج عن القوانين في بلادهم فيما يخص التجمع لاكثر من ثلاثه و لهذا دعت العائله الجماهير للخروج كوبلز مجوز يعني عاجل اعلنت الدول العربيه و العاربه و المستعربه على الكره الارضيه و في المجره تنكيس الاعلام لمده ثلاث حلقات تقديرا لمهند قرر المجلس الاسلامي الكوكبي تاجيل تحري هلال شهر باب الحاره لمعرفتهم التامه بصدق مشاعر الامه تجاه مهند و معرفتهم بان عيون الامه محروقه على مغادرته ان العين لتدمع و ان القلب ليحزن و انا على فراقك يا مهند لمحزونون [tags]تفاهات, العالم, العربي[/tags]

وضع العالم العربي بعد طعن مهند

طعن مهند و هو الان بين الحياه و الموت مصطفى أتاتورك يتحدث من قبره و يلوم الاتراك على التسيب في حمله التتريك و الذي ادى الى دبلجه المسلسلات التركيه للعربيه! اجتمع الشعراء العرب لتجهيز افضل ما لديهم لرثاء مهند ان لا سمح الله توفي و اليكم ما قاله الشعراء في رثاء مهند ستخرج الجماهير العربيه من كل مكان يوم الجمعه لرثاء مهند اقسمت نور بان تبقى مرتديه لفستان العرس لمماتها حتى لو خمج عليها طالبت عائله مهند الجماهير العربيه بعدم الخروج عن القوانين في بلادهم فيما يخص التجمع لاكثر من ثلاثه و لهذا دعت العائله الجماهير للخروج كوبلز مجوز يعني عاجل اعلنت الدول العربيه و العاربه و المستعربه على الكره الارضيه و في المجره تنكيس الاعلام لمده ثلاث حلقات تقديرا لمهند قرر المجلس الاسلامي الكوكبي تاجيل تحري هلال شهر باب الحاره لمعرفتهم التامه بصدق مشاعر الامه تجاه مهند و معرفتهم بان عيون الامه محروقه على مغادرته ان العين لتدمع و ان القلب ليحزن و انا على فراقك يا مهند لمحزونون [tags]تفاهات, العالم, العربي[/tags]

Explore news sites read by McCain, Obama and political journalists.

Now you can track the news that Obama and McCain are reading and sharing with you, both McCain and Obama presidential campaigns and leading political journalists are using Google Reader to keep up with their favorite new sites and blogs as well as share articles that interest them. All of that is publicly available now at Power Readers in Politics [tags] political journalists,presidential campaigns,share articles,google,obama,mccain,blogs[/tags]

Explore news sites read by McCain, Obama and political journalists.

Now you can track the news that Obama and McCain are reading and sharing with you, both McCain and Obama presidential campaigns and leading political journalists are using Google Reader to keep up with their favorite new sites and blogs as well as share articles that interest them. All of that is publicly available now at Power Readers in Politics [tags] political journalists,presidential campaigns,share articles,google,obama,mccain,blogs[/tags]

Linux Google Gears - No effect?

Has anyone tried the Linux version of Google Gears ? I installed it like week ago and tried it with WordPress, Google Reader and some other small apps that support it but I felt no effect in speed at all. Is it just me or did anyone else experience this no speed effect with Linux version of Google Gears? [tags] google gears,linux version,google,gears,apps,linux[/tags]

Ubuntu Arabic Team

We have been working on Ubuntu Arabic silently to merge all of the scattered Ubuntu related efforts in Arabia to establish one solid good team and I guess we just did it and we just reached phase zero. (Yes, we were working in minus degree). First, we merged with ubuntu-alarabi.net and now waiting to hear from arabuntu.org, we are so excited and we want to put all possible efforts on this team. Our goals includes but are not limited to the following Handling Arabic Support on discussion forum, mailing list IRC and LP answers. Provide hosting to Ubuntu LoCo Teams in Arabia and giving them all kind of possible help Translating available contributor guides to Arabic to get the more contributors from Arabia (Now we are working on new translators guide ) next might be MOTU Taking Arabic translation into higher level, currently we have 165 translator, 266742 untranslated strings which make the status %64 untranslated. Providing Arab users with apps that doesn't exists

The Fine Friends

Tareef Cycling Club

The Fine Friends

Tareef Cycling Club
Working from coffee places has many advantages especially if you do your work from home but sometimes it just sucks because you have to drive and in Amman it means you have to swear at about 10% 90% of drivers around you. Today I decided to work from Donuts Factory because I like it, it's Jordanian brand which means I'm supporting local business instead of international chains, it's usually quite place and they have decent Internet connection but today things were different. It seems some teens were running out of school and hanging there for their secret date and as Arab they genetically speaks shouts and yell without noticing that I can blog their story. Moral of the story to the point, BE AWARE OF BLOGGERS AROUND YOU! Actually I'm aware of their relationship now and I can tell if it's going to work or not, I know some stuff about their families but I didn't like the girl when she stated that she hates her mother as for the guy, he's melting down for a

My top 10 commands for July, 2008

Inspired by some other Ubuntu Members & Users history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 117 ls 85 cd 24 sms 21 less 21 apt-cache 18 vim 17 sudo 16 rm 16 apt-get 10 dh_make I guess I should be doing more dh_makes , less sms and more vim :D [tags] top, commands, ubuntu, linux, terminal [/tags]

Some quick updates

Wow, I just noticed that I did not blog since 14 of June, anyway here is a quick update of what I'm currently involved in and what making me really busy Ubuntu Arabic Team Finally our website is up and running but our road map still have loads of todos to get in shape We're about to finalize remaining legal issues regarding National Open Source office I started to hate programming or is it programmer pms? A small network solutions based on Ubuntu in the Kingdom received a threat and some sort of bribe discounts to sell Microsoft products instead which means we have a task for the National Open Source Office lawyer, oh we don't have a lawyer yet! I should blog about my MOTU journey I should find a way to organize my mental state with the loads of different type of works Jordan LoCo is idle in summer, believe me it's too hot out there to do any kind of activities. Cycling to the lowest point on earth during summer is a bad idea! [tags]