Mohamed Salem Korayem's Blog

I was addicted to Launchy back on my old Dell latitude D420. It had Windows XP with Launchy. I went through documents in a snap making most of my friends impressed. Anything I could think of, a program or even a document, was exactly 1 second away from the moment I needed it.

Now with my HP Pavilion dv2775ee with Vista Home Premium 64, I wanted the same functionality. I knew about it's "Search" capability in launching applications. But I wanted to open pdf ebooks, documents..etc in the same manner.More...

I am having a very lame problem with Google Egypt's search engine. Results returned are only "pages from Egypt" whenever I change what I am searching for.

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My good friend Hatham El-Fadeel pointed me to a post that states how good is the performance of the latest beta of Firefox 3 is compared to other web browsers and to even the previous beta of Firefox 3.

I though to jump right in and take the same test using my laptop as a test bed. An HP dv2775ee Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz 6MB Cache (T9300) with 4GB RAM on a Vista Home Premium 64 Bit

WOW!! The Firefox team is doing magical stuff to their engine leaving both Opera and IE teams with some serious competition....the closest match is IE8 and it's 2x slower!!

Update: Coding horror has covered this a long time ago, in a much detailed way.

Pirate Bay moves to Egypt as per their blog post in an attempt to escape for the new European law. Looks like another April fool like Google Australia's gDay to me, but it's hilarious nonetheless!!