Replacing Launchy with Windows Vista's Start Menu


image 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...




Google Egypt searching problems


image 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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Battle of the browsers: The Javascript Engine Challenge


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

Browser

Time

(less is better)

Results URL

Firefox 2.0.13 12859.4ms http://urltea.com/32om
Firefox 3 beta 5 2736.4ms http://urltea.com/32pr
IE 7 21794.2ms http://urltea.com/32oy
IE 7 (64 bit) 20503.6ms http://urltea.com/32oq
IE 8 Beta 1 (64 bit) 6443.8ms http://urltea.com/32p6
Opera 9.26 8692ms http://urltea.com/32ot

 

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 Sinai, Egypt


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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!!




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Oroba Tunnel in Salah Salem Road [Cairo]  [NOT HDR]

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AA. I am Mohamed Salem Korayem. I work as an Embedded Software Engineer in a major international automotive supplier company here in Cairo, Egypt.

Currently I work in the Tooling Dept. where I, and the rest of the team, strive to make our fellow embedded software geeks happier. I work mainly with the .NET 2.0 using C#.

I also have a big appetite for web-development. I like analyzing the revolution of the web (aka Web 2.0) and how it affects people's lives in return. I develop web-apps with ASP.NET 2.0/Python in my free time. For client-side stuff, I use jQuery for all that Javascript magic.

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