my 2 cents

فى مصر كثير من الفقراء - وبعضهم ينام بلا طعام - ويعتبر شهر رمضان فرصة للكثيرين للحصول على وجبة مجانية من خلال موائد الرحمن التى يتسابق أهل الخير على إقامتها فى كل مكان - حتى إذا إنتهى رمضان عاد هؤلاء الفقراء لحياة الحرمان والتضور جوعاً

أود أن أقترح على القادرين و أهل الخير أن يفتتحوا محلات للوجبات السريعة تخدم الفقراء والمحتاجين وعابرى السبيل فتقدم لهم وجبات مجانية طوال العام - وقد بهرتنى هذه الفكرة الرائعة عندما رأيتها منفذة فى إحدى الدول الأوربية وقلت سبحان الله - نحن نقيم موائد الرحمن ببذخ شديد فى رمضان ثم ننسى فقراءنا باقى السنة - أما هذه المحلات الأنيقة فهى موائد مستديمة للرحمن طوال العام

ويمكن تنفيذ الفكرة بأكثر من طريقة

إذا كان فاعل الخير من الأثرياء يمكنه إقامة مايشاء من المحلات بحيث يتكفل بكل التكلفة لوحده

أو يمكن أن يتم الإنفاق عليه بصفة ذاتية - بحيث تباع وجبات للقادرين بسعر يغطى التكلفة مع فاثض يمكن المطعم من خدمة الفقراء - فكأن القادر يدفع ثمن وجبته ووجبة أو وجبتين لإخوته من الفقراء

كما يمكن وضع صندوق تبرعات فى كل محل يتيح للمحسنين المشاركة فى فعل الخير بالمساهمة فى تكاليف الوجبات - بل يمكن نشر صناديق مماثلة فى المحلات والمطاعم الأخرى - وبخاصة تلك التى يرتادها القادرين - تدعوهم لتذكر الفقراء والمحتاجين والتبرع مما أعطاهم الله

وفى نفس الوقت يمكن لتلك المحلات إستقبال بواقى الطعام من الأسر القادرة - بدلاً من إلقائه فى سلال القمامة - ولايخفى عليكم أن بعض الناس أصبحوا من الجوع يبحثون فى صناديق القمامة فى الشوارع على بواقى الطعام - فالأفضل أن نقدمه لهم نظيفاً مغلفاً من خلال تلك المطاعم لنحفظ عليهم كرامتهم ونقيهم من الأمراض

وأعتقد أن هذه الفكرة إذا نجحت وإنتشرت - ستساهم أيضاً فى حل مشكلة البطالة لمن سيعمل بها من بائعين وطهاه ومعدى الوجبات - وإن كنت أرى أن يدير كل محل شخص متطوع لديه متسع من الوقت و محب للخير ولايرجو إلا مرضاة المولى عز وجل

CNG (compressed natural gas) is very cheap in Egypt. One cubic meter costs only LE 0.45 (in USD: about 8 cents)! which is way cheaper than gazoline at LE 1.75 per liter (octane 90). Plus, a meter of gas makes more kilometers (mileage) for the car, about double actually. Driving from Cairo to Alexandria, Egypt (200km) costs LE 5 in gas, compared to LE 35 in gasoline, that’s 7 times cheaper! Read the rest of this entry »

Good news for Egyptian adsense publishers. No more lost checks in mail, no more long waits! Cash your payments the next day! Read the rest of this entry »

Through the years, I used many web hosting services. And from my experience, I can now saely recommend the best web host ever. Read the rest of this entry »

If you ever wanted to locate your firefox profile, here is a quick way: Read the rest of this entry »

Firefox sometimes somehow refuses to save your settings. If you used more that one login info for a given site, firefox will stop auto filling your username and password. So, when you want to correct this, the procedure should be to go, from firefox menu, to: Tools > Options > Security > Show Passwords, then remove both login entries for that site. But sometimes, somehow, firefox fail to remove those entries. If you checked again, after restarting firefox, and found that both entries are still there, then you need to do a manual remove. Here is how: Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a tiny extension that saves you lot of space in your Firefox top menu bar. It gives you much larger address bar, and allows you to move the search bar up there too if you want less lines and more space for your browsing. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a simple way to get rid of the ‘Go’ arrow button in Firefox, which will give you more space for your address bar. Read the rest of this entry »

مع كارت مرحبا بلس تستطيع أن تجري المكالمات المحلية والدولية ومكالمات المحافظات والمحمول من أي تليفون ثابت دون أن تضاف قيمة هذه المكالمات على فاتورة التليفون ، ويتم تشغيل الكارت بسهولة تامة كما يمنحك أعلى سرية في الاستخدام

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Today, everytime I login to my web sites, my browser freezes after a few seconds. I discovered that a site at iii.832823.cn is somehow sending web surfers a script that delays loading web pages forever. I had to restart my computer several times. Then finally I found a solution Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a handy online tool to calculate the the amount you get, after a given period of years, when you deposit your money in a bank. Just type the amount you want to deposit, the bank’s yearly interest rate, and the number of years that you intend to keep your money in the bank. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the few problems with having a phone with a nice big display is that many games do not display full screen. No problem! It’s an easy fix that anyone can do and you’ll be running full screen games/aps on your phone in no time. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t install megaupload toolbar, its loaded with evil stuff. It will force your firefox browser’s to use yahoo instead of google, and will load weird pages full of ad links, even when you try to have a new empty bowser page. But if you have already installed megaupload toolbar, here is a quick and easy fix to get your firefox back like it was before .. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are a few tips to help you configure Firefox to how you want. Read the rest of this entry »

There is an awful spammer who calls herself ‘Miss Nathalie Haig’. She keeps sending nonesense emails to huge lists of email addresses. I’ve been suffering from this for years now. Read the rest of this entry »

If you use BitComet or exchange torrents, be warned: version 0.70 is the only stable release to date. Read the rest of this entry »

I used to have EvilLyrics to display lyrics of songs while being played. But the problem was that it displays the lyrics in its own, separate window. Read the rest of this entry »

If your Firefox profile is saved in C, or where Windows in installed, you’re running the risk of losing it. The Windows partition in your hard drive is the one you reformat in many situations, like when it gets infected with viruses or trojans, or when the computer gets too bloated and slow, or when something goes wrong and you find no way to access except reformatting that partition. That;s why it comes handy plan ahead and save your firefox profile in any other partition.

Now, suppose that you forgot where your profile folder is!
Here is an easy way to locate it: Read the rest of this entry »

In Firefox, when you click a bookmark, it replaces the current page. To open it in a new tab, you need to press Ctrl while clicking the bookmark. I think a bookmark should open in a new tab just by clicking. I just found an extension that does exactly that. Read the rest of this entry »

Firefox 2 is great, and comes with many useful new features. But one feature annoyed me: If you’re used to opening many tabs, like I do, you may need to use the arrows at far right, or left, to be able to view them. That’s because in Firefox 2.0, tabs has a minimum width setting. To allow more visible tabs, Read the rest of this entry »

Free software, specially open source, are usually much better than paid software. Following is a list of the gems that I’ve found to be very useful over the years, and why I’m using them: Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve discussed earlier how to fix the sound problem in Canon and other digital cameras, where the mic is designed too close to the camera’s moving parts, and the mic is so sensitive that it picks the mechanical noise all the time during shooting your movies.
Now let’s see how to replace the original audio track of our movie, with the track we fixed with Goldwave. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canon A710 is a great camera. You can find excellent reviews about it in several websites, but there is an annoying sound problem that is not mentioned in any of those reviews that I’ve read so far. The good news is that I found a perfect and easy fix for that problem.

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This is one great song. I’ve been trying to find it anywhere on the web for ages, and now that I finally found it, I thought I’d share it with you. Dai el anadeel, by Abdel Halim Hafiz Read the rest of this entry »

If it annoys you, everytime you create a shortcut, that the words “Shortcut to ” is added, here is a simple way to teach Windows not to add it anymore Read the rest of this entry »

In modern wars, air power is maily used to destry everything. In Lebanon, the israeli are causing huge damage, killing civilian women and children, demolishing buildings and burrying innocent people alive. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a nice healthy diet, that I’ve tried and found great.
You lose weight, while eating healthy food, and without starving yourself like in other diets. Read the rest of this entry »

One download solves all your computer’s audio and video needs! Read the rest of this entry »

.. but I’m restricted Read the rest of this entry »

Listen to Radio Masr Elyoum - Egypt online Read the rest of this entry »

Home-made yogurt is fun to make, delicious and saves you money. Here is the easiest way to make it. It takes only 2 minutes to prepare! Read the rest of this entry »

With the outbreak of bird flu in several countries accross the world, it is advised that we stop eating grilled or fried chicken and raw or soft boiled eggs Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a fan of internet radio, you’ll find this plugin very useful. It displays the lyrics of almost any song you’re listening to. Read the rest of this entry »

Listen to Radio Casablanca online Read the rest of this entry »

Listen to Radio Tunisia online Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been using several web hosts in the past 10 years, but never found anything so good like site5 Read the rest of this entry »

Listen to Radio Egypt online (Al-Barnameg Al-Aam) Read the rest of this entry »

It’s wonderful news for school students. Your government will propably start distributing laptops instead of your usual text books soon. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a list of links to Egyptian newspapers and magazines, including special links for viewers living in Egypt. Read the rest of this entry »

It happens alot, having to re-install your firefox extensions. In some cases, your extensions suddenly disappear. To re-install them, you need to have a record of their names, and the locations from which you got them before. But now, thanks to this smart little extension, called ‘Local Install’, you no more have to worry the next time you loose your extensions. Read the rest of this entry »

If you happened to mis-type your username/password when trying to login to a website before, then you must feel the frustration when Firefox keeps remembering your little mistake forever. I just found out how you can break free and have Firefox behave! Read the rest of this entry »

I keep noticing it. More people on th web are typing ‘to’ when they wanted to type ‘too’. This typo is growing so much that I sometime think like, perhaps the English language changed, and I’m the last one to realize it. Did it? Read the rest of this entry »

You almost wake up everyday in Egypt, to read a new tragic road accident in the newspapers. Yesterday, 11 poor children were drowned in a water canal, when the trailer of a tractor, in which they were packed in, was suddenly detached and went into the canal. 13 people drowned, including 11 children. They were hired to work in a cotton field, a full day’s work for only LE.7 (a dollar and a few cents). Read the rest of this entry »

This smart little tool simply displays your adsense earnings in your Firefox status bar. No more logging in every time you want to check your adsense report! Read the rest of this entry »

I just discovered adsenselogger, a free open source server-side logger tool. It works great, and has the same features you’d get from a paid tracker software I guess. Read the rest of this entry »

Finally, google made it. Google talk is the new instant messenger that will take the world by surprise. Now, gmail users have nothing to envy MSN or Yahoo users for.

They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world. Google Talk offers you:

* Choice: Get in touch how and when you want to–over email, IM or a call

* Quality: Talk through your computer but hear your friends as if they were in the same room

* Convenience: Your Gmail contacts are pre-loaded into Google Talk so inviting or talking to your friends is just a click away

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The AdSense team just launched their very own blog.

You can look forward to posts around 2-3 times a week from an assortment of Googlers involved in the operation of AdSense – engineers, product managers, product marketing managers, and operations staff. We hope you’ll visit often.

This should be very interesting for anyone who runs a website and displays adsense ads Read the rest of this entry »

Most of us wish if there was a feature in Firefox browser that auto-reloads specific web pages. You can do that with this handy extension ‘ReloadEvery’ Read the rest of this entry »

Gmail service is great, but it is gradually becoming too much of pain lately. Right now, its returning this:

Server Error

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

Cross our fingers??? is that what it boils down to? crossing fingers and make a wish, just to read our mail..???
Can you beleive that google would be that much careless about our mail?
This dreadful error page used to be very rare, but the frequency is growing… Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a Firebox user, you probably noticed how ‘Find’ doesn’t work in text areas. It used to work in older firefox versions. Now, a nice little extension brings back the ‘Find’ function to its original dialogue box, instead of the find bar. Read the rest of this entry »

If you frequent any forums, I suggest you use this handy tool. It gives you perfectly spelled words every time. Read the rest of this entry »

Firefox is tomorrow’s browser available today. Its simply amazing, anyone still using IE should think again.
But it desperately needs a backup tool, because its bookmarks are known to get crazy and be gone, specially if your system was powered off accidentally. I finally found this wonderful backup extension Read the rest of this entry »

Need a Gmail account?
I’m giving away 100 gmail invites, as a courtesy to my readers Read the rest of this entry »

Wow..2081 MB mailbox!
As if 1GB was not enough, gmail has just upgraded all its users’ mailboxs capacity to a whopping 2GB.
When it comes to mail service, Google surely means business!.. This unheard of kind of storage, in the world of free email services, adds to all the great features gmail already has. They are not even stopping at 2GB, according to their latest official statement: Read the rest of this entry »

I just got this in my mail from ikobo:

NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF MERCHANT SERVICES

Please be advised that effective immediately iKobo, Inc.is ceasing to provide processing for merchant services in order to comply with a direct request from VISA International under their processing regulations. Read the rest of this entry »

If you use Google Adsense, this is the tool for you! CSV AdStats offers you quick and indepth analysis of the performance of the targeted advertising for your content pages. The best part is that it’s absolutely free! no, ads, no trial limitations, its totally freeware Read the rest of this entry »

There are a lot of free tools and resources on the web for google adsense users. I’ll try to shed some light on these tools and how I find them, out of my own experience Read the rest of this entry »

Downloading mp3 used to be illegal. Now several websites are offering legit high quality mp3 downloads. The idea is that they charge you pr song download. I found one that charges only 10¢ per song, so you can download a complete album for around $1.40 Read the rest of this entry »

edit: PowWeb is not the best host you can find. I’ve been with them, but switched to a much better host, propably the best. Read my comment here

Looking for a good web hosting service is so difficult these days, with the tons of offers and the emergence of new companies with very low prices. But the more variety you get, the more confusing it could be. Thats why its important to see what customers of these companies have to say out of their experience with those hosting companies. Read the rest of this entry »

Update > Important:

Ikobo closed its service. Do not subscribe with them. This post if left here only for archival purposes.
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If you are looking for an easy way to accept payments online, I recommend Ikobo. Unlike other merchant accounts, there is no charges to get an iKobo merchant account. Setup is free, and no hidden charges. Their discount rate is very low: 2.99% + $0.29 cents for each purchase. For example, if someone paid you $10, you get $9.41
They have unique features over paypal: Read the rest of this entry »