Helper Apps

Al Salamu 3alykom Wa Ra7matULLAH Wa Barakato

here are some apps i frequently use which does help daily lowering the number of my clicks and buttons pressing

1. AutoKey

this App. lets u assign shortcuts to some text, as i always write “:SA” and it replaces it automatically with “Al Salamu 3alykom Wa Ra7matULLAH Wa Barakato”

and u can add shortcuts as much as u want, and it replaces text anywhere u r using the shortcut

note. this is a Linux App that already exist in the repository, for windows there was an App called Texter

Hidden Options [2]

after  Hidden Options

here is the second post with the hidden options i’ve been collecting since then…

1-On Windows

• Ctrl+C

some times you need to copy the contents of a message box and the text is unselectable

just press Ctrl+C when this message box is in focus and all it’s contents will be copied

Thanx to Roaa “The Undocumented Feature”

OUUUUUF….. At Last !!! (Hotmail & POP3)

at last i can access my hotmail mail through any mail client that supports the POP3

where i’m using Evolution

just configure it as shown in those screenshots

For sending:

Troubleshooting in ACM-ICPC Contest

i’ve participated in many contests as organizer, specifically in the technical stuff which is mainly two portions

• The IDE which is mainly “eclipse“
• The contest communication tool which can’t be except “pc2″

and in the last contest i’ve participated in it’s technical preparations i faced a number of troubles

lets take them one by one

1.Teams don’t connect to the Server which is a Linux Machine

• Solution : before you open the server edit the “pc2server” file and edit this line
• java -Djava.security.policy=policy.ini $PC2CN $*
• to be
• java -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=”10.106.0.35″ -Djava.security.policy=policy.ini $PC2CN $*
• of course change the ip according to your server ip

and make this edit in all the executables you will run {team, board, judge…..}

With Ubuntu

bye bye MS !!

i said those words one day that i started to install Linux

i had a fear that i go back to windows a day or more after i install it, but now i dont think that i’m going back to windows

i can feel that my computer feels democracy

every time i look on the requirments for a software , game or windows i look on the minimum requirments section to see if my PC will handle it or not as i know that the recommended requirments will be not in my PC

with linux i saw the minimum , recommended and searched for any other requirments to see

this is the recomended requirments published on Ubuntu official website

• 700 MHz x86 processor
• 384 MB of system memory (RAM)
• 8 GB of disk space
• Graphics card capable of 1024×768 resolution

• Sound card

• A network or Internet connection

lol, i feel that i can run this OS on a gameboy and it will run smoothly