Losing privacy sooner than you think (thanks Facebook!)

Now as we are a young people share the most of details of our personal life on social-networking web sites, such as Facebook and blogs that is preserved on the Internet, maybe forever. At most college campuses, more than 90% of students maintain their age, their occupation, their level of education, their place of residence? I think most of us would have no problems providing this level of general information. While the religious views, political inclinations, relationship status, etc. Perhaps this is a little more private and maybe you feel less comfortable with this level of information but also most of us would be fairly relaxed about providing this information.
On the other side our parents, for whom recollection of the past in thier fading memories, photographs or at best, in videos. This change raises redefining what is public and what is private? That openness is both good and bad. People can now spread their ideas everywhere without reliance on publishers. But also creates threats to privacy and reputations. So can we prevent a day which we can't control our information and the privacy are beyond our control? Some technologists say NO!! Privacy is not compatible with a world in which information flows so freely. As Sun Microsystems' CEO Scott McNealy said “You already have zero privacy anyway.. Get over it”!! And there are many articles and books have heralded the "destruction", "end" and "death" of privacy. But I think it's still possible to protect privacy, by rethink classical understandings of the concept of privacy "that requires total secrecy" becaouse this concept is unsuitable to an online world. Maybe the more suitable understanding of privacy is that everyone should keep some control over his personal information that becomes available for public.
As it's known that privacy is the user's responsibility, in the middle of December, Facebook began prompting users to re-evaluate their privacy settings on the site. Founder and CEO of Facebook, in defense of Facebook's privacy changes last January “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.” And more recently, in introducing the Open Graph API “... the default is now social.” this means Facebook not only wants to know everything about you, but to make you available to everyone. Even if you adjust all your privacy settings as a private "friends only". It's shared with applications that you use. Which means now you're not only trusting only Facebook, but the application developers too. So that's why I think, the future of Facebook is the end of privacy.
I know that privacy doesn't mean secrecy... but I think it's still important!!

The Capital of Egypt & Paris of the Middle East

“City Victorious”


Cairo, Egypt is a great city for its lifestyle full of life and movement almost 24 hours every day, if you want to live in Cairo, the only way to do it is by loving it. The fascinations of this city are many it was built originally on the faith of Islam, but it grew into so much more, it's a city that mixes the many cultures of the world with ancient traditions and modern architecture, so you can liken it to an open museum of the different historical periods "it was unlike anywhere else".

Cairo include beautiful old mosques, and fortresses such as the Citadel, ancient gates and there are a number of museums with some relationship to Egypt's archaic Islamic heritage as Islamic Museum and that its university, Al-Azhar is the oldest in the world. One of the best views of Cairo is from the Cairo Tower.
Cairo comes alive at night, which is the best time to shop, eat in a floating restaurant on the Nile, or simply watch the people movement from a cafe, Also you can go shopping from the famous Khan El-Khalili that unchanged from 10th centuries ago. If you plan to visit this unique city or just interest in the history of Cairo I recommend Paris Along the Nile to read.

Really I am very proud to be Egyptian and truly love Cairo because this is were I was born and set eyes upon her, were I was raised, were I have friends, were I can never feel lost, Cairo is part of me.. that is long age. Finally I wish to make a difference in my country one day :)

Chirp!

In January 2010, nearly 75 million people visited Twitter according to comScore. When people started talking about twitter, the first thing they would always mention was the 140-character limit on tweets, "Who can say anything in only 140-character!". It could be a challenge when a person starts writing tweets and keeping it just 140-characters. You actually have to think a bit about how to force your thoughts to fit the format, but by the time you can adapt and 140-characters starts to seem long. Your tweets becomes shorter and uses the full 140-characters it becomes kind of annoying "I am going to cancel this tweet it's so long".
Unlike other social media Facebook for example, Twitter very simple to connect with people who are interesting, I would actually stop going to facebook, I might check it once or twice a week, sometimes feel it is offers me nothing more than twitter. Maybe my twitter following list seem to be few but really I don't like crowd friends! I wish more of my friends use twitter as well, I had explained to them How twitter was on the cutting edge but I guess they didn’t see it :(
Yes, may be twitter is not so much about the information and useful links but if you ask anyone who uses twitter on a regular will tell you that the power of twitter is that its ability to connect you to other people.
Some people think that twitter is silly and not interesting, they consider it a waste of time!! but really I don't think so,

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! you too? I thought I was the only one" Lewis

Here it is: The Browser Ballot Screen!

Microsoft made a basic error in the technique, when they have agreed to provide a “ballot screen” to most European customers that will give Windows users a chance to choice with the 12 most widely-used web browsers. This is yet another example of Microsoft’s control of the media, well after they had broken the law to obtain market share they didn't deserve those ballot screens and will probably not have the desired effect because the most of users turn to other browsers after Google-China hacking and the users who hasn't already turn fall in two kinds:
1) who are really happy with their IE brwoser.
2) who are just they want their computers to work or they are don't care about their browser choice, and they are still using IE because they think it work better with Windows because it comes from the same stable.

Choices are going to be random, it will be a good opportunity to Google's Chrome but one thing is for sure that IE will be more closely chased by Firefox in the browser market share race. Now, millions of people who didn't realise that there were alternatives will be shown the way by this announcement.
May be this move was forced by the EU, where surveys show Firefox is already used by a majority of users around the world and IE is much less popular than it. "Well done Microsoft. It looks like a good solution to the issue"
Finally, Is there any major Microsoft product that does not suffer from “criticalflaws”??

Windows 7.. Microsoft's worst nightmare

Microsoft's newest version of Windows 7 has only 7.5% of all operating system market share at the end of January according to NetMarketShare.
Microsoft has lost touch with how to compete on quality and user satisfaction, no asked users what they wanted and always come out with a new version with different ways you can do the same things as the previous versions, just they change how a new OS looked, even if it worked no differently than the previous version.

A few years ago, when you asked what is a computer? some people answered "windows" but now obviously time's changed, so do you think that is the beginnings of the end of Windows dominance in the operating system market place?

FireFox.. My choice in browsers

Get Firefox

I remember when I first started using Firefox since 2006, my brother was using it so I decided to try it out, I really liked it because of its tabbed browsing feature and lots of cool plugins, it has thousands of developers worldwide, that make it better and better every day also increased speed with every version. I was tired of using IE which open all links in a new window, security updates take too long to be published, useless options that take up RAM, it is very slow especially when compared to Firefox, little additional programs so I have never used it since then.
Of course, there are also several other cool browsers, like Google Chrome, Opera, Safari.

Google Chrome: One of the fastest internet browsers, very slight interface, multifunction address bar to search locally or on the web, but when you closing multiple tabs, it is immediately closed without notification.

Opera: Actually it is quite browser, fast and use less memory when compared to the other browsers, is probably a good choice if you download a lot, but it is not open source software and this actually has a deep impact on its popularity.

Safari: I haven't used it, but from what I have seen it is fast, stylish, and has been the ability to use plugins.

Gaza, Gaza don't you cry.. We will never let you die

“Never forget what happened to Gaza last year :(”

Waiting for the School in Gaza

As we remember the victims of Gaza, two questions we should ask ourselves: Have we seen the end to the Israeli atrocities in Gaza? Or Will the 2010 show the same old acts as usual? And the other: What did the world do for Gaza's siege? We should remember this days and never forget what happened! That's a big fault if you think that nothing has changed or nothing will change! And that's what Jews want! We shall have to carry on the struggle against them and the coming days will show us what will happen.

Homes, mosques, schools, universities, and anything that supports civil society, have been buried by planes without any resistance, while Palestinians have no opposing air force or even have an army or navy, they haven’t had food and medicine, and Israel prevent the import of the basic goods necessary for survival in and out of Gaza! This is what Israel has done to Gaza over the past two years, they put Gaza into an open air prison. Please imagine, that you are a Gazan.

What have Palestinians done to deserve such a fate? To have their houses demolished, to be endlessly? While Jews confiscate their land and found everything they needed? Where is human’s rights which people call? Where is Barack Obama (who won Nobel Peace Prize)?

Palestinians will not forget this, and still remember their past 60 years and that's made them dancing in the streets when they heard about 9/11.." Just as Nazis gave Jews only the right to die silently, Israel starves and besieges Palestinians, giving them only that same right".