Archive for June, 2009

Firefox 3.5 – A Step Forward

June 30th, 2009 Firefox View Comments

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Today should be the day to announce the Final Release of Mozilla Firefox 3.5. Unlike other browsers, Firefox has a great reputation since It was the browser who could compete with The Most Used Browser “IE” . Firefox is still gaining more in Browser’s Market Share, And with the New Release of Firefox, It will keep going forward to gain more users .. Users who wanna be Foxy !

What This release come up with for Users ?

Speed : 3.5 is really faster than Firefox 3. Updated Javascript Engine “TraceMonkey” is faster by 20-40 times than Firefox 3 Javascript engine “SpiderMonkey”. Simply, It’s just Faster than before =) . It’s not fast as Google Chrome or Safari 4 but better than Firefox 3 .

Tabs : Grab & Drag is a previous Feature with Google Chrome & Safari . Now Firefox has it too . It’s kinda nice tool to grab a tab out of Main window or Dragging it inside again . The New Tab button is another new feature in the tab bar .. Just a single click and you open a tab instead of double click in a free space .

Private Browsing : Safari & Google Chrome were the first to show it to the market, Some of guys would call it “Porn Mode” as It hides what you open & What you want to hide but Porn Websites ! It’s a cool feature if you are using a public computer so others will not track what you were surfing .

Geo-Location : A Feature that is not Internationally supported which is powered by powered by Google’s Wi-Fi triangulation . It checks where you are and help you finding something local in your area .

Video Superpowers with HTML5  : This video By TechCrunch will show what it means (Fantastic!)

As to Web Developers, Welcome Firefox 3.5 . It’s now supporting more CSS3 Media queries such as text-shadow, @font-face, word-wrap, -moz-box-shadow . Now You can use CSS 3 Features and Don’t worry about Appearance =) (Just IE users, You won’t be able to see those effects) . Beside New DOM & Javasceipt Features, You will have faster & Better Web Applications .

Firefox 3.5 Final is already released on some websites like FileHippo.com but I’ll prefer to wait for the Final Announcement By Mozilla =)

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June 25th, 2009 General View Comments

I’ve been thinking of what domain name to pick for this blog, Honestly I’m not a big fan of free sub-domains.

So You can Follow this blog now on www.iHisham.com , http://iHisham.blogspot.com will also forward you to this blog =)

Startups & Projects in DemoCamp Cairo 2009

June 11th, 2009 Cairo, DemoCamp, Egypt View Comments

DemoCamp ME announced Startups and Projects for 2009 DemoCamp Cairo 2009 Next Sunday .

  • Exorcist : Interactive Game for iPhone/iPod By Vimov, Software Development company in Alexandria, Egypt .
  • TVOSZ : One of the most popular Arab websites for uploading and sharing Videos .
  • Smatx : A website for IT Geeks to share information and experience .
  • Bara El-Beit (In English : Outdoors – Outside Home) A location based service where you can tell it where you are now, and it will show you nearby friends and places to go.
  • RFID : A Project Specialized about RFID (Radio-frequency identification) .
  • Carlog : The first web 2.0 automotive portal in the Middle East .

6 Projects will be viewed Sunday 14th in Cairo International Convention & Exhibition Center . I really expected more projects and startups to be in the schedule of this DemoCamp, but probably the reason beyond this is that DemoCamp Cairo did not get the right publicity to reach all startup companies and Project Owners .

Unfortunately I will not be able to go for this DemoCamp but I’m sure It’s going to be a great start for DemoCamp Cairo :) .

DemoCamp Cairo 2009

June 2nd, 2009 Cairo, DemoCamp, Egypt View Comments

DemoCamp Cairo is going to take place on June 14th at 6 pm in Cairo International Convention & Exhibition Center .This is one of DemoCamps that going to take place in Middle East after DemoCamp Dubai, and DemoCamp Riyadh .

DemoCamp Presents New Creative projects and web solutions Innovated through Startup Companies and Individuals . If you are a one then contact Organizing Committee to review your project on info {at} democampme.org .

I really wish to be able to be there, It’s going to be exciting :)

Never Lie about what you do

June 1st, 2009 Arab, Web Design View Comments

As Full-time Web Designers, We are kinda have to always be in time with achieving work for clients in time, We have to be clear (Although we have to lie sometimes) .

But when you try to lie, you should be very good to be able to lie .. especially if you’re going to lie on another one in the same field you work on ..

In the Arab world, you will find the most jealous web designers in the world .. They even be jealous because you’re not that successful one at work .. One of the main reasons to force them trying to lie or being jealous is that they do not follow the latest .. They don’t understand what it means to be a very good freelance web designer .. They always work with old techniques, They have the oldest strategies to follow up their work ..

Some of them pretend that they are working on very great projects while they don’t know how it is running or who owns those projects .. Why to lie when you can develop yourself, Being better than what you are doing now will help you a lot to have great experience and who knows , You may create one of those great projects in the future ..

It’s like a club over here, There are all kinds of people with all kinds of experience but Not all of them care about Quality and The Long Term of his futuristic plan that he didn’t even put ..

It should be the time to start looking forward to develop, to create better quality of work, to not be jealous because someone is better than what you do .. Forgetting all the jealous inside, and Never Lie about what you do

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