Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Firefox Add-ons: Video DownloadHelper

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

I used to download videos from YouTube and similar sites using the plugin provided by Real Player 11, but I couldn’t use it on Linux, and so, I searched for another tool, and what a surprise :), I found a … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Tweak

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

A great tool from GetDeb.net that allows you to easily configure all hidden features of your Ubuntu OS:http://getdeb.net/app/Ubuntu+TweakIt’s a must-try tool! And by the way, this tool allowed me to easily manage my processor frequency in one of my old … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Memory Efficiency, can any OS be better than that??

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

Applications Loaded: Firefox 3 Skype 2 Emesene 1 GDesklets Gnome Terminal Zekr (Java-based application) Memory Usage: 415 MB RAM 0 Swap No Comment!!! I can’t dream of anything better than that!

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Ubuntu CPU Performance Booster

Posted on May 18, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

I discovered the following today while surfing the net and reading multiple articles about Ubuntu: Ubuntu automatically changes the CPU frequency of the system (on systems supporting this feature only of course such as Pentium M), and it is set … Continue reading →

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Combining the e-mail client and web-based mail access features (gnubiff Mail Notifier)

Posted on May 18, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

This is a very nice tool that let me at last combine the e-mail client advantages (like Evolution or Thunderbird) with the browser-based e-mail access (such as that of Gmail). It’s an applet that can be put on any of … Continue reading →

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