Reporting a bug in Ubuntu using apport-bug or ubuntu-bug

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

I was experiencing some system freezes and I really didn’t know what to do, I found this tool – which was there for a pretty long time, but I wasn’t using it – to gather data from your system and input from you and upload a bug report, this tool is called “apport-bug” or “ubuntu-bug”, you can simply run it from the command line, it’ll ask you a few questions, create a bug report and send it afterwards.

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E-mail writing: GMail Text Templates or Canned Responses

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Sometimes I need to add certain templates of text – السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته and و عليكم السلام و رحمة الله و بركاته in my case – in many of the e-mails that I receive or send, so that I don’t have to type that sentence over and over, so I did the following:

  1. Open your account and go to Settings -> Labs
  2. Search for “Canned Responses” and enable that feature, the page will reload
  3. Compose a new mail, you’ll find a new button labeled “Canned Responses” from which you can “add”, “insert” or “delete” responses, don’t forget to delete your signature before saving a new canned response as it will consider it a part of the template, and accordingly will be added twice

Source: http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_templates.htm

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TechieNotes: Showcase Of Web Design In The Arab World – Smashing Magazine

Posted on September 20, 2010 by مشمش

Showcase Of Web Design In The Arab World – Smashing Magazine.

A very important article about web UI design in the The Arab World

Techies are in need to use this to market their work.. and outshine their work in a tough market

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Move Your Gmail Signature Above the Quoted Text

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

I have been having a hard time – since a very long time ago! – using the GMail signature when replying to any e-mail, especially very long ones, as the signature is inserted after the quoted text, i.e. at the end of the e-mail, I googled around today and found the solution is already implemented in one of GMail Lab Features called “Signature Tweaks”:

  • Go to your GMail account settings -> Labs
  • Search for “Signature”
  • Enable the feature
  • Don’t forget to save your settings

The page will refresh and voila, there you go 🙂

Source: http://ithemes.com/move-your-gmail-signature-above-the-quoted-text/

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Install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu Lucid

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

This is not for production usage, take extreme care! However, Gnome 3 installation will not affect your Gnome 2.* files.

Here are the steps:

  • “sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing“
  • “sudo apt-get update“
  • “sudo apt-get install gnome-shell“
  • “gnome-shell –replace“
You can use the “Window” key if you have any or click on the “Activity” on the top left corner of the screen to start using it.
To end your test:
Just go to the terminal from which you ran “gnome-shell” and end the command (ctrl+c for example).
Note: A strange behavior occurred with me;  it respawned the gnome-panel for me, although I use Avant Window Navigator instead, no big deal anyway, I just killed the “gnome-panel” (“killall gnome-panel“) and “avant-window-navigator” (“killall avant-window-navigator“) and respawned the latter: “nohup avant-window-navigator &“, everything is back to normal now, I’ll keep you posted if I encounter anything new.
Quick Review:
Pros: Visually stunning, and I could easily reach any application or document I needed
Cons: Very buggy and still needs a lot of performance enhancement,well it’s an early beta, what would you expect?
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