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TechieNotes: Leading Technology Innovation in the Middle East – 3 – Innovation or Decoration?

Posted on October 2, 2010 by مشمش

Fact #2- Technology Innovation is just a decoration in the companies, most of the companies which have Research and Technology are not serious about it, they do not induct a proper budget for R&D, most of these companies open R&D … Continue reading →

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TechieNotes: Leading Technology Innovation in the Middle East – 2 – Employment Market

Posted on September 21, 2010 by مشمش

Fact #1–  “Technology employment market is very narrow, when you are in one company, you can count the geeks in other companies, when you stay for more than 4 years, you are almost stuck, and it is not easy anymore … Continue reading →

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E-mail writing: GMail Text Templates or Canned Responses

Posted on September 20, 2010 by SoCRaT

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, … Continue reading →

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Move Your Gmail Signature Above the Quoted Text

Posted on September 19, 2010 by SoCRaT

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 … Continue reading →

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Buddy Pounce in Pidgin

Posted on August 30, 2010 by SoCRaT

A very nice feature that allows triggering of events based on buddies’ actions, here is a sample scenario: I’ve logged in to Sametime and found my manager offline Right-click on the name and click “Add Buddy Pounce” I needed to … Continue reading →

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