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11May/090

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 first in-game teaser trailer

awesome teaser , i see there is some new updates on game engine "snow,underwater and air combats" they need such things and more to beat killzone 2

4May/090

Linux usage share for client devices

Net Applications, a Web site analytics company, just published their April 2009 Web users survey, Market Share, and they found that "Linux usage share on client devices has surpassed 1% for the first time and we still have 99% to go and i think it can make it , thanks to some powerful distributions like Ubuntu,Fedora and OpenSUSE.

market_share

28Apr/092

Moving from Ubuntu 8.04 to 9.04

So finally i got free time to upgrade to new Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 , i was using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 for long time and it was awesome but now its time to move , and here some new features i liked or noticed at first use for the new release :

  1. New Ext4 file system support
  2. Faster boot time almost 20 sec "wow" check this video
  3. New network manager and its way better and easier comparing to 8.04
  4. Nautilus 2.26.2 and tabs thing very useful
  5. New notification area which rocks 9_04_notify_area
  6. The shutdown/restart/suspend options have been taken off the System main menu
  7. Wallpaper transformation

last thoughts :

comparing to 8.04 its way faster,better and sexier :D , and here is my desktop final look

ubuntu_9_04_screenshot

8Mar/090

FireFox Passed IE 6 in web share

What A greate day for web developers , IE 7 here we come ;)

Source: StatCounter Global Stats

3Mar/092

Users translating facebook to Arabic

fb_ar

finally facebook is doing it or i should say there users , that's going to piss off a lot of  Arabian companies who invest and developing arabic social networks , what you think ?

p.s: for me i preffer english version of facebook

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