Category: User Tools

  • Comparison of project management software – Wikipedia

    This is an extensive comparison of project management software, open source and proprietary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_project_management_software From ahm507.blogspot.com

  • Page 2 RSS Converter

    There is a website to convert any webpage to an RSS. It makes it very easy to track websites that has no RSS feed. It is at http://page2rss.com/ From ahm507.blogspot.com

  • New Mobile, iPhone!

    I bought a new mobile last month during my visit to a software conference in Florida, US. It is the famous Apple iPhone. It is amazing phone that changed my idea about mobiles capabilities. Just google about iphone and look at YouTube.com movies and you will know amazing information about it. iPhone enjoy large third…

  • My New Nokia N800

    I am fond of Nokia N800 Internet tablet, but it is not yet available in Egypt. I asked friends in KSA, Dubai, and Kuwait with no success. I finally decided to buy one from amazon.com but amazon does not ship outside USA. Look at Nokia N800:http://www.nseries.com/products/n800/#l=products,n800 The solution came finally few days ago from one…

  • Pidgin, a nice chatting tool

    I really hate distractions and interrupts, but nowadays I am very busy that I begin to lose contacts with my close friends. Chatting although annoying to me but at least an initiation channel that could lead to phone calls or meetings. I found pidgin (http://www.pidgin.im/) a nice tool that can read many protocols at the…

  • Move Outlook Data Files

    If you sadly have to use Outlook. You should save your emails data location to a convenient place so you can easily backup and restore them. Here is a useful link: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011124801033.aspx From ahm507.blogspot.com

  • Thunderbird and Firefox Profile Location

    I like to have all my data at a convenient place, so I can easily backup and restore it. Nowadays email data is crucial to any person. I hate the idea of saving my valuable (I hope so) emails in some cryptic location under C:Documents and Settings. I want to put my profile on some…

  • FireFox Profiles

    I access the Internet using my Laptop from work, home and at many clients sites. I always adjusting FireFox proxy settings to match my current location settings. I want to have an end to this repetitive task. I found that FireFox can have multiple profiles feature. So I can have profile for “Home” with direct…

  • Thunderbird and Calendar

    I am a fan user of Thunderbird, but I was missing a calendar features. Today I am happy to find what I was dreaming of. I found addon that did more than what I wished. It also exist also a separate application for tasks and calendar if you wish. Enjoy all of these at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/…

  • ActiveCollab, Project Collaboration Application

    http://www.activecollab.com ActiveCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free! My experience installing, using, some advantages and disadvantages: – Very easy to install especially…

  • Select the Best Wiki, Weblog, Forum, or Podcast

    When I try to decide about a new open source product, I get overwhelmed by the number of choices available. Always I have no no guidance on what to choose. Today I found 5 websites that helped me to know about many alternative products and select the suitable one for my needs. Select a Wiki…

  • Reclaim Your Emails and Address Book!

    Reclaim your emails:I am using gmail for 3 years until now, I am even poping other accounts inside gmail. It gave me consistent view to all my email. I also liked the conversation view very much. But wait, all my data is there, if my account is stolen, all my emails can be misused. I…

  • New Ubuntu and Thunderbird

    There are two important open source release, here are the links: 1) Ubuntu 7.04http://www.ubuntu.com/http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/704tour 2) Thunderbird 2.0http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/features.html From ahm507.blogspot.com

  • Task Coach, Gaim (Pidgin), and Subversion Feeds

    Task Coach Task Coach is a simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to do consist of several activities. Task Coach…

  • Download Wikipedia Encyclopedia

    Download Wikipedia Encyclopedia Do you know that it is possible to download the entire Wikipedia Encyclopedia to your computer and use it offline. See the click above. From ahm507.blogspot.com

  • Saving YouTube Videos

    How To Rip Audio from YouTube Videos Directly from Youtube – The FLV Online Converter at Vixy.net can take Youtube Video URLs and provide you an MP3 audio file of the YouTube video [via]. Extract Audio from FLV files – If the Youtube Video is on your hard-disk as an FLV video file, try the…

  • New Releases of Open Source Projects

    Dimdim Dimdim is the Open Source web conferencing company. With Dimdim you can show Presentations, Applications and Desktops to any other person over the internet without installing anythign on the Attendee side. You can chat, show your webcam and talk with others in the meeting. TCExam 4.0.011 Released! TCExam [http://www.tcexam.com] is a Web-based Assessment Software…

  • Boot Your Computer Faster

    My machine is very slow especially at startup, many tools uses my tray and they provide no way to delete. Even if I tried to uninstall, some refused! Here how to get rid of them, at least the annoying. Open Start Menu, in the Run editor, type RegEdit.exe and hit enter. (very long way to…

  • Google Desktop Software Pack

    Google Pack (http://pack.google.com/) is a free software you can add to your Desktop PC, it includes the following: Google Photos Screensaver: A screen saver that can show images from your local desktop images, Picasa Web Albumes, or any photo feed from the Internet. This is really amazing, while your screen saver is working, you can…

  • My Blog: Favoring to be User Friendly Than to be Search Engine Friendly

    In my post 10 Tips to Improve Your Blog and Website, I suggested to have a summery of your post and the rest to appear after user click on it. This will be very useful in search ranking by search engines such as Google, but will annoy many users. Especially while I am using Google…