If you’d like to help bring this great program to Alexandria, then fill out an Interest Form today. If enough people fill out this form and express interest by December 2nd, 2012, then the Founder Institute will formally launch an Alexandria Chapter.

The Founder Institute is an early-stage startup accelerator and global launch network that, in just three years of operation, has helped launch over 650 companies across 32 cities and five continents. Through our part-time four-month program, existing and prospective founders can launch their dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs – while not being required to quit their day job. Our unique Graduate Liquidity Pool also enables graduates and mentors to share in the equity upside of each class, creating strong teamwork-based startup ecosystems where great companies can flourish. We call it “Globalizing Silicon Valley.”

The Institute will be hosting a number of free events in Alexandria, including:

• Startup Pitch Bootcamp on Monday, November 12th, 2012.
• Information Session on Monday, November 26th, 2012.

The Founder Institute program is open to anybody that is passionate about building a technology company: idea or no idea, full-time job or unemployed, young or old, male or female, experienced in business or straight out of school. We also support a wide range of technology industries: including digital media, software, biotech, cleantech, ecommerce, advertising, consumer electronics, and more.

Help bring the Founder Institute to Alexandria and fill out an Interest Form today.

More on StartUp Cup

StartUp Cup is a US-based organization whose objective is to generate a global network of business model competitions acting as a catalyst to bring together community service providers, coaches and investors in an effort to accelerate the growth of viable and sustainable Startups. Participants in the StartUp Cup events have shared how much value they received from the competitive process, especially highlighting the value of the coaching and mentoring sessions.

The Cairo StartUp Cup will be unique in Egypt because it will focus less on the development of the business plan and more on business model development, go to market strategies, and customer engagement. June 22 and 23 will be the launch of the event. Teams will continue to participate and get support from Coaches until November. Winners of the Cairo StartUp Cup will be awarded based on real business results will be announced during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November. The winner of StartUp Cup will receive an internship with a company supportive of entrepreneurships in the United States.

Who should participate in Cairo StartUp Cup?

• The competition is for early stage Startups from those who have an idea to those building prototypes, and that have been in business up to one year.
• Cairo StartUp Cup is open to any type of business idea. We welcome startups from any industry; in fact, we encourage non-technology and non-IT businesses to participate.
• Women entrepreneurs are highly encouraged to participate in this event.

How will we select StartUp Teams?

• Commitment: The event partners are looking for entrepreneurs who demonstrate commitment to making their startup thrive through their investment of time, energy and resources.
• Team: We want entrepreneurs who can prove they have a highly diverse team committed to the startup.
• Identified Market Opportunity: We want entrepreneurs who have done their market research homework and have engaged with potential customers.
• Idea: Those who can link a startup idea with the market opportunity are more likely to be able to create sales and generate revenue sooner.

If you want to collaborate with us to support StartUp Cup, we are looking for:

• Support in reaching entrepreneurs and potential mentors by utilizing your social media and e-mail lists; we want to ensure we reach a diverse number of startups.
• Provision of prizes to winners. This is a very welcomed support. We highly recommend training or trips to meet potential customers as potential prizes.

If interested, please contact Dalia Al Said at dalsaid [at] ecpegypt [dot] com

Starting today, I’ll try to get back to blog some useful information and lessons learned from my new adventure. Will try to share thoughts, experiences, mistakes, and contribution to initiatives that are currently running in Alexandria… So let me know what you want to know about and will be waiting your feedback on my future posts…

For now you can check my recent initiative SUMUAlex and join our fan page….

Why Mobipreneur?
The mobile applications field is now one of the ripe fields that most people are focusing on. There are so many different platforms and people’s need for applications on the go is increasing everyday. Adobe, RIM, Google and Nokia definitely have the right set of tools to help make mobile development easy, fast and reliable. And this is what people need a simple and reliable application to serve their needs on their mobile phones. Hence Mobiprenuer is aimed to shed the light on mobile development on different platforms using Adobe, RIM , Google and Nokia tools.

Why Egypt Now?
The recent line of political upheavals in Egypt is re-shaping political, economic and social structures of the country, which implies:
- Revamp of the country’s constitution, legislative field, and economic situation
- Revision and adjustment of values in accordance to the new reality
- Planning and working towards a new vision of the country

Now is the time for innovation and finding new techniques to increase profitability and the field of mobile development offers a wide variety of applications that are becoming more of a necessity than a mere good to have.

For more details visit: http://mobipreneur.me/

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Alexandria Startup Weekend is no ordinary event. It where like-minded entrepreneurs gather for a weekend of company creation. In 54 hours, you take an initial idea from the Thursday night pitches through to a mind spinning Startup company on the Saturday night.

Just don’t think it’s just developers. Its marketing maestros, design gurus, business development wizards, legal geniuses, and the specialist of Startups – the jack of all trades coming together as one, creating a harmony that can only be envied by the corporate world.

OK – so that may be slight sales mode, but it truly all about bringing together the knowledge of the local entrepreneur scene, and helping those in need to find their feet in the world of startups.

Thursday night is all about networking and the pitches. Those with an idea, and are brave enough to stand in front of 300+ strangers give their 1 minute elevator pitch to the crowd. The ideas that people like, and want to work with then get created. From there on, within 48 hours you have to deliver a product and business plan that can stand up to the harsh light of day. Mentors will be on hand throughout the time to help you fine tune the idea that was only conceived 12 hours ago, into a working company with huge potential profits in 36 hours.

Sounds intense? It is!

Saturday night is where the jury panel comes in. Seasoned professionals that have been through the startup mill many times over will scrutinize and find the holes in the plan to evaluate the chances of real world succession.

From there? Well, it’s all up to you. Alexandria Startup Weekend can only help you start your dream. It’s up to you to live it out.

Go on, what are you waiting for? Head over to the Alexandria Startup Weekend website, Facebook Fan Page, or Twitter account and stay tuned for updates to find out for yourself what it’s all about!

Through the Students Ambassador Program, you become a liaison between Google and your university. Ambassadors plan and host several events during the school year, introduce students to new Google products and features and act as a campus contact for Google teams.

Google Student Ambassadors may

• Work closely with local Google teams
• Host and organize events to bring awareness about Google’s products and brand
• Spread the word about competitions, training opportunities, scholarships and other events
• Attend Google events as a Google representative
• Help Google to better understand your campus’ culture
• Build relationships on campus with faculty and student groups
• Test products and features
• Promote product use and new product launches to students
• Be a source of knowledge for your university about Google products
• Spread Google goodwill to your fellow students

What are the qualifications?

This opportunity is currently by invitation only and is open to students at university. Google MENA Student Ambassadors must be:

• Currently enrolled in a college or university in the Middle East or North Africa
• Pursuing a BA/BS or MS degree
• Passionate about technology
• Able to plan events and manage a budget
• Actively involved in student life on campus

What is the time commitment?

• One academic school year
• Approx. five hours per month
• Three to four events per year

Benefits

As a Google Student Ambassador, you will:

• Receive regular updates about exciting new Google products / features, programs and announcements
• Enhance your professional development, leadership, technical and communication skills
• Be eligible to participate in special Google events, product trainings and be considered for local internships
• Exchange best practices with Ambassadors from other schools and disciplines
• Add the Google Student Ambassador Program experience to your resume
• Get your own Google SWAG

Sounds great, how do I apply?

To apply, you should:

1. Preferably be a second or third year student at your university.
2. Write an Essay on one of these topics:
   • Computer Science and Engineering students should choose among:Mobile applications (SMS and Mobile Web), Local Content & Localization, Cloud Computing or Open Source, explaining “How these Technologies can become an integral part of our lives in the Arab World.”
   • Business and Economic students should choose among:Social Networks, Digital Agencies, Online Advertising or Online Banking Services, explaining “How these Services and Trends can contribute to a healthy online business eco-system in the Arab World.”
3. Write a motivation letter on why you want to be an Ambassador, what you can change in your Country through learning new technical skills and how using Google tools could help your university.
4. Provide a short statement from your Professor or Head of Department confirming your name, level and area of study.
5. Add your Essay, Motivation letter and Professor/Head of Department statement to the registration form by Saturday, April 30. Accepted students will be informed by mid May 2011.

If you are a professor / lecturer / TA, please help spreading the word on campus and help your students identify the potential of becoming a Google student ambassador for the university – feel free to ask for posters and fliers to be placed on your campus from Google Student Ambassador Program Team.

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I’ve been pretty busy lately, you may say Business if growing , Nah just kidding… It just happen that I’ve started to like my new life style after getting married, gaining some extra weight, living near the sea, bla bla bla …  & of course my new job…

So I can say that life is treating me good so far, I promise I’ll try to continue my blogging starting next year “by the way Happy Holidays”… and Hitch has left the building…

I was blessed by having an invitation to attend The Celebration of Entrepreneurship an event organized by the Dubai based Abraaj Capital outlined the definition of a new Entrepreneurial era in MENASA. It was not an ordinary conference, it was a platform where everybody can play a part, make an impact, learn something new, and make new business.

The celebration was structured around three main program tracks:
1- Inspire: by providing a stage presentations last up to 20 minutes where speakers presented ideas, made announcements, and discussed their passions. or by providing Passion Corners which last up to 30 minutes where speakers shared their inspiring stories and ideas. The setting was informal, highly interactive and unencumbered. Open dialogue where welcomed.

2- Empower: by providing ignition workshops and training where peopled who shared a common objective can put together an entrepreneurial project or propose an outcome by the end of the event, or have in-depth discussions and training sessions on issues related to entrepreneurship.

3- Connect: by providing sparks which were a series of short presentations where individuals introduced an idea to the community in an open and completely informal style. The format of the Sparks forces you to really think about what you want to say.

When I first saw the event program I said to myself this is gonna be huge, this is a change that we need in our ecosystem in MENASA. I was thinking to myself how could I follow all those great speakers at the same time? and they got the answer for meby providing a powerful networking device called Spotme that allowed me to keep track of the program, locate people, create my own program agenda, view maps of the venue and participate in the Celebration of Entrepreneurship (CoE) surveys.

One blog post won’t be enough to tell you all about those amazing two days of my life, so stay tuned for my upcoming posts in which I’ll talk about my personal experience and people I’ve met and have the chance to talk to on this celebration.

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It is all about a full day of innovation, thinking out of the box, gooey pizza and drinks, and yes – a lot of discussions and noise. Teams will be formed and each one will have to face the challenge of fully developing something in that one day. It could be a library, an opensource contribution, or even a product prototype, a product… it can be virtually anything as long as it is something that can be ready to be presented to the company the very next Sunday. They call it PizzaHack Day Project.

This quarter PizzaHack Day take place on 7th of October… and the day was totally fun and great. As an eSpacian Citizen, I enjoyed my stay over there the whole day do nothing but thinking about solving a problem and came up with an idea. And I was surprised by the young entrepreneurs who shared the day with us in here. Jumboo sized Pizza & Soft Drinks All day long and that sweet geeky language in every corner was just great.

At the end of the day eSpace proved that they can do it in one day. They can Find the Problem, Came up with a creative solution for it, Develop it, and have it ready by next Sunday. One of the applications made on that day was SmokeCop, a mobile application where you can spot violations in rules or something and report it. we’ve filmed a movie about it on that day directed by Ehab El Badry & staring Wael Shaban, Samer El Sahn, Abdel Salam, Alfred Nagy, Mina Haervy, & finally me.

So this is what we can do, and what we had. On October 7th 2010 eSpace produced a punch or application in one day:

• Octavarium: Audio Search Engine by Marawan.
• War of the bots: Game by Haitham & Abdelsalam.
• Twit Board: iPad Application by Alfred & Mina.
• SmokeCop: Mobile Application by Ehab, Shalaby, Rofida & Nermine.
• YallaShella: Mobile Application by Samer, Wael, Bassayel & Mai.
• Testing Javascript framework: Fun Time by Heba Hosny.
• Facebook moods: Web Application by Hager
• PaperClip YouTube Storage: Extension by Moustafa Ragab
• Time Tracker: Extension by Yasser
• Tasky: Task Manager web application by Hatem
• Migration to Rails 3: Fub Time investigation by Badrah
• Web Projector: iPad Hacking by Ali & Hamdy
• Text Mining Gems: Extension by Ahmed Bakr
• Fel7ara: Location Based Mobile Social Game by Hashem “Not presented and work in progress due too heavy story line”

I’ve been lucky to take an insider look before the public beta launch. I was amazed from what I saw, It’s really the kind of community where I want to be. It’s all about Inspiring, Empowering and Connecting Entrepreneurs in the region.

Wamda focus on creating and facilitating an open space for knowledge share and connection, primarily for entrepreneurs as they start, grow and sustain their businesses and for business leaders and mentors, whose insights and advice can further help SMEs through all the key stages of growth and evolution.

Since the day I’ve got my membership at wamda and I’m spending hours browsing their rich informative content. They have articles, posts, videos, tweets, blogs and events. Explore the Wamda world maybe your next spark will be in there.

Get started and Register you Wamda account now. Feel free to add my Wamda Account to your friend list and keep in touch.

Eid Al-Fitr is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting (sawm). Eid is an Arabic word meaning “festivity”, while Fi?r means “to purify”; and so the holiday symbolizes the purification after completing the fasting month which is after the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan, on the first day of Shawwal.

Here is the most beautiful classic arabic songs about Eid… I love to listen to those songs every year on the same days “the last 3 days before the end of Ramadan”. so I hope you enjoy listening to those lovely songs with me this year…

01- Wallah Lessa Badry – ????? ??? ????
01- Wallah Lessa Badry

02- Ya Lelit El Eid – ?? ???? ?????
02- Ya Lelit El Eid

03- El Eid Farha – ????? ????
03- El Eid Farha

In the last two articles, I talked about what is Ruby and what is Ruby on Rails. and what is the meaning of MVC architecture. So we kinda have a general idea of what we will be talking about in the following articles. From this Article we will not only talk but we will start to create our first Ruby on Rails Application. and to do so we have to know what tools we will be using. and what is the best for us.

IN this whole Course I’ll assume that most of you are working on windows 7 machines. Ruby can be used in any operating systems and I’ll talk shortly on how to install the development environment on your system. So let’s get started. What we will do in this Tutorial is:

• Install Ruby: Ruby recommends to install Ruby 1.8.7 or Ruby 1.9.2.
• Install Rails: The current Rails version is 3.0.0 which were released August 29th, 2010.
• Install Database Server: For Database I’ll use MySQL Community Server 5.1.50.
• Testing your development environment by running your first application.

As we already know by now that Rails is an Open Source Web Application Framework written in Ruby. So to install Rails we first need to install the language and it’s package manager.

Installing Ruby:

As a Windows user the easiest way to get Ruby running on your machine is by using Ruby Installer. This is a self-contained Windows-based installer that includes the Ruby language, an execution environment, important documentation, and more.

1. Simply go to Ruby Installer for Windows Download Page and select the MSI installer files. In this tutorials I assumed that you will select the latest version or Ruby which is Ruby 1.9.2. So you will need to download the Ruby 1.9.2-p0.

2. After downloading the installer file, run it and accept the terms then on the installation destination and optional tasks page, browse to the location you want your installed files to be located “I prefer to make a folder called Ruby on the same partition where Windows folder are”. and don’t forget to check the check boxes as in the figure below.

3. We have to make sure that our Ruby installation was successful. So we go to our Command Prompt “Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt” and type the following:

ruby --version

then hit enter. If no errors appears and the Ruby version displayed correctly as shown in the next image. Then you have successfully installed the Ruby Language on your Windows 7 System.

Installing Rails:

1. Now it’s time to install the Rails. Simply type in the following command in your command prompt to install Rails and all dependencies

gem install rails --include-dependencies

This will take a while depending on your internet connection. So you can set back and grab yourself a cup of coffee.

2. If everything went okay you should be able to see something link the previous image. at that point you have done so good. next step is to install our Database server.

3. now we need to install the required gems for rails and that can be made by running the following command in your command prompt:

bundle install

and now you are ready for the next step.

Installing Database Server:

I’d prefer to use MySQL as a database engine for my Rails applications. However you can feel free to use SqlLite3 which is by default the database engine associated with Rails.
1. Download the MySQL Community Server 5.1.50 select the recommended MSI Installer Essentials.

2. After downloading and running the installer make sure to choose complete on the first screen.

be sure to check on all windows warning before proceed.

3. After completing the installation wizard you will find a check box to start configuring your server

click on finish and let’s start customizing your MySQL server.

4. Follow the following screen:
a. Detailed Configurations

b. Developer Machine

c. Multifunctional Database

d. MySQL Datafiles

e. Decision Support (DSS)/OLAP

f. TCP/IP Networking Port Settings & Firewall Exception

g. UTF-8 Language Support “because we might write down stuff in arabic or in any other language than english and western languages”

h. Service Name

j. Security Settings

Hit next then execute and wait till all check points are green and voila, your MySQL server is ready… Next step is to test your installation and check if your computer is ready for the rails or not.

Testing your development environment:

1. Open a new Command Prompt window and navigate to the folder you want your projects to be created. I’ve created a new folder named it “Ruby Apps” and placed it in the root of my D: partition.

c: Users Hashem>D:
D:>md "Ruby Apps"
D:>cd "Ruby Apps"
D:Ruby Apps>

2. Now we will create a test application with the name of “my_app” and to do so we type the following command in the command prompt window

rails new my_app

Now a folder will be created including the complete folder and file structure for your new application.

3. Now it’s time to run the server and test the application we just created. Ruby installation comes with a build in web server called WEBrick. To run the server navigate to the newly created application and run the following command:

D:Ruby Apps>cd my_app
D:Ruby Appsmy_app>rails server

The WEBrick will communicate to your localhost via port 3000. so now head up to your browser and open

http://localhost:3000

If everything went ok you should be now looking at the Ruby on Rails: Welcome aboard default page.

Notes:

• The server will be closed if you terminate the command prompt window at any time. so be sure to leave that window open during the whole process when developing an application.
• To terminate the server manually press “Ctrl + C” or just hit the close button.

You are done

Congratulations, Now you have created and tested your development environment. If you faced any problems please do not hesitate and post them in the comments and I’ll get back to you with the answer at once.

Next time we will get more into creating our first simple Rails application. so stay tuned and you might wanna subscribe to our weekly Rails newsletter. Till we meet again, Have fun & Happy riding…

• Ruby is a programming language conceived on early 1993 by Yukihiro Matsumoto who wished to create a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming. So it’s been there from a long time, but why we didn’t hear about it until the past few years. That’s because Rails has adopted it for the web and make it excited language to create your web application with.
• Ruby is similar to Perl, SmallTalk, Python, & LISP. If you are familiar with any of those programming languages you will find the syntax is more a like specially for Perl developers.
• Ruby is not just for developing web applications, as Ruby is like any other programming language for example C++, C# all can be used for a variety of applications, desktop applications, mobile application, web application and much more.
• Ruby is Object Oriented Programming Language. for you who are not familiar with the term, Object Oriented Programming is programming a collection of individual units which can each do their own processing and also interact with each other. Which means you can develop an individual code that process its own action in the same time that it can interact with other code.

Now you know what is Ruby… and it’s time to know what is Rails?

• Rails is an Open Source Web Application Framework that is written in Ruby.
• Ruby on Rails was extracted by David Heinemeier Hansson from his work on Basecamp, a project management tool by 37signals (now a web application company). David Hansson first released Rails as open source in July 2004, but did not share commit rights to the project until February 2005. In August 2006 the framework reached a milestone when Apple announced that it would ship Ruby on Rails with Mac OS X v10.5 “Leopard”, which was released in October 2007.
• As an Open Source, Rails is free for community. everyone can download the source code, modify it and share it back, fix bugs, add features, & play around with it that is the whole idea of Open Sources.
• You may now asking What is the meaning of Web Framework? Well, in brief it’s a set of software tools, pre-written code libraries, and data-organization structures created together to assist in writing a web application.

So after outlining those definitions, what makes Ruby on Rails so powerful and efficient? there are two qualities that makes creating a web application using Ruby on Rails “I’ll call it from now on RoR” a very powerful development tool for creating applications:

1. DRY: The Mantra of Rails, DRY stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself. Rails make it easier to maintain and keep you code clean and not repeated in so many place, so all you have to do is to make your code in one place so when you need to get back to it you wouldn’t go to far searching among all your project files and folders.
2. Conventions & Sensible Defaults: Which save lots of time and energy during developing you applications, as everything is very well organized on its own place.

Another fact about rails is that RoR is based on MVC Architecture, if you are not a programmer then you probably don’t know what MVC Stands for:

• M – Model: which are objects.
• V – View: which are presentation layers.
• C – Controllers: which process and responds to events.

The MVC is a way to organize your code in Rails. MVC is DRY and takes all advantages of conventions and sensible defaults. We will get to know more about the MVC Architecture later during this guide.

Now we have a general idea about what’s going on and what terms we will be using during this guide, In the next article I’ll show you how to prepare your testing environment for Ruby and how to install Rails on it and how to create your first application, so stay tuned and register to this special mailing list which will updates you once per week about articles you have missed about Ruby on Rails Only.

When I started learning Ruby I faced some problems, like where do i get up to date tutorials, how do I install ruby on windows? which is the best HTTP server to use it with Ruby? do I really have to be a programmer or understand anything about programming before I learn it? I panicked at the beginning from the fact that I hate code and programming so why would I do that after my 10 years of working with computers.

The start was very easy actually, a couple of my friends helped me by providing me access to their paid tutorial accounts in a major video tutorials website. So i watched the first video about Ruby and I said to myself, yes that’s it.. That’s the language I wanted to learn…

So I’ve decided to share my knowledge with all of you, and provide some articles about Ruby on Rails… I’ll work with you assuming that you have no knowledge about any programming language, I’ll start from the beginning on how to install and create ruby development environment on your computer, till you deploy your first rails application… It will take me a several posts but I’ll try my best to “at least” write 3 lessons per week.

Hope you are excited the way I’m about Ruby on Rails, If so kindly sign up for Ruby on Rails mailing list and you will get tutorials delivered to your inbox on weekly basis.

1. Follow me on Twitter.
2. Friend me on Facebook.
3. Link to my LinkedIn.
4. Subscribe to Riding the Rails mailing list.

In a few moments I’ll publish the first tutorial about ruby which will guide you on how to setup Rails on your machine, so stay tuned and Happy Riding

The terms “web desktop” and “webtop” are distinct from web operating system, a network operating system such as TinyOS or distributed operating system such as Inferno. In popular use, web desktops are sometimes referred to incorrectly as web operating systems or simply WebOS.

In the past few days, I’ve tested a bunch of virtual online operating systems and web desktop applications, I’ve gathered the best of them that I’ve personally tested and found interesting to be shared with you, enough talk and let’s get them listed:

1- eyeOS

Available at: eyeos.org
eyeOS is a disruptive desktop entirely usable from a web browser. It includes an office suite and some collaboration applications, as well as a full framework to develop new web apps as if they were desktop apps. It’s Free and Open Source –so you can host your own system, keeping all your data under your control.

2- iCloud

Available at: icloud.com
icloud consists of a desktop with applications and files that you run through your web browser. Because it’s running in the cloud (the internet) it can offer you impressive features such as easy sharing and rich collaboration. The icloud team is 100% committed to providing you with an exciting, reliable, and productive computing experience.

3- iCube

Available at: oos.cc
Get your free Online Operating System account now and experience the next generation of the World Wide Web with your personal online desktop. Gain access to an entire operating system running in your browser.

4- myGoya

Available at: mygoya.de
At home on every computer, Online operating system, No installation required, Accessible anywhere in the world.

5- Spiral Universe

Available at: www.spiraluniverse.com
Spiral is an integrated software suite used by schools to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve their management and administration. The platform is designed to be used by K-12 public, independent, and charter schools, as well as small colleges and universities.

6- Ulteo

Available at: www.ulteo.com
Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop is an installable Open Source virtual desktop and application delivery solution for corporations. It allows IT departments to deliver desktops and applications easily and at a lower cost than other solutions. It works in both a Windows and Linux environment.

7- ZimDesk

Available at: www.zimdesk.com
ZimdeskOS is your computer on the web – the entire functionality of a PC – online. There is nothing to install. A web browser and internet connection are all you need to access your desktop, files and favourite applications. You can access your data anytime from anywhere, from any PC.

What’s Next?

Now it’s your turn to test and share, tell us what you find interested on those application or even share a new one to be added to the this list of best online virtual desktop operating systems.

For those who don’t know what is Ramadan and why we celebrate this month, I’ve get some info for wikipedia about Ramadan (Arabic: ?????? Rama??n, Arabic pronunciation: [r?m?d???n]) (also Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, Ramdan, Ramadaan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset. Fasting is intended to teach Muslims about patience, humility and spirituality and is a time for Muslims to fast for the sake of God (Arabic: ?????, trans: Allah) and to offer more prayer than usual. During Ramadan, Muslims ask forgiveness for past sins, pray for guidance and help in refraining from everyday evils, and try to purify themselves through self-restraint and good deeds. As compared to the solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards about ten days each year depending on the moon. Ramadan was the month in which the first verses of the Qur’an were revealed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

30 Ramadan Wallpapers

Now enjoy this selection of Ramadan wallpapers, I gathered 30 of them one for each day. If you would like to share more please drop us a line on the comments:

UPDATE: a newer collection can be found at Ramadan in Design

20 Ramadan Songs

and now let’s enjoy some of the oldies and new Ramadan songs to get into this spiritual mode of this holy month:
1- Abd El Moteleb – Ramadan Gana ??? ?????? ????? ????
1- Abd El Moteleb – Ramadan Gana
2- Abd El Moteleb – El Mesaharaty ??? ?????? – ?????????
2- Abd El Moteleb – El Mesaharaty
3- Aho Geh Ya Welad ??? ?? ?? ????
3- Aho Geh Ya Welad
4- El Nakshabandy – Mawlay ????????? – ?????
4- El Nakshabandy – Mawlay
5- Karem Mahmoud – Ahlan Ramadan ???? ????? – ???? ?????
5- Karem Mahmoud – Ahlan Ramadan
6- Karem Mahmoud – Marhab Shahr El Soum ???? ????? – ???? ??? ?????
6- Karem Mahmoud – Marhab Shahr El Soum
7- Mohamed Fawzy – Essha Ya Nayem ???? ???? – ???? ?? ????
7- Mohamed Fawzy – Essha Ya Nayem
8- Mohamed Fawzy – Hato El Fawnees ???? ???? – ????? ????????
8- Mohamed Fawzy – Hato El Fawnees
9- Sayed Mekawy – El Mesaharaty ??? ????? – ?????????
9- Sayed Mekawy – El Mesaharaty
10- Wahawy Ya Wahawy ???? ?? ????
10- Wahawy Ya Wahawy
11- Wallah Lessa Badry ????? ??? ????
11- Wallah Lessa Badry
12- Efraho Ya Banat ?????? ?? ????
12- Efraho Ya Banat
13- Halo Ya Halo ????? ?? ?????
13- Halo Ya Halo
14- Amr Dian – Noor Ala Noor ???? ???? – ??? ??? ???
14- Amr Dian – Noor Ala Noor
15- El Jassmy – Rabena Ya Wali El Neam ?????? – ???? ?? ??? ?????
15- El Jassmy – Rabena Ya Wali El Neam
16- Hatem Fahmy – Ramadan Gana ???? ???? – ????? ????
16- Hatem Fahmy – Ramadan Gana
17- Mohamed Mounir – Madad Ya Rasol Allah ???? ???? – ??? ?? ???? ????
17- Mohamed Mounir – Madad Ya Rasol Allah
18- Mohamed Mounir – Madad Ya Rasol Allah “Oriantal” ???? ???? – “????” ??? ?? ???? ????
18- Mohamed Mounir – Madad Ya Rasol Allah “Oriantal”
19- Mohamed Fouad – Emam El Doa’ah “Intro” ???? ???? – ????? ???? ??????
19- Mohamed Fouad – Emam El Doa’ah “Intro”
20- Mohamed Fouad – Emam El Doa’ah “outro” ???? ???? – ????? ???? ??????
19- Mohamed Fouad – Emam El Doa’ah “Outro”

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Ramadan Kareem

Hope you all enjoy this collection of songs and wallpapers, and wish all of you a Happy Ramadan & May Allah accept all your fasting and prayers…Ramadan Kareem

1- XAMPP

Download from: www.apachefriends.org

Many people know from their own experience that it’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl.
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

2- Nginx

Download from: www.nginx.org

Nginx is one of a handful of servers written to address the C10K problem. Unlike traditional servers, Nginx doesn’t rely on threads to handle requests. Instead it uses a much more scalable event-driven (asynchronous) architecture. This architecture uses small, but more importantly, predictable amounts of memory under load.
Even if you don’t expect to handle thousands of simultaneous requests, you can still benefit from Nginx’s high-performance and small memory footprint. Nginx scales in all directions: from the smallest VPS all the way up to clusters of servers.

3- Roxen

Download from: www.roxen.com
Roxen WebServer is a full-featured open-source web server distributed under the GPL license. It runs on a number of different operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X.

4- Apache

Download from: www.apache.org
The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996, and celebrated its 15th birthday as a project this February. The Apache HTTP Server (“httpd”) is a project of The Apache Software Foundation.

5- Tornado

Download from: www.tornadoweb.org
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google’s webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.

6- Lighttpd

Download from: www.lighttpd.net
Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility — all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it’s Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

Conclusion

There are more than 100+ webservers applications that you can download and give them a try. but those 6 free open source high-performance http servers are based on my experience in using them. the oldest one i use is the XAMPP and i still use it till now. If you would like to recommend another software please name it on a comment below… Have a great day everybody…

1- Alessandro Cavallo

2- Augusto Oneto

3- Brain Murchison

4- Charlie Gentle

5- Chirag Solanki

6- Designed by Dave

7- Envato

8- Gavin Castleton

9- Hull Digital

10- James Lai

11- Jason Reed

12- Jiri Tvrdek

13- NOFRKS

14- Peter Pearson

15- John Zmuda

16- Se7en Places

17- Silver Back

18- Tomas Pojeta

19- Tyler Finck

20- Visual Box

If you have seen other similar sites, It would be great to share them with us by dropping a comment below… Have a nice day…

In this post I gathered top 4 Free Open Source Network Management Software that you can use as an IT Administrator in your network, Whether you run small or enterprise network, you will find those tools handy and effective in doing your monitoring work as simple as it could be.

1- SpiceWorks

Available at: www.spiceworks.com
Manage Everything IT…for Free! Spiceworks is the complete network management software, helpdesk, PC inventory tools & IT reporting solution designed to manage everything IT in small & medium businesses.

2- OpenNMS

Available at: www.opennms.org
OpenNMS is the world’s first enterprise grade network management application platform developed under the open source model.

3- OpenQRM

Available at: http://www.openqrm.com
openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform. Its fully pluggable architecture focuses on automatic, rapid- and appliance-based deployment, monitoring, high-availability, cloud computing and especially on supporting and conforming multiple virtualization technologies.

4- Hyperic HQ

Available at: www.hyperic.com
Designed to provide all fundamental management and monitoring capabilities for web applications and IT infrastructures.