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		<title>A UI Bug in Gmail&#8217;s New Look</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google seems to be definitely working to unify the feel-and-look of its products to cope with its brand new social service Google+. Even though I&#8217;m against the black-colored nav bar at the top of their home page, but the new look definitely gives the feeling that you are on a social network website. So today [...]]]></description>
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<p>Google seems to be definitely working to unify the feel-and-look of its products to cope with its brand new social service Google+. Even though I&#8217;m against the black-colored nav bar at the top of their home page, but the new look definitely gives the feeling that you are on a social network website.</p>
<p>So today while I&#8217;m trying out the new Gmail&#8217;s look, I found a UI bug! The page loading bar is covering the web clip of Gmail. Of course the issue won&#8217;t appear the if the browser is done loading the page, but sometimes it never does (I guess because it&#8217;s always doing some async calls with their web services)! So the web clip will always be covered during your browsing session, which&#8217;s absolutely annoying. Besides, I&#8217;m pretty sure the advertisers won&#8217;t be so happy about it ;)</p>
<p>I really hope a googler discovers the issue and tries to fix it.</p>
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		<title>Updated &#8211; OS X Arabic Problems &#124; محدّث &#8211; مشاكل اللغة العربية في أنظمة الماك</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 16:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arabic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I bought my Macbook Pro I found a hell a lot of problems concerning Arabic in OS X. Arabic obviously isn&#8217;t supported very well on OS X, but surprisingly is well supported on iOS! I will compile here a list of each problem I encounter and try to provide the solution for it. The [...]]]></description>
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<p>Since I bought my Macbook Pro I found a hell a lot of problems concerning Arabic in OS X. Arabic obviously isn&#8217;t supported very well on OS X, but surprisingly is well supported on iOS! I will compile here a list of each problem I encounter and try to provide the solution for it.</p>
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<li>The Arabic keyboard layout: The first thing you&#8217;ll notice when you move from Windows or Linux to OS X is that the layout  of the keyboard is different. You&#8217;ll also notice some missing diacritics like Shaddah. <strong>The solution:</strong> To fix this problem you have to create or download a layout file and import it into OS X. I found some files on the Internet, but I didn&#8217;t like them, so I decided to create my own. I will post it when I&#8217;m done with it.</li>
<li>Java applications doesn&#8217;t render arabic fonts correctly: It seems like the OS X&#8217;s java version has some bugs related to rendering Arabic fonts. You&#8217;ll see the words very ugly and sometimes the letters are disconnected. <del>I haven&#8217;t found a solution to this yet</del>. Here&#8217;s a screenshot to show the problem: <a href="http://www.rakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-29-at-5.58.21-PM.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-152" title="Screen shot 2011-05-29 at 5.58.21 PM" src="http://www.rakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-29-at-5.58.21-PM-300x237.png" alt="" width="300" height="237" /></a> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Update:</span></strong> The solution to this problem is to use the Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Quartz&#8221; renderer. Just add this flag when you&#8217;re launching the application: $ java -Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -jar YourApp.jar. To learn more about the issue, check <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/tor/entry/lcd_sub_pixel_rendering">Tor Norbye&#8217;s post</a>.</li>
<li>Most professional word processors don&#8217;t support Arabic:  Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, iWork (Pages) all don&#8217;t support Arabic. Even tho Pages display the Arabic characters correctly, but it&#8217;s very difficult to modify or correct a word, in one word it&#8217;s completely useless for Arabic. <strong>The solution: </strong>Grap a copy of <a href="http://www.nisus.com/">Nisus Writer</a> it supports Arabic very well and right-to-left languages. OpenOffice is still a good solution but i&#8217;m not sure how good it is with right-to-left languages. In case you&#8217;re a developer I&#8217;m sorry to tell you that TextMate, TextWrangler and Vim (not sure of Emacs) don&#8217;t support Arabic as well! But Coda and Eclipse have fairly good text editors and support Arabic. <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Update 1:</span></strong> xCode&#8217;s editor doesn&#8217;t support Arabic as well!</li>
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<p dir="rtl">منذ أن قمت بشرائي لماك بوك برو وقد واجهت العديد من المشاكل في دعم اللغة العربية في نظام أو إس إكس OS X. الذي كان واضحاً هو بأن اللغة العربية غير مدعومة بشكل جيد في أو إس إكس  OS X على خلاف الدعم الممتاز للعربية في نظام آي أو إس iOS للأيفون. لذا قررت أن أكتب عن كل مشكلة أواجهها مع محاولة وضع الحلول.</p>
<p dir="rtl">١- تغيير مواضع الأحرف العربية في الكيبورد: أول ما سوف تلاحظه عندما تكتب هو تغير أماكن بعض الحروف العربية على لوحة المفاتيح، أو حتى غياب بعض علامات التشكيل مثلا الشدة. حيث أن أماكن الأحرف مختلفة عما إعتدنا عليه في ويندوز ولينوكس. الحل: يجب إنشاء أو تحميل ملف خاص بإعادة ترتيب أماكن الحروف العربية وإضافته إلى إعدادات لوحة المفاتيح. لقد وجدت عدة ملفات بخصوص هذا الموضوع على الإنترنت ولكنها لم تعجبني للنقص الموجود فيها. أنا حالياً أعكف على إنشاء ملف جديد وكامل للحروف العربية، عندما أنتهي منه سوف أضعه هنا للتحميل.</p>
<p dir="rtl">٢- البرامج المكتوبة بلغة جافا لا تظهر الخطوط العربية بشكل جيد: سوف تلاحظ أن البرامج المكتوبة بلغة الجافا لا تقوم برسم أو عرض الخطوط العربية بشكل صحيح، حيث تظهر الكلمات والحروف بشكل بشع أو حتى أحياناً تكون الحروف منفصلة.<del> لم أجد حلاً حتى الآن لهذه المشكلة.</del> انظر للصورة التالية التي تبين المشكلة:</p>
<p dir="rtl"><a href="http://www.rakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-29-at-5.58.21-PM.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-152" title="Screen shot 2011-05-29 at 5.58.21 PM" src="http://www.rakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-29-at-5.58.21-PM-300x237.png" alt="" width="300" height="237" /></a></p>
<p dir="rtl"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">تحديث:</span></strong> حل هذه المشكلة يكمن باستخدام Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Quartz&#8221; renderer. فقط قم بإضافة هذا الخيار عند تشغيل البرنامج:</p>
<p dir="rtl">java -Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -jar YourApp.jar $</p>
<p dir="rtl">لقراءة المزيد عن هذه المشكلة، قم  <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/tor/entry/lcd_sub_pixel_rendering">بزيارة هذا المقال لتور نوربي</a>.</p>
<p dir="rtl"><a href="http://www.rakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-29-at-5.58.21-PM.png"></a>٣- محررات النصوص المعروفة لا تدعم اللغة العربية: مايكروسوفت أوفيس ٢٠١١ و iWork لا يدعمان اللغة العربية! بالرغم من أنك تستطيع الكتابة باللغة العربية في برنامج Pages الموجود في حزمة iWork إلا أنك سوف تلاحظ العديد من الصعوبات أثناء تعديل النص أو الحذف مثلاً، بمعنى آخر لا يمكن الإعتماد عليه نهائياً في كتابة النصوص العربية. <strong>الحل:</strong> قم بشراء نسخة من برنامج <a href="http://www.nisus.com/">Nisus Writer</a> حيث يدعم اللغة العربية واللغات التي تكتب من اليمين إلى اليسار بشكل ممتاز. أما إن كنت أحد المطورين فاسمح لي بأن أزف لك خبراً غير سار نهائياً، حيث أن محررات النصوص المشهورة مثل TextMate و TextWrangler و Vim لا يدعمون اللغة العربية (غير متأكد من Emacs)! أما الحل لهذه المشكلة هي باستخدام Eclipse أو Coda فهما يحتويان على محررات نصوص جيدة ويدعمان اللغة العربية بشكل جيد.<strong> </strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>تحديث ١:</strong></span> محرر برنامج xCode لا يدعم اللغة العربية أيضاً!</p>
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		<title>My Social Media Contact Sheet</title>
		<link>http://www.rakblog.com/2010/03/my-social-media-contact-sheet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I designed and published my social media contact sheet. Wanna follow me on all social networks? Just check rakandirbas.com :D]]></description>
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<p>Yesterday I designed and published my social media contact sheet. Wanna follow me on all social networks? Just check <a href="http://rakandirbas.com" target="_blank">rakandirbas.com</a> :D</p>
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		<title>Social T-Shirts!</title>
		<link>http://www.rakblog.com/2010/03/social-t-shirts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[emptees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Days ago I came across this beautiful website, Emptees. I really love its idea. It&#8217;s a social network for t-shirts designers who: 1-design t-shirts 2-Post them. 3-Hopefully someone will buy them. I&#8217;m pretty sure this thing will succeed.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.rakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/emptees.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-120" title="Emptees" src="http://www.rakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/emptees.png" alt="Emptees" width="515" height="394" /></a>Days ago I came across this beautiful website, <a href="http://emptees.com" target="_blank">Emptees</a>. I really love its idea. It&#8217;s a social network for t-shirts designers who:<br />
1-design t-shirts<br />
2-Post them.<br />
3-Hopefully someone will buy them.<br />
I&#8217;m pretty sure this thing will succeed.</p>
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		<title>My Favorite Apps</title>
		<link>http://www.rakblog.com/2010/03/my-favorite-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iPod Touch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here I&#8217;m going to post regularly my favorite apps that I installed on my iPod Touch, so stay tuned for the updates :D Balance: To keep track of my daily transactions. To Do&#8217;s: A very simple and sweet app for todos. Twitterrific: A very awesome twitter client. eBuddy: A very nice IM app. Currency: To [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here I&#8217;m going to post regularly my favorite apps that I installed on my iPod Touch, so stay tuned for the updates :D</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099cc;"><span style="color: #268fbf;">Balance:</span> </span>To keep track of my daily transactions.</p>
<p><span style="color: #268fbf;">To Do&#8217;s:</span> A very simple and sweet app for todos.</p>
<p><span style="color: #e4817e;"><span style="color: #268fbf;">Twitterrific:</span> </span>A very awesome twitter client.</p>
<p><span style="color: #268fbf;">eBuddy:</span> A very nice IM app.</p>
<p><span style="color: #e4817e;"><span style="color: #268fbf;">Currency:</span> </span>To find out currencies rates.</p>
<p><span style="color: #268fbf;">Last.fm: </span>Internet radio app.</p>
<p><span style="color: #268fbf;">Skype:</span> A VoIP app. I use it with a Mic purchased separately.</p>
<p><span style="color: #268fbf;">WordPress:</span> To update my blog and manage comments ;)</p>
<p><span style="color: #e4817e;"><span style="color: #268fbf;">Wikipanion:</span> </span>A nice app to search and browse wikipedia.</p>
<p><span style="color: #268fbf;">Google Earth:</span> The very famous app.</p>
<p><span style="color: #268fbf;">Orange Weds:</span> A movies app.</p>
<p><span style="color: #00ccff;"><span style="color: #268fbf;">Stanza:</span> </span>The best ebooks reader app in the app store.</p>
<p><span style="color: #268fbf;">Dictionary:</span> The best dictionary app (IMHO) that works offline.</p>
<p><span style="color: #00ccff;"><span style="color: #268fbf;">Convert Units:</span> </span>A handy app to convert units.</p>
<p>Those aren&#8217;t all the apps I installed, but my favorites and most handy :)</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t you think this is crazy?</title>
		<link>http://www.rakblog.com/2009/06/dont-you-think-this-is-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CrAzY WeB!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secondl life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished reading some parts from my AI textbook (AI a modern approach) and it&#8217;s 3:00 am. I don&#8217;t know but I just imagined some crazy ideas and wanted to share one of them. I don&#8217;t know if this is because of being too sleepy or being full of AI info ;) My [...]]]></description>
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<p>I have just finished reading some parts from my AI textbook (AI a modern approach) and it&#8217;s 3:00 am. I don&#8217;t know but I just imagined some crazy ideas and wanted to share one of them. I don&#8217;t know if this is because of being too sleepy or being full of AI info ;)</p>
<p>My idea is that I imagined how we deal now with second life project (from Sun). You control a virtual person in a virtual life. But imagine that Internet were invented in that virtual life, do you understand what I mean? Imagine that a virtual life has a virtual Internet, and then just start to imagine how the web technology will start to develop there. Imagine a virtual Facebook that your person uses to interact with other virtual person. Or even imagine if we could add AI to these virtual people so that after a while can behave autonomously, so then see how virtual people can interact with each other using the virtual Facebook or a virtual Youtube or twitter. Also imagine that these people after being autonomous will develop their web autonomously.</p>
<p>But what&#8217;s crazier is to imagine that these virtual people invent a virtual second life for them, so that they can control other virtual-virtual people!!!</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t you think (this is)/(I&#8217;m) crazy?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if I became crazy or too sleeeeeeepy ZzZzZzZz!</p>
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