All articles by Seif Lotfy

Lean mean hacking machine.

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Zeitgeist rocking GNOME Shell

I took more time today to play with GNOME Shell...

4 December 2010
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Zeitgeist coming to KDE

Zeitgeist is on its way to KDE, and our favourite Egyptian hacker Seif Lotfy explains more in this post.

29 November 2010
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Unity Place People – Update

In my second day of hacking Unity Place for people I managed to get chat activity from Zeitgeist, get contacts from folks and create sections and groups and assign them results. Read on for more.

20 November 2010
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Zeitgeist’s bright future in Unity

It’s UDS time again and although I am not physically there (German VISA issue), I am happy to hear about the Unity work being done and I think I speak on behalf of the Zeitgeist […]

25 October 2010
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Initial Zeitgeist Mono bindings – Call for testers & developers

The great Manish Sinha has blogged about the development of Zeitgeist-Sharp bindings. Since I am too lazy/busy and preparing some new stuff for UDS, I just posted his whole blog post.

22 October 2010
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Zeitgeist hits the Cloud

Yesterday with the help of his awesomeness Stuart Langridge (from the Ubuntu One team) we hacked together a little Zeitgeist extension for all cloud lovers. In short it allows you to have all your events on […]

21 October 2010
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Ubuntu Software Center helping you clean up your applications

Thanks to Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi, Software Center is able to tell you which applications (of which Zeitgeist knows of) you have not been using for a while.

18 October 2010
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GNOME Activity Journal goes on steroids

The boys on the Activity Journal team managed to boost the performance up to an average of 620% It now navigates quicker and loads faster than ever. Funny enough that even the memory consumption went down. Look […]

6 September 2010
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Seif Speaks: Interviewing Mr. Gwibber (Ryan Paul)

I met Ryan Paul at UDS last may and I must say I was star struck (I am star struck most of the time at UDS anyhow). As a badass editor at arstechnica and the man who started gwibber I thought it would be nice to interview for OMG! Ubuntu!

17 August 2010
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Call for Mock-ups: OMG! User Awarding System needs a Trophy Viewer

OMG! OMG! OMG! We are close to releasing…. a beta. After porting the daemon to Mono with Chris Szikszoy (Docky fame) and with the support of David Siegel and Alex Launi (both from Do Fame […]

16 August 2010
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Seif Speaks: My Sexy Desktop

Well I received a lot of comments and mails about my overall *sexy* desktop layout and look. So to get everyone down a bit here is what you need to use and set up to […]

12 August 2010
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A technical look at the OMG! User Awarding System

This is a very technical post about the basics and fundamentals of the OMG! App… Taken from the GNOME Wiki The idea being OMG! is to have a central user awarding system where users collect […]

11 August 2010