All articles by Seif Lotfy

Lean mean hacking machine.

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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
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Bringing fun back to the desktop with… OMG! (the app)

Ohso wants to create fun, unique apps. Jorge linked me up with this idea. I quote from the blog post: I think it would be fun to add an achievement system to the Ubuntu Desktop, like is […]

10 August 2010
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Integrating Zeitgeist into GNOME: You decide which apps get patched (poll)

GNOME 3.0 is delayed and the Zeitgeist team has more time to integrate with the GNOME desktop. Daniel Siegel (the Cheese dude) had an idea during GUADEC that is worth giving a try… for Zeitgeist […]

5 August 2010
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Seif Speaks: Interviewing the OMG! Ubuntu! guys

This is a guest post by Seif Lotfy well known for his work on Zeitgeist, Sezen and the Elementary project. If you treat him nice, you might see more posts by him in the future.

3 August 2010