My Browse stats

” Tell me what you browse and I tell you who you are “ might be a true saying in our digital era . That is why I experimented by recording the number of  pages I visit everyday.

Since I mainly use firefox, all i had to do was go to show all history , click on yesterday , click on the “name” column to sort ( any other column would do ) . The number of pages browsed will show in the bottom of the window.

I kept this habit for 10 days and here is what turned out to be my browse stats aka the number of pages / day  :

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My take on #ATWomen

Introduction about the event :

Arab Techies and SMEX organized a meetup of about 34 women from ten Arab countries to talk about technology, empowerment, entrepreneurship, development, and whatever else they want to put on the table. Participants are programmers, web developers, artists, teachers, professors, PhD students, bloggers, social media experts, activists, NGO coordinators and come from Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, and Oman.

The gathering is being held at the lovely and welcoming Youth Cultural Center in Zouk Mikael, Lebanon, from May 11-14. Funding for the meeting was provided by Hivos and Heinrich Böll Stiftung.

My personal take on the event

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Firefox : a security tip

Browsers are an important part of our everyday life, we are using them not only to browse public stuff but also to have access to confidential data that resides behind logins – it can be email, facebook , corporate account, blog administration…. with the mind boggling number of websites that we have to log in to everyday a neat and useful feature is implemented into the browsers, it is called “remember password” or save my password

Many of us are using firefox as their main browser and are passionate about that lovely piece of software . but if u are clicking those remember password buttons you are at risk, here is why :

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