Desert Safaris in Egypt

Deserts cover about 20% of the Earths land surface, and are often thought of as unforgiving environments where it is difficult to survive even a day or two. While you do need special preparations to stay in the desert, its actually quite possible to do it even fun! Deserts provide the perfect atmosphere for some really interesting activities you wont be able to do anywhere else in the world. Hot deserts are, perhaps, more versatile in the kinds of activities that you can do, and the largest hot desert, the Sahara, has many points where you can take part in these activities.

Desert safari is a term that covers the general excursion you would take into the desert. Of course, as many are inexperienced when it comes to the desert, it is always necessary to be accompanied by a guide who has a great deal of training and experience in desert situations.

When you set off on your desert safari, youll have a chance to experience the true desert, and understand the beauty and appeal of it to the locals.

When in Egypt, its a great idea to go on a desert safari. These alternative style trips are an absolute adventure that you must experience. While hot deserts the world over can offer great experiences, in Egypt you can have these experiences and have a blast while doing it! Often traveling into the desert with Bedouin guides, youll have a chance to see their interaction with the environment, and enjoy it the way locals would with song and dance around a campfire at night! While camping out in the desert, youll experience one of the clearest night skies around as you sit in front of the camp fire and drink traditional Bedouin tea.

 At your Bedouin camp, you might even enjoy a traditional dinner of lamb, slow cooked in the heat under the sand. While in the Egyptian desert, youll probably even be lucky enough to see a fox or two during your stay!

Read more: http://www.touregypt.net/desert-safaris/#ixzz2lhTneiRm

Welcome to Windows 8.1: Ars readers react

This week, Microsoft held its annual BUILD conference for developers at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Ars had Peter Bright on the scene when the company announced the new features that will be added into Windows 8.1. In the comments section beneath Bright's article, What does Windows 8.1 offer to desktop die-hards?, there were some mixed opinions about how meaningful Microsoft's changes will prove for desktop users.

dkazaz thinks the changes don't really solve the problem that Windows 8 really has: that the OS is trying to be all things for all devices. "I don't understand why the use of the two interfaces needs to be intermingled," dkazaz writes. "I'm quite interested in a hybrid desktop/touch OS. I just don't want to use a touch interface with a keyboard/mouse and I don't want (obviously) to have to use desktop elements on a touchscreen... Merging the two forces compromises on both. That doesn't mean that you can't have both in the same OS as long as you have clean switching between them. Is that really so hard for MS to figure out?"

robotic_tourist was a bit more charitable about the design choice: "I think the Start Screen is the new version of the ActiveX desktop. I never saw it used to good effect but it allowed animated widgets connected to the Web to display info on the desktop. What do most people have on their desktop? Application launcher icons. What do you get if you cross application launcher icons with animated widgets sucking down information from the Web? The Start Screen. Yes we laughed when we first saw the ActiveX Desktop, but now may be the time when it finally fulfills its potential!"

g0blue also had some positive things to say about 8.1's changes. "Another welcome addition to 8.1: Invoking the search charm (Win+Q) from the desktop no longer switches to the all-apps start screen. Instead you can search for apps (or files, webpages, etc.) from a sidebar on the desktop. Although the hot-key is slightly different, you can now search-launch apps without losing the view of your desktop or installing any third party utilities."

Not everyone was quite so positive. dagamer34 thought the changes were trivial and hoped there would be more to come. "Hopefully people can stop complaining about the Start Button/Menu and move onto far more important things that should be addressed in Windows 8/8.1."

Video Phone

This week we also heard a rather strange story about a young man in South Carolina who called in a fake bomb threat to get his girlfriend out of school for the day. The man was 20 and his girlfriend was 16, and while the legal age of consent in South Carolina is 16, federal law classifies sex videos with people under 18 as child porn. Unfortunately, the couple recorded just such a video on the phone he used to call in the bomb threat. Now he's serving 18 months in jail and will be marked as a sex offender for life.

One twist in Nate Anderson's story, Legal sex + smartphone video = child pornography, is that the issue was elevated to a federal level because the young man's smartphone was made by HTC. This meant it was classified as a production tool that has been exchanged through interstate and foreign commerce. mdporter was incensed about this.

"Making him a convicted sex offender and putting him on an offender database for life due to a video found on a found is an incredible overreach. The bomb threats were stupid and he deserves jail time for those, but the sex part is just malicious prosecution. And hey Federal assholes, it is not possible to buy a cell phone made in America.

With Hopstop Acquisition, Apple Plans to Beef Up Public Transit Directions

Apple is beefing up its mapping prowess with the purchase of Hopstop, a popular city transit application. 

Apple confirmed the acquisition to ABC News this afternoon. 

"Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said in a statement provided to ABC News. 

Hopstop, which has iPhone, Android and Web applications, provides detailed subway, bus and taxi directions in 600 cities, including New York City, Philadelphia, Moscow and Paris. 

Transit directions have been one of the major missing components from Apple's Maps app, which was released last year to replace Google Maps in iOS 6 and on the iPhone 5. 

Apple's Maps app was immediately recognized as not being as robust as Google's solution. Apple CEO Tim Cook even apologized to consumers for the sub-par experience last September and recommended other apps in the App Store at the time, including Google's option. 

In June, Apple detailed some new features and fixes coming to the maps app in its forthcoming iOS 7 software. However, public transit information was still missing.

It’s a New (Virtual) World with Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft recently rolled out Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview. The update for Microsoft’s flagship server OS includes a number of features to improve and enhance managing virtual servers with Windows Server 2012. 

Virtual servers are crucial for small and medium businesses. Most SMBs don’t have an IT department or data center to work with and need tools that simplify management and allow them to operate an entire IT infrastructure from a single box. Virtual servers allow businesses to maximize the value and productivity of their investment in hardware. 

With Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, Microsoft has streamlined the performance of Hyper-V. Replication between virtual servers is faster, and more frequent, and Microsoft has added more disaster recovery options. The new Hyper-V also allows you to assign QoS (quality of service) to prioritize disk access for virtual machines that need it more, such as a database server. 

Linux VMs

One of the best improvements in Windows Server 2012 R2, though, is the enhanced support for Linux virtual machines. Previous versions of Hyper-V have technically supported Linux, but the capabilities were very limited.Windows Server 2012 R2 adds support for remote replication of Linux virtual machines for disaster recovery purposes and gives SMBs much more flexibility to manage Linux VMs. You can reallocate memory resources, or resize the virtual storage on the fly without requiring a reboot of the virtual machine. Backup software designed to work with Hyper-V can also back up Linux VMs in Windows Server 2012 R2. 

Next-Gen Hyper-V Another significant update in Hyper-V with Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview is the addition of Generation 2 virtual machines. The traditional—Generation 1—virtual machines essentially emulate a Pentium II server architecture, complete with PCI and ISA buses, an IDE controller, and old school BIOS. 

The virtual hardware was chosen to ensure Hyper-V virtual machines could run basically any available operating system, but that architecture is outdated. The new Generation 2 virtual machines sheds the legacy hardware elements in favor of a more modern 64-bit architecture that operates on UEFI rather than BIOS.

Yahoo confirms departure of media chief Mickie Rosen

Mickie Rosen, head of global media at Yahoo, who was responsible for properties including Yahoo News, Sports and Finance, is leaving the company effective Sept. 1, Yahoo revealed Monday in a regulatory filing. 

The change was announced just hours after Yahoo disclosed the resignation of three board members: Daniel Loeb, Harry Wilson and Michael Wolf, effective July 31, bringing the size of the company’s board down to seven. “The remaining directors are committed to revisiting the board’s size and composition,” Yahoo said in a statement. However, the two events are believed to be unrelated. 

The board members’ resignations were disclosed alongside Yahoo’s announcement of its repurchase of 40 million shares of Yahoo common stock owned by hedge fund Third Point, at a purchase price of US$29.11 per share. Loeb is CEO at Third Point; the hedge fund had nominated Wilson and Wolf as Yahoo board members. 

In a separate filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Yahoo said that Rosen, who had served as senior vice president, global media and commerce since 2011, would receive severance benefits specified in her existing agreement with the company. A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment further on Rosen’s departure or provide information about a replacement.

Yahoo’s media division includes multiple site properties that are critical to the company’s business, such as Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Video, which provides original, premium and third-party content that is distributed across Yahoo’s network. 

Since October, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has attracted more attention for a slew of small mobile acquisitions than for revamping Yahoo’s media offerings. But video in particular is one of four key revenue opportunities the company expects to focus on in the immediate future, Mayer said last week during the company’s second-quarter earnings call. 

During the call, Mayer called video a primary area of investment over the next year, along with new products geared toward improving the company’s display advertising revenue, which fell by 11 percent in the quarter. 

Yahoo faces enormous pressure to reinvent itself and demonstrate its relevance to users who have flocked to rival Internet companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. Some industry analysts have characterized the company as a sinking ship, but the departures of board members Loeb, Wolf and Wilson and media chief Rosen are not connected, said Erik Gordon, associate director at the University of Michigan’s Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies. 

“Loeb dumped two-thirds of his stock, and his guys left the board, because he thinks the chances of the stock price going up are too slim to justify the risk of having so much money in the company,” Gordon said. 

But Rosen left for her own reasons, including the fact that Yahoo’s media team “are losing their independence,” he said, adding that Mayer wants more direct control over the media business. 

Yahoo’s stock has risen more than 70 percent over the past year, though Mayer’s tech-celebrity status and the company’s stake in the profitable Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba have been key factors in its ascension, experts have said.

Microsoft takes $900 million hit for unsold Surface RTs in 4Q13 earnings

An otherwise healthy earnings statement from Microsoft was overshadowed by a substantial $900 million charge attributed to "Surface RT inventory adjustments." The ARM-powered tablet, Microsoft's first foray into selling computers, recently had its price cut by $150 to $349 amid long-standing reports of poor sales. With this $900 million charge, those poor sales and price cuts are hitting Microsoft's bottom line.

Revenue for the fourth quarter was $19.896 billion, up 10 percent on the same quarter last year. Operating income was $6.073 billion and earnings per share $0.59, both essentially unchanged from a year ago.

As ever, Microsoft also published non-GAAP numbers. The GAAP numbers defer revenue that was taken for Office 2013 and Windows 8 prior to the availability of the software, not booking the revenue until the software is actually delivered. The non-GAAP numbers book the revenue as soon as it's taken. Under that metric, quarterly revenue was $19.114 billion, up three percent year on year. Operating income was $5.291 billion, down 24 percent year on year, and earnings per share were $0.52, down 29 percent on a year ago.

For the full 2013 financial year, revenue was $77.849 billion, up six percent on 2012. Operating income was $26.764 billion, an increase of 23 percent, and earnings per share were $2.58, a 29 percent improvement. Much of this improvement is due to 2012's $6.193 billion write-down over the aQuantive purchase.

Though Microsoft has announced a significant corporate reorganization, its financial reporting uses the same divisional model and could continue to do so even as the reorganization is implemented. Full details of this will be disclosed in September.

Windows division revenue—which includes Surface RT—saw the fourth quarter grow by six percent to $4.411 billion, with operating income down 54 percent to $1.099 billion. For the full year, the division had revenue of $19.239 billion, up 4.6 percent, and an operating income of $9.504 percent, down 18 percent.

The division continues to suffer from the downturn in the broader PC market. OEM revenue was down 15 percent, driven by the decline of x86 sales. Non-OEM revenue was up 22 percent, with double-digit growth in volume licensing. The company says that close to three-quarters of enterprise desktops are now using Windows 7.

The Server and tools division posted quarterly revenue of $5.502 billion, up nine percent year on year. Operating income was $2.325 billion, up 14 percent. For the full year, revenue was $20.281 billion, up nine percent on 2012, and operating income was up 13 percent at $8.164 billion.

Both product revenue and Enterprise Services showed nine percent growth. System Center showed growth of 14 percent, SQL Server increased revenue by 16 percent. The company reports growing Azure momentum, too, with 25 percent more enterprise customers.

Microsoft Business Division had quarterly revenue of $7.213 billion, up 14 percent, with operating income of $4.873 billion, an increase of 18 percent. Over the full year, revenue was up three percent to $24.724 billion and operating income was up two percent to $16.194 billion.

Business revenue, representing about 85 percent of the division's revenue, was up seven percent. Business subscription revenue was up 10 percent, offsetting a one percent drop in license-only transactional revenue. Consumer revenue was hammered, however, falling by 27 percent due to the weakness of the x86 market. Office 365 is now on track to have annual revenue of $1.5 billion, with more than one million users of the consumer-oriented Office 365 Home Premium version. Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync all experienced double-digit growth.

Online Services division revenue for the quarter was $0.804 billion, up nine percent on the same quarter last year. Operating loss was $0.372 billion. The loss a year ago was $6.672 billion, but most of this was due to the aQuantive write-down. Excluding that, the loss has been reduced by $0.107 billion, or 22 percent. Full year revenue was $3.201 billion, up 12 percent.

Entertainment and Services division had quarterly revenue of $1.915 billion, up eight percent on last year. The division posted an operating loss of $0.110 billion, a 57 percent reduction on last year. Full year revenue was $10.165 billion, up six percent on 2012, with operating income of $0.848 billion, up 123 percent from last year.

Even as it heads toward replacement, Xbox 360 is continuing to sell, with the company shifting a million units last quarter. Xbox LIVE revenue was up by about 20 percent. Windows Phone-related revenue, covering both Windows Phone and patent licensing agreements, was up $0.222 billion.

The company also offered guidance for the first quarter of the 2014 financial year. Windows division will continue to suffer from the poor PC market, with OEM revenue (about 65 percent of what the division turns over) expected to decline by the mid teens. 

Server and Tools revenue is expected to grow by high single digits. Business division enterprise revenue is anticipated to grow by mid-single digits, but consumer revenue will lag the PC market by five percent. The company estimates that Online Services revenue will grow by double digits. Entertainment and Devices revenue will decline by low single digits.

Tunisian actress Dorra

Tunisian actress received a certificate of advanced studies in political science in Tunisia has entered the field of art after joining the troupe Teatro where she participated for the first time in the play crazy for the director Tawfiq al-Jabali., And then represented several roles in Tunisian cinema, also participated in global films, like  "Colosseum", directed by the English director Tillman RIM in 2003, where embodied the role of the lady of the Empire and also the Universal film "Journey to Louisa", directed by French director Patrick Vulsson in 2005 in the role of Aichee It is also involved since 2007 in the Egyptian cinema.

The Egyptian fashion model Yara Naoum

The  Egyptian fashion model and the wife of Emad Meteb Yara Naoum  she won the title of " Miss Egypt 2008 " , she did not think about being an actress , she  worked as an engineer of decoration at the series of " ahzan mariem " Yara participated in the 2008 Miss Universe competition which was held in Vietnam. Worthy of note is that she was the only Arab participant in the competition.

Receptionist required in Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh

Youth is required immediately to work for the highest hotels in Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada and Marsa Alam 

Required jobs :

1/ Receptionist ( English is required ) .

2/ Young people to work in the food and beverage department .

3/ supervisors .

- Very rewarding salaries .

- Saving the cost of mobility, housing and meals for free

- for more information please call ( 01067609740 )

The actress Menna Fadali

The actress Menna Fadali was born in 1983 , she is the daughter of an assistant director to the director Magdi Abo emera who liked her and recommended her to act in the series " ain qalby " and in 2002 she participated in the series of " el-nas fi kafr askar " . Menna has been graduated from the faculty of tourism and hotels and she worked with many stars like Yehia El-Fakharany , Sameh Hussein and Ghada Adel and many other stars .

The Egyptian actress Leqaa El-Khamisi

Leqaa El-Kamisi she is an Egyptian actress , her full name is Leqaa Abd El -Malek El-Khamisi , she has been graduated from the Faculty of Commerce and Institute of Performing Arts . She worked as a teacher at the University of 6th of October, she began her career working in advertising, then worked in the a play , she worked in the Series, "Attar and the seven girls" .

The Egyptian actress Dina Fouad

The Egyptian actress Dina Fouad  started her life as abroadcaster broadcaster in El-hora channel , her meeting with the Egyptian actor Noor El-Sharif was a turning point in her life as she changed her career to be an actress , and she was recommended by Noor El-Sharif to work with him in El-Dali series as his daughter and she acted in many films and series. 

Hurghada city in Egypt

Hurghada is one of the most famous cities in Egypt and it consider one of the most important cities in Egypt for tourists and tourism .

The name of the city delivers from a name of a tree called GHARDAQ that grows in that city . Hunters used to come from the Arabian Peninsula and meet where in that area where that tree grows . Hunters used to say that phrase " we will meet in EL-GHARDAQ " and then it was called as " EL-GHARDAQA ' or as it known in English Hrghada .

Hurghada consider as one of the most exiting destinations for holiday . Nowadays, Hurghada is known as a town of parties , especially between Europeans. Locals People will tell you that the life in Hughada begins at night in Hurghada . 

Hurghada city was founded in the early 20th century , the city has been enlarged by Egyptian and foreign investors to become the leading seashore resort on the Red Sea. 

Hurghada city considered as a beach resort, where thousands of older tourists come with their families to enjoy the sun and fun of private resort beaches. Many of these hotels offer many activities and facilities that will make the tourists never think about leaving the resort.

Also the larger resorts have zoos, playgrounds, discos, bars, a number of pools and even small theaters that will help the tourist to enjoy his time.

The model Sara Salama

Sara Salama is an actress and model , she is the daughter of the actor Ahmed Salama . She was porn in 1992 , she participated in the propaganda of Vodafone , Etisalat and Pepsi companies .

She also participated in many series like - el-hrop - esm moaqat and she participated in the series of el-kabeer awy .

Quick Office application for Android

Quick Office App for Android system

One of the best Apps to edit file on Android as it contains the strongest tolls to edit textured , excel and power point files .

Last year Google had acquired the company that developed the application and continued selling .

This year Google offered it as a free application to the users of GOOGLE APPS FOR BUSINESS and it is a paid service for the companies .

Today Google announced to launch the new and improved version of QUICK OFFICE for free for all Android users , one copy supports both of phones and tablet computers .

Through that application you can open saved files through the memory of the phone , you can also edit saved files through GOOGLE DRIVE service and it was strange for us as we expected that GOOGLE will merge the advantages of QUICK OFFICE application to GOOGLE DRIVE application and now we have to separated applications to edit files even QUICK OFFICE application is better than GOOGLE DRIVE application .

AS you download that application and connecting it with GOOGLE DRIVE in your account you will get 15 GB from the extra storage memory on GOOGLE DRIVE for two years .

Unfortunately that application dose not support the Arabic language as the Arabic words will appear as a separated letters .

The announcer Haiat El-dardery

The announcer Haiat El-dardery is one of the Egyptian announcers , she works for El-faraeen Channel and it was said that she married the announcer Tawfiq Oqasha the owner of the Channel , she was divorced from her husband who traveled and she has two children . The announcer tawfiq picked her up and employed her to work for his Channel and she still working for tawfiq Oqasha .

The announcer Lubna Asal wedding party

The announcer Lubna Asal one of the best Egyptian announcer , she works for el-haiah channel and she is the announcer for el-haiah today program on Nile sat . The announcer Lubna Asal is one of the most beautiful announcers in Egypt , and she got married and she wanted his marriage to be away from media show and she posted some photos from her wedding party on her fan page on facebook.

The actress Yousra birthday party

Yousrs is an Egyptian actress , she was porn in 10 march 1955 in Cairo , she is one of the most Egyptian actress . She worked in the Egyptian cinema and the Egyptian television . She acted in many films like ( Krakoun in the street- Mankind and the jinn - Mascots) and so many television series and she celebrated her birthday without making any shows and many actors and actress attended the wedding party like Adel Emam , Ayten Amer , Wafaa Amer and Khaled Yousef.

The actress Menna Arafaa

She is one of the youngest Egyptian actress and she is one of the best actress in Egypt . She was born in 19th march 1999 and she started acting in 2005. And she participated at many films and series like ragel w st setat ( one man and sex women ) and she acted the daughter of Ashraf abd el baqy . And she participated the star Ahmed Helmy at his film mattab senaay.The actress menna arafa participated the series of elqaserat .Menna Arafa started to be a star.

Sharm El-Sheikh " city of peace "

Sharm El-Sheikh one of the biggest south Sinai government cities and it contains many tourism resorts where tourists can enjoy there time .

Sharm El-Sheikh known as the city of diving and it consider as on of the most three famous diving area in Egypt . 

Sharm El-Sheikh transformed from a small city city for a tourism city . 

Sharm El-Sheikh was called as " the city of peace " and it was selected by UNESCO as one of the top five cities of worldwide peace . there were many conferences that were made in sharm el-sheikh .

the British prime minister tony Blair visited Sharm El-Sheikh during his visit to Egypt and also the french president Nicolas Sarkozy visited Sharm El-Sheikh " the city of peace " . 

sharm el-sheikh was used as a center for a political meetings by Mohammed Hosni Mubarak . 

horseback riding is one of the most famous sporting activities in the city of peace and also there are many activities like diving and water skiing .

one of the most famous beaches in Sharm El-Sheikh is Na'ama Beach that consider as one the center of the tourists activities and it located at the north of the city of peace " Sharm " . 

city of peace is one of the most touristic cities in Egypt .in the city of peace there are many hotels and each one of them has his own beach where the tourists can enjoy their time .

Sharm El-Sheikh " city of peace " consider as one of the most extraordinary diving destination in Red Sea, Egypt . 

there are many hotels in the city of peace " Sharm " like moevenpick , Hilton Fayrouz , canorad and four seasons .

The actress Reem Ahmed

The actress Reem Ahmed was porn in 23 jan 1990 in Cairo , the actor Mohammed Sobhi discovered her when she was four years old and she started acting with him as his youngest daughter at the series of - youmieat wanees - and she participated with Mohammed Sobi at the all parts of the series , also she participated in many plays like - mama Amrica - Romieo and joleet .

The actress Engy Wegdan wedding party

The actress Engy Wegdan was porn in 1983 , she has been graduated from the american university , she worked as a teacher and she studied producing and she worked for rotana cinema channel and also she worked for el-waha channel at dubai and she started her career as an actress through the series of tamer and shaqia .and also she participated in the film of samer and shaher and baher and she participated in the series of zat .and she got married and her wedding party pictures were posted on facebook and news paper .

latest fashion of hjab accessories

The elegance of the veiled girl not only depends on the kind of that hjab she will wear but also depends on the fashion of the accessories too and also you must know what kind of hjab you must wear during the day and the kind of hjab you must wear at night , now we will give you some advises that will help you with your hjab :-

1/ choose lumbered Hjab that embroidered with shiny threads and handle it with your head hjab with one color .

2/ do not mix the lumbered hjab that embroidered with shiny threads with shiny headdress . 

3/ do not wear big necklace with your hjab . 

4/ choose the colors of the pins to fit the color of your hjab that you are wearing .