Mohamed Zaatar's Blog

I wasted a lot of time to try passing Data between workflow activities, so i find it at last very easy.

simply you need to create WF Variable of the type you want to pass ( in my case this was a primitive string ) and called it for example TMP.

Then come to the sender activity properties where the data is settled by and type in output VB expression "TMP". Open the receiver activity and write TMP in its input.

WF Engine is smart enough to understand that TMP is a local variable inside the Workflow and get the value of it.

Very Easy HUH !!!!

Did you ask yourself what is the reference for some logos we saw them every minute in our life, like USB, @ in the mails address , power button or Bluetooth !!!
i will tell you a brief description about the source of these icons.


Everyone know that Bluetooth epithet comes from the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark "Harald Blutooth", but why he took this nickname? because he was crazy about tasting the blue berries. So one of his teeth fully turned into blue color. BTW, first Bluetooth transmitting device was look likes tooth and with blue color also.




UBS Logo design is taken from Trident shape in Olympic legends but they changed its ends to a triangle, circle and square to represent the multifunctions of USB technology.


About the power button, In the 2cd World War, the Engineers were using the digital numbers to define the buttons so they gave ON button number One, and the shutdown button number Zero. In 1973, One of the standardization institutes make this icon refers to the Stand By operation but later on IEEE decided to be used as Power On.




First Introduced in 1885, in typewriter machines as an abbreviation to the "At the Rate of"




Firewire is a serial interface standard for high speed communications for data transfer like USB. First introduced in 1995 by a sub company of APPLE. They gave it this logo to represent the high speed of transmitting voice and video so it came with three pins: one represents the Sound, the second one for the Picture and last one for the Data.




WiFi name is not a technical name, it reflects Wireless Fidelity. this expression is used from a long time but in research and documents but it was used commercially in 1999 by WiFi Alliance.


Note: some of the contents is copied with disposal from Arab Hardware magazine April 2011

Today 2 April 2011, I regret as an Egyptian Citizen for what happened in Cairo Stadium. Zamalek Fans stormed and broke into Cairo Stadium after the Tunisian African Team scored 1 goal and Zamalek scored 2 Goals so it means that Zamalek will be off of the African Champions League.

They are not our protests in 25 January, we are civilized and conscious people but that people was some of unwanted people. I believe i cant give them a description because they will get their punishment and Zamalek also for its poor organization and for sure the Egyptian Federation for Football.

Sorry brotherly Tunisian people and Tunisian African Team.

Every year in 1st of April, Google introduce a new April fool. Million of people believe it. They started in 2000 till this year 2011. I collects the list of them to updated every year in shaa Allah.

2000
MentalPlex
A search trick "MentalPlex" , claimed that user have to do some handy actions to get more search results :) with these Instructions:

• Remove hat and glasses.
• Peer into MentalPlex circle. DO NOT MOVE YOUR HEAD.
• Project mental image of what you want to find.
• Click or visualize clicking within the MentalPlex circle.

users will have some funny error messages when users will try to get search results:

1. Error 01: Brainwaves received in analog. Please re-think in digital.
2. Error 001: Weak or no signal detected. Upgrade transmitter and retry

2001
Nothing appeared this year

2002
Pigeon Rank
New Page Rank "Pigeon Rank". A page ranking system based on pigeon clicks :)

2003
Nothing appeared this year

2004
Link
Unreal and fictitious Job opportunities at Google Search center ON THE MOON :)

2005
Google Glup
Google Glup, they claimed that this drink or beverage will increase user intelligence thus it will increase Google Search Engine results.

2006
Google Romance
"Dating is a searsh problem. Solve it with Google Romance." Simply find your soul mate in Google. and here is the instructions

2007
1- Gmail Paper
GMail Paper, print what ever mails you need and will be mailed to your doorstep within 2-4 business days For FREE !!

2- Toilet Internet Service Provider
Free and fast internet broadband service , install it


2008
1- Google Webblogs

2- Dajare in Japan : organizing the world's laughter is its mission

3- Scartch and Sniff : Google Book Search users were asked to place their noses near the monitor and click GO, then "Loading odors" will appear.

4- Dialect Translation : from dialect Korean to Standard Korean

5- Google Docs "Air plane": Google docs user click on file and new document as "air plane" and this image will appear.


6- Google Man Power : in china, 25 million volunteers do the searching.

7- Google Wake up kit.

8- Virgle: a new project announced between Virgin and Google.

9- Feeling Lucky Google Calender: create lucky date with one of some famous celebs

10 - Google Custom Time: send mails after some time :)

2009
1- Google claims, google.com.au is running on Microsoft Windows on IIS/3.0 and google.com on Apache/0.8.4

2- GMail autopilot: a new GMail option will reply for your incoming mails based on the person and content with enhanced options of emotions usage.



3- GBall

4- 3D Google Chrome version


2010
Animal translator
Reader Advantage
ChromeSounds
Wave Wave Notifications
and more

2011
1- GMail motion: a way that will enable GMail users to interact with GMail with their bodies
2- Comic sans for Everyone: Google will use the Comic sans font for all Google Services and pages.

In 3.30 pm , 1st of April 2011 , A small Earth quake happened in Egypt .
Every one felt it well but no records about damage or injured people.

Some initial calculation said its about 5.4 ~ 6 On Richter scale.

Some of Egyptian sense of humor is one has created a Facebook Page with title "an EarthQuake in Our Home" = "فى بيتنا زلزال" , about 1000 people like it in half an hour :)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%B2%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%84/200048873363426