Thursday, October 20, 2011

Mobile Number converter for Egyptian cellular phones new format

Over the last month , mobile companies in Egypt announced a change in all mobile numbers , the new formats added an extra digit to the number . So that the carriers are back to their original prefixes mobinil : 012 , Etisalat: 011, vodafone: 010  .... too many changes were to be handled by the customers .Since i was the destination of my whole family , because i am their tech guy , apparently :D.  Some mobiles were old and the carrier programs like felsaree3 or engezly were not compatible with them , other some had to be configured for internet to download those softwares . Anyway , it was easier for me to program my own simple program that could handle numbers copied from an excel sheet . CSV or comma separated values , is an excel file that is exported from most mobile suites , this is the type of excel from which you can copy your numbers. So the steps will be as following :
1- Export the contacts you have on the phone to .CSV (comma separated values : a file that can be opened with excel) .
This feature is available to all samsung mobiles and all nokia mobiles (sync with outlook , and on outlook , you can export to CSV) , and is generally available to all mobiles that can sync contacts with outlook , ex : motorola , lg . etc...
2- download the Program here , or get it from my public directory here
3- Copy the numbers column from excel and paste it in the program ,look the images
















4- hit Convert















5- Copy it back to excel
6- import the contacts back on the mobile

Notes : 
- the program will still work even if the prefixing 0's were removed . E.x : 12xxxxxxx , 16xxxxxxx
- The Program will handle prefixing +2 numbers
- Despite the fact that the program was tested several times, user is encouraged to keep a backup of all data (keep a version of the exported CSV)

forward to all your IT friends and tech savvy guys :)
Thanks

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Force GMAIL in HTML mode

if you are experiencing loading issues and you need the gmail to load in the basic HTML mode , all you need to do is to enter the following URL in your favorite browser https://mail.google.com/mail/h/

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Convert CBR to CBZ


Hey , nice to be blogging a again , now the main issue is that i just bought a new 5800 Xpress music and find out that the best reader for the 5th edition of Symbian OS is TouchComic (v1.8 at the time of writing ) by JamieFuller.com . Unfortunately , TouchComic only reads CBZ , so you need to convert your CBR files , one easy way to that is by using ComicRack , which is a free software that i consider the best for reading eComics on pc and can be downloaded from here .

1) install the software
2) find the folder where your CBRs lie



3) select the comics to convert
4) right click , Export ecomics -> CBZ



that's it , enjoy your time reading comics.

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