Posted by Warith Al Maawali on Feb 22, 2015 in Blog | 3 comments

So are you tired of typing out long words, names, web addresses, email addresses, or entire sentences over and over again? Well then, you could save yourself some time and effort and set up keyboard shortcuts for any text that you type regularly. By default, the iPhone and iPad comes with “omw” as a shortcut for “On my way!” but you can...

Posted by Warith Al Maawali on Dec 20, 2014 in Blog | 6 comments

We all know that any bank that offers online banking should anticipate its customers’ security concerns. I was disappointed to know that most of Oman local banks are not aware of their grades which could be a real threat to them and their clients. I am going to list some of them with recommendations on how to mitigate the issues, in case you belong to any of...

Posted by Warith Al Maawali on Nov 2, 2014 in Blog, Linux | Comments Off on Automate backups from Linux servers to Amazon cloud

The aim of this article is to show how I successfully managed to automate the process of backing up a web hosting server host by host including Mysql data. This was achieved by compressing and protecting the archive with high level of encryption before transferring it to the Amazon . In order to fully understand the script you will need to have basic knowledge...

Posted by Warith Al Maawali on Jun 16, 2014 in Blog, Source-Codes | 6 comments

Vbulletin is a forum software based on php I have been involved with it since 2001 with oman0 forum. During this time I have had to overcome many limitations on the software with different ways of coding and tweaking. On this blog I will explain some of the tricks to improve your forum functionality I may not be able to explain all of them as the list is very...

Posted by Warith Al Maawali on May 27, 2014 in Blog, Linux | Comments Off on Setting up VNC repeater on Linux

You may be aware of how team viewer works it can almost work behind any sort of or . The secret behind it is that both client and server do not contact each other directly but via a repeater that is owned by the company and allows the client and server to initiate a reverse connection to the repeater. If you are worried not to have a third party between your...