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Microsoft dawdles over supporting Arab Mac users
Published on 31 Aug, 2010 at 22:00 in Articles | Viewed times | 9 Comments
Microsoft has announced on their website that they will not support Arabic in Office for Mac 2011 because “there will not be full right-to-left support for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. We understand that some of our customers need support for RTL languages, and we’ll continue to prioritize our language support based on market
Live coverage of Apple’s music event on September 1st
Published on 31 Aug, 2010 at 20:45 in Events | Viewed times | No Comments
Update: Apple Will Live Stream September 1st Music Event on their homepage. But it can only be viewed on Macs running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, or iPhones and iPods running iOS 3.0 or later, or an iPad. Apple’s Music Event will be held this Wednesday September 1st 10AM PDT, that’s 8 PM local
Samba launches mobile banking solutions for the iPhone
Published on 31 Aug, 2010 at 15:00 in News | Viewed times | 3 Comments
The Samba Financial Group, a bank in Saudi Arabia, has announced the launch of their mobile banking solutions for the Apple iPhone and Blackberry devices. This came a month after they released their iPhone app. Here is the press release from Samba Bank as published on many newspapers and websites. I find it odd that
Exclusive: Quadical announces Sibawayh for Arabic ebooks
Quadical held a special event a few days ago where they invited a group of authors, intellectuals and businessmen to introduce the company’s activities and sections. It was held at Teatro Lounge in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Quadical introduced “Sibawayh” electronic publishing house. Sibawayh will provide simple solutions for Arabic authors to publish their books in
An iPhone development company in Saudi Arabia
Published on 29 Aug, 2010 at 14:07 in News | Viewed times | 4 Comments
Integrated Applications is a new Saudi company that design and develop apps for a variety of mobile devices including iPhone, iPad (and other iOS devices), Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile. A first of its kind in the region. They are currently signed with a couple of acclaimed clients. I was told of one of
Two new Mobily iPhone apps: Ramadaniaty, iHasanaty
Published on 28 Aug, 2010 at 18:00 in Software | Viewed times | 2 Comments
Mobily has released 2 new, Islamic themed, iOS apps. Ramadaniaty provides a daily supplications “Azkar” and valuable information about important events that took place in the Holy Month of Ramadan. Beside Qur’anic verses and Prophetic sayings on fasting, the service sheds light on fatwas (religious rulings) related to fasting, pioneers in Islam, the fasting of
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update
Published on 28 Aug, 2010 at 14:45 in Updates | Viewed times | No Comments
Apple has released an EFI firmware update for 15 and 17 inch MacBook Pro machines released mid 2010. This update resolves a rare issue that may cause the system to freeze during startup or intermittently stall during operation, and it improves compatibility with external displays. The MacBook Pro EFI Update will update the EFI firmware
You Scratched My Mac!
Published on 28 Aug, 2010 at 13:00 in Articles | Viewed times | 2 Comments
Personally I I have issues with people holding or even touching my Apple gadgets including my iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Mac. The other day I got this email from a Mac user in Dubai, UAE who faced the wall of Apple resellers’ bureaucracy , I can relate to her frustration. What these resellers can’t fathom
Easily create Arabic eBooks for iPad, iPhone
Published on 28 Aug, 2010 at 11:45 in Articles | Viewed times | 2 Comments
With the most recent update to the iWork suite, users can easily create Arabic electronic books in ePub format and view them on the iPhone and iPad using the iBooks app. I have tested that and created an Arabic ebook sample, here is a screenshot on iPhone 4: Another screenshot on the iPad: Make sure
iWork update includes ePub export
Apple has updated their office suit, iWork, today. iWork 9.0.4 addresses issues in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, and adds export compatibility to Pages with the standard ePub file format (for use with iBooks). These ePub books can be copied to the iPhone and iPad and loaded using the iBooks ebook app. To produce an ePub
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