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STC Finally Enables Personal Hotspot on the iPad

STC Finally Enables Personal Hotspot on the iPad

STC has released a carrier update that finally enables the personal hotspot function on the iPad (third and fourth gen) and iPad mini. iPads with an STC data SIM had the personal h ...

Apple Officially Registered Its Trademark in Saudi Arabia

Apple Officially Registered Its Trademark in Saudi Arabia

Umm Al-Qura newspaper, a newspaper mainly used to publish trademark registration announcements, posted an announcement by the ministry of commerce and industry regarding the regist ...

How to Enable iPhone and iPad 4G LTE with Zain, Mobily and STC

How to Enable iPhone and iPad 4G LTE with Zain, Mobily and STC

Apple recently released iOS 6.1 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. One of the features of this update is enabling 4G LTE in many countries including Saudi Arabia. Here is how to ...

iOS 6.1 Released, Enables 4G LTE with Zain and Mobily

iOS 6.1 Released, Enables 4G LTE with Zain and Mobily

Apple has released iOS 6.1 yeterday for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The iPad mainly enables LTE on many networks including Zain and Mobily in Saudi Arabia. From Apple: This up ...

Saudi iTunes Store Now Selling Movies and Music

Saudi iTunes Store Now Selling Movies and Music

Apple has started offering movies and music for sale in the Saudi Arabia iTunes Store. Starting with music (and gift cards) last week and movies today. You can buy movies from Disn ...

Mobily Begins Selling iPhone 5 Online, Announces Prices

Mobily Begins Selling iPhone 5 Online, Announces Prices

Mobily has started taking orders for the iPhone 5 using Souq.com e-commerce site. They also announced the contract-free iPhone 5 prices. The phone will be available in Saudi Arabia ...

Zain Saudi Begins Taking iPhone 5 Pre-Orders

Zain Saudi Begins Taking iPhone 5 Pre-Orders

Zain Saudi Arabia has started taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5 scheduled for release next Thursday December 13th. Zain's 4G LTE network is the only network that currently support ...

“White Ninja” Crashes Into an Apple Store with a Car

A man smashed his car into  Greensboro, North Carolina's Apple store in the morning last week. The driver didn't steal anything and ran away. Well, this story doesn't end here as FOX8 reports: Police described the suspect as a white male wearing a white shirt and hooded mask. According to 107.5 KZL, a security guard said the suspect was wearing a white ninja suit. Police said the car involved in the acciden ...

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Stephen Colbert Wants an iPad 3 [video]

Comedian Stephen Colbert didn't get to enjoy his brand new iPad 2, now he wants an iPad 3. Enjoy the video (Flash required, sorry): Direct link: Stephen Shows Off the iPad 2. Here's last year's Stephen Colbert iPad 1 video. And finally: Stephen wants an iPad 2: Direct link: Stephen Wants an iPad 2. You can find the author of this post on twitter: @khaled. Arabic version of this post on SaudiMac Arabic Editi ...

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Funny BBC Skit About Apple and Blackberry [video]

This BBC comedy skit plays on the words Apple, Blackberry and others. It is performed by comedians Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett. On this funny note we celebrate SaudiMac English Edition's 1000th post. Last week we had the Arabic Edition's 1000th post as well. I'd like to take this quick moment to thank you all for your support. Here's the video, enjoy: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI [Via TU ...

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MacBook Air and Explosives, not a good combination [video]

What do you do with an old MacBook Air now that Apple released a new one? Blowing it up using explosives is probably not the first thing you would think of. These guys from Crazy Cow Productions did just that in a crazy experiment using Chinese M-1000 explosives. Enjoy the video: httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDb7qwrpFqs Via: Things to do with an old MacBook Air: Blow it up. Arabic version of this post o ...

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Father and son send an iPhone to space [video]

In the following video, a father and his son managed to send an iPhone into space where this image was taken: They took a weather balloon up to 100,000 feet (30km) where the balloon bursts due to low pressure and land using a parachute. The location of the camera would be found using the iPhone GPS and data connectivity to send the coordinates. Temperatures are as low as 50 degrees Celsius below zero and th ...

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iPhone Proximity Sensor Problems on Live TV [video]

In the following video from Al-Arabiya channel during a football segment the guest had proximity sensor problems with his brand new iPhone 4. Proximity Sensor is an iPhone feature that turns off the screen when it detects the person's face during a call to save battery and prevent accidental presses. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDee94DgiTA Image source: phonedog. Arabic version of this post on SaudiMac ...

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Free Arabic Information Security eBooks

The Saudi Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (COEIA - King Saud University) has released a couple of Arabic electronic books for the iPhone and iPad. The books are (loosely translated): Information Security simply explained and Phishing methods and prevention. The books can be downloaded either as an Adobe PDF or ePub file and then added to the iBooks app on the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. You wi ...

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MacBook Pro Cutting Board

Here's a cutting board designed to look like an Apple MacBook Pro. It's made of apple tree wood and cost 43 EUR). You can order it from this website: Das ApfelBrett. Via Holycool and Design Milk. Arabic version of this post on SaudiMac Arabic Edition. Please follow SaudiMac on Twitter and add SaudiMac on Facebook. ...

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Apple TV Unboxing Video

Here's an Apple TV unboxing video made by Adam Christianson of the MacCast podcast. The video is high definition (720p HD): httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f9q410ogUo Via: The Mac Observer. Arabic version of this post on SaudiMac Arabic Edition. Please follow SaudiMac on Twitter and add SaudiMac on Facebook. ...

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