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Pieter from Leiden, The Netherlands has left his iPhone 3G in his car and found smoke in his car. The smoke caused by a burning passenger seat started by the iPhone 3G (with a Belkin case). Pieter has contact Apple and T-Mobile in the Netherlands and both refused to take responsibility. iPhone owners in Saudi Arabia should be extra careful ...

“Issues with the Saudi iPhone” series returns. Last time we talked about the lack of Arabic in the Apple iPhone and now we finally have Arabic support on iPhone 3.0 software. Let’s talk about another major issue with the iPhone 3G in Saudi Arabia: Mobily. Some can say that UAE’s Etisalat have similar issues. The locked iPhone 3G Mobily employees ...

Apple has updated Final Cut Studio to version 3. The full version will cost $999 ($300 less than the previous version) and the upgrade version will be for $299. Final Cut Studio is Apple’s professional audio and video production suite. Final Cut Studio has over 100 new features. The suite includes: Final Cut Pro 7. Motion 4. Soundtrack Pro 3. ...

After a great second quarter, Apple reported $1.23 billion profit and revenue of $8.34 billion. Breaking the previous record of best non-holiday quarter in history. As for unit sales, Apple has sold 2.6 million Macs, 5.2 million iPhones and 10.2 million iPods. Steve Jobs was quoted to say “We’re making our most innovative products ever and our customers are responding, ...

Microsoft has released service pack 2 for it’s Mac Office suite unfortunately Arabic support is no where to be found. The update includes many fixes and you should run the Microsoft Office update to install it. Read more about the update here. Despite Microsoft’s “advancements” in supporting Arabic on Windows/Office for Windows as they claim on their site. Office 2008 ...

The first annual App Awards has ended and the results are in! Faces, a visual dialer, by Bandar has won in the Best User Interface category. Congratulations Bandar! Other winners: Rolando 2: app of the year (paid), Facebook: app of the year (free), Facebook: most useful, Shazam: most awe inspiring and many more on the App Award website. Face is ...

Skype 2.8 was released today. The new version includes many features such as screen sharing even with PCs running Windows. Download the update here. Via TUAW.

One of the limitation of the iPhone software is the lack of real call forwarding controls. The iPhone only has one call forwarding option: “forward all calls” and you cannot set call forwarding if busy or if not answered. Call forwarding commands are standard so you can perform these codes easily. Just dial the following numbers to enable call forwarding: ...

iMovie was updated to 8.0.4. The update includes: – Fixed rotation issues with the iPhone 3GS. – Resolved stability of adding multiple beat markers. Read more about beat markers from Adobe. – Fixed unresponsive issues with fine tune controls. Update is available from the Apple Software Update or Apple’s site.

Apple released iPhone SDK 3.1 beta 2 to their iPhone developers. It also includes iPhone software 3.1 beta 2. Many sites reported that this beta also disables “unauthorized tethering”, which is this process. No iPhone 3G owner in Saudi Arabia managed to enable tethering by calling Mobily’s support. Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 (9L25) was also released to developers. It ...