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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 opportunity and technical complexity. At ...

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 Saudi Arabia time. Here is ...

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 they called the “iPhone 4” ...

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 this digital age. Sibawayh will ...

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 their clients, a well known ...

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 other creatures, and a lot ...

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 on your MacBook Pro. Your ...

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 is that Mac users are ...

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 to follow the instructions detailed ...

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 file follow these instruction: in ...