Ramadan is going on and the first 10 days have come to an end. This month is when you do good deeds and get triple of its blessing by Allah. iQuran is now available for the iPad with this new edition. iQuran HD features translations (tafsir) in 32 languages and AirPlay support. Some of the features of iQuran HD are: ...
Read More »Winners of Mobily’s App Developers Award Announced
Mobily has announced the winners of their Smartphone App Developers Award. Each winner in the 3 categories (Best App, Best App Idea and Best App Design) will get $30,000. The winning apps are all iOS/iPhone apps and they are: • Best App: TVQuran by Deifallah Bokte Alsadie • Best App Idea: Islamic Calendar Pro by Tarek Mansour • Best App ...
Read More »Tadawul Saudi Stock Exchange iPhone App
The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) has released their iPhone app in the App Store. Screenshots of Tadawul app: The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) would like to announce the release of the official application for the (iPhone/ iPad) devices. The application displays the Information of the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) including the Equity, Sukuk & Bonds, and ETFs markets. The application ...
Read More »iQuran 3 Holy Qur’an iPhone App Released + Free Version
Holy Qur’an iPhone App iQuran Pro was updated to version 3 today. The new version with a new name: iQuran III added a ton of features to an already feature-rich app. Major changes: Full Arabic localization, multitasking support, Retina display support and many fixes. iQuran 3 features include: • Revamped retina user interface • Multi-tasking enabled. iQuran now efficiently saves ...
Read More »Arabic Still Missing in Office 2011 for Mac SP1 Update
Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Office 2011 for Mac. And no, Arabic support was not added. The update includes security and stability fixes in addition to adding some features (read more at TMO). To download the update visit Office for Mac’s download page. You can find the author of this post on twitter: @khaled. Arabic version of this ...
Read More »Flash 10.2 Finally Renders Arabic Correctly on Macs
Adobe has released the final version of Flash 10.2. One of the features of Flash 10.2 beta that we talked about is that Adobe has finally fixed Arabic language support on many flash websites. Here’s a screenshot of Youtube with Flash 10.2: Flash 10.2 include other features such as Stage Video which uses the GPU to render videos and many ...
Read More »Google Translate App for iPhone Released, Speaks Arabic
Google has released a Google Translate app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The app supports voice input in 15 languages and translates between over 50 languages. Google Translate’s features are: Translate text between 57 languages Translate by voice by speaking the text instead of typing it (15 languages) Listen to your translations spoken aloud (23 languages including Arabic) Display ...
Read More »King Saud University Releases E-Services iPhone and iPad App
King Saud University’s Deanship of e-Transaction and Communication has released an iPhone app for the faculty and employees of the University. The app provides access to KSU’s E-Services. The App, KSU Mobile E-Services, is one of the first of it’s kind and we hope to see similar apps for the students. The app’s features and services provided are: Features : ...
Read More »Flash 10.2 Improves Arabic Support on Mac
It appears that Adobe has finally fixed Arabic support on Mac in the beta version of Flash 10.2. Previously the developer of the individual swf file needs to add Arabic support manually, sites such as YouTube simply did not add that. Adobe might be late to add Arabic support but it’s better than none. Hopefully Adobe AIR will do the ...
Read More »Arabic Keyboard in iPad with iOS 4.2 is Flawed
We talked about the Arabic keyboard in the iPad with iOS 4.2 beta 1 and how it was extremely strange, the letters were in weird positions compared to regular Arabic keyboards and the diacritics button is too large and is taking the space used by the space button. Let’s compare the different Arabic keyboards available in Apple products: iPad Arabic ...
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