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A Kuwaiti student studying abroad in USA that wants to share his experience with people and shows them how hard are the Kuwaiti students working to get their parents proud.

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Arabtaller Pro

The new fixed iPhone Arabizer application is here!
Click on the picture for the link.

Fully functional Arabic iPhone!

Link
Special thanks to my brothers Tareq (iPhoneislam) and Waleed for all the hard work on the project. They stayed up for many nights trying to solve the Arabic problem. Please help them by donating.

iPhone v1.1.3

We’ll be seeing a new iPhone software update pretty soon (V1.1.3) as we’ve seen some leaked pictures and a video by gearlive that shows the new features it’ll have. Here they’re:

Copy-Paste
Google Maps (Hybrid view and localization)
Mass SMS sending (Sending SMS to multiple people at once)
Ability to edit home screen (You can move the icons around)
Ability [...]

iPhoneIslam, a new Arabic blog for the iPhone

I have received an email today from Tarek whom is the owner of iPhoneIslam telling me about his iPhone blog.
I checked it out and found it a bit interesting as he have solved the Arabic SMS font problem.
He also got an application that is called iAzkar which contains some “Doaa’s”.
The most interesting part is that [...]

The iPhone can record videos!

Some iPhone owners think that the iPhone sucks because it doesn’t capture videos. It appears that it does. Drunknbass, an iPhone hacker has developed an application that can capture 5 seconds of video at 45 FPS. I’m pretty sure that apple will release a new firmware that will support video capture sometime soon, maybe after [...]

An Arabic iPhone!

Seems like Thamer from ifone4arab.com has been working hard to get to this point where we can write Arabic and read it perfectly on the iPhone. He’s using Firmware v1.1.2. His software is still in the beta phase. The best part is that he even made the iPod nano read Arabic!
Video after the jump. Good [...]

Google redesigned their iPhone page

They’ve just released a new version of their main page that is iPhone friendly. There’s now a tab bar at the top of the page that lets you switch quickly between Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Docs and the rest of the mobile-capable apps.

[Via Gizmodo]

3G iPhone is coming next year

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson announced that we will be seeing the 3G iPhone by next year. As you might have heard before, iPhone would have been 3G enabled when it first released if the 3G chipsets didn’t consume that much battery. Steve Jobs declared that the main reason they didn’t install a 3G chipset is [...]

Semi-GPS feature for G-Maps

One of the features that I didn’t like when I bought the iPhone is that it doesnt have GPS. And Google earth didn’t offer any service that could tell me where am I located in the current moment. But then, Navizon was released. It’s a program that tells you your location using some of the [...]

iPhone users get a special page

 
I’ve installed a cool plugin that is called iWphone. Basically, it creates a special theme that is optimized for the iPhone and the iPod touch screen.
If you visit my blog using your iPhone or your iPod touch you’ll notice that you are getting a special theme. The reason I installed it is that I am [...]