Even Hilter is angry at the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and their crappy DSL service! He could only get 512kbps DSL to his house. Watch the video (Arabic subtitles): Youtube video removed, it was posted here. I understand his frustration with STC! If anyone wants an English transcript I am willing to translate. Just ask.
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Hitler can’t get STC DSL (with English translation)
Photograph theft by Sabq “online newspaper” – updated
Update: Sabq has removed the photograph without adding any statements regarding the issue. They also censored all comments about the stolen photograph. From now on I will call Sabq (سبق) “Sarq” (سرق) as in “theft”. In a news post ironically about theft, Sabq has included an image taken from Yousef Raffah without his permission. Yousef
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Why don’t we give credit where credit is due?
Why do we (generally Arabs, mainly Saudis) always go out of our way to not give credit? Look at this funny cartoon: As you can see between the two cars, this image is made and copyrighted by “Daniel Bozet”. However in this example the author took the time to crop out the credits from the
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Japanese speaking Arabic, a short movie
This is a video done by Japanese students in Syria. It’s called “Alhamdulillah” (in Arabic ????? ???). It’s very funny and interesting to hear Arabic spoken by non-native speakers. I hope you will find it funny and amusing as well. Titled “Arabic by Japanese ????? ??? ????? (Short Story)”.
Twitter in a Saudi newspaper
Twitter was mentioned in Wednesday’s issue of Alwatan newspaper in Saudi Arabia. The title was “Twitter and how it changes our life”. It’s an interesting read for anyone who is not familiar with Twitter, please ignore some of the idiotic comments though.
Finally, Arabic on the iPhone!
Finally Apple added Arabic language support the their latest iPhone OS 3.0. This update is currently available as a beta for iPhone developers. The iPhone is now available in 4 Arabic speaking countries: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan and Egypt. And it will be available in Qatar soon. (via SaudiMac).
What you need to know about the iPhone 3G in Saudi Arabia
The iPhone 3G is finally in Saudi Arabia and is provided by Mobily. Here’s what you need to know: The Bundles Mobily first announced these 4 bundles and two of those “prepaid” plans did not make any sense! A few days later they provided 6 more “postpaid” bundles. However they omitted one small requirement for
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Arabic iPhone localization released
Five months ago I blogged about Arabic localization attempts for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Unfortunately just like “iPhone4arab“, iFone4arab also stopped updating his site, and that was before Macworld and the iPhone SDK event. For me, screenshots and videos are not enough, and so I still consider this Vaporware. Vaporware is according to Wikipedia:
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Arabic iPhone almost here
I managed to get this posted on iPhone Central. Hopefully it gets more coverage and noticed by Apple: Reader Khaled brought to our attention two separate groups, both working at bringing elements of Arabic language functionality to the iPhone. The first, at iPhone Islam, is aiming to bring Arabic character support to the iPhone via
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Apple plans Arabic iPod, OS X
Its about time they pay some attention to this market. Now if they only sell Apple products at reasonable prices! (1600SR=426$ for a 299$ iPod 5G 30GB is too much!). Apple plans Arabic iPod, OS X: “Arabic iPod users are looking forward to the day when Apple finally manages to release an Arabic iPod.“ (Via
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