By
Khaled A., on October 11th, 2009
Qanawati (my channels) is a new service from Saudi Arabia based company Remal IT. The service allows you to check your flight reservations status via SMS.
You can check for available flight reservations on the following airlines: Saudi Airlines, Nas air and Sama. You can also check for reservations on all airlines using IATA, check the status by flight number and check the arrival/departure activity in Saudi airports.
The service is charged by each individual SMS message. Currently only works with Mobily and Zain cell networks. STC is “coming soon”.
Via Saleh at Saudi Geeks.
By
Khaled A., on August 28th, 2009
Yelp is a database of locations and reviews. It started covering San Fransisco then the rest of the country. Now it’s in Canada and UK. You can use it to find and review restaurants, shopping centers, and many more. Their database is accessible from an iPhone app as well.
It’ll take them forever to expand to every country so don’t expect “Yelp Saudi Arabia” anytime soon. I am aware of one alternative, it is called Qaym (Arabic for “to rate”). Currently it’s Arabic only and limited to restaurants. I hope it expands into more categories soon.
By
Khaled A., on July 28th, 2009
Microsoft released Maren for Windows. Maren is a keyboard add-on utility that converts Arabic text written in English to Arabic. For example I can write 5aled and get “خالد” (Khaled). Watch a short video demonstrating Microsoft Maren here.
This is not the first service. Google Labs have the “Google ta3reeb” service. Which is basically a dynamic text area that converts the text.
But before Google, Yamli was the first service as far as I know. They have an online editor was well.
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