Check your flight reservations via SMS using Qanawati

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 [...]

Find the latest Saudi Geeks news

Covering technology event and everything of interest to the Geeks of Saudi Arabia, SaudiGeeks website was launched with that goal in mind.

Best of luck to Jalammar and everyone else at SaudiGeeks.com, make sure to follow them on Twitter as well.

Yelp for Saudi Arabia alternative

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 [...]

YoutubeIslam is now tubeislam, Google doesn't want to

Update: YoutubeIslam.com is now down. There was not anti-Islamic conspiracy. Youtube didn’t use the site to push inappropriate content. So these statements “والذي تحاول جوجل أن تستولي عليه لعرض مقاطعها الرديئة” and “وحسب ما ذكر بأنه سيتم تحويل الدومين إلى أحد صفحات يوتيوب التي لا ترضي المسلمي” were just wrong.

YoutubeIslam.com has been renamed to TubeIslam. [...]

STC mirror server for open source files

STC have opened a mirror server for hosting open source files. The server currently have mirrors for CentOS, OpenSuse, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, CPAN, MySQL and OpenOffice. This is not the first mirror of it’s kind in Saudi Arabia, The Internet Service Unit have one as well (mirrors.isu.net.sa).

Mirrors are regular file servers (HTTP or FTP) that provide [...]

Untiny founder aquires twtbase

Twtbase, a website dedicated for listing and rating Twitter applications was acquired by Saleh Alzaid, a Saudi web developer. Saleh is the creator of untiny (short url parser, initially created to bypass Saudi Arabia’s ongoing block of tinyurl).

Thanks ArabCrunch for the heads up.

gdgt, a social site for gadget users

Ryan Block and Peter Rojas (formally from Engadget and Gizmodo) has opened their new site, gdgt, today.

It is a social website aimed for owners of gadgets. Just register and add the gadgets in 3 lists: Gadgets you are currently using, gadgets you used to have and gadgets that you want to have. The content is [...]