Author Archive for Amed Adel
I am the Arabic Writer for Shufflegazine.
Review of Arabic on the MacArabia Web Site
In my previous two articles I discussed the Arabic Localization of the Manual of Mac OS X 10.5.4, released by Arab Business Machines, Apple’s official representative in the Middle East. I believe that the manual is an important step to facilitate and expand using Arabic language.
In fact a large segment of Arabic speakers use English [...]
Notes On The Arabic Localization’s Manual Of Mac OS X 10.5.4
In the previous article I wrote on December 23, 2008, I started to point at some notes and comments about the Arabic version of the user’s manual for the Mac OS X 10.5.4 released by Arab Business Machine (ABM). As a new Mac user, I started to use the Arabic Manual to uncover the features of the [...]
Treasures of the UAE: Three locations for great photos
Architecture
Al Bastakia heritage area in Dubai presents a beautiful example of historical buildings which have their own type of architecture. During the early morning hours and the sunset, the shadows and the reflections will add more beauty and rich number of details to the location. The mud houses, the magnificent wind towers, and the woodwork [...]
Interview with Eddie Tapp, Photoshop master
Eddie Tapp is a famous professional photographer with more than 20 years experience in computer and digital photography. He was the Chairman of the Committee on Digital and Advanced Imaging for the Professional Photographers in the US and is currently working as the Director of the Institute of Visual Arts in Maui, Hawaii. He’s also [...]
Review: OutCast Outdoor iPod Speakers
If you are looking for a semi-portable speaker system to connect to your iPod or iPhone the OutCast from SoundCast is a good choice, at least if you’re willing to fork out almost AED3000.
The OutCast system consists of two main parts: the iCast transmitter and the OutCast speaker. Together they form a unit of almost [...]
My apple world
During the last three months I’ve been trying to understand as much as I can about Apple products. My experience is obviously still limited, but the good thing is that I’ve enjoyed every bit of it so far. Lately I’ve been using an iPhone and have been discovering new features. I know people complain about [...]
iPhone is More Popular Than Most Digital Cameras On Flickr
The Yahoo photo-sharing site Flickr.com is witnessing a rapid increase of the number of the photos uploaded by iPhone 3G users. CNet news site posted an article showing that it is the first time for a camera phone to compete with the ordinary cameras as the top ranks were dominated by SLR camera.
Statistic and charts [...]
iPhone 3G vs Blackberry Storm
The battle continues between Apple and Research In Motion to dominate the smart phone market. ChangeWave’s latest survey shows that Apple’s 3G iPhone is wining more points in the market share against its biggest competitor Blackberry Storm.
The survey explained the opinions of 3,803 cell phone owners and it shows an explosive growth gained by Apple [...]
Notes on the Arabic Localization’s Manual of Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard
The Localization team at Arab Business Machine has done a huge effort to translate to Arabic Mac OS X 10.5.4. Users can install this Arabic version by downloading a small file from their website. The Arabic version include various User’s Manuals.
Releasing this Arabic version is an important step in terms of paying more attention to [...]
Save Space By Restricting Time Machine Backing up Your Entire Hard Drive
Time Machine in Mac OS X 10 is a great way to back up your files but you may not need to back up the entire content of your hard drive. We will show a way to restrict backing up certain folders or even specific files.
Go to System Preferences and click on Time Machine. You [...]
Apple released Digital Camera Compatibility Update 2.4
The update extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2 and iPhoto 08 for following cameras:
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Canon PowerShot G10
- Pentax K2000/K-m
- Leaf AFi-II 6
- Leaf AFi-II 7
- Leaf Aptus-II 6
- Leaf Aptus-II 7
The update requires Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later and it supports four languages [...]
Apple Shows Mac OS X 10.5 Users How To Solve Hanging Software Update
Many users of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard seem to be facing a problems while trying to update software using Software update. Apple responded to the problem by publishing a document describing to its users how to solve it.
Apple identified the problem that the update process may stop responding while the ” Configuring installation” which [...]
Use the Dictionary in Mac OS X Apps
With your Mac you can use the dictionary in any Mac OS X applications such as Pages. For example if you are working on Pages and you wanted to know the definition of one word. Simply highlight the word and hold down Command+Control+D and you will be able to see the dictionary definition. If you [...]
Resize Images In Mail App
Sometimes you want to mail an image which is to large to send, wether the pixel dimensions or the byte size is too large. In fact you can change the size of the image directly from inside the Mail app in Mac OS X.
Drag the picture you to want send into your your Mail to open new [...]
Paste and Copy the style without the text
When you copy a text from one application to another or even from the same document, you may notice that you do not just copying the text but copying the style also along with that, then you will waste time to fix it and make match the style your are using, to avoid this problem [...]
