A Prayer Time I-Cal maker

I was trying to sort out my schedule one morning, and I thought "wouldn't it be splendid if there was a way to put the prayer times on my iCal calendar?" A quick google search later and I found this:


http://praytimes-ics.appspot.com/

It's an extremely simple webapp that you enter your location into, choose your calculation method, and click which feed type you want! The calendar will download to your Mac, then all you have to do is click on it and it'll put itself into iCal! :D

Arabic Typing Tutor for Mac

If you google "Arabic Typing Trainer/tutor/program" you'll get tons of results for PC's, but what about us mac users? Where's our arabic typing program? Unfortunately, I don't know. What I do know, is that there is a very VERY simple typing tutor that accepts text files as inputs and will allow you to use any keyboard layout.


ATypeTrainer4Mac (http://homepage.mac.com/typetrainer4mac/Menu1.html) comes pre-installed with a variety of text files of different languages, and includes one with arabic. This initial file is quite handy for learning where the keys are and will cover everything from home row up to phonetics and numbers. Once you've got the hang of finding all they keys, you can download an arabic dictionary file and import it (you'll have to look around for one; what you want is a text file listing words in arabic). I actually find this website: http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/generator3 which will generate random arabic words that you can copy and paste or download as a text file.
You can also get it to bring words from an open window in Safari, Firefox, Mail, or Opera!