Links for the Arabic Macintosh
Below are some links relevant for the Arabic Mac, and a bit more.User Groups
- Middle East Mac User Group (MEMUG)
- Mac4Arabs
- EmiratesMac Mac user group for UAE
- SaudiMac. Blog for Saudi Arabia Mac User Group.
- Jordan Mac User Group.
- EgyptianApple. Egypt Mac User Group.
- Shufflegazine "Apple Lifestyle Magazine".
- Iranian Macintosh User Group
Generally on Arabic computing
- Arabic Character entry for the Macintosh (Miami University)
- Arabic or Persian Text (Apple Macintosh).
- Urdu on the Mac (K. Abdali, 2006. OS X, contains Urdu keyboard)
- Macintosh Arabic (in Japanese. Classic-oriented)
- Using Mac OS X International support (Middlebury College)
- Unleash your multilingual Mac (Tom Gewecke)
- Computing with foreign scripts: Arabic (Penn State. Background info, Win and Mac.)
- History of Arabic on computers (Baheyeldin. Development of computerization)
- Semitic scripts in English documents (OS X / Win)
- Letter to Steve Jobs (Ahmad Humeid)
Mac software
- NisusWriter
- Mellel
- NeoOffice
- OpenOffice.org
- WinSoft (Adobe Arabic programs)
- FontWorld (Adobe Arabic programs)
- WordLookup
- al-Qamoos
- Arabic spelling checker for CocoAspell
Hardware: Keyboards and keyboard stickers
Other programs or links of relevance- ArabTeX (Arabic for the TeX typesetting system, Unix)
- The XeTeX typesetting system (TeX for OS X, with Arabic suppert. SIL)
- Arabic Software (ArabicXT, Kalimat vendor)
- Arabic Genie (Quark XPress, Illustrator etc. utility.)
- Safahat (Quark XPress xtension)
- Interactive Tran (Translation software, OS X / OS 9)
- Rosetta Stone (Arabic teaching system. OS 10.4+)
- Transparent Language (ByKi Arabic. OS 10.4+/ipod)
- L-Ceps Personaltrainer (Arabic language learner. OS 10.4+)
- World of reading (Arabic reading software. OS 10+)
- World Language: Arabic (Reseller of various language tutors, etc. Win, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9.)
- EMSA Companion (Arabic teaching. Apparently OS 9 HyperCard)
- Free Light Arabic (Teaching aid. OS 9)
- Al-Mawrid dictionary (CD, for OS 9. Marked as "sold out", medio 2009)
Other platforms
- iPhone4Arabs.
- Aramedia (Various software: Mostly Windows, some Mac)
- Microsoft Middle East
- Mac-like Arabic keyboard for Win XP (Microsoft)
- Arabica (keyboard for Windows)
- Arabicizing Windows applications (al-Husein Madhany)
- - Arabicizing Windows applications (pdf version, 2006)
- Multilingual Computing in Middle East studies (Joseph Meri, 2000. Win)
- Tripod (How to write Arabic in Windows)
- Arabische Schrift und Sprache (Software)
- Sharif Linux
- Linux Middle East
- Persian Mosaic (web browser: Unix/X11)
- Arabeyes (Arabic in Unix/Linux environment)
- Axmedit (Arabic word processor: Unix/X11)
Arabic on the Net
- How can I read Arabic on the Net?
- Arabisch im World Wide Web (Halle)
- Arabic and the WWW (Halle)
- Configuring Web browsers for Unicode (Univ. of Chicago)
- Setting up OS X Web browsers for Unicode (Alan Wood)
(These pages are mostly obsolete, since the problems they solve have generally gone away...)
- Tarek's online calendar convertor (Hijri, others)
- Halle, online calendar convertor (Hijri / Gregorian)
- Arabic morphology analyser (from Xerox)
- Online dictionaries: Arabic-English
- Online translation & synonyms Arabic <-> English (Lingo24)
- Babel: Online course in Arabic
- Virtually Islamic (includes links to Islamic software)
- Sibawayhi's Kitab (ch. 1 and 4, samples).
- Arabic Bible (text files)
- Al-Waraq (Classical texts in Arabic)
Collections of links
- i18nGurus.com (Various Arabic translation)
- Islamic software
- Multilingual Macintosh Resources: Arabic (Links, mostly Classic / OS 7-9)
- Arabic software digest (Mostly obsolete, Win 3.1/95 or Mac OS 9)
- Arabic script software map (Isam Ishaq. Last updated 1996)
- Arabic on the Internet (Links and resources)
- Links to online Arabic books, etc. (University of Georgia)
- Links to Arabic news media in Arabic
- Arabic Search engines
Fonts
>> See discussion and more links on the Arabic fonts page.
-- Fonts for Arabic Mac (system 10.2 and higher):
- X Series Persian / Arabic fonts
- SIL (Lateef, Scheherazade)
- Arabeyes
- FarsiWeb (direct download)
- Parsa fonts (Persian fonts. Win / OpenType)
- CoolText
- PakType
- Uighur Computer Society (Uighur only)
- Sindhi Computing (Sindhi only)
- Fonts.com
- FontShopAscender Fonts
- Linotype Arabic fonts
- Fontworld
- Monotype
- Boutros fonts
- Letraset
- URW
- List of bundled Arabic fonts (Apple)
- Luc Devroye's font list (Huge list of links, much of it obsolete, though)
- Arabic fonts overview (SIL: List of some Arabic fonts, Win / Mac OS 9)
- Non-Latin fonts : Arabic (Adobe. Technical info page)
- Alan Wood's Unicode page (Huge and very informative site. Separate fonts for OS X page.)
- Enabling Unicode and entering special characters and diacritics (Univ. of Chicago)
- On Unicode (with links to fonts and websites)
- Multilingual web pages and Unicode
- Unicode and Mac OS (Nobumi Iyanaga. pre-OS X)
- Unicode Character Map (Ernogis)
- Unicode test page (shows if your browser supports various scripts)
- Codes for setting charsets in html
- Hints: font versions affect Unicode output
- Links to Unicode fonts (Univ. of Michigan)
- Links to Unicode fonts (NeoOffice)
- Semitic Transliterator (Unicode font, OS X. Linguist's Software)
- Ecological Linguistics (currently passive)
- Arial Unicode (Monotype. Commercial. Note that this font is part of the OS 10.5 install.)
- Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts (List of different systems used for tranliteration)
Pre-Unicode
- Transkriptions-Schriftarten (Includes links to some non-Unicode Windows fonts.)