How to connect iPad to Projector

Here is a very detailed and comprehensive article that explains different ways to connect your iPad to your  projector. It explains various methods of connecting your iPad/iPhone devices to your projector along with techniques to connect to your tv using your HDMI cable / Component cable / Apple TV Airplay / VGA cable. It also explains about different connection accessories from Apple.
http://apple-ipad-iphone-ipod.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-connect-ipad-to-tv-wireless.html

How to connect iPad to tv

Here is a very detailed and comprehensive article that explains different ways to connect your iPad to your television. It explains various methods like using your HDMI cable / Component cable / Apple TV Airplay / VGA cable along with other apple accessories to view your iPad contents on your tv set.
http://apple-ipad-iphone-ipod.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-connect-ipad-to-tv-wireless.html

UAE Holidays 2012

UAE Holidays 2012

New Year's Day : 1 Jan 2012

Prophet Mohammed's Birthday* : 5 Feb 2012

Israa & Miaraj Night* : 17 Jun 2012

Eid al-Fitr* : 19 Aug 2012 - 21 Aug 2012

Eid al-Adha* : 26 Oct 2012 - 28 Oct 2012

Al-Hijra* : 15 Nov 2012

UAE National Day : 2 Dec 2012

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International New Year’s Day

New Year 2012

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Mouloud – Birth of the Prophet Mohammed

Sunday, 5 February 2012

Israa & Miaraj Night / Leilat al-Meiraj – Ascension of the Prophet

Sunday, 17 June 2012

Start of Ramadhan

Friday, 20 July 2012

Eid al-Fitr – End of Ramadan, 3-days public holiday

Eid 2012

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Monday, 20 August 2012

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Arafat (Haj) Day

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Eid al-Adha / Qurban – Feast of the Sacrifice, a 3-days public holiday

Qurban 2012

Friday, 26 October 2012

Saturday, 27 October 2012

Sunday, 28 October 2012

Al-Hijra / Hijri New Year’s Day – Islamic New Year

Thursday, 15 November 2012

UAE National Day – a 2-days public holiday

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Monday, 3 December 2012

This list of public holidays calendar is subject to change for many of the dates according to moon sighting as many of the holidays are based on lunar calandar.

Abu Dhabi Holidays 2012

Abu Dhabi Holidays 2012

New Year's Day : 1 Jan 2012

Prophet Mohammed's Birthday* : 5 Feb 2012

Israa & Miaraj Night* : 17 Jun 2012

Eid al-Fitr* : 19 Aug 2012 - 21 Aug 2012

Eid al-Adha* : 26 Oct 2012 - 28 Oct 2012

Al-Hijra* : 15 Nov 2012

UAE National Day : 2 Dec 2012

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International New Year’s Day

New Year 2012

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Mouloud – Birth of the Prophet Mohammed

Sunday, 5 February 2012

Israa & Miaraj Night / Leilat al-Meiraj – Ascension of the Prophet

Sunday, 17 June 2012

Start of Ramadhan

Friday, 20 July 2012

Eid al-Fitr – End of Ramadan, 3-days public holiday

Eid 2012

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Monday, 20 August 2012

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Arafat (Haj) Day

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Eid al-Adha / Qurban – Feast of the Sacrifice, a 3-days public holiday

Qurban 2012

Friday, 26 October 2012

Saturday, 27 October 2012

Sunday, 28 October 2012

Al-Hijra / Hijri New Year’s Day – Islamic New Year

Thursday, 15 November 2012

UAE National Day – a 2-days public holiday

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Monday, 3 December 2012

This list of public holidays calendar is subject to change for many of the dates according to moon sighting as many of the holidays are based on lunar calandar.

Dubai Holidays 2012

Dubai Holidays 2012

New Year's Day : 1 Jan 2012

Prophet Mohammed's Birthday* : 5 Feb 2012

Israa & Miaraj Night* : 17 Jun 2012

Eid al-Fitr* : 19 Aug 2012 - 21 Aug 2012

Eid al-Adha* : 26 Oct 2012 - 28 Oct 2012

Al-Hijra* : 15 Nov 2012

UAE National Day : 2 Dec 2012

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International New Year’s Day

New Year 2012

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Mouloud – Birth of the Prophet Mohammed

Sunday, 5 February 2012

Israa & Miaraj Night / Leilat al-Meiraj – Ascension of the Prophet

Sunday, 17 June 2012

Start of Ramadhan

Friday, 20 July 2012

Eid al-Fitr – End of Ramadan, 3-days public holiday

Eid 2012

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Monday, 20 August 2012

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Arafat (Haj) Day

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Eid al-Adha / Qurban – Feast of the Sacrifice, a 3-days public holiday

Qurban 2012

Friday, 26 October 2012

Saturday, 27 October 2012

Sunday, 28 October 2012

Al-Hijra / Hijri New Year’s Day – Islamic New Year

Thursday, 15 November 2012

UAE National Day – a 2-days public holiday

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Monday, 3 December 2012

This list of public holidays calendar is subject to change for many of the dates according to moon sighting as many of the holidays are based on lunar calandar.

Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) 2012 Fireworks - Timing / Location

As part of the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) 2012, fireworks show is present daily in Dubai Creek organized by Al Zarooni group.

Location : Al Seef Street, Dubai Creek, Bur Dubai.

Timing : 8:30 PM

Duration : 5 minutes

Dates : 5th January (Thursday) - 5th February (Sunday) 2012

Audience : General Public

Ticket Charges : Free

Parking : The place will be crowded by 8:30 PM. On Weekends the place is over crowded. You will not be able to find any parking beside the creek. Rather than waiting for a parking beside the creek, directly check for a parking on the road parallel to Al Seef Street which is Al Fahidi Street.

Other Attractions: There are many street vendors selling inexpensive fashion accessories. You can look out for fancy ornaments made from polished stones, metal. Make sure to use your bargaining skills to settle for a good deal. There are also many small food stalls of different variety. You can get sweet candy, popcorn, Thai fruits, Indian spicy chaats, arabic food and many more. If you plan to purchase honey this is a nice place where you can get variety of honey with its specialties explained by the seller.

There are many local woman serving their delicacies and rendering their skills in henna designing. If you have not tried these its a nice place to try it atleast once.

There is specific area for kids to entertain with inflated play areas. You an even try out a small camel ride and photographing with falcon.

There are some skillfull people displaying their skills in caricature and pottery.

All the time in the evening there are 2 stages busy with artists performing their folk art forms both singing and dancing along with other presentations.

The place is a real fun fair and you should not miss it along with the cool weather.

Apple iPad 2 price in Dubai , Abu Dhabi , UAE

Latest trends show that the price of iPad 2 has almost got standardized in UAE market. Apple iPad 2 has varied pricing the the grey market and online ecommerce stores.
From established retailers, the price has got almost stable especially from the entry of apple store in UAE.
For a more comprehensive comparison of Apple iPad 2 price in UAE and its emirates like Dubai and Abu Dhabi:
http://apple-ipad-iphone-ipod.blogspot.com/2012/01/ipad-2-price-in-dubai-abu-dhabi-sharjah.html

ipad 2 not charging when connected to laptop - windows pc / mac

Its very strange that my new iPad 2 is not charging when connected to my windows 7 laptop.
I tried switching to my different laptops, one dell xps of my wife with windows vista, one with acer windows 7 ultimate, one with HP Pavilion with windows 7 home premium and finally with my Samsung running on windows vista. None helped and the only option left out to me was plug it to the wall socket with the adapter that came along with the iPad 2 pack.

I searched online much and it seemed to be a frequent and common issue. The underlying issue is with the power requirements of iPad 2. Apple to improve the per recharge usage life of iPad 2 came up with a larger battery and naturally it needs more power. Either it can use the same power source and take longer to charge or use a powerful recharge source and charge it up faster. Apple went for the latter and thus resulting in a requirement for a powerful charger.

Normally any usb drives gives 500mA power. But seems to settle the hunger of iPad 2 it requires 2 A, which is not fulfilled by most of the usb ports. But Apple having had this design plans, already has optimized its new versions of laptops and OS to support a higher power output via usb ports. This helps for instance MAC Book Air to power up the extended optical drive. For normal PCs, there should be an external power source for these extended drives.

There is  a tweak for this. Its by installing some patches for usb drivers so that, it tries to output more power to the usb drives. These patches are more kind of mother board specific but some a more generic. Below are some links to these patches which you can install. After a reboot, your usb ports should be powerful enough to charge your iPad 2.

But because these patches can affect your hardware drivers which in turn affect the working of your softwares, its safe to take make a checkpoint to which you can roll back once you have any issue.

Below are the download links:

http://event.asus.com/mb/2010/AI_Charger/(ASUS) *Recommented
http://www.msi.com/index.php?news_no=1013&func=newsdesc (MSI)
http://www.gigabyte.com/microsite/185/on-off-charge.htm (GIGABYTE)
http://www.asrock.com/feature/AppCharger/index.asp(ASROCK)

How to charge iPad faster

Internally all apple products use lithium-polymer battery. In iPad 2's case, the battery is even larger with 25 watt hour battery, making it more power hunger from the power source, but allows you to surf, listen to music or watch movies for 10 hours.

10W AC Adaptor
The best option to charge an iPad faster is the 10W AC Power adapter which charges iPad 2 from the wall power socket. This is the fastest and most efficient charging mechanism for iPad especially iPad2, as iPad2 is more recharge power hungry because of its larger battery.

USB Port
All USB ports doesn't charge iPad 2. Most Windows based PCs and old Mac's doesn't charge iPad 2, because of its higher power source requirements. Check this post for more details and how to enable usb to charge iPad.
On your laptop, some usb ports are exclusively powered and some shared, so try and find the best usb that gives more power for your iPad.
Some laptops like Mac Book Air which can power external disc drive gives more power output making it more suitable for iPad charging.

Car Adapter charger
Its is most convenient charging option if you are going out and travelling in car. But when you grab the car charger from your electonic store make sure to check its compatibility with iPad2.

Battery Packs
Battery packs are becoming more common now a days with more smart phones and tablets. But for your iPad requirements, make sure to get a battery pack which is iPad compatible. Many of the battery packs supports multiple devices which is very good. Also many of them support multiple power sources to recharge.

Cycle the battery
This rule is not only applicable for your iPad, but also for all your mobile devices running on battery power. The procedure is to completely drain your battery to 0 till it automatically goes to shut down mode. Then at a stretch recharge it to 100%. Do this atleast once a month for better life of your battery.

iPad 2 does not charge from most windows and old Mac Laptop

iPad 2 has a very weird behavior that it doesn't get charged when connected to most of the laptops.
It requires a new Mac machine to get properly charged. Or else you need to have the wall adapter shipped with iPad2. Even an iPhone wall charger is slower in charging iPad2.

The issue here is iPad2 requires more power to charge, which new Mac laptops and Mac OS is optimized for.
You can have the trick on Windows based PCs with some USB drivers and to date something that works is an ASUS driver that works on Asus motherboard based laptops and also some other laptops, mostly dell laptops may be because dell uses Asus internally for its motherboard. But some people has reported issues with their machine after installing this driver. Its a mess uninstalling this driver which might mess us usb drives and some registry tweaks is required to fix it.

Actually PC can recharge iPad, but iPad has to be in the sleep mode, but then too the charging is slow.
The normal USB are 500mA, which the iPad2 wall charger is 2Amp.

Some good experiences are shared on this apple discussion forum.

The ASUS driver link is: http://event.asus.com/mb/2010/ai_charger/
But make sure to make a backup and restore from it in case something goes wrong.