The Sabily team has just developed a useful jabber bot: the "Muezzin bot". It can send you Instant Messages when it is time
to pray. It can also display the prayer times of the day.

It's very simple to use,  just add " This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it " to your contact list. You should use a jabber compatible client
software, like google GTalk or Pidgin (which is installed by default on Sabily).

You can thereafter configure your location, prayer times calculation method etc. by sending "configure" to the bot.
You could check the daily prayer times by sending "times". Send "help" to display the full list of available commands.

You are a developer: you can help us developing new Islamic software to include in Sabily. For example: Hisn Al-Muslim (a software that displays Dua's (supplications)) or Muallim (a Quranic Arabic teaching tool), and we have ideas to develop Islamic educational software for kids.

You are a graphic designer: you can help us by designing new themes for Sabily (desktop theme, Firefox theme, wallpapers etc.), create new banners to spread Sabily or design pictures for our software.

You have ideas to improve Sabily: they are welcome!

You can share your Internet bandwidth: download the Sabily files using torrent and seed them so downloads will be faster.

You can make a donation or become a sponsor: your money will help us sending free DVDs to people who can't download them or afford them.

Help us improving Sabily and spreading it all over the world!

Read the full article: Sabily, Muslim-centric Operating System

By the way, the codename for the next Sabily release (9.10, planned for october 2009) will be "gaza". Our brothers and sisters living in the Gaza strip are always in our supplications.

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