I Heart Yamli

November 30, 2007 at 1:48 am · Filed under Arabisms, Geek Culture & Tech

I really suffer with the Arabic keyboard. I mean. What the heck is the “thein” “ذ” doing all the way in the frigging corner? I can never ever remember that it is there when I need it. Adding my voice to that of my fellow girlies, Yamli is like the awesomest, most useful thing EVER. It’s even more useful than blush when you’re sick, and you have no idea how useful that is. Alright, so the name isn’t that cool, but hey, I can now I can actually type Arabic as fast as I type English! :)
العربيزي رهييب
Yaaaaay!




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  • http://blog.sweetestmemories.com Qwaider قويدر

    It’s FANTASTIC! I love it too!
    Good recommendation!

  • bilal – black jack

    It’s amazing! thank you for bringing that up.

    it even recognizes the popular numbers used in the arabic online typing. how nice!!!!!

  • http://lulu-memoirs.blogspot.com/ Lulu

    lol. That is awesome.

  • Kuwaiti dude in Jordan

    maan u really need something like this..u dont even know the letters!!!..it’s “thal” and not “thain”!!

  • http://moeys.net Moey

    on macs ذ is with the C :)

  • Ziad d

    Thanks for the link!! I also struggle with arabic keyboards… this is great!

  • http://www.yamli.com Habib Haddad

    I love your post Roba :)

    It’s great to hear that you also share my frustration when typing Arabic and that this frustration is gone when using Yamli :) …

    By the way the name Yamli comes from “إملاء”. So as the teacher used to do in “إملاء” the user can “يملي” his words, and the tool comes up with the right words and right orthography. Hope this makes the name a bit cooler :P …

  • http://soulblossom.wordpress.com/ Hala

    It is ‘Thal’ :)

  • http://linasturmoil.blogspot.com Lina

    Wow roobs this is awesome. I translated an article in shorthand and I’ve been struggling with typing it… this is a perfect solution.

    But I must say, fada7teena with “thein” =P

  • http://za3moot.wordpress.com/ yaseen

    Very nice website : D

  • http://www.arabesquerhabsody.com/blog Ohoud

    شو كوول!

    shu 2eset al “thein”?:D

  • http://arrabi.blogspot.com muhammad arrabi

    I agree that the today’s arabic keyboard is very bad. However, did you ever use one of the original Arabic Mac keyboards? the letters distribution was different, and it made much more sense. For some reason IBM adapted this weird arabic keyboard and made it standard. With time, even apple changed to using the IBM one.

    nice site, this Yamli, creative. thanks for sharing

  • http://iheartamman.blogspot.com Firas

    Tage3!

    Or as Yamli says: طجع

  • http://blog.haniobaid.com Hani Obaid

    Brilliant invention for us Arabish folks. Arabic-only blogs here I come !

  • http://www.za3tar.net za3tar

    It is amazing how some websites (or technologies) seem to get good public press and some don’t.

    I say that because “onkosh.com” was a full-blown search engine (not a Google front) with that 3arabizy translation embedded that came out before Yamli, but yet nobody seems to talk about it much. http://www.onkosh.com/ar/b3/b3help_new.htm

    Eh, it would be nice for those launching web apps to study how can they generate a good buzz online. Obviously Yamli did something that Onkosh didn’t. … oh well.

    btw, ذ == ذال :-)

  • http://thesugarcubes.net Shaden

    lol I like it! this is cool

  • Heather

    I just started to write papers in Arabic and it takes me a ridiculous amount of time to find the right letters (and remember to use shift to get a period, otherwise all my sentences end in zein). This has made my nerd heart sooo happy! Shukran!

  • أبو الحروف

  • http://www.american-in-jordan.com Dave

    Very nice. Not that I type in Arabic much, but it will come in handy when I do.

  • http://blog-of-d.blogspot.com Dana-T.O

    bs balash…this is so awsome…
    i have no ideawhere the arabic letters fall on the key board…i never really had a a key board with arabic on it…….can this transform full texts/paragraphs into arabic?

  • http://blog-of-d.blogspot.com Dana-T.O

    and the name is really cool….yamil means dictate
    basically you are dictating this software arabic..and it is writing down for you (emlaaa2)

  • http://www.oceancreep.com/blog Ibrahim

    LOL :) … cool movie …

  • http://www.taq-o-bell.blogspot.com Taqo

    THAT IS AWESOME!
    I’m so glad I came across THIS!!!! :-D

  • http://lb jihad

    hi mabrok w2alf mabrik wbltawfi2 ya rab

  • http://search.eiktub.com Maher

    For an alternative, check search.eiktub.com where you can google for Arabic phrases with an English keyboard.

    You can also download an Arabic notepad (text editor) to type Arabic using any keyboard here at http://www.eiktub.com

  • http://www.thisisjoe.net Josef J

    The “ذ” is called THAL not thein!! LOOOOL