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Are you ready for Ramadan 2014? We are about a month away from the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan. That's where observant Muslims abstain from food, drinks and intimacy throughout daytime and take exceptional care to pray and reflect on their spirituality. While observing Ramadan, you could sometimes forget that it's time to pray or eat unless or until someone else tells you or you realize while eating that you were fasting. Throughout the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan, more and more Muslims are relying on digital apps and gadgets to assist prayers and share in the fast. The Muslim apps are just one of several tools assisting tech-savvy Muslims get through the month. Muslims around the world are using these apps to share about the dishes that they're eating prior to sunrise or after sunset. I wish to add even more about how technology's helping people observe Ramadan in the 21st-century. When you can't eat or consume anything all the time, there's not much better method to count down the minutes until you can break your fast than by surfing the web. According to The Online Task, which is the Middle East's biggest social media sites agency, their research revealed that there was a 30 to 42 percent boost in Facebook usage throughout the month of Ramadan in Muslim-majority nations, and a 14 to 33 percent increase in Twitter use during Ramadan in Muslim- majority nations, too. Muslim families also get in touch with each other by sharing recipes from internet sites, which provides food dishes and which likewise sees spikes in Internet traffic during Ramadan. As well as if you're trying to find your regional mosque, whether you're searching for prayer times, whether you're looking for exactly what time your fast opens, you understand, social networks and the Web are actually, truly great ways to connect with individuals in your local area and around the globe.

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Page 1: Fasting on Your Smartphone in Ramadan

Are you ready for Ramadan 2014? We are about a month away from the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan. That's where observant Muslims abstain from food, drinks and intimacy throughout daytime and take exceptional care to pray and reflect on their spirituality. While observing Ramadan, you could sometimes forget that it's time to pray or eat unless or until someone else tells you or you realize while eating that you were fasting.

Throughout the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan, more and more Muslims are relying on digital apps and gadgets to assist prayers and share in the fast. The Muslim apps are just one of several tools assisting tech-savvy Muslims get through the month. Muslims around the world are using these apps to share about the dishes that they're eating prior to sunrise or after sunset. I wish to add even more about how technology's helping people observe Ramadan in the 21st-century.

When you can't eat or consume anything all the time, there's not much better method to count down the minutes until you can break your fast than by surfing the web. According to The Online Task, which is the Middle East's biggest social media sites agency, their research revealed that there was a 30 to 42 percent boost in Facebook usage throughout the month of Ramadan in Muslim-majority nations, and a 14 to 33 percent increase in Twitter use during Ramadan in Muslim-majority nations, too.

Muslim families also get in touch with each other by sharing recipes from internet sites, which provides food dishes and which likewise sees spikes in Internet traffic during Ramadan. As well as if you're trying to find your regional mosque, whether you're searching for prayer times, whether you're looking for exactly what time your fast opens, you understand, social networks and the Web are actually, truly great ways to connect with individuals in your local area and around the globe.

Role of Muslim Apps in RamadanMuslims can make their smartphone a Muslim Buddy by using it correctly and downloading exclusive Muslim apps that are needed for them in Ramadan. For example, Sehar/Iftaar timings, Sehar/Iftaar Alarms, Ramadan Calendar, Zakaat Calculator, Sadqa-e-Fitr Pointer, Tasbeeh, Quran Recitation and Translation and numerous more. There might be other useful apps and features also.

Couple of Muslim apps are so comprehensive that you enjoy spending time on them. There are several features in these Muslim apps. For instance, you are bored and wish to listen something, you can listen Qur'an recitation in beautiful voices of lots of great Qaris. If you want to recite the Quran yourself, then you can do it online. You can set alarm for Namaz times so you don't miss a single prayer of the day. You can also pick Adhaan from numerous various voices. If you forget to put your mobile on quiet in Mosque, a Muslim App Deenwise, can put your smartphone on silent if you have actually activated the function. You can likewise have a Hijri or Islamic Calendar. Deenwise is a comprehensive Muslim app to transform your smartphone into a Muslim Friend and keeps you on track to Deen.