eQibla » News http://eQibla.com Find your qibla direction Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:35:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Qibla Direction on iPod http://eQibla.com/post/qibla-direction-on-ipod/ http://eQibla.com/post/qibla-direction-on-ipod/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:35:09 +0000 admin http://eQibla.com/?p=419 The Qibla Direction application is now available on iPod Touch as well. You can get the application free of charge from the Apple Store

Thanks to brother Hussain Ali Khan for making this great tool available on iPods.

]]> http://eQibla.com/post/qibla-direction-on-ipod/feed/ 2 Improved IP Geolocation http://eQibla.com/post/improved-ipgeolocation/ http://eQibla.com/post/improved-ipgeolocation/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:08:08 +0000 admin http://eQibla.com/?p=408 We have improved our IP geolocation feature from country-level to the city-level, meaning that our visitors will get qibla direction for their city upon their first visit to the website.

Many thanks to MaxMind for providing the IP geolocation API.

]]> http://eQibla.com/post/improved-ipgeolocation/feed/ 0 iPhone Application http://eQibla.com/post/iphone-application/ http://eQibla.com/post/iphone-application/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:59:00 +0000 admin http://eQibla.com/?p=392 A new iPhone Application for Qibla Direction has been released and is now available for download. Using this application, you can utilize your iPhone’s built-in GPS to precisely determine the direction of Qibla for any location around the world.

Many thanks to brother Hussain Ali Khan for creating this useful tool, and for providing it free on charge on Apple App Store. See more details here.

]]> http://eQibla.com/post/iphone-application/feed/ 0 New Domain http://eQibla.com/post/new-domain/ http://eQibla.com/post/new-domain/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:29:01 +0000 admin http://localhost/eqibla/?p=228 The website has been moved to its new domain, eQibla.com.

Besides a new design, several new features have been added to the website, including 3D maps, sharing option, comments section, documents, etc.

You can help us promote this new website by putting a logo from this page into your blog or website.

]]> http://eQibla.com/post/new-domain/feed/ 0 IP Geolocation http://eQibla.com/post/ip-geolocation/ http://eQibla.com/post/ip-geolocation/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:09:33 +0000 admin http://localhost/eqibla/?p=206 A new IP Geolocation feature is added to our website. Using this feature, our visitors will see qibla direction for their own country upon the first visit to the website.

Thanks to ip2nation for providing the compact IP location database.

]]> http://eQibla.com/post/ip-geolocation/feed/ 0 Some New Features http://eQibla.com/post/new-features/ http://eQibla.com/post/new-features/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:55:48 +0000 admin http://localhost/eqibla/?p=197 Some new features are added to our qibla javascript code. These features include:

  • drawing the curvature of the qibla direction
  • displaying qibla direction in a more understandable format (not just degree from North)
  • storing the last location visited in cookies and restoring it upon the next visit.
]]> http://eQibla.com/post/new-features/feed/ 0 Google Mapplet http://eQibla.com/post/google-mapplet/ http://eQibla.com/post/google-mapplet/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:33:19 +0000 admin http://localhost/eqibla/?p=189 I have just launched a new Google mapplet, called Qibla Direction. Using this mapplet, one can easily have qibla direction at hand while browsing maps on Google.

You can add this small mapplet to your Google Maps from this address.

]]> http://eQibla.com/post/google-mapplet/feed/ 0 Qibla Direction First Release http://eQibla.com/post/first-release/ http://eQibla.com/post/first-release/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:24:55 +0000 admin http://localhost/eqibla/?p=152 The first version of Qibla Direction is just launched. You can access it at: http://tanzil.info/qibla.

In this website, we have fixed a critical bug that several other Google Map based qibla websites suffer from, which causes them to draw qibla direction off by at most 12 degrees in certain locations on the map.

Update: (Oct 1, 2007)
Two nice qibla locating websites, qiblalocator.com and praytime.info, have just incorporated our algorithm to fix their error in drawing qibla direction. Thanks to their site administrators for their quick action.

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