Need help with the holy month? There's an app for that ... a few, actually.

For the hundreds of millions of Muslims observing Ramadan, a month of fasting that is one of the five pillars of the faith, a round of high-tech solutions has emerged for remembering prayer times, browsing an electronic Quran and even pointing oneself toward Mecca with the help of a GPS.

Islamic applications for the iPhone and iPad are abundant.