OK, so you have decided create your very own website, with your own domain name and everything. The very first thing you will need is a domain name, and then a web host. You can register a domain name for an initial cost of about ten bucks, give or take a couple. Then you only [...]
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Last month Google had announced on its Custom Search Blog that transliteration had been enabled in Custom Search for a set of languages, “making it easier to find news in Arabic, Indian news in Hindi, your favorite Bollywood song lyrics, or local content in a bunch of other Indic languages – Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and [...]
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Gmail enabling typing in Hindi and other Indian languages is a really welcome feature. Thanks, Google. It was announced today on Gmailblog as well as Googleblog. This will help so many new people to write emails in Indian languages. But, isn’t Google getting ahead of itself when it claims, Until now, there hasn’t been a [...]
Gmail has added a new welcome feature, that was announced just today — something that can allow you to almost retract an arrow after shooting it, as long as you realize it soon enough. If you are like me, your have more than once hit the “send” button on email and then instantly realized that [...]
I tried Google 411 today and it seems to be amazing. OK, you are on the road, or may be not, and you don’t know the phone number of the business you want to call. If you call 411 from your phone your phone company is going to bill you. So, that is where Google’s [...]
Googlers Anupama Dutta and Nitin Arora have a Eureka moment at the Google blog. They announce that “Now you can blog in Hindi“. As if you couldn’t do this before. Blogspot’s new Hindi transliteration feature is commendable, but all it does is add another tool to a whole lot of existing Hindi typing tools on [...]
I think Google’s My Maps is a big milestone in Google Maps. Announced today, it scores big over other map websites, and most likely they are going to follow suit soon. My Maps allows you to draw over existing Google maps, and create you own stuff – roads, houses, whatever. You can then save the [...]
I must admit it – Google’s two April fools jokes may be lame, but they got me – both Google TiSP (BETA) and Gmail Paper. TiSP (BETA) was simply too good to be true, and still I fell for it. It claimed that TiSP (BETA) was a free broadband service working “by connecting your commode-based [...]
If you have a PDA or a PDA enabled phone, with internet access, there are easier ways of getting maps and driving directions when you are on the go. Just point your mobile browser to mapquest, google maps, yahoo maps, MSN live, etc. If you don’t have live internet access on your PDA, you can [...]
As a user of Jotspot, a great personal wiki site, I got an email today from Jotspot that they have been aquired by Google. This news has put to rest an old rumor about Yahoo! acquiring the company. What remains to be seen is how Google integrates it into its online suite of document applications. [...]
