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Lankan Online Computer Stores
Before buying a computer accessory it’s worth doing an analysis on the accessory, especially on price and quality.
A simple Google search would reveal most of the quality issues related to the product but when it comes to price we Sri Lankans have to go either to a shop physically or Unity Plaza.
Here few of the online stores where you can check the price online. Hope it’ll help you reduce the work load.
Some of the blow mentioned shops are offering products to buy online too. MAYUonline is not recommending any of these sites. This is just for your information. If you are to buy something online buy it on your own risk.
- http://computer.lk
- http://laptop.lk
- http://barclays.lk
- http://ibuy.lk
- http://usedcomputer.lk
- http://japansoftpc.com/
- http://www.futureworld.com.lk/
- http://techgsmsl.com/
- http://shop.memory.lk/
FTP Blogger Blogs to WordPress Migration
Recently Google has announced that they are going to stop supporting FTP publishing Blogger blogs. Initially they’ve planned to stop the support by February but then due to the noise made by bloggers Google has postponed it to May.
Google claims that there are several reasons why they stop supporting FTP, but in my opinion I see it as more of an arrogant tone of a giant.
So I decided to move my blog to WordPress one of the best blogging platforms on earth. Thanks to Ravi (Successful WordPress Freelancer) for pointing me to correct resources.
Procedure is very simple. Please read Ravi’s Blog for guidelines and if you wanna retain your incoming links and redirect your feed visitors then you gotta read the post from DW.
Happy Blogging. WordPress ROCKS!!!
PS: My moved site is active up and running, I didn’t lose a single incoming link.
Install / Enable HUAWEI E156G on Ubuntu
As mentioned in my previous post I bought Mobitel HSPA connection. When I bought the connection, I bought a new modem too (HUAWEI E156G).
Modem is working perfectly fine on Windows with Mobile Partner software but when it comes to Ubuntu it has problems.
My previous modem E220 had almost no issues on Ubuntu. As you connect your modem everything is done on plug-and-play basis, but when it comes to E156G it was not the same case. First I thought the USB Modem is not even recognized as a device, but Ubuntu did find it but didn’t bring up any pop-up as it does for E220.
Did a googling and found out the way. Hope it’ll be helpful as many people are buying Mobitel HSPA these days.
- First right click on the Network icon and choose Edit Connections
- Now choose Mobile BroadBand tab
- Click on Add button and choose Mobitel
- Once you done with the wizard click on Mobitel and choose edit
- there make sure you have *99# as Number and Mobitel3g as APN.
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That’s all now you can connect to Internet using HUAWEI E156G. If you’re using a different provider then change the Number and APN accordingly.
Mobitel HSPA Betrayed Me!
I’ve been using Dialog HSPA over last one year. In the beginning they’ve had a nice service but over the time their service became so crap! Most of the time connection hangs at 0Kbps. May be last quarter they started to give more bandwidth as I could feel the improvement in the speed.
Few months back I moved to Dehiwala and my roommate is using Mobitel. As per his openion Mobitel is cool, and they are giving more free bundle (8Gb) compare to Dialog (5Gb). I’m not intended to take Airtel into this discussion as their product got mixed reaction from different places.
Recently (may be a week) I got a promotion announcement from American Express that I’m entitled for Mobitel HSPA connection promotion where I have to pay 500 LKR per month for 12 months (which makes 6000 LKR) for modem and 1280 LKR for Zoom package.
As I bought the SIM and modem in Collupittiya the guy behind the desk told me “Sir, it’ll be activated in 10 mins time”. I was thinking “Wow, 10 mins huh? Dialog takes hours”.
I didn’t realize the pain that I’m gonna get till I came back and plugged the modem into machine. I got E156G Huwawi model HSPA modem, which doesn’t have a user manual attached to it. I had good time finding the slot where we need insert the SIM without the user manual.
I was so confident that Mobitel will work faster than Dialog so I can work at least around 2 MBps speed which I usually get in Dialog. But all went wrong when I found that it works at 0.2 MBps.
I called customer care and they’ve asked me to set the network to WCDMA Only but no luck and I again called the customer care (yeah I’m using Dialog mobile so I need to pay for the calls that I make to Mobitel customer care) and the guy who took the phone recommended me to use manual operator search in the Mobile Partner software.
For god sake I did both and still no luck.
I know it’s nothing to do with the modem as my roomie who used to have good speed also having the same issue now.
Now I’m F-uped here, can’t move away from Mobitel because I’ve a commitment of one year and can’t go back to Dialog as I can’t pay for 2 HSPA connection at a time.
Why on Earth Mobitel letting their customers down??
Dehiwala
Please read Kalinga’s blog too (in Sinhala) on same issue but comprehensive discussion.
All in all, people gonna teach Mobitel good lesson as they’ve done to Dialog. Learn it hard way!
Google Transliteration with Brand New Look
Google has announced their transliteration service with a Rich WYSWYG editor. Currently it’s supporting major Indic languages such as Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and also it has support for Arabic.
HTML Support
New rich interface allows you to do most of the stuff you wanted to do in a word processor such as formatting, colouring etc. Also it lets you see the HTML code of the stuff you typed, which you can use for HTML web pages.
Google Dictionary
Google Dictionary also integrated with this site so you can easily search the meaning of words between languages. Most of the popular languages are supported in the Google Dictionary. Tamil, Hindi and most of the Indic languages supported in the dictionary but Google is yet to add support for Sinhala.
Insert Unicode Letters
You can insert Unicode letters with a simple mouse click. As I said above most of the languages are supported including Sinhala and Tamil.
Google Transliteration is available in Blogger, Gmail, Knol, Orkut and as a bookmarklet. You can also enable it on your website using the transliteration API.
Google’s Tamil Dictionary
There are so many online dictionaries available for English-Tamil-Tamil. The most popular and comprehensive one is Tamil Wiktionary (sister project of Wikipedia). It has good number of words especially in the field of current technology and happenings.
Today I found that there is a new comer added to the list of online Tamil dictionary. Yeap, the new player is none other than Google Dictionary.
Google Tamil Dictionary is nowhere near to the quality of the Wiktionary, but still worth a try with their simplified interface.
Google Wave Invite – Winner
And our happy winner is HARIS HALLAGI who is a facebook fan of MAYUonline. Thanks for every one for taking part in the raffle.
Invitation is sent out to Mr. Haris and he has been informed via Facebook.
Hope Haris will update us here soon 
Win a Google Wave Invite from MAYUonline
Today I got 8 invites for Google Wave. I shared almost all of my invitations with friends but I kept one for my dear readers.
I’d like to give away one Google Wave Invitation for free but you need to do a favour to become a luck winner.
There are two ways you can get into this competition.
Re-Tweet and follow me on Twitter
Tweet about this post (using the button next to Title) and follow me on Twitter
Become a Fan of MAYUonline at Facebook
You can become a fan of MAYUonline at Facebook. You can use either the gadget used here or visit the official page directly and become a fan.
Lucky Winner
I’ll update this post on coming Sunday with the luck winner’s name. I’ll notify the winner by Facebook PM or Twitter DM.
Let’s begin.
Alternative for Google Wave : PyGo Wave
End of September Google said they’ll open doors for 100,000 people to use Google Wave. I’m one of the prospectors took the mouse and keyboard and went to http://wave.google.com to get an account. But the fate was not pleasing.
By the way if you don’t know what is Google Wave, please have a look at the introduction video (running for about 70 minutes). Google expects to revolutionise the way we communicate online using this Google wave.
Not all are welcomed
AS I went to get the account I was given a message saying “Your Google Account has not yet been activated for Google Wave.”. I was broken hearted.
I was trying all possible ways to get an invite to get into the Google Wave. Till yesterday I was not successful. Yesterday I was managed to pick a friend of mine from USA and he agreed to send me an invite.
How long do I need to wait after being invited
Yesterday night he sent me the invitation but still I have not received it. It is said that Google Australia manually accepting invitations (Nomination in Google’s word) to reduce the load on Wave server. As we know Google Wave is consuming loads of power from client as well as server. Google people need to make sure that their servers are up and able to cope-up with the available number of users.
As I hear for some people it got even 3 days to get the invitation after being invited to Google Wave by one of the friends. For me it’s not even 24 hours, I better wait.
Any alternative for Google Wave
Since Google Wave is an open source project any one who is geek enough to handle the code can set-up their own Wave server. One of the good examples is http://pygowave.net. I’m sure it’s not full of feature like Google wave but it’ll give you an idea how to work. It means that a regular user who has seen the Google Wave Video, will not be satisfied now. But I am sure that any developer will be eager to test the PyGo Wave Server and even test his own gadgets there.
When you create a new wave at pygowave.net you can invite me (mayooresan) so we all can wave there .
http://pygowave.net is working fine on Google Chrome but making silly mistakes in Firefox.
Conclusion
Google has created a big hype over Google wave and that’s what they wanted to do. Some people who bought the invite in EBay for $100 were complaining that it’s not upto their expectation. So don’t set your expectations high. Rushing and buying invite for $100 doesn’t worth it (Google will delete your account if you found selling invites). Simply wait and see. Or use the alternative till Google open doors for everyone.
How to Get Google Wave Invitation
These days there are people running here and there looking for an invitation to Google Wave.
If you have seen the introduction to Google Wave video (video runs for about one and half hour), by now you’ll also be running looking for an invitation to join Google Wave.
Currently Google wave has been opened for only 100,000 people but if you’re lucky you can request a invitation from those 100,000 people. I’m one of those unlucky guys who didn’t get into Google Wave yet.
Here I’m going to tell you some of the possible ways of getting Google Wave invitation
Request it from Google
You can request Google to give you access to Google Wave. But there are no guarantee that they’ll give you the invitation right away. You might have to wait for a while. Only god knows when Google will give away access to you via the official channel.
There are some geeks got invitations via this so called micro blogging platform. Search for the hash key #GoogleWaveInvite or put a request to global community with the tag #GoogleWaveInvite. Who knows you might get the invitation.
Beg from your friends
If you friend got invitation, they he can give away 8 invitation. Beg him or beat him and get one invitation from him.
Yesterday night I saw people were selling Google wave invitation via Ebay but today I couldn’t find one. May be Google has taken initiations to control this unethical business.
Good luck guys. BTW if you happen to get one please do invite me.
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