If you are a Geek or a Computer addict then this post is not for you. You can close the browser and get back to your work. If you are someone, a light internet user who likes to have the comfort of browsing internet on your Television then this post is for you. Vodafone recently [...]

There was a time when people those who wanna save some money on mobile purchase go to Petta AKA Pitta Kottuwa. But things have changed a lot with the tax redemption regulated by the SL Gov. Those who bought phones from Pettah realized that those phones are even cheaper in Maharagama or Kiribathgoda. This tax [...]

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. [...]

Text to speech is a wonderful tool when it comes to accessibility issues. For a long time we had Text to speech in English and other European Languages but not for Tamil. Today I come to know that there is a tool is being developed at MILE Lab’s. Now tool is still beta but it [...]

Google Translate added a new option to upload documents you want to translate. Now you can upload Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, HTML and text files to translate. By the way, Google gives you following warning too. Unfortunately, Google converts your documents to HTML and then it translates the HTML file, so the translation [...]

Good news for Tamil computer users. Google has released their Chrome browser with Tamil interface. Yipee!It’s available in Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya (on Windows Vista alone), Tamil, and Telugu. A Hindi version was available earlier. Eearlier we had Firefox 2.X with Tamil Interface. It was localised by Thamizha community. Later, Firefox came up [...]

Good news for Tamil Firefox users. A new version of Tamil Spell checker is available in Firefox. More than 50,000 words have been included with the help of Tamil Wikipedia. I’ve been using it and its comparatively doing a good job but we need to have some decision machine attached to this spell checker to [...]

Long time back Google has introduced transliteration (NOT translation) for five indian languages including Tamil and Hindi. Later they integrated this feature to many of their products such as Blogger, Orkut, iGoogle etc. Advantage of transliteration is you don’t have to learn any keyboard layout. If you type “namaste” transliterate service will transliterate this to [...]

Airtel mobile broadband is stirring some interest among us and we have started to think of migrating from Dialog mobile broadband to Airtel Mobile broadband. Some people have gone one step ahead and unlocked HSPA modem which is locked by Dialog. Today Indians are screaming that Airtel has introduced Fair user policy and they’ve cut [...]

I went to download live messenger to chat with my friends and found out the Live messenger is available in Tamil too. You can select Tamil as language in right hand side drop down list and download it from Live messenger site. Along with Live messenger, other programs such as mail, writer also coming in [...]