Many Tamil native users are often frustrated with iOS due to the system wide unavailability of the Tamil keyboard. To type in Tamil you need to use third-party applications such as Sellinam and then copy paste to where you wanted it to come. But iOS7 gonna change things around for Tamil native users. Tamil keyboard [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]

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 Friend Connect is a service provided by Google to integrate Social Network feature into sites. You can see Google Friend Connect integrated with MAYUonline.com. Google has once again shows their cabability in localisation. Now they’ve released Google Friend Connect in 47 languages, including Tamil. South Asian languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen: Here by I’m giving you the happy news “Firefox 3.5 is available for download”. Happy news is it’s available in both Tamil and Sinhala Firefox giving us five reasons why you should upgrade to Firefox 3.5 1 Security 2 Performance 3 The Awesome Bar 4 Better Bookmarking 5 Password Manager Why still [...]

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 [...]

Before starting, I have a small request. Please activate support for Tamil in Regional Language Settings. When you’re in net cafe or office where you don’t have access you can use following online Tamil Unicode writers. 1. Google Transliteration This tool introduced by Google and now this feature available in Google products such as Gmail, [...]

College of Journalism program is launched by BBC in Sinhala and Tamil. They’ve already launched this program in many languages including Russian, English, French, and Arabic etc. Also BBC says “This is just the first step, we would like to see these pages grow and become a more detailed introduction to the language of Journalism.” [...]

1. What is Airtel HSPA? Airtel HSPA is using 3.5G technology to provide wireless broadband to your machine. Its very useful when you’re on a move. 2. Can I get one? Yes. But make sure you’ve got 3.5G (HSPA) coverage in your area atleast 3G coverage in your area. 3. How much per month? 1500 [...]