Tamil Interface for Blogger
Blogger is one of the most popular blog portal owned by the internet giant Google. As per Google’s initiation to provide their products in local languages, they have taken steps to give Tamil interface for Blogger.
Currently you can check out the Tamil interface in Blogger Draft. A translation seems ok.
So far we have Good number of Tamil interfaces from Google including Orkut, Gmail, Main Search Site, Google News and Google Docs. Soon Blogger.com will also join with this queue.
PS: Tamil Interface for WordPress is already available.
Google Docs in Indian Languages (Including Tamil)
Google Docs now available in Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu. I’m so glad Google has given its concern over Indian languages especially beyond Hindi.
To activate its new interface, sign in to Google Docs, click ‘Settings’, and select the interface language you prefer.
I checked the built in Tamil spell checker of the Google Docs. It’s hopeless; don’t rely on that spell checker!
As I suspected earlier, it seems soon we can expect more products from google in Tamil and other Indian languages.
Yahoo rejects Microsoft’s Bid
Finally yahoo announces that Microsoft has undervalued their company. I got the following news from yahoo press room
After careful evaluation, the Board believes that Microsoft’s proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo! including our global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments. The Board of Directors is continually evaluating all of its strategic options in the context of the rapidly evolving industry environment and we remain committed to pursuing initiatives that maximize value for all stockholders.
On Screen Keyboard for Tamil and Sinhala from Google
How many of you know that even if you don’t know the keyboard layout for Tamil or Sinhalese still you can type in Sinhalese or Tamil. Google has developed an on-screen keyboard where you can click and type.
Using this gadget you can search the internet on Google. Amazing isn’t it. Then why are you waiting?? Go and grab the gadget!
Tamil interface for WordPress
I have happy news to all our Tamil bloggers. Today WordPress has given Tamil interface for its site.
Last 5 days nearly 20 of our translators translated nearly 3000 strings as volunteers. It
Google Transliteration service for Tamil
Currently Google has given Transliteration service for Tamil (Not Translation), Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam. It supposes to be another mile stone in Google and Tamil collaboration. Advantage of this facility is, this small program suggests spellings!!Hope soon google will integrate it with Gmail and other google services. Already google has given Tamil interface for Orkut and soon it
