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These two guys are simple amazing.

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Today, I find this extremely useful Google Map Maker. The application basically allows you to map things you know (businesses, cafes, towns and yes, islands) on Google Maps. So go ahead help, map your town, your neighborhood and help put Sri Lanka on t…

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Now Google is offering Voice Search in Hindi and Telugu. According to Google it’s a pilot service and they are working on it to improve.
It is Google’s new experimental service making local business information, movie show times and real time flight status available from any phone for free. You get fast access to the [...]

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See this interesting table that I got from Statcounter.com. Its not IE that suffering from Google’s Chrome’s arrival. It’s our Firefox. We’ll wait and see what will happen. As I hear and read in internet there are many security problems in Chrome.

IE
FireFox
Safari
Chrome
Other

Aug 28
68.17%
24.66%
2.83%
N/A
4.33%

Aug 29
67.81%
24.78%
2.84%
N/A
4.57%

Aug 30
65.41%
26.38%
3.04%
N/A
5.17%

Aug 31
64.49%
26.91%
3.06%
N/A
5.56%

Sep 01
66.92%
25.26%
2.99%
N/A
4.84%

Sep 02*
67.58%
24.36%
2.91%
N/A
5.06%

Sep 03
67.81%
23.54%
2.70%
1.11%
4.87%

Sep 04
70.87%
21.26%
2.48%
1.15%
4.25%

No matter who wins this browser [...]

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Chrome

Google has release their open source browser and I gave it a try yesterday. It’s based on the Mozilla framework.

It took only a couple of minutes to download and install the browser. I came across a couple of awesome features while clicking around the browser.

There’s a real-time search integrated to the navigation bar, which also [...]

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Google launches internet browser

Browser war, it’s a never ending war. Earlier IE managed to smack down Netscape Navigator. Recently Firefox started to bring IE down and many people started to use Firefox. Indic users got more advantage in Firefox 3 due to its support to Unicode fonts.
Currently hot news is Google launching a new browser and its going [...]

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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 [...]

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I just wanted to insert Ads within RSS feed but google makes big fuzz. According to google it’ll take some time for them to set-up a process for the migration of feeds from FeedBurner to Google Adsense. If you want it to be done now, you can drop them an email with your feedburner user [...]

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Google News is a service offered by Google where you can see collected news from various portals. Recently Google has launched Google Tamil (India). For my surprise they have given a category for Sri Lanka.
Google News Tamil is my new home page in Firefox browser. As a Tamil I’m so happy and no one [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Google News now in Tamil”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/google-news-now-in-tamil/” });

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Google Crowler Reads Flash Now!

So finally it does it. Now Google can crawl Flash Content as well.

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.
In [...]

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Now Gmail in Tamil

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At last Google has given long awaited Tamil Interface for Gmail. Whole interface is now given in Tamil and some dominant regional languages.
Translations are not [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Now Gmail in Tamil”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/now-gmail-in-tamil/” });

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Now you can translate Hindi sites into English and also Hindi speakers can translate English sites into Hindi. As far as I know this is [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Automated Online Hindi Translator”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/automated-online-hindi-translator/” });

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I was watching Hitman movie and wondering how much it interrelated to the Bourne trilogy. Movies in this kind of sequence are a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Hitman and Bourne Trilogy”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/hitman-and-bourne-trilogy/” });

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I was watching Hitman movie and wondering how much it interrelated to the Bourne trilogy. Movies in this kind of sequence are a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Hitman and Bourne Trilogy”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/hitman-and-bourne-trilogy/” });

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Ok, here is another post after a long desert – no excuses here, I’ve forgoton that I even have a blog.  But now feel like writing something after seeing the new WordPress dashboard
First thing on the agenda is GSoC 2008. As you all know Google Summer of Code 2008 is on the way [...]

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Some statistics of Google Summer of Code 2008 have been released. Sri Lanka is placed 9th in the top ten countries by the number of applications and by the number of accepted students.

Seems like Sri Lanka is way into open source development and probably this trend will increase.

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Google is an online virtual parliament. This parliament chooses its members based on the online communities votes. Am I confusing you???.
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Today I upgraded my wordpress blogs to version 2.5 from 2.3.3. First I upgraded my English blog and checked the blog, no probs, so I [...]

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It’s 1st of April

As they have done in previous years, Google has launched two new services today as well.

Gmail Custom Time

Lets you set the time of emails you are sending and also lets you whether it should appear as read or unread on the recipients mailbox.

gDay

Lets you search for content a day before they are entered to the [...]

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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 [...]

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A Google Government

What if Google ran government? Jeff Jarvis has some interesting ideas. Reason Summarizes them here. Google 4 President? hmm..Do read the post, He’s dead serious.

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Google Blog Search

Google blog search is a search facility provided by Google (they are kind of good at searching ) to search inside blogs. What is so special of blog search over web search?

Well, blog search is tailored for blogs. So it has couple of nice features like sorting the results by relevance or date. Sorting [...]

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It’s really interesting to see Google’s first homepage… Source Wikipedia :Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page, a Ph.D. student at Stanford.[1] In search for a dissertation theme, Page decided to explore the mathematical p…

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Blogger has integrated its transliteration facilities to Blogger, so Tamils can directly input in Blogger window. Along with Tamil other Indian languages also included.
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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?? [...]

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Cool Gift

Thanks Google !You made my day !!! :) Though we don’t have cool weather in Colombo (Sri Lanka) at the moment; I wore it yesterday hehe :p, just bcoz It’s really cool !! :)

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A Giant’s Birth Day !

The best Search engine ever have been or in other words the best company to work for 2007, the giant is celebrating his 9th Birthday today (27th).Happy Birthday Google! You Rock!

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