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Filed Under (ENTERTAINMENT, Google, PERSONAL, breadyman, london, nathan flutebox lee) by Chamara on October-18-2008

The UK’s premier beatboxers performing live at the Google offices in London.
These two guys are simple amazing.

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Filed Under (Fun, Google, POLITICS, Public, Sri Lanka, TECHNOLOGY) by Deane on October-5-2008

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…



Filed Under (Google, Google India, Hindi, India, Localisation, PERSONAL, Tamil, Tech, Telugu, Voice Recognition) by Mayooresan on September-8-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (Chrome, Google, Google chrome, PERSONAL, Tech, firefox, ie, internet explorer) by Mayooresan on September-7-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (Chrome, Google, Miscellaneous, TECHNOLOGY) by admin on September-3-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (Chrome, Google, PERSONAL, Tech, War, browser) by Mayooresan on September-2-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (Blogs, Google, Internet, PERSONAL, Tamil, Tamil Interface, Tech) by Mayooresan on August-23-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (Adsense, Advertising, Advertising network, Blogs, FeedBurner, Google, Google Adsense, PERSONAL, RSS, Web feed) by Mayooresan on August-15-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (Google, PERSONAL, TECHNOLOGY) by Lahiru on July-28-2008

I will make it quick. This is the C++ solution that I used to solve Google Code Jam Online Round 1C - Question 1. (it’s so dumb, I know).//typedef long long int64;typedef vector<int64> vi;#define For(i,a,b) for (int i(a),_b(b); i <= _b; ++i)#defi…



Filed Under (Google, PERSONAL, TECHNOLOGY) by Lahiru on July-27-2008

I have never planned to do Google Code Jam this year (2008), but in the last minute I registered for the contest.The qualification round took place on 16th of July which had three questions to be solved within a day. I solved the first question, which …



Filed Under (Google, Google News, Mozilla Firefox, News and Media, PERSONAL, Sri Lanka, Tamil) by Mayooresan on July-26-2008

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/” });



Filed Under (Google, PERSONAL, Web, crawl, flash) by Chamara on July-9-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (FreeSoftware, Freedom, Google, Google Code, Google Desktop, GoogleGadgets, Linux, TECHNOLOGY) by Lahiru on June-8-2008

It’s finally ported on Linux !. I just compiled the latest svn branch on Fedora 9. :)Checkout some screens.From Dev StuffThanks Google !



Filed Under (Google, Localisation, Localization, PERSONAL, gmail, tips) by Mayooresan on June-3-2008

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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/” });



Filed Under (FreeSoftware, GDkit, Google, Google Desktop, GoogleGadgets, MyWorkStuff, Software, TECHNOLOGY) by Lahiru on May-20-2008

Recently, when I was playing with Google Desktop SDK, an idea of a third party JavaScript library came in to my mind; which made myself to code a small JavaScript class with some reusable features.That small JavaScript got wings and is hosted on Google…



Filed Under (Google, Hindi, Language, Linguistics, PERSONAL, Tamil, Translation, tips) by Mayooresan on May-4-2008

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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/” });



Filed Under (Books, ENTERTAINMENT, Google, Hollywood, Movies, Tamin Cinema, Thoughts) by Mayooresan on May-4-2008

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Filed Under (Eclipse, FOSS, Fun, GSoC, Google, Java, My Activities, TECHNOLOGY, Uncategorized) by Laknath on May-3-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (2008, GSoC, Google, News, Summer of Code, TECHNOLOGY) by admin on May-1-2008

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.



Filed Under (Google, Help, Larry Page, Links, PERSONAL, Page Rank, Search Engines, Searching, Sergey Brin, World, tips) by Mayooresan on April-11-2008

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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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Filed Under (Blogs, Computer, Experience, Google, Help, IT, Links, PERSONAL, Tamil, WordPress, love, tips) by Mayooresan on April-8-2008

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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 […]



Filed Under (Google, TECHNOLOGY) by admin on April-1-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (Computer, Google, Google Docs, Internet, PERSONAL, tips) by Mayooresan on March-26-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (Google, Government, POLITICS, Sri Lanka) by Deane on March-25-2008

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.



Filed Under (Google, TECHNOLOGY) by admin on March-8-2008

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 […]



Filed Under (Google, PERSONAL, history of google) by Pj on February-23-2008

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…



Filed Under (Blogger, Blogs, Google, Localisation, PERSONAL, Tamil) by Mayooresan on February-13-2008

Blogger has integrated its transliteration facilities to Blogger, so Tamils can directly input in Blogger window. Along with Tamil other Indian languages also included.
Follow the steps to activate!
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Filed Under (Computer, Google, Internet, PERSONAL, Sinhala, Sinhalese, Tamil) by Mayooresan on February-10-2008

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?? […]



Filed Under (Google, PERSONAL, TECHNOLOGY) by The Reader on December-8-2007

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 !! :)



Filed Under (Google, TECHNOLOGY) by The Reader on September-27-2007

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!