This is what Google has to say.This article on blogoscoped will show the features leaked to the net accidentally . * Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be b…

This is what Google has to say.This article on blogoscoped will show the features leaked to the net accidentally . * Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be b…

Have you ever visited Taj Mahal or Pyramids of Egypt or the castles in England? Nope? Haven’t you worried about it? What you gonna do about it?
Don’t worry Microsoft has come up with an idea to solve your problem. You may not be able to afford a trip to Washington DC but you can afford […]

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 […]

It seems facebook has taken initiations to revolutionize the way it works. New version of facebook is available to use and facebook is keen on three aspects according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
We had three goals to improve Facebook in this version. First, we wanted to make everything clean and simple to use. Reducing clutter […]

Today (27th July, 2008) I got a call from one of my friends and he asked me “Machang Mayu, what is that HIV discussion in AIESEC office and all?”
“What? What discussion? No one told me about it”
“It seems you have created an event in Facebook for a discussion forum”
“WTF, I don’t even know about […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Vulnerability of Facebook”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/vulnerability-of-facebook/” });

Knol is the new authoring tool by Google.Knol is a unit of knowledge, according to Google. The idea is to create a repository of good articles, I for see a bad future for Wikipedia. Recently Wikipedia was criticized for its lack of accuracy, its a re…

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As you all know twitter is a nice micro blogging tool that is available for free in the market. Any one can use it for […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Twitter Fox”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/twitter-fox/” });

I have seen a lot of my friends are using Google to find out the things. But I felt sometimes that they are not using the proper way to do that. So it takes a lot more time and lot more reading to find actually what we want.
So I thought to find how to…

Lively is a virtual world created by google. Its aim to make the social web more interactive. After downloading the small software users can create their own 3D lively area and embed it inside their blog or other web presence. This is going to be so co…

Sometimes advertisements could be really creative. I found this website which has a great collection of creative advertisements. This one is so striking. Its about killing animals for meat.

With thousands of ad networks around in the internet it is a bit hard to find out the one just perfect for you. The even harder part is finding a fair reviews of some ad network or affiliate program you want to try because more often than not its a paid review where the the […]

I have seen a lot of ads and services online that provide the facility to get higher page ranks on search engines. But when I asked about those services on Google their respond was not much positive because they said it can decrease you page rank (beca…

There are plenty of tools for editing photos and a lot more which we can do the same online. I think among the desktop tools “Adobe Photoshop” is a good on image editing. I have found a site that I felt it is similar to Photoshop but online (seems it i…

Most of the people who have meddled with the internet, has been associated with internet porn at least once in their life. it is amazing as to how BIG this industry is…just check out this video…I’ll leave you to decide whether pornis good or bad…I’ll do a detailed article on that later on..

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I have used so many download accelerators and download managers but this is the first time I have found a good download manager for free (so no need to find the cracks). Currently I am using it for downloads and so far it seems good and here I have li…

It is quite surprising that there are a quite a number of individuals who do not even know the existence of Mozilla Firefox. In my opinion, it is the best browser around. The main reason would be it’s plethora of add-ons available. However, if you add too many of them, you are going to have […]

Though there are many people coming to the virtual world, most of the virtual citizens are not aware of RSS. It’s a powerful tool that offered over the web all these days. Let me give you some basic knowledge on this wonderful technology.
RSS is also known as Rich Site Summery or Real Simple Syndication. So […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “May 1st RSS Awarness Day”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/may-1st-rss-awarness-day/” });

Though there are many people coming to the virtual world, most of the virtual citizens are not aware of RSS. It’s a powerful tool that offered over the web all these days. Let me give you some basic knowledge on this wonderful technology.
RSS is also known as Rich Site Summery or Real Simple Syndication. So […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “May 1st RSS Awarness Day”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/may-1st-rss-awarness-day/” });

The draft.blogger.com is seems like the beta version of new features of blogger.com. And we can try the “to be added” gadgets and features of blogger on “draft”. And I think it is a good thing for both of us.
You can visit their blog on bloggerindraft…

I signed up for a site called PPP (pay per post) and seem they are really nice for bloggers to earn money. The basic thing in here is we have to write on something (which they say) and they are ready to pay for your post.

It is pretty easy to sign up …

Usually the big e-commerce sites offers cupons to get discount in purchases. If you can get a cupon, then you can get good amount of discount from sites such as Godaddy, HostGator etc. There are some sites offering these cupons to people in internet. These cupons were used for promotion purpose, as long as we […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Hunt for Cupons”, url: “http://mayuonline.com/eblog/hunt-for-cupons/” });

 Most of the multi line text areas we are using the user can input text by using line breaks. If that text used for internal purpose saving it as a single string may not be a problem.

 But what’s if we have to show that on a web page (forums, user …

I have seen “Official support for all Netscape client products ended on March 1st, 2008. Please see the announcement for more details.” on top of the Netscape browser website. On their announcement they say to download the Mozilla Firefox web browser …

I have seen “Official support for all Netscape client products ended on March 1st, 2008. Please see the announcement for more details.” on top of the Netscape browser website. On their announcement they say to download the Mozilla Firefox web browser …

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My blog got a “Genius” level on readability. I think this is not a problem since the visitors are also on genius level and also I believe my blog is just simple and anybody can understand the content on it.
Anyway I think to write my future…

Flock is a web browser that makes easy to use community activities on the internet like facebook, flickr and also it supports on viewing emails (on Gmail and yahoo) an many more. It is true that now the internet users are using more functionality on …

Mahalo is a search engine which is powered by human. They say that the articles listed on their search results are well organized, comprehensive and spam free. Their basic idea is to get the web pages listed on the user preferences on particular sear…

Here is the rating of my blog and seems it is good to be visited by all aged groups. That is good I think.

Please share what you think about this. And also if there is any other service that gives the ratings please do share with us.

It is pretty easy to convert the pdf files and word and more files by just sending an email to these addresses. And you don’t need to install any software to do this and from any device you can do this. So seems very useful to keep them on your address…

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 […]

Doomsday scenarios are so bracing, aren’t they? In the past week we’ve had the government’s chief scientist warning that there won’t be enough food for us all by 2050 and the European Union saying that we might have to fight Russia for minerals and other useful stuff in the Arctic when the going gets tough. […]

I’ve put away the whole online anonymity thing, and moved to my own domain. A portfolio of sorts.
I’m now at http://www.dinidudealwis.com
And yes, my name is Dinidu de Alwis.

Yesterday was an interesting day. I had two comments which didn’t contribute (positively or negatively) to the posts, but were personal attack hate comments. I was smart enough to figure out that replying to these was the last thing I should do.
After consulting Deane who is a veteran blogger, on what to do about this, […]

This network is mainly for people who want to share their experiences in paranormal & extraterrestrial activities like ghosts & UFO’s. Steven Spielberg always loved to create stories related to this subjects, some of his famous movies are The …

Adobe has launched software designed to make it easier for computer users to use online applications offline. Adobe Air allows developers to build tools that still have some functionality even when a computer is no longer connected to the net. A free download will allow users of Macs, PCs and, later this year, Linux machines […]

It was a real pain for me to work with special characters on a web page. Yes we know some of them like “  , &” but what happens if we are asked to put ¼ or õ we don’t know what is the html name of that character.
This happens frequently when…

137,041 PeopleChek this cool web site which shows you how many people died the day you were born( even includes names of famous people), or how geek are you. Please click on the image to visit.site says, Birthdays are awesome. There’s cake, presents, a…

I was tried to track when a user is just going to away from a web page by using JavaScript. That was pretty possible with the window.onbeforeunload it worked fine. But fine until my project QA team found that it does not work with Internet Explorer 7.
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First it was Shamzy, and then it was Ooorumiyaa. People have started accusing me of making the Mirror Magazine something of a Me, Myself and I kind of affair. I kind of write three columns (Godaya, BoyToys and PinkBoxingGloves), and last week was the only week where I had all three going on at the same […]

According to the latest survey done by Click Forensics click fraud has risen 15% during the last year(clicks on Internet ads that are not real). They have released a heat map indicating the click fraud rate (highest Red) .Click fraud rate for search en…

Most of us do it. I did it once, closed it down, and I’ve started again now. Sometimes it an addiction, sometimes it’s a soapbox, sometimes it’s a result of “utter joblessness” (The Gutter Flower). It’s blogging. And now, the Sri Lankan Blogosphere seems to be getting a new bunch: Teen Bloggers. What makes them […]

Did a bit of a modding the blog today. Wanted to sort out my articles by columns, and this is the best way I can think of. Deane is supposed to do up my own .com site after he’s done the Beyond Borders website, but knowing him, that’s going to take some time. He’s one […]

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 […]

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?? […]

Apparently, quite a bit of people do, including some Sri Lankans. Some people like Deane has e-stickers on their blogs. And I’ve seen a few posts regarding the election at different blogs.
I’m disappointed at the results of the primaries. I was hoping that either Kucinich or Thompson would go on for a bit more. They […]