Sid

Sid is an engineer by education and has some fancy notions about the use of web technologies for a better world.

May 232010
 

?Want to Translate to URDU language or want to read something written in Urdu in your own language?

Translate from Urdu to English or to any other major language of the world using Google Translate services.Now Google Translate provides you instant online translation to and from Urdu to other langages listed in goole translate services.

Apr 102010
 

Most of us have our blogs in English.That’s the right language choice as English is the most popular business language in the world.
BUT WAIT!!
Have you thought of people/audience/users who actually prefer to surf the web in their own language as they are not that comfortable with english.Top examples are users in China,Russia and Japan.And mind you, thats a market big enough to be explored for your products /services.Let’s see what you can do to achieve it.

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Apr 092010
 

Even if you are an avid twitter user you can not follow each and every tweet about a particular topic in tweet space.For example, if you want to know what people are tweeting about tiger woods or newly launched iPad, logging in twitter will give you tweets from only the people whom you follow.If somebody somewhere posted something very interesting about iPad and tweeted about it, you certainly will loose that info if you are not folowing that particular person or site.
Here is a better way to get latest tweets about a particular topic of your interest as they appear on twitter using your favorite search engine Google.

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Sep 142009
 
If you work on the web you in all probability own a Gmail account. Also, you may be using Gmail for managing your important communication -official or personal. Many of us own multiple google accounts and we know how irritating it is to log out of one and then log in to other and then switch back. Also you want to take notes at times but don’t get it in Gmail. Moreover you may want to sort mails in a hierarchical folder structure but can’t do this using default Gmail Labels. You can do all this and more.How?? Read on. .

Sep 112009
 

Bored with your Firefox’s jaded look??

Try Personas in Firefox to dress up your browser for that sizzling look to make your browsing stylish and energetic.Firefox Personas is a Mozilla Labs experiment and Personas are actually web arts available as skins in Firefox.Just install Personas Addon and keep experiencing freshness by changing skins from Personas gallery. Continue reading »

Sep 092009
 

If you use desktop search on windows Vista or XP or Windows 7 you must have faced the annoyance of using Windows search.It’s simply irritating to see that green bar shining intermittently without showing that important as hell, file, you know exists!!!!! Windows XP search is also inadequate though less annoying as compared to Vista. Continue reading »