Google’s language translation bots
In the older days, there was Altavista Babelfish, now known as Yahoo Babelfish for translating peices of text or websites from one language to another. It worked for me as i was able to register for an email account at GMX.net - a german portal and an email service provider.
Your Gmail address also becomes OpenID
After the recent announcement from Microsoft about their Hotmail/Live accounts becoming OpenID logins, Google also announced today that they are enabling OpenID support for their Gmail accounts. Participating websites can now accept millions of existing Gmail account holders.
OpenID gaining popularity : Windows Live ID becomes OpenID compatible
OpenID is a free and simple way of using a single online identity across several other participating websites. Though the idea of single online identity has been around for a long time (Microsoft’s Passport logins anyone?), but only recently the idea of OpenID started gaining momentum.
How to link within a Youtube video
A standard feature present with Google Videos for a long time is creating links to a timeframe within the video - so when a user clicks on the link, s/he is shown the video from that timeframe onwards. Now its possible to link to a timeframe in Youtube videos too in the same manner.
Learn HTML, CSS with examples at htmlplayground.com
Looking for a practical online HTML, CSS reference? Something that shows you how the tags and style selectors work with examples — WYSIWYG style? Move over to HTML Playground, and try out some XHTML+CSS reference by example.
Gmail canned responses for the truely lazy
Tired of send the same reply over and over again to your well wishers, friends, flamers, buggers? Announcing the all new Gmail Canned Responses from Google labs - email reply templates for the truely lazy
Search for alternate domains at Domai.nr
Can’t find your favourite domain name at any of the Top level domains? Can’t think of catchy domain-hack with a popular ccTLD? Domai.nr is a cool new website which makes your domain name search even more easy.
Google Developer Day India, 2008
I was in Bangalore this weekend to attend the first edition of Google Developer Day 2008 held in India. Event venue was Hotel Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore. The Google India team had put together an exciting bouquet of Tech Talk Tracks and associated Codelabs sessions covering popular developer APIs like Google Maps APIS to fresh platforms [...]
Sourceforge now offers hosted applications
Sourceforge.net, the old stalwart offering project management, bugzilla, version control, mailing list and project web space has added another service in its list. The new service will enable sourceforge developers to select a hosted app, and run it on Sourceforge infrastructure. SF sysadmins take care of the rest.
OpenOffice 3 Free Office Suite released and available for download
October 2008 is a month of several major Free & OpenSource Software project releases. Today the OpenOffice.org project announced release of version 3 of its popular free office suite. With its third major version bump, OpenOffice.org has come a lot closer to become a strong alternative to Microsoft’s Office products.
OpenOffice.org comes with six well known [...]
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