Author: ravi

  • Ubuntu – What I love

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    Things I love with Ubuntu: * Speed – No need to go for a coffee after switching on ๐Ÿ™‚ * Security – No virus. * Stability – Never hangs. * Regular updates – You get the latest OS in the field for free every six months. Even applications update themselves. * Connectivity – Internet connection…

  • How to get more visitors for your websites?

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    1. First let know your friends, relatives, contacts about your site. Mail them once. 2. Submit to your site to popular search engines like Yahoo, Google, MSN and web directories in your field. Link to your new site from your already existing sites. Or request your friends to link to you. Make sure, your site…

  • Simple solutions for Global warming

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    Global warming may be complicated. But some simple steps from everyone can contribute a lot. * Consume less of anything. Lesser consumption leads to lesser material need, lesser energy needs, lesser Green house gases release. In a way, ancient Indian life is sustainable by philosophy as it advocated a simple living. * Waste less. MaKe…

  • How to save money when you travel abroad

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    1. Ask your friends to pay all your bills right from booking the air ticket, pick up, local expenditures. They will try all the cheapest ways possible with their local knowledge. Though you may pay back, they will think twice before they draw their own money and would think not to burden you with too…

  • A for Apple

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    Firefox 3 Location bar has new feature: It recognizes what address you want to visit when you start typing few letters. It is based on your frequency and recency of visit. I realized how each alphabet has been associated with some regular sites we visit. It’s like saying A for Apple, G for Google. Here…

  • Tamil writers websites

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    Some of the Tamil writers websites and blogs : 1. Paamaran 2. Charu 3. Maalan 4. Jeyamohan 5. Sudhangan 6. Pa. Raaghavan 7. S. Ramakrishnan 8. Era. Murukan 9. A. Muttulingam Please let me know if I have missed some well known Tamil writers’ web sites and blogs. Thanks. Related posts: Tamil literature magazines websites…

  • NHM Converter – Tamil font encoding converter

    NHM converter is a free-of-cost Tamil font encoding converter tool from the makers of NHM writer.

  • Things you may not know about Gmail

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    1. Do you use more than one gmail account for managing official, academic, friendly mails? You can read them all through just one account. Go to your secondary email accounts – > Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP and enable forwarding. You can also set filters to make things easier. 2. You can not only read…

  • 20 Practial Tips for Better Chat Management

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    Chatting is one online activity which can eat your time and get you in trouble if mismanaged. I am trying to list down some practical tips from my experience regarding this.

  • 9 things to do before moving to a new webhost server.

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    Recently I moved Ravidreams.net from my friend’s web host server and went with the Daddy. Some lessons for those who wanna move their websites to another host: 1. Research. I heard about GoDaddy and was using it for Domain registrations for some months and I just went ahead and bought the web hosting service from…