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Get Firefox 3 Beta 3 now. It’s address bar is awesome and I can’t live without it anymore I could even do away with the incompatible extensions for this feature’s sake. What do you like the most in Firefox 3 Beta 3? But except for Ubuntu, I cannot trust anyone for timely releases [...]

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You can use Google AJAX Feed API to create websites like Tamil.Kanimai .
I used AJAX dynamic feed control wizard to show my blog feeds in the Ravidreams homepage.

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AOL Tamil

December 27, 2007

in tamil online, tidbits

I was surprised to see AOL Tamil site today. When was it launched? Besides Hindi, Tamil is the only Indian language present there and the trend to give importance for Tamil can be seen in almost all Indian portals. But it’s just market logic. Next to Hindi, Tamil seems to dominate the Indian internet market. [...]

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English and Tamil medium school text books of Tamilnadu state board education syllabus are now available online for free to be downloaded in PDF formats at http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/ .
Related reading:
தமிழ்நாட்டுப் பள்ளிப் பாடநூல்கள் இணையத்தில் கிடைக்கின்றன.

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Tamil CAPTCHA

August 23, 2007

in tamil computing, tidbits

Check out the Tamil CAPTCHA in use. Now, spammers / spam bots will have to learn Tamil

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Install this script using greasemonkey in Firefox.

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1. Type about:config in the address bar
2. Search for “network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server” in the filter field.
3. The default number is 2. Change it to anything you like.
Downloading only two files at a time from a server is a web standard. You can also change this in Internet explorer. To know how, see here

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Press ALT+PrtSC

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Press SHIFT+yes too all

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http://www.zoho.com/ – Yet another online office software site with free word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, emails, wiki, notepad, database and more. I didn’t test any of them. Heard some are good. For me, Google docs and spreadsheets is more than enough. Soon they will include Google present for making PowerPoint presentations too. My guess is that [...]

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