Indic Developers Meet

I attended the Indic Developer’s Meet yesterday. It was the last day of the four day long get-together to hack on localization related issues and to also brainstorm and generate ideas. At the same time to get a perspective of what all language teams and involved organizations are doing. The day was fantastic! Gora Mohanti […]

Kicking the Microsoft Office habit

Neil McAllister writes on InfoWorld: Truly, the world is addicted to Microsoft Office. But beginning January 2007, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts plans to kick the habit. That’s the deadline after which all documents used by Massachusetts state government agencies must be stored in open formats, according to broad technology plans issued by the Commonwealth earlier […]

Google launches Blog search

Finally!! Google launched the beta of its Blog Search tool today. The BBC reported that Google only started indexing blog entries made from June 2005. But now it is looking at ways of indexing older posts. SearchEngineWatch wrote that Google defines blogs as sites that use RSS and other structured feeds and update content on […]

Website design – a few cases of excellence

How is the web moving these days? What are people doing in terms of the user interface design? I saw a few examples of really well done web designs recently and found out a few common elements. Backbase – Rich Internet Applications I like the clean look, especially the clean top bar and the nicely […]

Free Software – Part 3 – Free as in free beer!

A lot of software is available at no cost. Free, as in free beer, or free chai! You can download a GNU/Linux operating system from the Internet, you can download a browser, you get loads of software with the computer magazine you buy, you get a copy of something from your friend – all for […]