Indic transliteration is another product (after search and gmail) from Google which has all the characteristics (you can argue about my choice of criteria but then this is my blog ) of brilliant software - No frills, doesn’t attempt to do a lot of things but does what it is supposed to do really well.
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Hindi on my blog: Thanks to Google’s Indic Transliteration
Posted in Reviews, Technology, Usability, tagged google, transliteration on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Atom Life
Posted in Personal, Reviews, Technology, Usability, tagged Atom Life, WM 6 on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I have a new Atom Life (WM 6 version).
It was kind of a spot decision - I had been thinking of a Touch Dual for weeks and I actually walked up to the WM stall at TechReady (more coming on TechReady and Office Dev-Con soon) last week hoping to buy one but after comparing the [...]
Open XML is Clever!
Posted in Technology, tagged Office 2007, Open XML on January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
When I started using Office 2007, it was a nice surprise to find that when I saved my docs as .docx, it actually occupied less space than a corresponding .doc. I expected it to be the other way round since the old formats were binary whereas the new formats are xml based.
I finally figured out [...]