Documents without font choices are like photographs without colors. Just as shades of color can add depth to a picture, smart font choices give your text another dimension. For a long time, the set of fonts that you’ve seen when you browsed the web has been quite limited. That’s because you could only use a [...]
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Google docs supports fonts now
September 29th, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
HTML 5: Facts and Myths
September 27th, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
[via: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/09/23/html5-the-facts-and-the-myths/] First, Some Facts Once upon a time, there was a lovely language called HTML, which was so simple that writing websites with it was very easy. So, everyone did, and the Web transformed from a linked collection of physics papers to what we know and love today. Most pages didn’t conform to the [...]
Computational Knowledge Engine
September 23rd, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
Not sure if ever come across this search engine called www.wolframalpha.com this is not a replacement for google or any normal search engines we use for doing searches, this is basically a answer engine that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web [...]
Epic the new browser from India
July 21st, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
Well to start with this is one more mozilla based browser like flock, the difference is that it comes up with some Indianized features like local language typing. Also comes with a side bar built in to allow users to connect to different social networking sites like twitter, facebook and orkut. This browser also boosts [...]
Google is going launch social platform “me”
June 29th, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
There a rumor going around in internet blogs is that Big G is going to launch a new social platform “me”, which uses all the google’s social endeavors like Google voice, Google Buzz, and Google Wave. This new platform could challenge Facebook if rightly planned and used. But the only problem would be how many [...]
Sid in Office cartoon series
June 25th, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
The well knows technology site pluGGd( I hope I got the GGs in the name right) launched a cartoon series by Ali Baqri. Sid is a Indian techie and the cartoons are about his work and personal like. I am giving the first cartoon here if you find it interesting please go to http://www.pluggd.in and [...]
Firefox 4 roadmap
May 12th, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
Yes people are already talking about Firefox 4 and its features. As per the Firefox Director Mike Beltzner’s blog post, they are concentrating on Fast: making Firefox super-duper fast Powerful: enabling new open, standard Web technologies (HTML5 and beyond!), Empowering: putting users in full control of their browser, data, and Web experience.
ScribeFire for Chrome Available for Alpha Testing
April 9th, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
The very first alpha version of ScribeFire for Google Chrome is now available for testing. If you are running Google Chrome and would like to test this bleeding-edge version of ScribeFire, you can install it by clicking on the scribefire-0.1.0.0.crx link here. After you install ScribeFire for Chrome, you’ll see a ScribeFire icon in your [...]
How Google search works?
March 21st, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
There is a nice video presentation with sub-titles check this out
How to fix Firefox 3.6 issue with applets?
March 20th, 2010 | by Ashok Chava | published in Internet, Latest
After upgrading firefox from 3.5.8 to 3.6 we started seeing the issues with opening the applets. The issue is with JDK 6 Update 10. The simplest solution is close all the browser instances and install JDK 6 Update 18. This new install of JDK or JRE will solve the issue with applets in firefox.