March 2009 - Posts - Play Things

March 2009 - Posts

Gmail, जीमेल, ಜಿಮೇಲ್, ജിമെയില്‍, ஜிமெயில், జిమెయిల్, now in five Indian languages too!

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Splendid news for all those looking to add a little ethnic spice to their emails. Gmail has just announced that : When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you should now see an icon with an Indian character, as the screenshot below shows. This feature is enabled by default for Gmail users in India. If you do not see this function enabled by default, you...

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So who does Wikipedia think will win the general election? Hint: Not BJP

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Earlier today was alerted to the new Wikirank service via Twitter. The site helps you compare traffic to various entries on the eponymous Wikipedia online open encyclopedia. Is the relative popularity of entries for various politicians and political parties indicative of their real-world electoral fortunes? Hmm... Observe: Clearly traffic to all three...

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Yet another not entirely random Playthings quiz

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Simplicity itself. Connect all these pictures. DO NOT LEAVE ANSWERS IN COMMENTS. Email them to me on sidin.v@livemint.com Surprise gift assured! DO NOT LEAVE ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION. IMMEDIATE DISQUALIFICATION WILL FOLLOW. P.s. Two clues in the images themselves. One direct. One not so direct. Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg...

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Online resources for the Indian general election 2009 - Part 1

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
With mere weeks to before elections to the Lok Sabha here is the first in a series of round-ups of online resources to news and information on the general elections: 1. The mouth of the horse: Start by browsing the government Press Information Bureau's General Election 2009 portal . Expect all official announcements here and data junkies have access...

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Bypass any website blocker in your office with Yauba

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
There has never been a better time for office-goers to have access to a few of those online job sites like right now. With just weeks to go before all those annual appraisals and "Listen, we have a problem with your team structure" conversations with HR, it makes complete guilt-free sense to really hit naukri, timesjobs, monster and shine...

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Tiny Talker - Apple introduces new ipod shuffle

Posted by Ayeshea Perera at 
And just when you thought it couldn't get any smaller... the previously postage stamp sized ipod shuffle now looks like this: Half the size of its predecessor, it also has double the storage capacity (4GB) and it TALKS to you! Since they couldn't possibly fit a display screen on to such a tiny machine, Apple has introduced an innovative new...

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Deconstructing the newspaper website

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
UK's Guardian newspaper website has just announced a new initiative called Open Platform. From the announcement : The Guardian today launched Open Platform, a service that will allow partners to reuse guardian.co.uk content and data for free and weave it "into the fabric of the internet". Open Platform launched with two separate content...

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