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Recently Google has announced that they are going to stop supporting FTP publishing Blogger blogs. Initially they’ve planned to stop the support by February but then due to the noise made by bloggers Google has postponed it to May.
Google claims that there are several reasons why they stop supporting FTP, but in my opinion I [...]

As mentioned in my previous post I bought Mobitel HSPA connection. When I bought the connection, I bought a new modem too (HUAWEI E156G).
Modem is working perfectly fine on Windows with Mobile Partner software but when it comes to Ubuntu it has problems.
My previous modem E220 had almost no issues on Ubuntu. As you connect [...]

I’ve been using Dialog HSPA over last one year. In the beginning they’ve had a nice service but over the time their service became so crap! Most of the time connection hangs at 0Kbps. May be last quarter they started to give more bandwidth as I could feel the improvement in the speed.
Few months back [...]

Google has announced their transliteration service with a Rich WYSWYG editor. Currently it’s supporting major Indic languages such as Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and also it has support for Arabic.
HTML Support

New rich interface allows you to do most of the stuff you wanted to do in a word processor such as formatting, colouring etc. Also it [...]

There are so many online dictionaries available for English-Tamil-Tamil. The most popular and comprehensive one is Tamil Wiktionary (sister project of Wikipedia). It has good number of words especially in the field of current technology and happenings.
Today I found that there is a new comer added to the list of online Tamil dictionary. Yeap, the [...]

And our happy winner is HARIS HALLAGI who is a facebook fan of MAYUonline. Thanks for every one for taking part in the raffle.
Invitation is sent out to Mr. Haris and he has been informed via Facebook.
Hope Haris will update us here soon

Today I got 8 invites for Google Wave. I shared almost all of my invitations with friends but I kept one for my dear readers.
I’d like to give away one Google Wave Invitation for free but you need to do a favour to become a luck winner.
There are two ways you can get into this [...]

End of September Google said they’ll open doors for 100,000 people to use Google Wave. I’m one of the prospectors took the mouse and keyboard and went to http://wave.google.com to get an account. But the fate was not pleasing.
By the way if you don’t know what is Google Wave, please have a look at the [...]

These days there are people running here and there looking for an invitation to Google Wave.
If you have seen the introduction to Google Wave video (video runs for about one and half hour), by now you’ll also be running looking for an invitation to join Google Wave.
Currently Google wave has been opened for only [...]

11th Birthday
You may wonder why, but to celebrate their 11th birthday they’ve changed their logo like this.
Many more happy returns of the day my dear Google. Even though there are so many criticism on Google, they changed the way we browse the net online.
From the simple search engine concept they’ve grown into a multi million [...]

Text to speech is a wonderful tool when it comes to accessibility issues. For a long time we had Text to speech in English and other European Languages but not for Tamil.
Today I come to know that there is a tool is being developed at MILE Lab’s. Now tool is still beta but it works [...]

People are screaming that FaceBook is trying to incorporate the total solution for the internet use in one site. For example just like YouTube you can upload videos to FaceBook. Just like Flikr or Picasa you can add images to Face book and you can tag them.
When the micro blogging became popular with Twitter, [...]

For a long time Yahoo was in Search Engine business but now they are in Twitter business too. Yeah its true Yahoo inc is making a clone of Twitter named Yahoo Meme. The word meme is popular among bloggers and they used to tag people on this meme posts.
Still the English version of the site [...]

What is PayPal?
There are several instances where you need to make online transactions. Mostly you need to make some online payment to buy a good or service. In this situation the medium you can use is credit card. But how much you can rely on the seller?? What if the seller gets the Credit Card [...]

One of the main problems I had with Dialog Mobile broadband is the static IP given to all the users across the mobile broadband. As I remember there were only two IP addresses used. As the result we had enough with sites which block users based on IP.
For example, one dialog mobile broadband user did [...]

You Got a Question
When we have questions, we usually go ask from friends, online forums, Yahoo answers. But what about asking your question on IM (Yahoo / Gtalk) and some person who knows the answer replies you via IM again. The person who replied you may be or may be not a friend of yours.
Vark.com [...]

One of the reasons why people often have high bouncing rate is because of the bad usability issues in the pages. Your blog’s bouncing rate is 90% means; ninety out of hundred people, who came to your blog, puked and went away.
Usually bouncers are considered a negative statistic: the blog failed to engage them enough [...]

Today Most of the bloggers are using WP.com or blogger.com. WP.com and Blogger.com has their own pros and cons. But having a self hosted WordPress blog is a real life changing experience for a blogger. Even MAYUonline.com is running on WordPress platform.

Have you ever dreamed of having your WordPress blog in your own domain??
If [...]

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective ways to make money online. Most of the affiliate products are focused towards U.S market. Especially for a site like MAYUonline, it’s very difficult to do affiliate marketing as most of the users of my site are from Sri Lanka.
Now, I have good news for Sri Lankan [...]

Google Friend Connect is a service provided by Google to integrate Social Network feature into sites. You can see Google Friend Connect integrated with MAYUonline.com.
Google has once again shows their cabability in localisation. Now they’ve released Google Friend Connect in 47 languages, including Tamil. South Asian languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu [...]

Google Translate added a new option to upload documents you want to translate. Now you can upload Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, HTML and text files to translate.
By the way, Google gives you following warning too.

Unfortunately, Google converts your documents to HTML and then it translates the HTML file, so the translation doesn’t [...]

You may wonder what the hell this guy is talking. Actually a LAMP specialist dedicated for WordPress made WordPress Plug-in last December for about a week.
Last time he made six WordPress plug-ins just for the WordPress community in just one week. Binny is good friend of mine and a regular reader of my [...]

Windows Vista in Sinhala
Microsoft has released Sinhala interface for both Windows Vista and Office 2007. This is the happy news for Sinhala windows users.
I think this is the first time Microsoft offering their products in Sinhala. This pack will help most of the rural area people. Those who don’t understand English, those who can understand [...]

Are you failed to login to Windows Live Messenger? Are you getting some garbage error codes when you try to sign in??? If so do the following stuffs.

Restart your router/modem.
Restart Windows Live Messenger
Try pull-the-plug and re-plug routine, if software fails.
Restart the computer (if you haven’t already done so a dozen times)

Error message is shown in [...]

It’s been rumoured for a long time that Google got an ambitious dream to dominate computer world as they’ve dominated World Wide Web.
As the first step, they’ve come up with desk top applications and on top of all; they’ve released “Google Chrome”. Google chrome is now being used by 30 Million people around the globe.
Now [...]

When you upload attachments to Gmail, you may get error messages saying “failed to attach!”. If you come across such error message first thing you need to do is, installing latest Adobe flash player.
You can get latest Adobe flash player from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ . In given address you can check whether you’re having the latest version [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen:
Here by I’m giving you the happy news “Firefox 3.5 is available for download”.
Happy news is it’s available in both Tamil and Sinhala
Firefox giving us five reasons why you should upgrade to Firefox 3.5
1 Security
2 Performance
3 The Awesome Bar
4 Better Bookmarking
5 Password Manager
Why still waiting?? Go grab your copy of [...]

When YouTube introduced YouTube Shows, I was flying and happy beyond imagination. Soon I come to know that most of the shows are not available to Sri Lankan users.
I was so annoyed. I wonder why YouTube shows the shows that are not available to our region. When you click on a video, it’ll return an [...]

Good news for Tamil computer users. Google has released their Chrome browser with Tamil interface. Yipee!It’s available in Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya (on Windows Vista alone), Tamil, and Telugu. A Hindi version was available earlier.
Eearlier we had Firefox 2.X with Tamil Interface. It was localised by Thamizha community. Later, Firefox came up with [...]

Good news for Tamil Firefox users. A new version of Tamil Spell checker is available in Firefox. More than 50,000 words have been included with the help of Tamil Wikipedia.
I’ve been using it and its comparatively doing a good job but we need to have some decision machine attached to this spell checker to suggest [...]

It’s seems Microsoft is preparing a full scale offensive against Google. First they come up with Bing, and it was positively rated by many tech blogs. Now Microsoft challenges Google Translator with Bing Translator.
What I like most in Google is the support to Indian languages including Hindi and Tamil. Google translate offers translations in Hindi, [...]

Sri Lankans are very unlucky fellows when it comes to iPhone. Apple has announced about a new version of their iPhone OS which will enable you to send MMS and it’ll also allow you to perform copy and paste functionality.
Meanwhile Apple has released a new model of iPhone (known as iPhone 3GS). This model got [...]

HostGator is one of the leading web hosts online. What sets them apart? Let’s look at some of the key features that have people so happy with their service. After all, they’re an increasingly popular web host provider–so what makes them so special?
Before starting, I want to mention that I have been using hostgator for [...]

No doubt, Google chrome is one of the potential growing browsers. What most of the people hate in Chrome is lack of add-on. In Firefox we’ve got amble of Firefox add-ons but in Chrome, we don’t have. Anyway Google is working on this issue; soon this feature will be announced officially.
Good news for Mac and [...]

No doubt Norton is one of the best Anti-virus programs. Since I bought Kaspersky I wanted to remove the promotional version of Norton from my Laptop.
Uninstallation process was taking so much of time, so I just cancelled the windows and restarted the machine and tried to uninstall again. For god sake, I got enough trouble [...]

At last Bing.com is LIVE NOW
Bing is a Search Engine developed my Microsoft to challenge Google’s Search Engine. No wonder Microsoft trying to venture into a new Search Engine while having their crappy LIVE search as they want to be the monopoly in everywhere. Google started with Search Engine, now it has roots [...]

There are couple of viruses which cause the most annoying problems. No virus guard can help to restore the damage they’ve done. Virus guard can only remove those viruses.
In my Windows XP machine, all of a sudden the system restore was gone. I was banging my head on wall and trying to figure out what [...]

There are enormous numbers of complaints over Internet Explorer for not adhering internet standards. IE is a product of Microsoft and Microsoft always had its own way of working with technology. They don’t care about the standards set by the industry but they’ll set their own standards, then only they could control the market.
Microsoft IE [...]

People were rumoring about this 21Mbps connection and it’s true and Dialog going to offer this service to Sri Lankans. This happened to be in trial phase right now and later it’ll be expanded to major cities like Colombo, Kandy etc. Most probably it’s gonna cater the demand of corporate sector, not for just you [...]

Twitter is still not sure about how to make good amount of money from their site. Still they’re trying to figure it out, but Twitter users are already found handful of methods to monetise their account. Now you can find handful of Twitter applications. It was made possible after Twitter opened the twitter feed to [...]