Monthly Archives: April 2010

How to import GMail contacts to Blackberry on Ubuntu (Linux)

I have sold out my Google Android Dev Phone (ADP1) and bought a refurbished Blackberry 7130c model from ebay. This is my first Blackberry phone, which seems to be more towards professional use than bells and whistles.  Here I am … Continue reading

How to backup Blackberry on Ubuntu (linux)

I am having a Blackberry 7130c which I want to take backup especially for address book. As usual I wanted to do it in Linux. The result is this How-To to connect to Blackberry in linux,  taking backup and restoring. … Continue reading

Tamil to English Dictionary from Google

Google offers Tamil to English and English to Tamil dictionary. Still this service is not much popular. The reason could be two things. One is the dictionary is not yet perfect enough to use. Another reason may be Tamil people’s … Continue reading

How to type in Tamil in Computer? (Indian languages)

The current generation of tamil speaking people slowly ignores this one of the world’s ancient, rich language. Many of us don’t learn traditional Tamil typing (including me), which leads to frustration while typing in Tamil in keyboard. Google has come … Continue reading

How to type in Tamil in GMail? (Indian languages)

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If you are a Google addict like me, then you can use  in most of the Google applications like GMail. Here is how you can configure your GMail to enable Tamil typing. Step 1: Go to Settings in GMail, you … Continue reading

How to convert Tamil to English scripts in Tamil web sites?

The people across the race, country, language comes and work together now a days. It is a good. Many of our work colleagues from other states/languages use to learn local language sincerely and mingle with the local people very well. … Continue reading

DIY: Linux Media Center Computer or Digital Photo Frame Viewer using old laptop

Recently I got an old laptop.. sorry, pretty old – 10 years old – DELL C400. But it has some decent hardware like 1.2GHz / 1GB RAM / 40GB HDD with Windows XP preinstalled. It’s Wi-Fi doesn’t support WPA authentication, … Continue reading