• 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 Live Messenger

Hope it’ll work for you. You can check more about Windows Live Messenger Error codes on techarena.in

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 Google unveils its plan to launch an OS, named Google Chrome OS. Here is an excerpt from Google’s Blog.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Windows to Google Chrome

Success of the Google Chrome browser won by Speed, simplicity and security, therefore Google promises same features in Google Chrome OS too.

You can read more about Google’s New OS on their blog.

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 of the flash player. If you don’t have one, please install the latest version.

Google says this feature is not supported in Linux; therefore Linux users will have to wait some time.
If you’re already on latest version of Adobe Flash Player (as I’m writing this article, latest version of flash player available is version 10.0):

• Switch your attachment settings from ‘Advanced attachment features’ to ‘Basic attachment features’ (click Settings and select the General tab to change this setting). Save your changes and try to upload your attachment again.
• Try another browser: if you’re on IE then install Firefox or Chrome and check the feature on it.
• Disable your proxy: Most of our home users don’t use this feature, so don’t worry.
• If you continue to have trouble after following these suggestions, report it here.

PS: Now you can upload up to 25 MB to Gmail , but make sure your mail receiver also using Gmail, because if he can’t receive 25 MB attachment then no point of sending a mail with 25 MB.

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 Firefox 3.5

Do you know Google Chrome is now available in Tamil?

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 error message saying “This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions”.

When I asked from Google, this is their answer….

Some YouTube content partners choose to make their videos available only to certain countries. For instance, they may only have the licensing rights for a particular region. On occasion, YouTube does block specific content in order to comply with local laws in countries where YouTube has been launched. For instance, certain Nazi imagery is unlawful in parts of Europe.

They block the videos based on IP address. Since our IP address shows that we’re coming from Sri Lanka, YouTube will display above message to us.

Even to most of the European users, it’s the same story. I was digging in net and came across this wonderful Proxy.

http://www.hypercloak.com will help you to watch most of the shows. Go to that site and enjoy YouTube shows.

Eearlier we had Firefox 2.X with Tamil Interface. It was localised by Thamizha community. Later, Firefox came up with version 3.0 but we didn’t have Tamil interface for it. During this time Firefox 3.0 was released with Sinhala interface.

Later University of Moratuwa worked on and come up with a Sri Lankan Tamil locale interface. Where you need to install English interface, later on top of it you can install the Tamil interface.

Now we have Firefox 3.5 with Tamil interface, but still it’s a Release candidate. So it may be an unstable product.

Now it seems Google has released the browser for most of the major Indian languages including Tamil.

Important part of the help pages of Google Chrome also have been translated into Tamil. But unfortunately they’ve used, Taminglish (Tamilised English words) for some vocabulary. This is often a criticism raised against Google’s translations.

You can grab a copy of your Google Chrome Tamil from Chrome website.

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 spellings.

Hats off to Balachander Muruganandam, for initiating this project. He is a known blogger in blogosphere and has developed so much of Gadgets and tools in Tamil.

You can download Firefox Tamil Spell Checker from Firefox website.

What I like most in Google is the support to Indian languages including Hindi and Tamil. Google translate offers translations in Hindi, but Bing translator lacks support to Hindi or any other Indian languages.

Bing Translator offers widget for web masters. If they place the widget in their site, their users can translate the site and see in the desired (supported) languages.

Also you can use Live Messenger’s translation Bot. It’ll automatically translate other languages when you chat with a person who speaks (or types) different language other than English.

Meanwhile Apple has released a new model of iPhone (known as iPhone 3GS). This model got much more features such as built-in video camera etc.

You can buy iPhone with an operator contract for about $99 and iPhone 3Gs for $199. Unfortunately iPhone is not available in Sri Lanka and none of the operators are supporting it.

If you see someone with a iPhone, he is either using a iPhone like fake phone or illegally bought iPhone.

Sometime back Dialog came up with the iPhone deal and everyone was talking about it. Later they dropped the plan and the page also went missing from their site. If we can get one of our local operators to support iPhone we can get iPhone with a connection for about 11, 000 LKR, which is far way cheaper than all Nokia smart phones.

Hope to see iPhone in Sri Lankan market soon.

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