All about Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool

Now a days we feel that for many languages like Hindi, entering text on PC is difficult. And there are many products and tools in market out there today through which we can enter text in hindi by any translation widget. But most products have some barrier – e.g. some require users to know a fixed transliteration scheme; some others allow free form transliteration, but work only on webpages etc.

But Microsoft peoples has made their efforts to create a tool that can bring translations to the desktop such that it can be used to enter text in any application on the PC, and that is a key focus of the Indic Language Input Tool.

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Microsoft Pivot | a new Internet browser from Live labs

Take a look to the Microsoft Live labs’ another great experiment “Pivot”. Its nothing but an Internet browser which works on the basis of IE but with the new attractive looks and cool features. Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun.

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Create your own custom Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8 released with lots of new exciting features like Web Slices, InPrivate Borwsing, Smart Screen Filter and many more. But i am totally impressed with one of its new feature called Accelerators.

The new Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8 help you quickly perform your everyday browsing tasks without navigating to other websites to get things done. Simply highlight text from any webpage, and then click on the blue Accelerator icon that appears above your selection to obtain driving directions, translate and define words, email content to others, search with ease, and more. For example, with the “Map with Live Maps” Accelerator in Internet Explorer 8, you can get an in-place view of a map displayed directly on the page.

Have a look at the sidebar for WinSpark.net Accelerator. (All non PC who has never faced to IE8 – this Accelerator works only in Internet Explorer 8.)

You can also create your own Accelerator for your Blog/Website. Its very simple. follow these  two simple steps.

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