As the awareness that people can now see and type Telugu on their computers and on the web generally increases, the Telugu content on the web keeps growing. A part of the Telugu content lives on the social networking sites. Here are some of the Telugu social networking sites that I came across. The specialty of these sites is that they are not only for Telugu people, but also they are in Telugu.
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e-Telugu, an organization working for Telugu on the web, is operating a stall (Stall No. D, next to Eenadu stall) in the 23rd Hyderabad Book Fair.
If you didn’t know yet: 23rd Hyderabad Book Fair is taking place at People’s Plaza, Necklace Road, Hyderabad. The timings are 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm for 10 days starting from 19th of December to 28th.
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This year’s Telugu Blogs Day is on Sunday, 14th of December. If you are in Hyderabad, you can join us in e-Telugu meeting.
Telugu Blogs Day is celebrated to encourage the spread and growth of Telugu blogs. The idea of Blogs Day was started in 2007 as the TeluguBlog group crossed 1,000 members in December of that year.
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Opera Software relesead the latest version of their web browser, Opera 9.6, especially to meet the needs of Indain market.
New in this version is Telugu localization, in addition to Hindi and Tamil. Here is a screen shot of Telugu Opera (click on the image for a bigger version):
Opera.com home page in Telugu Opera
Link to download Telugu Opera: opera.com/download (don’t forget to select Telugu radio button)
See more Telugu Opera screen shots and other details.
Now-a-days, many stand-alone and web applications can be localized into Telugu online. Ability to do localizations online is a simple way to get many people collaborate. Less tech-savvy users can participate easily, too.
By helping Telugu localizations of various applications/websites, you are becoming part of realizing the dream to see more and more Telugu on the web (and in computers, generally). The below is a list of places on the web that allow translation of various applications into Telugu.
Creating web pages in Telugu is very simple. For this how-to I assume that you are using Windows XP or above. Just follow the following steps. Read the rest of this entry »
January Headlines:
Following issues attracted the attention of Telugu Bloggers in January ‘08:
Apple layout is the second most famous layout on non-Unicode Telugu generation applications. Using the MSKLC, I created Telugu Apple Keyboard Layout for Windows. By using this, you can type in Unicode Telugu wherever you can type in English.
Instructions and notes about using Apple Keyboard Layout follows.
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Now that it is very easy to type Telugu on computers, there is a surge in number of Telugu discussion groups on the web. There is probably one that suits your interests. Choose from the following list.
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There are many good Telugu magazines on the web. Here are links to some of them:
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