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Google jumps into custom hosted application bandwagon!

Google has launched appengine which provides developers with a platform SDK (python based!) and hosting with access to own Google BigTable database! This competes with Amazon.com’s SQS , S3 (storage) and EC2 (hosting) services which are used by many startups… The applications will get google’s massively scalable infrastructure, failover. Apps would also be able [...]

Search the web for devanagari words.

I created a small form using which you can search the web for unicode devanagari words. It is very cumbersome to actually enter unicode devanagari characters using qwert keyboards, so I have adopted the phonetic transliteration scheme from Manogat website. Do give it a try:
http://amit.chakradeo.net/search/
Start typing devanagari words phonetically and you will see unicode characters [...]