Weboword : Vocabulary Visually

Weboword

Weboword is a kind of visual dictionary that primarily uses pictures to illustrate the meaning of words. Weboword creates a simple situational meaningful stick figure comic to illustrate example use of each word and also provides valuable synonyms and details about its origin.

Apart from this it also has vocabulary search engine and weekly crossword section.

You can also subscribe to its feed services so it can directly available to your feed reader or mail boxes whenever they will publish a new word.

Its the must tool for all those who likes to keep updated with their vocab knowledge and specially all MBA, GRE, SAT, CAT, GMAT, TOEFL, IELTS aspirants who likes to build their vocabulary visually.

Quillpad for Indian Languages

Quillpad is a web based online typing tool for Indian language where one can type in Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Nepali. QuillPad is created by tachyon technologies.

With Quillpad, all you need to do is type the phrase in English as you would say it in a particular language and Quillpad will do the automatic transliteration into corresponding language. Yes, this is quite comfortably supported in mobile.

Quillpad can be licensed for commercial use while it’s free for personal use.

Because English is not enough! so check out this cool Made in India product Quillpad.

Restore Show Desktop Shortcut

I accidentally lost shortcut button “Show Desktop” from Windows XP Taskbar’s Quick Launch section. I tried various probabilities and combination but couldn’t restore it. Though Windows+D command was handy but I wanted my shortcut button back. Finally after some googling got a simple solution …

Create a file with name “Show Desktop.scf” with following contents:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Drag this file to Quick Launch area and it works.

Another simple way:
click Start>Run and type this command: regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32 and done.

Amul’s Bread Butter ki Jhappi

Amul once again came up with an awesome creative poster ad with the hint of Sanjay Dutt’s jhappi offer to Mayawati in this election season.

Google SMS India 9773300000

Google is now providing a 10 digit mobile number for easy to search and serve various helpful services using mobile in a quick and economical way in India.

For e.g.:  Just SMS your PNR number of railway ticket on this mobile number and instantaneously you will get your ticket’s current status along with all other journey related details.

Or just send ‘reliance quote’ and you will get what you were looking for.

The number is 9773300000. No need to prefix 0 or +91.

Best of all, you don’t pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.

Check out the various other services like cricket scores, horoscopes, facts, movies, news, flight status, local information and so on:

http://www.google.co.in/mobile/default/sms/