Blogging has taken the world by storm. It is increasingly becoming the most popular method to express one’s thoughts and feelings on the internet, as well as an effective medium to earn a respectable living. These days, all the business around the world, and specifically the technology industry maintains at least one official web log to announce its...
Search Engines are vital for any business. This is valid not only for the online businesses and entrepreneurs but a Taxi Driver from Rawalpindi is also well known to the benefits a search engine can bring to him. Asif Ali Shah running a full fledge PR, branding, online marketing and lead generation campaign for his book “For Hire” with...
Earlier today I came across this news playing on GEO television network where they showed an email sent from PM cell. The address was mentioned as pmmediaoffice gmail.com. Went into shock and awe. The government official channel is using GMAIL account. What is going on here? Thought it was some kinda mistake so I just googled the email address and...
Google has become an essential part of our online lives. Gmail, Google Docs, Search Engine, Feed Reader, Maps, Google Earth, YouTube and What Not? I am not doubting the ease this single company has brought to our lives, but at the same ever you thought that Google stores all the activities you do on internet, for instance, what searches you did, emails...
We have covered before how Google Maps works, and then also reviewed when Google Maps started giving driving directions for Pakistani audience. Now, widely considered as a big breakthrough, Google Mobile Maps also offer Turn by Turn navigation directions for Pakistan. Google Mobile Maps are community driven maps, through Google Map Maker. We know that...
RSS feeds are simplified view of Web content with just text, pictures and videos – minus the site’s style and formatting. RSS feeds, in other words, are the content of a website, which can be viewed on external programs and devices. For example, ProPakistani’s RSS feed can be viewed on any RSS reader on your laptop or on your Mobile Phone. As...
Bloggers of Pakistan, here is the reward coming for you people, at last. CIO Pakistan and Google Pakistan is organizing Blog Awards for Pakistani Bloggers. Awards are confirmed, as we know through sources; however, we don’t know the dates yet. Everyone has to submit his/her blog him/herself. We are even un-aware of last date for submission, but we...
Google’s Gmail happens to remain a top visited website, and those who rely on Gmail rarely closes it. Gmail Labs comes with an option to Keep Google Calendar Gadget open all the times – with what you can easily add/edit your schedule, meetings, reminders and so on with Google Calendar. Go into Gmail’s settings-> Labs and enable Calendar...
Yesterday Zohair Chohan (a ProPakistani writer) asked me to create him a ProPakistani.PK email address. He was little hesitant as he thought it could cost us disk space of bandwidth. However, it’s not the case – and the reason is Google Application. Today, I am sharing the idea of Google Application which is apparently unknown to many web masters...
Most of us are familiar with Google Urdu Transliteration Service that converts Roman Urdu sentences into Urdu fonts. Here we got this Wordpress Plugin, which can enable your blog comments Google Transliteration ready, meaning that commenters will be able to type in Roman Urdu while output will be served as Urdu Fonts, and that too automatically. You...
After exciting official preview video of Google’s upcoming service Google wave I really wanted to check out Google Wave, which is currently under test and has not been publicly launched by Google. I knocked my friends asking for any Google wave invitation and finally i got it. I was sort of excited hence I quickly signed up. Like all other services,...
Checking Gmail on your phone isn’t reserved for those of us with extra fancy mobile devices - sure, it’s easier to use Gmail when your iPhone has a touchscreen or there’s a downloadable app built especially for your BlackBerry, but Gmail is available on almost all mobile devices today. If your phone has a data plan, it can get Gmail....
Stefan Geens has figured out a spot on Google Earth that is likely to be Baitullah Mehsud’s in law’s house where he was reportedly shot down by a missile attack. Stefan figured out the exact location of a village in remote areas of Wazirastan, Federally administered Tribal Areas, based on news reports published in media. For instance, BBC reported The...
Here is this very interesting development happened at Google. With the service, you need to simply type in urdu roman, and in return it will give back your words in urdu fonts. Here is the link With Transliteration Engine, you don’t need to worry about typing with an English keyboard, as resultant language will be in urdu fonts. Give it a try,...
We have repeatedly applauded Pakistani Community for making tremendous contribution for populating Google Maps for Pakistan and its cities. Now here is this news that Pakistan netizens are posting more localized information and data to the Google’s ‘map maker’ than the web users of any of the 160 countries which are using the leading internet...
