I've added two more languages to the Indian Language News portal - Punjabi and Gujarati. Check them out:
Punjabi News
Gujarati News
You can also add the corresponding Google Gadgets to your website or iGoogle.
Add Punjabi News to iGoogle
Add Gujarati News to iGoogle
I'll be adding more news sources as I make the news engine better. Do give me your feedback.
I know its been a long time since my last post. I've been busy with stuff other than writeKA. This weekend, however, I just sat and did some changes to writeKA's Indian Language News portal and also made some new Google Gadgets that display news in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Google Gadgets can be added to your iGoogle page or your website.
Add English News to iGoogle
Add Hindi News to iGoogle
Add Malayalam News to iGoogle
Add Tamil News to iGoogle
Add Telugu News to iGoogle
Add Kannada News to iGoogle
This is how it looked when I was testing the widgets today:
The widgets allow you to change the number of news items you want to see and also the font size. You can change these parameters in the Widget Settings as shown in the image below.
Each news item can be expanded to see the source of the news and also a short description of the news. As always, please do send me your feedback.
Just a short post to let you know that writeKA news is back online, fresher and faster than before. Take a look - http://news.writeka.net.
For more than a month or so now, the site has been experiencing service disruptions. I'm trying to fix these issues right now. For the time being however, I'm bringing the news site down as it uses up a lot of resources on the server.
I've just launched the latest addition to writeKA - writeKA News. Here, you can read the latest news from multiple news sources. The content is dynamically created and refreshed constantly. As of now, news is available in English and Hindi. The number of supported languages will be increased as the application becomes more stable.
Hope you will like it, as always, please let me know your views via Feedback.
Its been a while since I posted on the blog now... I've been busy with work and haven't been able to do many updates on writeKA of late. I thought I needed to change that and so I sat down and managed to figure out what I need to do to resolve some issues which had been pending for a long time now. This includes the email delivery issue on Scripton. I also have a few new ideas, so hoping to bring the updates online soon.
I'm planning on moving the blog to the main website in the next couple of days.
I've recently added intelligent online transliteration for Malayalam using the new Scripton transliteration engine. Scripton tries to predict what word you are trying to in without using any fixed transliteration map. For example, if you type in malayalam ezhuthan eluppam, then you'll get മലയാളം എഴുതാന് എളുപ്പം.
Go ahead and give it a try - writeKA Scripton - English to Malayalam.
I just realised I never formally introduced Scripton, the new intelligent online transliteration engine on writeKA (and a distant cousin of Scripto from the previous post)! OK, now I did. :-)
Right now, only the Hindi version of Scripton is publicly available. Other languages will follow soon. (as soon as I get to work on it!) Why do call Scripton intelligent? Because, it does a moderately good job of trying to guess the words correctly when you write in Hindi. For example, if you write tamatar aur kabutar, it will give the correct output as टमाटर और कबूतर. This wouldn't be possible in a fixed map engine like the ones used earlier. The engine will only improve with time as more people use it and correct presently incorrect outputs.
Give it a shot - writeKA Scripton.
Its been a long while since my last post and I've still not published a new version of Scripto. So I thought I'll put a note out that I'm still working on stuff. The last few months, I was busy with things other than writeKA, BUT NOW I'm giving the final touches to a brand new service from writeKA, which I think will be the best yet. It will be releasing in a few days. As for Scritpto, I'll try my best to publish the next update soon!
This is the first tools and services update.
All tools/services are currently in Beta and will be so for at least an year. You can find the following online tools at present.
Online Transliterators:
A transliterator is used to change letters, words, syllables or other language elements into corresponding characters or elements of another language or alphabet. This is different from translation. WriteKA has developed two language tranlisterators:
1. English(Roman) to Hindi(Devanagari)
Editor Style (Unicode only)
Simple (Includes Graphic support in addition to Unicode)
2. English(Roman) to Malayalam
Editor Style (Unicode only)
Simple (Includes Graphic support in addition to Unicode)
Search in Vernacular Languages:
WriteKA currently hosts Hindi and Malayalam search using a combination of it own transliteration engine and Google search. The search functionality can be added to your browser if you are using Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla FireFox 2.0. Getting the plug-in is easy - Just go to http://www.writeka.com/ and click on the drop down list next to your browser's search box. You'll automatically have an option to add the additional search options; or add them from here:
Hindi Search for your browser
Malayalam Search for your browser
If you use an older version of Internet Explorer, but have the Google Toolbar installed, you can still use this search functionality. Click the links below.
Hindi Search for Google Toolbar
Malayalam Search for Google Toolbar
Website Directory:
The website directory is still in the early stages of development. At the moment, the concentration is on Language related websites and giving additional information on languages.
Language Directory
