BANGALORE PLACE LOCATOR

I have often wished navigating Bangalore were easier. My wish has been granted! A good friend from work shared this website (http://latlong.in/) with me. If you live in Bangalore, Latlong is a boon, because:

1. You can find out the distance, driving directions, and map route between any two places in Bangalore.

2. You can search for a (reasonably famous) building, shop, restaurant etc., and you can see its map location, landmarks, etc.

3. You can search for a service in a particular area (example: Driving Schools in Koramangala, Pizza in Bannerghatta Road, etc) and be provided with the closest options.

This website also offers an SMS service. You can sms FROM TO to 90088-90088, and you will receive information via sms within 10 seconds! The SMS service also provides the approximate auto fare for this distance, which I have tested to be pretty accurate! I understand these sms-es are charged as local sms-es per your operator tariff plan.

Kudos to the company Onze Techologies' hard work and initiative in creating this service!

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Have been receiving lots of e-mail, asking whether I can send my blogposts to folks' inboxes.

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PRESIDENTIAL INFORMATION

Got the link to the website of the President of India, thanks to buddy Random Access!

The President of India

I wanted to share this with all of you - it contains Shri. APJ Abdul Kalam's speeches, poetry, songs, quotes, addresses to the nation, press releases and much, much more. Totally unlike some of the drab government websites that I have visited in the past.

A laudable feature is that the visually challenged can also obtain information from this site, with the help of inbuilt speech applets.

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NONSENSE DICTIONARIES

There's actually a dictionary for Madras Baashai!

Judging by the way they include crap words in the Oxford Dictionary (in the name of globalism of English), I won't be surprised to see "Saavugraakki" and "Kasmaalam" in the list soon.

Check out this website to understand the meaning of these wonderful words, and much more. Thank me later.

COOL 'n' USEFUL SITES

Here're some links that I think some of you may find really useful (read, "no blog ideas today", hehe)

1. The Largest Free Email Storage Provider in the World - If you thought GMail was the biggest, get ready to catch your eyes, they're gonna pop out! Hriders.com provides 1 TB email storage, that is 1000 GB!! You can store the data of about 20 PCs in there!

2. The World's Longest Email Address - Are you a freak? Do you want an email address that reads: yourname@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com? I created one for myself and gave it to all the people I never want to receive email from.

3. MTC Bus Routes List - Comprehensive list of all Chennai bus routes, bus fare, and journey time.

4. Telephone Enquiry (landline) - Wanna track the owner of a BSNL/MTNL landline number? This is your ready reference! Also provides directory service for 10 more cities.

SUDOKU FOR REAL MEN

I thought I was an expert in solving Sudoku puzzles. Well, every pride has its fall, and I've realized that The Hindu is supplying puzzles for pre-kindergarten admission rejects.

Check out these sites for some real Sudoku action!

SUDOKU MASTER (Some real toughies here!)
SUDOKU NAME (Play with timer & set your difficulty level)
SUDOKU FUN (Online Speed Challenge)
WEB SUDOKU (Try their Evil level)

There are hundreds of such websites, and I do hope that The Hindu increases its difficulty level soon.

The next step in evolution - Try out this deadly 16x16 grid