Logos - Unknown Facts, Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Logos are not only meant for design.As a end user one can view the logo's look and feel.But the designers should know the hidden meaning behind it.

View some of them here.








Can you find the symbol which is hidden in the Federal Express logo? Look at the logo. You can see the 'arrow' between the E and X in this logo.The arrow was to highlight swiftness and accuracy, which are part of the positioning of the company.















Paul Rand designed the iconic IBM logo in the year 1972.Later on 1981 he designed this 'eye bee M' logo. Actually IBM stands for "International Business Machines".












An amazing instance of symmetry and order is the SUN Microsystems logo. When you observe the logo, the letters u and n while arranged adjacent to each other look a lot like the letter S in a perpendicular direction.









Have a look at the arrow in the logo. You may imagine that the arrow does nothing here. But it convey a message that amazon.com has everything from a to z and it also represents the smile brought to the customer's face.

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Angry Programmers, Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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Programmers Reaction, Thursday, April 9, 2009

See the reactions of an ordinary man and a programmer while in danger.

Ordinary Man














Programmer




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Google introduced language option in Gmail, Thursday, April 2, 2009

Do you want to send mails in tamil, hindi, malayalam or in Telugu?

Are you feel very difficult to convey your message in English?

Google now introduced language options in Gmail.

You can send mails in tamil, hindi, malayalam , Telugu and in English.














They provide suggestion for you while you are typing as they did in google suggest.

This will help you to select the exact word you want.













But they are having some drawbacks in it.

For some words, translation is wrong.

Here is a sample of error.







Even if the translation comes wrong after we hit space key, in there suggestions we cannot find the correct translation.

A sample error listing

















If google fixes these minor errors, Surely this becomes very useful to the gmail users.

Not having Translator in your mailbox!!!

Here is how to enable the translation.

1. Click the Settings link in Gmail.
2. On the General tab, select the checkbox next to 'Enable Transliteration'.
3.If there is no 'Transliteration' option, Then click the Show all language options link first.
4.Select the language you would like your messages to be written from the drop-down menu.
5. Save all the changes you did.

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