When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you should now see an icon with an Indian character, as the screenshot below shows. This feature is enabled by default for Gmail users in India.  If you do not see this function enabled by default, you will need to go the “Settings” page and enable this option in the “Language” section.

When you click the Indian languages icon, you can type words the way they sound in English and Gmail will automatically convert the word to its Indian local language equivalent.  For example, if a Hindi speaker types “namaste” we will transliterate this to “??????.” …Google currently supports five Indian languages — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam — and you can select the language of your choice from the drop-down list next to the icon.

Google team has built this new feature using Google’s transliteration technology, which is also available on Google India Labs, Orkut, Blogger and iGoogle. And Google hopes you find this feature useful to communicate with those of your friends and family who prefer to write in their native language, and it will be available soon to businesses and schools using Google Apps.  Now back to replying to all those Hindi emails I got from my family and friends today!

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If you have a blog on Google’s Blogger (Blogspot.com), you can configure mobile posting by going to your Blogger Dashboard on draft.blogger.com. Here are the tips to start mobile blogging:

• Click the gray phone icon next to your blog name to enable SMS or MMS for your mobile device. Register your device by sending  claim code to Blogger via SMS or MMS. Messages you send to BLOGGR (256447) will be posted to your blog.
• To enable Email posting, click the gray envelope icon in Blogger dashboard, and define a secret email address. Note: All emails to this address will be posted to your blog, include a photo in your post by sending it as an attachment. Blogger will insert the photo between the title and the body of your post.
• To edit your Mobile settings, you can click on the phone or envelope icons on your Blogger Dashboard, or go to the Settings > Email & Mobile tab.
• Follow these instructions to create a blog from your phone and claim it later.