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Net Effect's More Here - The Hindu

Bitten by the 'How to bug? Got a couple of days of leisure? How to spend them? In need of a passport, a driving Licence or electricity connection? But how to get them? It's the same 'Q' mark that seem to pop up at every step of life.

For the netizens of the 400-year-old Hyderabad 'shehar' however, there seem to be help available in the cyber world. Log onto the 'How to' section of the new portal, HamaraShehar.com, and find a way out of the maze and your predicaments. The portal attempts to simplify the procedural wrangles involved in getting things done.

The site, unique in several aspects, also has staked claim of being the first 'desi' portal offering a notepad, a taskpad and an organiser. While browsing, if you are flooded with ideas, punch them into the notepad and store them.

Heard the common Net refrain, "Web designer's designing heaven is the visitor's hell". Browsing often does get irritable when gaudily done pages pop on the computer screen. How you cursed the designer for his colour selection?

Take liberties when it comes to aesthetics. If you do not like the colours, use the mouse and shoo them away, sorry, click them away. Choose from a side array of 16 colours schemes to personalise the site according to your likes and dislikes. Scream "hey, mera wala shade", click on it, and the site is ready with the hue of your choice.

Whimsical are the ways of weather. Want to know how bright the sun is going to shine or how vicious is the mood of the rain God. Run a check on the round-the-clock weather channel of HamaraShehar and decide whether to carry an umbrella or not.

The bi-lingual site, presently available with the database in English and Telugu, will be available in Hindi soon. So, have things your way, whether it's language or colour.

- By T. Lalith Singh

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