Monday, October 23, 2000		The world of  dot.com

Tabassum cracks a joke online

www.hansoindia.com

Laughter is the best medicine and keeps stress away. It not only relaxes mind, but body too. Keeping this in mind hansoindia.com has been launched, which has a data bank of healthy jokes, both in text as well as audio, and has the facility of downloading jokes. It is pleasing to hear jokes in the voice of the famous stage artist, Tabassum, which can be heard through real player. Jokes get updated regularly and the user can send the ratings of various jokes to help the site developer in reviewing the site critically..

www.billjunction.com

An important site developed by the ICICI, a premier financial institution, to facilitate payment of various bills, online. Registration to this site is free of charge and a nominal fee is charged for payment of each bill. One has an advantage to make money transaction through his existing bank account only and need not open separate ICICI account. Other utilities, like e-mail reminders, also provided in this site. Archive provides a user with details of previous bills and payments whenever required.

www.epatra.com

This is the first multilingual e-mail service, using which communication can be sent in almost a dozen Indian languages. People can send e-mail to their friends or relatives in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujrati, Assamese, Bengali and Telugu, besides English. While sending messages, user is not required to possess typing knowledge of regional language, but simply has to type on existing keyboard in Roman English. The recipient receives messages in the desired language and adjustment of fonts or downloading of text is not required. The e-mail receiver can also reply through Epatra in above-mentioned regional languages. Since, it is a password protected, user can avail its services from any location or computer where the Internet access is available. The address book keeps record of e-mail addresses of those who frequently send the messages.

www.cyberdiet.com

Aiming health and weight conscious persons it helps in providing tips and guidelines, how to remain hale and hearty. At cyberdiet.com you will find all advice about diet, nutrition and exercises. A section offers recommendation for daily calorie and nutrient intake. For diet-conscious persons facility of daily food planner is useful. You can find out the exact nutrients and number of calories for different food item. A personalised 12 weeks weight loss program is also available, thus weight conscious person can also benefit from the site. There is a personal health-profiling tool designed to evaluate the current health status. The facilities of health club and meditation room are also provided. Health club section offers tips and programs to keep you in shape and pink of health.