January 30th, 2007
Ministry of communications & information technology has released a suite of tools for Malayalam language. You can download them here. The package contains,
Malayalam fonts (true type, open type etc.)
Malayalam spell checker
Malayalam-English and English-Malayalam dictionaries
Malayalam Microsoft word tool
Malayalam OCR (very useful!)
Malayalam text to speech tool
I don’t know how Achu mama will react with all these Microsoft [...]
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January 28th, 2007
Sometime back I wrote a post about the karuvannur toll bridge guessing that probably it is the cheapest toll bridge. The toll is for 2 rupees.
Kuttan menon writes about an incident in Amala hospital which shows how valuable 2 rupees can be!
കഞ്ഞിക്ക് പത്തുരൂപയാണ് വില. ആ സ്ത്രീയുടെ കൈവശം 8 രൂപയേ ഉള്ളൂ. കൌണ്ടറിലെ പയ്യന് അല്പം പരുഷമായിത്തന്നെയാണ് ആ [...]
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January 26th, 2007
Almost everyone in Kerala owns a mobile phone. You can get a mobile set with incoming only for a very nominal monthly rental.
SMS is quite popular in Kerala. Lot of creative work can be seen in the SMS messages that are exchanged between people. Here are some which I got recently,
deivamee enikku sms ayakkathavarude mobile [...]
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January 9th, 2007
Aabhasan (nice name you have!) blogs from Japan about winter experiences - But his title wasted my precious reading time! Only consolation was the ice stick he offered. But hey, where is the flight ticket?
Note: Posts tagged with Malayalam will contain Malayalam posts.
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January 8th, 2007
I think 2007 will see a surge of Malayalam blogs. There are a lot of Malayalam blogs coming up every day on blogspot. Of course many of them becomes an orphan within a week or so.
I have a special love for photo blogs. Photo blogs are inherently more powerful than text blogs. Here is a [...]
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