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  உங்கள் கணினில் அனைத்தையும் நீங்கள் தமிழில் பார்க்க வேண்டுமா?  இதை போல...... If you want your desktop (WindowsXP) to  look in your own language. Get Language Interface pack from microsoft. Download it here (Tamil - தமிழ்), Also available for other languages - go here and get your language pack. It is currently available for 27 Languages including Hindi.  Warning: Some of the shortcuts in control panel still display tamil names even after uninstalling the language pack. If you want to decorate your office 2003 with language interface pack.. get it here (Tamil - தமிழ்), for other languages get it from here . That's it for now.

If you are using Internet Explorer you might be tired of broken downloads. On the other hand even if you have other browsers like firefox, there is in built download manager, but not quiet powerful and not actually fast enough. So if you are the one to choose third party download managers there are many download managers. Most of them are sharewares. Sharewares contain ad supported banners or sometimes limited functionality. Some of them are 1. Download Accelerator Plus. Which is a shareware contains ad-supported banners, also has limitations with connections and minimizing to tray. 2. GetRight- It is considered to be best download manager. It is also a shareware and contains limited time functionality. 3. GoZilla - It is a shareware and ad supported banners. and so.. on.. So at the end of the day, you end up in installing some adware stuff or a time bom which is going to stop working. There is a totally free download manager, with no limited functionality and is also very power...

The fight is going to get bigger and tougher between two Software Giants. There is no need for introduction about Adobe and Microsoft. Adobe is a leading product developer in Digital Media and Content Development Software's such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash (Earlier Macromedia Flash), Adobe DreamWeaver (Earlier Macromedia DreamWeaver) and also Adobe Audition etc etc. Adobe is the definitely and clearly market leader in above products and Particularly Adobe Photoshop is the standard professional photo editing tool,designing tool, Adobe PDF - defacto standard for document publishing/sharing. Almost many books are being published in Adobe Acrobat format. Microsoft also has products like Digital Image Suite which is a photo album manager, photo editing software but does not have great professional tools like Adobe Photoshop. Brief of Graphics platform: There are two types of imaging (Graphics) software's. Vector graphics  and raster Graphics...

  Hey.. r u going to buy a laptop ?... Have u decided what to buy ? How did you choose ? I recently went to a Computer (IT) Exhibition. There were so many booths offering very good value for laptops. My friends were interested to buy one and asked my suggestion. I told them few models and said these are good. The pricing were very attractive and we were able to get Core 2 Duo based laptop with 1 GB RAM and other etc etc for a price of SGD 1700 (Singapore Dollars). There were other models which included AMD TURION X2 processors which were a T a price lower compared to CORE 2 DUO processors. There is a common perception that if the price of a product is less then the product is of inferior quality. This I found with my friends said that AMD Laptops will not be good and thus they are offering at a low price. I tried to explain to them but still they are not convinced. They argued with me "then why other Intel laptops are out selling even though AMD price is less..." and so...

Microsoft is officially announcing the launch of Office 2007 and Windows Vista for Business today. Windows Vista is finally released after a long development cycle. There are great many features in Windows Vista and comes with a calendar, photo gallery , DVD Maker and Better Games. Also there are numerous features in windows vista. You may refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista or http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista . There are many criticisms for having taken this long to develop and also copying many features from Apple OS X. I am using RC2 build Windows Vista as my primary operating system which i got through customer preview program. I find that it is very good and when comparting to pervious builds almost all the softwares seem to work on RC2. The reason for choosing windows rather than other OS is the ecosystem. Many softwares that i want to use is available for windows platform. Also i need not buy proprietory hardware (like OS X). The software compatiblity list...

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SyncToy is a powerful and Simple tool to keep in sync of your folder. SyncToy is part of Microsoft PowerToys. It is very very useful and is available for free.     SyncToy 1.4 Works on Windows Vista as well. You can select the configuration of folder sync.   This tool might be very useful for those who are working in different computers and want to keep their data in sync always. For myself i want to keep my documents, my photes and all my development materials in sync between my computers. I do it easily with Synctoy. I use an external HardDisk and SyncFiles from my external HDD and Desktop. This serves me two purpose 1. Keey sync of folders so that i can transfer to any other pc of my choice. 2. Additional BackUp of your data. Certainly this very very useful tool and for me it has become very essential for daily routine. First step is to create the folder Pair. Source and Target. Then Click on Preview to Preview before you Sync. You can also directly sync wi...

Microsoft is releasing Zune Mp3 Player late september. Its official announcement can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/sep0... .        It is very late that Microsoft is entering into Mp3 player market. It is not sure whether it is going to compete with Apple's iPod, which has been in market for long time and has introduced versions of it. It is very difficult in the current market where the market is fully loaded with lots of mp3 players from Creative, Samsung etc. Though Zune has high expectation it is to wait and watch whether it meets the requirement of the masses keeping price tag low. It is not fully loaded with features guns as well. Creative Zen Vision M/W are the ones which have best list of features to current date including TV OUT port. Earlier there were rumors that zune will have sensitive touch screen but that is missing. Plus Points :- Wifi and Large Screen and Ofcourse Microsoft (Brand).  There are...

Here is just preview of Microsoft Max a RSS Reader, Photo sharing and List creation. It is based on .net framework 3.0. You may have to download which of 54Meg. The front end is very cool but all functionalities are not finished yet. Here is the screenshots.  Just play with it and see, how cool it is .. for more details visit http://www.microsoft.com/Max/

The new Yahoo! Messenger Version 8 is released quiet some time before. Is it worth upgrading from pervious version ? The answer from my point will certainly be " NO ".   What are all new features a. International Call facility (Already available in 7 and above) b. Talk with MSN users (Really new feature and really wonderful) c. Plugins instead of TABS. (Cool to watch but really too much buggy) d. Good address book search facility. e. Nothing much more..   Ok.. The features are really looking very attractive. The features are tied with many disadvantages. International call facility is not used by users largely outside US and also not widely used by PC users who prefer to chat with from PC to PC rather.  Talking with MSN users, if it has been done long ago.. which includes only typing (chat) facility then it would have been a success. But integrating services is a important thing,(may be will do in future), how ever in both sides instead of the feature that both ...

  To Tamil Readers. The previous post contains numerous fonts. If you think that these fonts are not working you may see this blog. IF the below letters look for you in different styles then the fonts are installed otherwise the fonts has not been installed. Check this out. சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா குலத் தாழ்சி உயர்சி சொலல் பாவம் - Basic Latha Font சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா குலத் தாழ்சி உயர்சி சொலல் பாவம் - TAU Ilango Font சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா குலத் தாழ்சி உயர்சி சொலல் பாவம் - Agasthiyar Font சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா குலத் தாழ்சி உயர்சி சொலல் பாவம் - TAU Janani Font சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா குலத் தாழ்சி உயர்சி சொலல் பாவம் - Sundaram 1351 சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா குலத் தாழ்சி உயர்சி சொலல் பாவம் - Sundaram 824 சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா குலத் தாழ்சி உயர்சி சொலல் பாவம் - Gist TMO Kalyani சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா குலத் தாழ்சி உயர்சி சொலல் பாவம் - Gist TMO Lalitha. These are all Samples. All are of font size 12. If all fonts seems like the first one then you try reinstal...

This post is meant for Tamil Readers.. There are quiet a number of Tamil Sites. Each tamil news papers have their websites and each websites are build with their own fonts. So you got to download the font and install. There is no single standard followed. This situation can be minimized when you use unicode fonts. There are numerous unicode fonts available. Further most operating systems supports unicode and most common operating system , Windows XP/2000 natively supports unicode. How ever when you want to compose you might need to install additional languages and options. The Default unicode font the comes along with Windows XP is Latha . The title of this post also contains the same font. When you are printing or when you want to design then you might consider using different styles of unicode fonts. You can download Tamil unicode fonts that i collected from https://www.barathonline.com/downloads/tamilfonts/ where i have a compressed file (ZIP) which contains 120 fonts. There ...

How to install Tamil Language support to windows XP / 2000. Requirements . 1. Windows XP / 2000 installed PC 2. Minimum of 200MB Hard disk space to install fonts and scripts. 3. Windows XP installation CD. Steps 1. Go to Control Panel 2. Go to Date Time , Language options Category View Select Regional and Language Options Classic View Go to Regional Languages --> Languages Tab -->       Tick on Install Complex scripts (option 1) and Install files for east Asian languages (option 2). It will require you to insert Windows XP Installation CD. After installing it will ask for a reboot. Reboot the Machine and again go to control panel, regional settings and languages options. Click on Details --> Text Services and Input Languages       Click on ADD to add desired languages.       Now you can Shift to languages by pressing ALT+SHIFT between buttons. You can also configure key settings, la...

Windows® Live Mail Desktop Beta   Microsoft released beta version of windows Live mail desktop version. This is live the extension of Outlook Express®. It is very cool to use and very easily integrates with Windows Live Messenger. The User interface is very attractive and following the theme of Windows Live. You can setup Windows Live messenger if you have an existing hotmail account. It requires you to be online for the first time it starts. After you setup your account sync your mail messages with those on the server, it can truly work like a desktop mail system. Plus Points 1. Existing hotmail users can easily check their emails. No need to worry about browsers, scrip errors, etc. 2. You can work either Online or Offline. You can even view your mails when you are not connected to the internet (Just Like outlook). 3. More importantly there is no TAG LINE BELOW. (currently) 4. You can attach photos, documents more easily like you do in outlook or other email clients. 5. Inst...

Dear All, Now a day almost all of them who are familiar with the computer world may be at least having one Web Based Email ID with them. There are many free email web based service providers such as Yahoo! (1GB), GMail (>2GB), MSN (250 MB) (Windows Live Mail on its way, 2GB, http://ideas.live.com, Read my review: http://barathonline.blogspot.com). These are very useful to receive hell a lot of emails. There are great advantages that they can be accessed anywhere from any part of the world. But that needs internet connection. That means you are bound to have internet connection when you want to view the mails. On the other hand we have POP mails which comes with a disadvantage of viewing in web(Though many service providers also include web access, the interface and usability is not as good as web email service providers). How will be when you get your Yahoo, MSN or GMail into your POP Mail clients such as Outlook express/Outlook and can be viewed even when you are not connected on t...

Dear all, It has been almost 4 years since windows XP has released. After the release the updates are only for security issues not majorly for User Interfaces. There is Microsoft Plus! but that even does not give much different look to your desktop. Windows XP comes with three appearance theme + Classic Style. Classic style is similar to those of Windows 2000/Me/98 system interfaces. Windows XP theme was quiet amazing when we saw for the first time. New schema of colours.. High depth icons etc etc. But when we (I) look at the same interface.. which i have been seeing for long time.. it is boring. Sometimes u feel .. "Hey daily seeing the same face". Though u change wallpaper there is nothing to it. The other OS's such as Mac OSX (No 1 in user interface), or Even many Linux distributions are getting more beautiful in terms of look and feel. For windows XP users , there are numerous and numerous thirdparty windows beautifiers. Few examples are 1. Window Blinds from Object D...