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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...

Dear all, Gone are the days where the storage of emails was a problem. Many Free e-mail service providers such as Yahoo (Giving 1 GB of Email space), GMail (>2 GB of Email space) and Hotmail (250 MB of email space) and lot more. Now a days the domain registration cost and web space cost is also plunging down very fastly. People who put their content on the web are rapidly increasing. Yahoo and MSN messengers have a stiff competition in messengers while Google has also joined in. Skype of course has also joined the race providing more voice features (now includes Video in Beta). Microsoft's MSN has been quiet for a while, where yahoo and Gmail are flying in providing email space and services. Its time for Microsoft to Bang in again. The power of microsoft is it can make the product so easy so that it can reach to the end users very fast. Now they have come with new solution called WINDOWS LIVE. go to http://www.live.com/ . Windows will now offer additional e-mail service apart fr...

It is long time since Microsoft has given a true update to Internet Explorer. There has been update to Internet Explorer constantly, significantly from version 4 to version 5 then to version 6 and now version 6 sp2. There has been lot of security fixes in these version rather than any UI improvements or rather features improvement. IE 7 has included number of feature improvements, UI improvements and of course improved security etc. UI improvements include tabbed browsing support, in built search bar (just like firefox), RSS support. IE 7 can also be loaded without add-on so that it can run well even if your add-on has been infected. Another feature is that it has Anti Phishing Technology which ensures that the data reaches to the correct destination without being hacked. There are many hick ups when I started using the beta 1 version of Internet explorer. First was it was not compatible with YAHOO MAIL or rather YAHOO MAIL does not support IE 7. So the look and feel goes back like old...

hi all, When I was young I am very weak in History and Geography. History I was very poor(I have even Failed) because i am/was not interested in saying "he did that in this Year... " bla bla bla bla. then In Exam they will be questions asking in which year he did this .. something like that.. i hate those things.. I was not that bad in Geography but still i was not much interested and I dont know many places and i was very worst in imagining. They say Terrains, this MAP that MAP i felt hey how boring is to have a non visual thing and just seeing a map in static non color,,,, huh.. all those days has gone.. Now the world has entirely changed. WYSIWYG they say WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET. I could not image in few mouse clicks i can see the whole world in my Hand.. revolve zoom in and see.. huh really great.. Just go to http://earth.google.com and download EARTH :D. Yeah u can download earth to your PC. I really feel really great Below is the snapshot of my Home town in INDIA....

hi , Today 1st of July 2005, a beginning day of second half of the year started with some excitement in my mind.. What is the excitement. "Bill Gates was here in Singapore" and can ask "So what ?".. "Because I was also attending the Conference held here.." Hence i was very happy to see him LIVE.. and around 8000 people gathered for the event.. The event went well. It was nice to see the CREATIVE chairman too there giving good speach there. GREAT TIPS from him. Some of them will be really useful.. பில் கேட்ஸ் கணினி உலகின் தாதா என்று கூறப்படும் அவரை நேரில் பார்க்கும் வாய்ப்பு (கனவு என்று கூட கூறலாம் இன்று நிறைவேறியது) இன்று கிட்டியது . இன்று நடந்த நிகழ்ச்சி http://www.micorosoft.com/singapore/billgateslive என்ற இணைய பக்கத்தில் பார்கலாம். Webcasts are available at http://www.zdnetasia.com/billgateslive c u again..

hi everyone, I hope those people who r familier with Blogging will definitely know about messengers as well and needs no introduction. Messengers are providing great communication. I am going to to about Yahoo and MSN messengers. Both these messengers from the day of introduction has improved a lot in their service. Each one is competing the other in providing better communication. We can always encourage a healthy competetion to make things easier in life. Yahoo is introducing its new Yahoo messenger 7 now currently in Beta Version available for downloads. The new yahoo messenger provides voice calls, Voice messages , Drag and drop facility of files, Photo sharing etc. MSN already has released its MSN messegner 7 which has great features too.. MSN's quality of audio and video is really very good. Yahoo sometimes have some hickups sometimes. Both Yahoo and MSN messengers are quiet analogoues to each other. In yahoo messenger 7 you can see the shared picture as ur buddy icon same as...

Hi, I hope everybody is familiar on search engines. If we talk about search engines we will remember only internet search engines and of course “Google”. Earlier searching was very slow until Google introduced caching mechanism to cache files and to display them immediately within in very short period of time. It was actually old concept but earlier due to lack of resources it was not very successful. In olden days cost per GB space was very high. But now a days cost per GB (Disk Space) is very low. Thus caching technology has become very popular. Now this has reached even to desktops. First it was “Google” again who introduced desktop search and now is available for download at http://desktop.google.com . It is very impressive and very fast. Following Google Yahoo and Microsoft (MSN) also introduced desktop search engines. Always when it comes to Google and others is the presentation layer. When you take yahoo mail and Google mail and hotmail the presentation layer in Google is not ri...