How to Write in Hindi on the Web

Writing in HINDI is quite easy. There are various ways to write hindi. 1) Using Takhti Software This is a free software,can be downloaded from here Using this software, you type in Roman,and software would show text in Hindi.The software provides on-screen keyboard also to help the users.More information is available on the website. After completion of your text using Takhi, just copy and Paste this to anywhere, including Emails,Blogs,Comments etc. I am using TAKTI to write my blogs. One more thing.... Takhti Software can be configured to use for other languages, please go through readme documents. 2) If you do not like to download anything, you can use online Hindi Keyboard..... available at : http://www.chhahari.com/unicode/ another here :http://hindikeyboard.indiapress.org/ 3) In addition to this, you can use install MS office Hindi Support, using this you can type hindi in various applications. I am not using this,therefore I can not tell you more about this. Just make sure that Hindi font which you are using, must be UTF-8 compabible. For any further help you are free to contact our hindi bloggers group. We'll be happy to help you. So Go ahead and write your first hindi blog......Do not forget to intimate us about your hindi blog address.

Sindhi Blog on the Web

Dear Friends, As you are aware that I have been writing Hindi & English blogs regularly, but very few of you must be knowing that my mother tongue is Sindhi. Therefore I have some commitments towards my mother language too. So I would like to present my first Sindhi Blog, probably this is world's first Sindhi Blog. Sindhi is recognized Language in the constitution of India. Sindhi is spoken worldwide among 20 million peoples. Sindhi is commonly written in Arabic Script, but it can be written in Devnagri too. I am not fully confident in writing Arabic Script, therefore I would be writing in Devnagri script. You can read my Sindhi Blog here : http://sindhiblog.blogspot.com Please spread the word among your sindhi friends. Thanks for your co-operation

Flickr: A Review

Flickr (beta) is a great service and is very quickly becoming the photoblogging tool of choice for many bloggers. Very cool features, very zippy application and ease of upload coupled with a relatively usable interface makes this product a winner. Photoblogging is a personal interest and I want to try and understand what makes this product so likeable as compared to, say, Gallery and the places where I think Flickr could improve upon itself. Product features: Easy setup - It is very simple to setup a gallery for yourself, almost instantaneous if you don't want to provide much information. I like that. If an online service requires your life's story for account creation, users are lost. Mostly uncluttered homepage - Though that is quickly changing. The main items of use are clearly visible and easy to find within the thumbnails. Ease of upload and multiple photo upload - Downloadable applications for both Mac OS X and Windows make uploading multiple photos a cinch. Online forms are also available. A bookmarklet to automatically select images from a viewed webpage for upload to Flickr is incredibly useful. I am not so sure of the licence implications of that feature, but very cool otherwise. The image editing interface - Is very nicely don't. Simple image editing (rotation), ability to highlight parts of a photo with comments and various sizes for download are also cool features. Blog directly from inside Flickr - Again, nicely done. Easy to use, not much setup, simple interface and fast response. Tags - You can add tags to your photographs. In my mind, tags are simple descriptive words for your pictures and photos can be classified using those tags. Much like the GMail Labels. More on that in a minute Lots of image security features - Well, a couple that come to mind are the ability to make a picture private and the ability to classify an image as "might be offensive". Useful for those not-so-nice pictures. Social Network Integration - Only possible on a hosted service, but nicely done in Flickr (though could use some improvements). Assign groups, contacts, invite people to join etc. Full EXIF implementation - Get all your EXIF information translated and added to your photos Cameraphone/moblog ability - Send pictures to Flickr from your camera phone. All your photoblogging under one roof. RSS and ATOM feeds - Much like most other modern blogging applications, Flickr provides ATOM and RSS feeds for each user. Last but not the least, a powerful FAQ - Most questions are answered here. Where they could improve: No Albums?? - This is an opinion but Ive always missed having folders in GMail and I miss having albums in Flickr. I think tags are useful in their own right and are a very useful way of classifying pictures, but the ability to group pictures upon upload, especially if you upload a lot of pictures, is very important. If I plan to upload 300 pictures to Flickr every week, it would be impossible to keep them straight. I think Picasa does a good job with albums. Pictures can be grouped by name, date uploaded and the album in which they have been uploaded to. They can also be classified by "tags", but that's secondary to a higher order classification. More clutter? - I remember when Flickr was launched it had a pristine interface and I cannot help but think that the marketing/design departments (if they have one) have had their way with the evolving interface. "Your photos" interface - The page to view your own photos (and make modifications) needs a little more work in my opinion. Long names overlap, icons are non-descriptive and LJ - esque (Courtsey : http://weblogtoolscollection.com/)

Google Desktop

Ever thought of finding all your files on your hard disk using Google. Time has come... just click the following link http://desktop.google.com This is revolutionary application from Google, called Google Desktop (Beta version). Google Desktop Search will retrieve your email in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express; files in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and text; your website history in Internet Explorer; and your instant message chats in AOL Instant Messenger. In other words, if you've seen it on your computer screen, Google Desktop Search can likely help you find it. Simply put, it's like a photographic memory for your computer. more information available here Download now and Enjoy!

Google Mail Inbox as RSS feed

Would you like to find all your Google Emails as your RSS feed, just like your other news and Blog Pages..... Here is an undocumented feature : just add the following address to your favorite RSS feed Reader. ( I tried this with Sage on Firefox Browser) https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom This would ask username and password of your google mail account, enter it and save it for the future. Presently this link provides only unread mails of Google Inbox..... this feature is being tested by Google.... may be included officially in their next features list Enjoy!

How do they got their name

Mercedes This was actually the financier's daughter's name. Adobe This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the houseof founder John Warnock. Apple ComputersIt was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three monthslate in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call hiscompany Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better nameby 5 O'clock. CISCO It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for SanFrancisco. !!! Compaq This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote asmall integral object. Corel The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. Itstands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory. Google The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of informationthe search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. Afterfounders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presentedtheir project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to'Google'. Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from acomputer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with thebusiness plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names endingin 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters"html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initiallyreferred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing. Hewlett Packard Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Intel Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'MooreNoyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had tosettle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics. Lotus (Notes) Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditationof Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Microsoft Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted toMICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' wasremoved later on. Motorola Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company startedmanufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the timewas called Victrola. ORACLE Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project forthe CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project wascalled Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to allquestions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newlywritten SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry andBob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. Theykept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the samename for the company. Sony It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' aslang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster. SUN Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym forStanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; VinodKhosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers basedon it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer. Yahoo! The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance andaction and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filoselected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

Customer Service

Hi! Definetely Customer Service Executive suffers heavily from the customer's reaction They have to listen a lot. for Example, this customer from Karachi, Pakistan, calling to his Mobile service provide. listen the conversation. ...............(Beware contains some abusive language... too) http://www.mobilinkgsm.uni.cc/ Listen today... before this link is removed from the server. Enjoy!

Google Mail Tips and Tools

Gmail tools and tips. Source : http://www.emailaddresses.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=22793

In course of using Gmail for the past couple of months, I came across various tools one can use to enhance the “Gmail experience”. Some of them, including some good tips, were mentioned in various threads on this forum. More are coming routinely. So I thought a thread dedicated to those would be a one good place where anyone finding a “goody” can post it. Here is a collection of what I remember at this time: Pop Goes the Gmail - POP access to your Gmail account http://jaybe.org/pgtgm/ Gtray for Gmail - open and check your Gmail from the tray http://torrez.us/ Current Beta: http://torrez.us/archives/2004/05/23/gtray2-beta.zip Gmail Gems: http://gmailgems.blogspot.com/ Jims Tips: http://g04.com/html/modules.php?nam...r=0&thold=0 Gmail as an online backup system: http://www.furl.net/item.jsp?id=380437 Other Gmail Forums: http://gmailforums.com/ http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum100/ Import Your Mbox or Maildir Files into GMail http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/

River Linking Project :

India is a country full of natural wealth. Call it Rivers, Mountains, Forests, Desert and what not? Water is most essential for human being, but the rivers originating from Himalaya does not reach to every corner of the country. We already have various Water Disputes among between states….. (Sorry I am not going to talk about them at the moment) Upar se we have people like Amrinder Singh, who believe that rivers passing through Punjab are their bapauti.(sorry if it hurt any resident of Punjab…I do not mean this) We need a project to make a network of rivers through various canals and sub-canals so that water can reach to each and every corner of the country. Believe me this project would solve many problems; however this would cost a lot money and time too. Even our respected President Kalam has also endorsed this project. Then why the people in Congress/UPA govt. are rejecting/sidelining this ambitious project. Are they fools or lack of foresight ness or just politics? Most flood affected states are Bihar, Assam. Every year we provide a million rupees package to flood affecting states, why can’t we divert this money to this new project? What is your opinion?

How can India win Gold at Olympic Games

India can Struck Gold Medal in Olympic provided

1. All nations who have won any Gold medal in recent Olympic games, would be considered disqualified for new Olympic games.
2. All players must be given Yamuna Water to drink.
3. Make permanent venue of Olympic games at IRAQ/Afganistan.
4. Introduce new events in the games like:leg pulling, false promising, cheating and frauds.
5. All the referee and umpires must be from India, only patriotic persons need apply. I hope then India can win Gold in most of the events. Your comments......

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Management Tips

Manage your Time Following Tips will help you in Understanding Time &Analyzing Time 1. Set aside time each day to review and prioritize demand on your time. 2. Take a small chunk of a difficult task, and deal with it straight away. 3. Think through your day while making your way to work 4. Always delegate your tasks that are not time-effective for you to do. 5. Split your working day into chunks of 30 minutes each. 6. Review your time log to assess your work efficiency. 7. Allow for some thinking time in your schedule. 8. Estimate how long a task will take you, and see how accurate you were. 9. Update your time log as often as possible-memory is often unreliable. 10. Break down long term plans into weekly and daily action plan. 11. Draw a flow chart of your career, and plan where you want to go next. 12. Ask for a second opinion if you cannot prioritize competing tasks. 13. Identify conflicts of priority between you and your boss. 14. Find out whether your colleagues priorities conflict with your own. 15. Classify all work engagements in your diary according to their importance. 16. If your schedule is full of A-tasks, then delegate or redefine them. 17. Alter priorities continually in line with changes or new information. 18. To keep discussions short, avoid open-ended questions. 19. Ensure that you have some quiet time every day. 20. Do not be afraid to leave the phone hook. 21. Time your physical and mental peaks so that you know how long they last. 22. Keep some energy for home life and leisure activities after work. 23. Suggest working flexible hours to improve company productivity. 24. Choose a diary that looks good and that you will enjoy using. 25. Always keep your pen in your diary for noting information and dates. 26. Use coloured pens to denote tasks of varying importance. 27. Set realistic deadlines. A deadline is meant to be helpful, not a major cause of stress. 28. Delegate enjoyable tasks as well as unpleasant ones 29. Reward yourself when you meet your deadlines 30. Plan your diary no more than one year ahead. 31. Make sure you do at least one thing every day that you enjoy. 32. Read a passage by your favorite author last thing at night. 33. Concentrate on your colleagues' and clients' positive attributes. 34. Use an organizer to list weaknesses, and then plan how to combat them, one by one. 35. Keep your desk clear of everything but the current job in hand. 36. Beware of self-sticking notes. They are easily lost. 37. Clear up daily. Never leave a mess for the morning. 38. Highlight key points on paperwork to speed up rereading. 39. Position a clock in your office so it is visible to you and to visitors. 40. Review your filing system at least every few months. 41. Set up a filing system that will grow with you and your business. 42. Go through your files regularly and discard documents that you no longer need. 43. File papers with no obvious home in a folder labeled " Miscellaneous". 44. File only essential documents that will be referred in future. 45. Ask your secretary or a colleague to screen incoming phone calls for you. 46. Pick up the phone to indicate the end of a meeting. 47. Do not sit down if you are followed into your office. 48. Place your chair out of view if your door is open. 49. Throw away any information that you think you do not need. 50. Keep all chance meetings short by standing- it will then be easier to get away. 51. Copy information only to those who need to know. 52. Stop subscriptions to magazines you no longer read. 53. Remove magazine and newspaper articles you wish to keep, and file them for reference. 54. Assess each piece of information for its relevance to current projects. 55. Keep only essential reading on your desk. 56. Think before you interrupt anyone. Their time is as valuable as yours. 57. Call a meeting only after considering other options. 58. Do not make assumptions about work colleagues. 59. Take a deep, relaxing breath before you make a phone call. 60. Avoid distractions when taking on the phone. Focus on what the caller is saying. 61. When making a phone call, have another project to hand to work on in case you are kept waiting. 62. Tell people when they can call you, and note the time in your diary. 63. Reroute your calls when you want to avoid interruptions. 64. Never delay dealing with any written material-it will just mount up. 65. Underline key phrases in reports you have to read. 66. Skim-read the headlines in your daily newspaper. 67. Keep essential reference material separate from your other documents and papers. 68. Clear unwanted documents from your computer once a month. 69. Consider carefully your computing requirements. 70. Keep your e-mail messages short, and address them accurately. 71. Encourage people to express views, even if they are contrary to yours. 72. Ask a colleague to interrupt "urgently" if a routine meeting lasts over an hour. 73. Keep meetings short by listening rather than talking. 74. Allocate a specific amount of time to each subject on an agenda. 75. Encourage people to attend only the parts of a meeting that concern them. 76. Remind everyone what was agreed at a meeting in a follow-up memo. 77. Before traveling, assess whether the trip is necessary and cost-effective. 78. If possible, fit everything you need to take into one small piece of hand luggage. 79. Take work to do in an airport lounge in case of delays. 80. Set your watch to the local time at your destinations. 81. Check how much your hotel charges for phone calls before making any. 82. Find out whether you need adapters for your electrical equipment abroad. 83. Take two or three short holidays instead of one long one. 84. Schedule regular time off to pursue your hobbies and leisure interests. 85. Aim to experience something new everyday. 86. Maintain high expectations, and people will live up to them. 87. Persuade others of your case using facts, not emotions. 88. Take an interest in what others are trying to achieve. 89. Hearing is not the same as listening. Learn to listen. 90. Make sure you define objectives clearly when you delegate a task. 91. Reserve some time for the task that you only can do. 92. Keep a checklist to help you monitor the progress of tasks that you have delegated to others. 93. Reward good work generously, and chastise in moderation. 94. Set precise and realistic deadlines for tasks that you delegate. 95. Try not to allow colleagues to distract you with unimportant issues. 96. Hold meetings in colleagues' offices, so you can leave when you need to. 97. Set aside special times when your office is open to all. 98. Visit colleagues only when you have more than one issue to discuss. 99. Be aware of your boss's working patterns, and try to adapt to them. 100. Ask about your boss's home life-it will help to build up a relationship. 101. Remember that time is perfectly democratic. Nobody has more or less of it than you.

Google Toolbar

When yahoo introduced it's new webpage, why should Google be far behind. Google has come out with his latest Toolbar for Internet Explorere.However there are various free Toolbars available in the market, Google toolbar is really the best. I liked the following features:

• Customise the Google Search in choice of your language.. .. various language options are available including HINDI.
• Search by name: In so many cases we know what company/product we are searching but we do not know about exact website. This search by name facility just ask you to enter something about the company/product, rest work is done by Google.

for example : try typing the following in the Address bar: (without quotes)

SBI

IIT Kanpur

Times of India

Railways

HCL

Infosys

This is really great. You can download Google Toolbar from here:http://toolbar.google.com/

Recently Google has introduced search inside Books also, this search would be called Google Print, this is in Beta stage at the moment. Find more information click at http://print.google.com

Ghost Busters

I would like to draw your attention a report published in hindi daily,towards PANDAs (Pooja performers) of Varanasi,Utter Pradesh,India. These PANDAs are so clever, and they know how to extract money from their client. I remember my grand father was used to say, “Beware of these pandas, they can even take your cloths off”, but what about those innocent villagers, who just falls in their hands, whether it is rituals or Ghost Busting… yes Ghost Busting. Their latest cheating option is using GHOST BUSTER activities. The person who is suffering from Ghost, can contact these pandas for ghost busting. Their fee is very high but these pandas know how to cheat, they provide written contract with client, for complete removal, that too on Stamp paper of Rs.1/- (Isn’t it Great?) These people always keep their exit options open. A person who approaches them has to provide complete information about Ghost (How can he?), secondly he has to confirm that he is not approaching any other person and has full faith in this Panda baba. After mutual agreement, followed by written agreement and financial settlement, Panda Baba performs the pooja. If ghost is gone, it’s OK, otherwise Panda Baba would be ready with another excuse. With this incident I remember another similar incident. There was a very famous politician, he was used to meet general public every morning at his residence. People were used to come to him and ask for his help. This Netaji, was keen in listening people’s problem, then he opens his diary and notes down the type of complain, person name, phone etc. The person who make complains gets satisfied and goes back home.Because his complaint was register by netaji in his personal diary. This process was continue for a long time. One day I visited the netaji and asked about the secret of his success and how does he manage to get the peoples work done. The reply given by Netaji was quite shocking, he said this is a secret and confidential, do not tell anyone. He told me that he does not do anything, After registering the complain, he never open the diary. This is human tendency not to depend on one person for his work. If the work is done(without netaji’s help),the person thinks that this work was done with the efforts of netaji, he comes back along with Sweets/Gifts. If the work is not done then? Netaji replied “Firstly people do not return, if they return, in this case, I re-register their complaint, what efforts do I need?, some writing efforts what else? The pen and diary is also provided by one of these people, what goes from my pocket? Nothing.” I was shocked to listen this.. similarly these Pandas do not perform anything, just make fool to their client and the client think that these pands have full confidence in his work, therefore he is ready for written contract.In written contract also, there are various exit options available for Pandas....... poor villagers.... can't judge this cleverness. When would we get rid of these so called babas,Pandas, Tantriks and Ojhas…. Aren’t Netaji’s are enough for looting our hard earned money? Provide your feedback….

Mirza Sahib

Mirza Sahib has been in Kuwait for a long time, almost more than 30 years, His wife has migrated to Canada, due to education of children’s, Mirza refused to leave Kuwait, by saying “zindagi beet gayi Kuwait mein.. saare dost yaar yahan hain.. ab kahan thikana badalte phire…” This is true with Mirza.. he can not get mixed up with new society now… I would say Canadians are lucky not to find him there… as for in Kuwait…. We are the sufferer. Mirza Sahib belongs to Lucknow in India, being Kanpur my hometown and quite close to Lucknow, Mirza always assumes me close to his heart. That's where the problem begins....I always become the victim of Mirza's discussion. However mirza is quite helpful and friendly, but he always considered time wasting personality in our group. In addition to this, he is notorious of using offensive language against politicians and is ready to take PUNGA with us on such irrelevant issues, he is fond of Indian politics and having extensive knowledge of this.Mirza dislike one thing, he never let anybody speak while he speak, one more thing, he does like any argument or correction to his argument on his viewpoints. He can go to any limit, if you try to interrupt him, during the discussion Mrs Mirza, before leaving for Canada, arranged a Bangladeshi Servant for Mirza, this servant whose name is Mohd. Rafiq alias Chuttan miyan, is considered as family member. I think Chuttan miyan is the best cook in the town, very loyal, has sense of humour.Chuttan miyan is very good person, except for few problems: He is fond of Indian Cinema, he knows everything about Indian Cinema, this is because of these satellite channels, which he keeps watching for whole day.Apart from this, he has seen almost all of the hindi movies ever made in India. In Kuwait, there would hardly be any video library where chuttan has not visited, all the videowalas know him by face, by entering the shop, all other customers are ignored and chuttan is attended with priority. Why? because chuttan is their movies consultant. He can tell them which movie would click or not, just by watching once. Sometime these videowalas take advice from chhuttan and arrange their stocks accordingly. In addition to this Chuttan had few shortcomings also.. e.g.: he tries to repeat the actions of last seen movies, we do not have to ask him, about last movie he saw, we can assume with his action. Just because of this mirza has applied restriction on him , not to watch Action movies like AKSHAY KUMAR etc, why? Are yaar.. last time Chuttan performed Action scene from one of action movie with mirza, by assuming himself AKSHAY KUMAR and mirza as AMRISH PURI. Mirza was sick for few weeks and had back-pain after this incident, mirza would have kicked him off, but chuttan was in good list of Mrs.Mirza, that’s why mirza could not do anything. In addition to this Chuttan performs role of Information and Broadcasting minister for Mrs. Mirza, he is expert in leaking information,Mrs. Mirza gets info about each and every development, even mirza’s daily activity report. And Chuttan is excellent in this work. So his job is safe for the time being. Let me tell you one interesting incident happened few weeks’ back.Mirza and Chuttan were used to watch movies together, Mirza was used to hold the control of Remote Control, but after this incident, mirza lost control on remote forever. Why?........read on. One day mirza and chuttan were watching a romantic hindi movie, as per the director’s instructions, Hero was supposed to appear from behind the tree, sing a song, smile with heroine, hold his arms around heroine and have a long lasting kissing. But as you know mirza, he is always possessive about heroines, so when hero appeared from behind the trees, mirza controlled himself, hero moved forward and folded his arms over heroine, mirza still tolerated with anger, but when hero tried to kiss the heroine, mirza lost control and took remote and used rewind button. Again hero came….Tree…Heroine… Arms….REWIND… Again hero….Tree…Heroine… Arms….REWIND… Again hero….Tree…Heroine… Arms….REWIND… Mirza was not letting him to go close the heroin and kissing? That was out of the question. Chuttan who had closed his eyes during the music, suddenly woke up, tried to understand the issue… when he came to know about the incident, he jumped on the remote, grabbed it. Mirza resisted, but chuttan threatened to play action movie. So mirza surrendered… Chuttan re-played the movie… mirza closed his eyes, Hero who was tired of going back.. immediate completed his pending work and chuttan again settled himself watching in movie. Since then Remote is always with Chuttan. This is the pre-condition of watching movie. More stories about Mirza and Chuttan in next post…. Keep reading