Project Madurai

Really an amazing effort

http://pm.tamil.net/

Stay Hungry and Stay Foolish and Connect the dots

I recently read these two books 'Stay Hungry and Stay Foolish" and "Connect the dots" by author Rashmi Bansal.

First book is about the story of 25 IIMA grads who choose the path of entrepreneurship and second one about story of 20 entrepreneurs without MBA. Both books provide an amazing read throughout. Worth buy(each one costs Rs.150).

http://www.stayhungrybook.com/
http://connectthedots.in/

PDF converter

To convert any document (.doc file) file into pdf, i have tried many softwares. All of them are paid softwares. While searching for a free tool that convert doc file into pdf, i found out this tool named "PRIMO PDF" http://www.primopdf.com/.

For PRIMO PDF to install in your system, your system should have .net installed.So do download .net(latest edition) and then try installing PRIMO PDF. or while PRIMO PDF is installing, it will serach for pre requisite softwares.If any software is missing it will download on its own and install them.

Using it is very simple. Open any document file that you want to convert.

Say you have opened your .doc file in MS WORD 2007. Goto Print menu. In that, there will be a tab "Printer". Select the Name of the printer as "PrimoPDF".(look for PrimoPDF by clicking the drop down button)Now, click OK. PrimoPDF dialog box will open and after you provide details like destination of the file etc, it will create a PDF file.

They also offer Free Online PDF creator in their web site.
https://online.primopdf.com/Default.aspx


Apart from these, if you want to convert any file to some other file type, there is this web site http://media-convert.com/. Visit that website, so as to know what it offers. You can upload any file format - image, audio, video, Ringtone(both monophonic and polyphonic), vector document, text, archives,data, presentation, database - and convert them to any other desired format.

BARAHA-Free Indian Language Software

Recently i downloaded this software, as i wanted to type a letter in tamil. It is a free software and anyone can download it without any need for registration.BARAHA is a transliteration based software,which converts 'Indian language text written in English' to their own respective scripts. One has to type in the text using QWERTY keyboard,(thats a drawback- as you need to type in the Indian language text in english.If any keyboard layouts of indian languages are available, then that would change the way the text are keyed in).Baraha supports Kannada, Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Bengali, and Oriya scripts.

There are also instructions available for typing in all languages.It definitely requires some time to learn and adapt.Once learnt, it is very easy to type in any indian language that Baraha supports.(check Help->Tamil->Transliteration Rules). After installing,when you first run the application,it will ask for your default language,where in you can set any indian languages as the default one.It is possible to change the default language whenever required.

After typing the content in english, when you press the convert button, it will convert your content into the defualt language.Apart form these options, all the text editing tools are available.

The software can be downloaded from http://www.baraha.com/

There are many 'tamil softwares'.
Links...
http://www.azhagi.com/
http://www.kuralsoft.com/index.htm
http://www.kamban.com.au/