As the first news on this New Year 2007, I’m sharing this happy moment with you all to announce that I’ve recently bought a new Windows 2003 Dedicated Server with the following configuration:

Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition Operating System Server
10 GB of Disk Space
500 GB of Monthly Bandwidth
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition Database Server
MySQL 5.0 Database Server
Internet Information Services 6.0 Server with ASP 4.0 Language Support
ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 Languages Support
PHP 4.4 and 5.2 Languages Support
Perl 5.8 Language Support
…. and a lot more

This Windows Machine I’ve bought for hosting Windows Based websites that needs exclusive Server-Side Scripting Languages such as ASP and ASP.NET. You can also ask any Programming Language in this Server. I can install in this. And also, any Database Server you want.

Please tell this news to all your friends and family relatives who might need a hosting in Windows Server.

And as you all already know, I can provide the cheapest hosting possible in India!

And one more thing, I hope you still remember I’ve a Linux Machine also. So, anybody wants Linux Server hosting, they can also avail hosting from me. For all those who forgot my previous posts, here is the full configuration of my Linux Server.

Debian Linux Operating System Server
214.5 GB Disk Space (still Counting…)
2408 GB (2.4 TB) Monthly Bandwidth (still Counting…)
MySQL 5.0 Database Server
PHP 4.2 and 5.2 Languages Support
CGI-Perl Scripts Support
Ruby Language Support
CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) Repository Server
SVN (Subversion Control System) Repository Server
WebDAV Support

Hope you all help me achieve good heights in Web Hosting services this Year 2007!

Thanks…

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I’ve been using RSS Bandit for a long time now and I’ve never been very accustomed with Web Based readers. But recently one of my friend suggested Google Reader very much so I though I could do a try.

First of all, Google Reader, didn’t accepted my OPML file which I exported from RSS Bandit. So, I tried manually adding some of the RSS feeds and had a go. It’s really awesome.
Google seems to be making very good use of AJAX. Which really made their Web Based reader a pleasant experience.

I strongly recommend those of you guys who think a Web Reader is not good to see Google Reader.

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Before I tell you this news, if any one of you don’t know what’s a Blu-ray, you better visit this wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray

Sony India recently announced the availability of Vaio Blu-ray Laptop. Basically, the advanced Vaio Laptop with Blu-ray Disc Burner (which includes DVD and CD also).

The Model of the Laptop is: Sony Vaio VGN-AR38G

The configuration of this Laptop goes like this:

Whopping 240 GB Hard Disk
2 GB DDR2 RAM
Built-in Camera
Dual Layer - Blu-ray Disc Drive

The Price is another whopping Rs.1,99,900.00

See more about this Laptop in here: http://www.sony.co.in/productdetails.do?prod_id=1001

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Wow man. When I finished entering my previous post Google Firefox Extensions, the major disappointment for me is that the Blogger Web Comments extension from Google doesn’t supports my Own Hosted WordPress. But then, I found one EXCELLENT extension called Performancing. It really is performance for any Blogger who use WordPress.

First of all, visit the Performancing Official Website for more information. This is an entire Online Service provided for the benefit of bloggers. I was so thrilled by this that I even put a logo of them in my Footer (of this Blog) to show my support to them. They’re really EXCELLENT. Their service is actually a wide variety of tools supporting the Blogging community.

The main extension is the key thing. It installs a small icon in the Status bar showing a Note Pad icon. Just click on this icon and voila, you’ll immediate have access to your Blog. Now, you can post blog entries, check the statistics, visit Bookmarks, Track page information via Technorati and a lot more in a simple-yet-powerful split window display. The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor inside this extension works excellent and enables ease of use for blogging. It further amazed me by showing the Blogs List, Categories, History and Notes in right side small panel which is synchronized with my Blogging system. It’s really cool.

All you need to do is, install this extension, configure your Blog accounts (it supports a wide variety of blogging systems including WordPress). That’s all, you’re ready to rapidBlog (rapidly write blog entries)

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I don’t know how many of you folks out there know about Unicode.

Unicode is a Encoding technique with 64 bits of Character sets (allowing upto 18446744073709551616 characters possibility). It allows a lot of languages to be used by the same encoding without the need to switch between encodings. Find more on Unicode at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Now, coming back, most of the OSes today support Unicode natively. If you use Windows XP, then you can immediately know that it supports Unicode natively. But if you’re using any other OSes before Windows XP, you can’t just use this. To setup Unicode in Windows XP, follow the below steps:

1. Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options
2. Click on the Languages Tab
3. Click on the Check Box in the Install files for East Asian Languages and click OK
4. Windows will ask you to insert the OS CD-ROM. Insert it or select a backup location
5. Restart the System

Tamil Typewriting has so far evolved in the following means:

1. Tamil Manual Typewriter (the Oldest but Safest Way)
2. Tamilnet99 Keyboard (the Tamil Nadu Government authorised Keyboard - 1999)
3. TAM and TAB (the Tamil Nadu Government authorised Keyboard Schemes)
4. Anjal Typewriter (the Ultimate Tamil Phonetics Keyboard)

Of all the types specified above, the Tamil Manual Typewriter and Anjal Typewriter are the most commonly used ones. I personally prefer Tamil Manual Typewriter as it enables high faster typing and in safer means (that is, it will allow you to ensure that what you’re typing is right). But the Anjal Typewriter is the far easiest one. It will allow you to type அம்மா by just typing Ammaa. It’s as simple as that.

So, decide your keyboard first, then follow the below steps:

If you prefer Tamil Manual Keyboard, follow the steps below:

The Tamil Manual Keyboard is still followed by a font called Bamini. The layout of this keyboard will be as shown in the following picture:

1. For converting your keyboard strokes to Unicode characters, you need a Keyboard Driver Management software. For Tamilans, it has been made easy by an Open Source development called eKalappai which is based on the International Keyboard Driver Management software KeyMan.
2. Download the eKalappai for Bamini Keyboard at: http://www.thamizha.com/downloads/ekalappai20b_bamini.zip
3. Extract the zip file using WinZip or WinRAR.
4. Install the Thamizha! eKalappai 2.0
5. You will now see a small icon in the System Tray with a little ‘k’ on it. Click on this icon to get the number of keyboards installed. Typically it will be, Suratha - Bamini2Tscii (TASCII - Tamil Standard Code for Information Interchange. Not all softwares support this) and Suratha - BaminiUni (Unicode version) with short cuts like Alt + 2 and Alt + 3.
6. Now, open any Text editor (Notepad, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, MSN, etc…) and press the short cut key Alt + 3 to get Bamini to Unicode converter. Now, start typing, you will see the Tamil Letters. You can type English by just pressing Alt + 1 (No Keyboards). The default font for Tamil is Latha. You can change it by going to Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Options -> Fonts -> Language Script (Tamil) -> and the Font you have. You can download more Unicode Tamil fonts (and also TSCII fonts) at: http://www.tamil.net/tscii/tools.html
7. Using this technique you can send Tamil language letters to anybody who’s having supported OSes and Unicode supported applications.

If you prefer Tamil Anjal Keyboard, follow the steps below:

1. Follow the same steps as above. But in Step 3, download Anjal Keyboard at: http://www.thamizha.com/downloads/ekalappai20b_anjal.zip
2. As the provided Anjal Keyboard is not functioning well for Unicode, you need to install the special Unicode Keyboard once you installed the above file. This special Unicode Keyboard can be downloaded from: http://www.thamizha.com/downloads/NewUniTamil.zip
3. Other operation instructions are same as above.

If you prefer Tamilnet99 Keyboard, follow the steps below:

1. Follow the same steps as above. But in Step 3, download Tamilnet99 Keyboard at: http://www.thamizha.com/downloads/ekalappai20b_tnet99.zip

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