About Me


Feed your aggregator (RSS 2.0) RSS Feed | Send mail to the author(s) Mail



Archive

LIFCO Books’ – How to Cook?

My family owns The Little Flower Co. – a South Indian book Publisher. Apart from LIFCO Dictionaries, our popular titles includes Hindu Sloga books, Personal development and other vernacular titles.

Last month, while I was in America I was thrilled to learn that our title “How to Cook“ (a South Indian Cook Book) featured in Saveur magazine. Saveur has listed How to Cook  as one of their top 100 Favorite List of foods, restaurants, drinks, people, places and things. 

 
Saveur MagazineHow to Cook - Specialty South Indian cuisine Cookbook
(Image Courtesy: Saveur Special Issue)

 Sambar Central - How To Cook?

“How To Cook” is also available in Tamil Language as “சமைப்பது எப்படி” ?

February 4th, 2007 | Category: Books | One comment

Do you believe that software can change the world?

Microsoft is sponsoring a project to be built by my fellow RD and good friend Tim Huckaby’s InterKnowlogy and The Scripps Research Institute (A Non Profit biomedical research firm). The project is to build the release 2 version of an application built on the .NET Framework 3.0 with WPF, Vista and Microsoft Sharepoint giving scientists a powerful tool to visualize and annotate research results for cancer treatment.


If you think you are a good .NET Developer and have some time to spare – you can enroll. You will be paid for the time.


For details visit:


February 3rd, 2007 | Category: Microsoft | Leave a comment

Indian Language Open Type Fonts – Free!

If you are doing Webpages in Indian Languages like Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi, etc. and you want to embed dynamic fonts (fonts that are shown without being installed in your PC) you need two items:



  1. A tool to create Dynamic Fonts (EOT) – this can be done by the free Microsoft WEFT Tool. Netscape’s Dynamic Font technology Bitstream has been discontinued few years back.
  2. Apart from WEFT, you need the actual Open Type fonts for the language. Unfortunately the fonts that ship with Windows XP or MS Office or MS BhashaIndia.com sites are copy righted and cannot be used without explicit license from Microsoft. So you need free Indian Language fonts to do this.

Govt. of India has released free Indian Language Software and Fonts CD for about 10 languages (and growing) in its ILDC.in website. You need to register here and download the fonts for the particular language you want.


Related Links:


February 3rd, 2007 | Category: localization, Tools | Leave a comment
« Newer Entries