Friday, September 09, 2011
Monday, October 30, 2006
popular, we hardly know 3 or 4… here i have enclosed a list of Tamil
softwares (text editors, fonts, text convertors, OCR, spellchecker, … )
PATHAMI Word Processor
Word processor in the office Suite Shakti
Chennai Kavigal / http://www.chennaikavigal.com/products.htm
AZHAGI Word Processor
Tamil Software 'Azhagi' -Tamil Transliteration Software
Kural Tamil Keyboard Manager
"A keyboard manager that helps to input Tamil characters in any Microsoft
Bilingual word processor, with high quality Tamil spellcheckng and seven
Prof. V. Krishnamoorthi
Tamil keyboard driver with spellcheck and autocorrect (of Prof. V.
Intelligent bilingual typing tutor
Tamil Windows Interface
Elango Tamil 2000 Windows Interface Package
Ankur Patrika is an excellent tool to create documents in Indian languages
Kavithai is a Tamil/English word processor which is powered by Kural
UniEdit - Universal Indian Language Editor
Unicode-based enhanced Tamil Word Processor
Kamban word processor 4.0 for Windows
Tamil Keyboard, Tamil Email softwares
Thunaivan 2002 for Windows together with the Keyboard Designer and
Murasu Anjal Version 9.7 & Murasu Anjal Pro
Text Editor for keying in texts as per TAB/TAM, TSCII and Unicode
using a variety of keyboard layouts
I N D O W O R D –DTP Software for Indian Language Publishing
I N D O B A S E - Indian Language Database Manager
I N D O M A I L - Email Software for Indian Languages
Tamil OCR for document management
seven applications which includes Wordprocessor, Spreadsheet, Email
client, Database, HTML editor, Paint Program and Web browser. The user
interface and input mechanism are bi-lingual (supports English and any
one Indian language).
Departmental Store Management Software
An Accounting software in Tamil
the worlds first electronic English - English - Tamil Dictionary 20000
main words, 33000 derived words, Browser and Search capability!!
Online Tamil Lexicon
IITS Online Tamil Lexikon (OTL)
Kalanjyam - Online Tamil Dictionary
Kuralamudhu is a multimedia encyclopedia on Thirukkural in a CD-ROM.
An interactive CDROM to learn Tamil
Computer games to learn Tamil alphabets, words and some grammer.
contains animated stories in Tamil.
contains traditional Tamil rhymes for children
This teaches you how to Read and Write Tamil in a very interesting way
with animated Lessons ,stories and Rhymes
This is a self learning Tutorial to teach computers to a Novice. This
comprises of interactive animated lessons on basics of computing,
windows operating systems, internet and Microsoft Office Tools.
Animated Rhymes and Activities
Unicode Reader & Converter
puthuvai Tamil text write (Bamini font based)
Tamil Unicode Usage /online tutorial
Thiruwin Tamil Transliterator Roman script
Suvadi Text Editor
Text Editor for Windows using TSCII conformant font faces
e- Kalappai 1.0
a Bundled Software for Tamil Entry in PCs
Aksharamala is a Unicode standard-based software tool that facilitates
use of English QWERTY keyboards (ITRANS scheme) to input text
in Indian languages (including Tamil)
LedLineIt! 3.0 Text Editor (for Mac OS & Windows)
LedLineIt! is a free, easy to use, cross-platform, multi-lingual text editor
for Unicode based texts
Online guide for Setting Tamil Keyboard in WinXP
Free fonts and Tamil softwares distributed by MIT,govt of India
1. Tamil Bharateeya Open Office (for Linux and Windows OS )
(Spread Sheet, Presentations, Word processing & drawing tools)
free download: http://www.ildc.in/GIST/htm/boo.htm
2. Tamil OpenType, TrueType fonts from
Cadgraf, Modulal Labs, Chennai Kavigal
3. Pals Tamil e-Dictionary (for Windows OS)
English - English - Tamil Dictionary
4. Nursery Rhymes (for Windows OS)
From Palaniappa Bros
5. Min Olai - A Tamil Editor with Spell Checker (for Windows OS
Min olai version 1.0 ("o" in olai is pronounced as "o" in "open"), is a
Tamil editor developed by AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai. Based on Java,
the editor allows a user to type in Tamil and provides all the options for
basic editing apart from the additional feature of Tamil spell checking.
6. PonVizhi Tamil OCR (for Windows)
7. Tamil version of Firefox Browser (for Windows and Linux)
8. Tamil E-mail (for Windows and Linux)
Columba software from CDAC
Kalvi Tamil Softwares of Dr.P.Kuppusamy
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1. TAMIL TEACHER
A set of 7 user-friendly, interactive programs that teach
Tamil step by step, i a fun video game format: akaram, consonants,
alphabets, numbers, drops, triplets & squares.
Windows multimedia software for learning Tamil. Contains a verity
of features: 1700 word vocabulary, 300+ pictures, cartoons,
sounds, 28 min video, songs, stories, and excercises.
3. KUVA KUVA VAATHTHU
A collection of 20 children's songs in Tamil set to popular tunes; sung
by Vanni Jayaram, Swarnalatha, Malaysia Vasudevan, Prabakaran
4. ARIVODU VILAIYAADU
Arivodu Vilaiyaadu contains 6 excellent games in Tamil: Gomuku,
Koteeswaran (Tamil version of 'Who wants to be a millionaire?),
Kabali (business game), sitharal (puzzle), Tic-Tac-Toe, and Vallaarai
(memory game). Developed by chennai kavigal.
5. PAINTHAMIL KAATHALI
The essence of Thirukkural, kamatthupal, rendered as classical
music drama by S.P. Balasubramaniam & Chithra with Pukazhenthi's
music is provided in a multimedia format 25 songs (Pu.Aa.Muthu krishnan),
with pictures (Ma. Se), original kural verses, meaning (Tamil-annal)
and English translation by P.S Sundaram.
Thirukkural, the pride of all Tamils, is now on a CD-ROM
with multimedia features like an encyclopedia of kural.
A set of 3 professionally crafted True Type Tamil fonts, confirming
to the Tamil99 format, is provided with 'Tamilpad' WordProc for Windows.
The Tamilpad supports Tamil e-mail feature and 3 types of key inputs:
phonetic (Tamil99 standard); romanised (English to Tamil), and
traditional (typewriter). An excellent tool for casual to professional
users of Tamil.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
A young boy had just gotten his driver's license
and inquired of his father, if they could discuss his use of the car.
His father said he'd make a deal with his son.
"You bring your grades up from a C to a B average,
study your Bible a little,
get your hair cut and
we'll talk about the car."
The boy thought about that for a moment,
decided he'd settle for the offer and they agreed on it.
After about six weeks his father said,
"Son, I've been real proud.
You brought your grades up and
I've observed that you have been studying your Bible,
but I'm real disappointed you haven't gotten your hair cut."
The young man paused a moment then said,
"You know, Dad, I've been thinking about that,
and I've noticed in my studies of the Bible that Samson had long hair,
John the Baptist had long hair, Moses had long hair and
there's even a strong argument that Jesus had long hair."
To this his father replied, "Did you also notice they all walked everywhere they went?"
Saturday, October 07, 2006
contractor of his plans to leave the house- building business and live a
more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would
miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could
build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes,
but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He
resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an
unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.
When the carpenter finished his work the employer came to inspect the
house. He handed the front-door key to the carpenter.
This is your house, he said, my gift to you.
The carpenter was shocked! What a shame!
If he had only known he was building his own, he would have done it all
We do the most of the things having such thoughts in our mind. But we
only realize when it comes back to us.
So it is with us. We build our lives, a day at a time, often putting
less than our best into the building. Then with a shock we realize we
have to live in the house that we have built. If we could do it over,
we'd do it much differently. But we cannot go back.
You are the carpenter. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or
erect a wall. Life is a do-it-yourself project, someone has said. Your
attitudes and the choices you make today, build the house you live in
tomorrow. Build wisely!
What we do is what we get and what we have is what we did.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Morris was asked if there were any good doctors is his
home town. "Good doctors!" he exclaimed. "We have the best doctors
in the world. Dr. Hymie Cohen is one good doctor; he's great;
he saved my life."
"You don't say! How was that?"
"I was very sick and called Dr. Rabinowitz. He gave me some medicine
and I got very, very ill. I then called Dr. Morty Levy. He gave me
more medicine. I got worse - I thought I was going to die.
"Then I called Dr. Cohen. He had no time to come.
Dr. Cohen saved my life."
Sunday, July 30, 2006
is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what
is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was
wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though.
Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd.
But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without
you ever thought of the person who invented "CTRL + ALT + DEL" key
combination? "David Bradley" -- He is the One who spent 1 minute and 23
seconds in writing the source code that rescues the world's PC users
extraordinary IBM employee is retiring on Friday after a prolong
service of 29 years. His formula forces obstinate computers to restart
when they no longer follow other commands. By 1980, Bradley was one of
12 people working to create the debut. The engineers knew they had to
design a simple way to restart the computer when it fails to respond
the user -- Bradley wrote the code to make it work.
time a PC user fails. He commented his relationship with Bill gates by saying " I
may have invented it, but Bill gates made it famous by applying my
formula when ever any Microsoft's Windows operating system made by him
CRASHES, thus I win when ever he looses".
Thursday, July 27, 2006
You know youre living in 2006 when
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You havent played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that
they dont have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if
anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didnt have the
first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and
you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. Youre reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasnt a #9 on
AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.