Portable Unicode Tamil Notepad

Akelpad

Are you looking for a notepad in which

you can type in perfect Unicode Tamil

that includes all properly displayed

okaaram and Okaaram?

Then go to

http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php

With the use of ekalappai in the background

you can even type Shree letter

I put it in my flash drive and take it wherever I go

to type in Unicode Tamil and send it to the email or

post messages in the blog or respond to a blog

I have not seen any better tidy application than this one

Enjoy

Indy Ram

Portable MP3 palyer

How to make it play in all computers?

I have XM Mp3 player software in my
flash drive. I operate it to play
music files. I put the Mp3 files in the same
folder that the exe files resides in

Or create a subfolder called Songs
and in that I create more subfolders
with different genre of music files
in them.

This way I can take it from one
computer to another and it
will play OK.

Just don't create Songs folder at
one level up. Then it will have
difficult time locating different
drives.

Hope this info helps

Indy

Helpful tidbits for Digital Photography

1. Don't include too many people. You will have to go too far to fit all of them in
2. Use zoom or telephoto and make the size of the subject decent
3. Make sure that the heads of the people in the back are seen
4. Try to turn them to the side (half to one side and the other to the other)
5. Have more room above the head (Why?)
6. 11% of the height will be lost by converting from 1.33 to 1.5 ratio
7. Indoor use 200 or 400 ISO and or Use 1 + or 2+ flash
8. If the subject is too close don't use too much flash or ISO. it may bleach out
9. Have the couple pose closely. Make sure the heads are upright and not skewed)
10. Take at least 2-3 shots (in case some one closes)
11. Try to review pictures to make sure they are ok
12. Review pictures and make sure everyone has been taken
13. Make sure the shoulders and arms are included
14. Always use flash in FIF (fill in flash) mode. It will remove shadow in the face
15. Don't use too bright sunlight . if it its too bright cut back on iso to 50
16. Watch out for reflecting surfaces like glossy paint, glass, metal'
17. For children use sports mode
18. Support the base of the camera to minimize shake
19. Try to shoot mostly landscape pictures than in letter mode
20. The maximum size of video in most of the cameras is 1 GB (8 minutes)
21. 2 GB memory card can hold 16 minutes of 640 video and 32 minutes of 320*240 at 30fps
22. 4 GB SD cards can't be used in older cameras
23. Mplayer by martin fiedler can play most of the videos filmed with digital cameras
24. In bright sunlight when you can't see LCD screen, use optical viewfinder to view the subject

Publishing video at YouTube site

YouTube allows you to upload a video That is less than 100 meg in size or less than

10 minutes in length.

I generally make a movie with my canon still camera using the video setting

I guess you can film a movie with most of the digital still cameras using movie mode

I film it in 640*320 and then convert it to 320 *240 format

I use Magix CD DVD maker program to bring in multiple segments of video

(You can find this program on sale for about $25.

I then add title, overlays and music

Finally I export the production as a quicktime mov file

To reduce the size of the file I use mono option. you can also save video

with 25 FPS than 29.7 to reduce the size of the file

Hope this info helps

Portable freeware

Most often used Portable Freeware

I carry a lot of software in my flash drive.
I like Sandisk cruizer because it has the retractable USB port end
It is easier to carry one that has a retractable end
Buy one with as large a capacity as possible. I have one that has 4 GB capacity
You might want to carry programs and data files
I take it from my office to home
Some of the programs that I carry include

1. Firefox browser

(this way I will have all my favorites)

I can go anywhere and I will have my favorites

2. ClocX puts up a clock on desktop

3. FC commander Cataloger program

4. Silent night CD DVD burner

Don't use multisession data burning

5. CDX for ripping CD

6. ISO maker

7. Iso burner

8 XM mp3 player

10 Mplayer ( you can play any multimedia including flv files (YouTube)

11 Process stopper ( Sometimes some programs can't be easily closed)

12 Sun bird file searcher

13 Text typer ( this allows you to type in text when you type a few letters)

14 Toolbox (program starter)

15 Fastone screen capture program

My first posting in English

Though I have been urging people to write in Tamil , I find it hard
to quickly type something that comes to mind and post it.
So I have decided to blog in English than in Tamil.
This way I think I can blog more often
I plan to write mostly social issues and use of free software
and random topics
Let us see how it works out

Ram