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How to create, share and collaborate documents in Tamil or other regional languages using Google Tools – Cloud Solution

My dad, at 60, is a voracious blogger who comes up with a lot of curious questions on computers. He uses a HP laptop with Windows Vista ( :cry: $%^!) which I used a few years ago . I never gave him admin rights on his laptop considering the curiosity of his computer skills(!!!) until later part of last year. Yesterday, he was complaining that the MS Office software in his laptop stopped working after he clicked on something about trial membership of 2007. Now, he says he could not create documents in the laptop. I was thinking of a simpler solution where in he does not have to worry about installing huge chunk of software still create documents without much hassle. It occurred to me, this is the right time I bring him to the cloud.

Here are a few benefits, as I can see –
1. Stop paying for software to create documents.
2.Documents are saved in the cloud, which is highly available Google servers.
3. Easy for collaboration (sharing, contribution etc) with friends and family.

So, here is an attempt to help my dad on “How to create documents in Tamil using Google Tools – Cloud Solution”. Let me know if this silly or useful or whatever in comments. Happy Cloud Computing! :smile:

1. Create a Google account from here. Almost, everybody has one.
2. Install the Google chrome browser from here. Although this solution works with Internet Explorer browser, I personally recommend Google Chrome which is faster.
3. Download the Google Transliteration IME from here choosing Tamil as the language. other languages can also be installed based on user’s needs. At the time of this writing, Google Transliteration IME support 22 different languages.
4. Go through the process of setting up language bar to support Tamil. Detailed instructions given here.
5. Login to Google Docs with Google account here. Click ‘Create new Document’.
6. Click on “EN” Language bar and change the language input to “TA” Tamil. the Language bar is found in the task bar.
7. Start typing and Google will transliterate. For ex: In order to write தொலைபேசி, one has to type “TholaiPesi”. It takes a few minutes to get accustomed to google transliteration. Once done typing, change the language back to English by clicking TA in the Language bar.
8. Save the document and format according to the needs.

P.S. : The whole process of installing and using Google Transliteration IME can be eliminated using online Google transliteration too. But for the ease of it, Google Transliteration IME option comes in handy with other uses and saves a lot of ‘ALT+TAB’ ing.

Courtesy Google Google Transliteration IME is an input method editor which allows users to enter text in one of the supported languages using a roman keyboard. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script. Note that this is not the same as translation — it is the sound of the words that is converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. Converted content will always be in Unicode.

Google Transliteration IME is currently available for 22 different languages – Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi (Persian), Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya and Urdu.

I am back

After a very long break, I am back at the blogging space. I have lots and lots of things to write. If you are still patronizing my feeds, please do leave a short welcome message for this post. A little word of welcome will encourage me to write more. :smile:

P.S.:- I am living in Burbank now. This is my second home for nearly a year.

Guide to configure NetGear ADSL router with BSNL broadband internet connection

Here is a little guide to configure NetGear ADSL DG834G router with BSNL broadband internet connection. I have done it and also setup a Wireless AP at home to hook my new HP Pavilion Laptop. :)

Nothing in November

I have become a irregular in blogosphere for quite sometime now. Office work is taking toll on my life. It’s kind of heavy but it is good for me since it is a new experience altogether and I did not want to miss the opportunity bestowed upon me.

I have been a bit busy with work that I was unable to concentrate much on my personal life. I goofed up with some of my relationships. But there are people who understood and stood by me during this patch of my life. Hearty thanks to those souls.

I managed to catch up with quite a few movies during this period. Watched Tamil M.A.,Pollathavan,Oram Po. Oram Po did not impress me much as the other two did.

November passed by, I have not done anything in my blog.  But I learnt  that it’s time I learn how to manage time efficiently.

P.S. – Hope this post will give me a kickstart for a new ride in the blogosphere.

Hiatus

We miss your blog. What happened to you? Why are you not blogging regularly?

One fine morning, I received tonnes of such SMS and emails. I was slowly replying to them all. That is when my dad switched off the fans and reminded me that I have slept for twelve hours straight. Yet another weekend dream.

Pondering over a cup of filter coffee, I was curious to think what made me a irregular blogger or what made people to forget that I own a blog. Here it goes. And what is the purpose of my blogging.

a. No one reads my blog. My blog is a total failure. My blog does not interest anyone. I should not blog anymore.

b.Everyone is busy to have missed it and will start patronizing my blog once I start blogging again.

I always wanted to write diary or a record of my life’s happenings. Would it not be great to look over it again when I get old? I don’t want to fool anyone with such a answer. My intention of blogging started with Umesh and Balaji. I thought if Umesh and Balaji can blog, why not I? It’s kind of egotic. But that is how I started blogging. Through most my posts, I wanted to get attention or rather I tried to seek recognition. So, the whole purpose of my blog was recognition seeking. I don’t want to hide it or feel shy in saying it.

Is it right or wrong?

Some people blog for recognition seeking. Some blog for passing time. Some blog to vent their energy on the things they are passionate about. Which is right and which is wrong? This is again a relative thing and cannot be answered or rather judged. So, I have started blogging again.

What’s your purpose of blogging?

P.S.:- This post is just to break the hiatus and to show people that I do think over a cup of filter coffee and I do sleep for 12 hours straight on a weekend.

Consult Sabaree

Sabaree, my colleague, is a good pal to me from the day I joined my current job. He is elder than I and has expertise in counseling. His favorite area is HR counseling although he does concentrate in other domains. SabareeAfter seeing my blog, he always asked me to set one up for him. We used to discuss about the same for quite sometime with great fervor and forget it. Today something triggered me to do it for him and at last I did it. Balaji was the one who set things up for my blog. Today, I stole the tricks from his bags to set the site up and running with in a few hours. Consultsabaree.com is setup as a blog and it will be customized as a online counseling portal. I will rather have Sabaree write about his idea behind setting this portal as he is going to be the owner for consultsabaree.com’s content.

Thanks to Balaji, Yahoo domains, Dreamhost,WordPress consultsabaree.com is ready to rock.

Hope all your support will be extended to Sabaree as well. :-)

After a ton typos and million full stops

Hurray! it’s going to be a year since I started blogging and this post is an attempt to see what has happened in my life, after I started to blog, in this good year’s time.

Why did I start blogging?

Umesh and Balaji were early into the blogosphere and I did not want to be too far behind them. All my life, I have quit a lot of things without pursuing them with the same fervor I started with. When I started blogging, I feared of quitting from this one fine day. Fear mounted when Balaji informed me that he spent dollars for hosting and domain registration. The fear kept me going and here I am boasting about a year in the blogosphere.

The initial days of blogging

In the initial days or months of blogging I changed the themes frequently, put in all the ads available ( thinking of becoming a millionaire someday :-P ), without bothering about the content much. To be precise, I was into gimmicks and graphics instead of concentrating on content. A day never passed by without me checking the ad vendor for the dollars accumulated in my account. The thing never happened and I stopped checking it. Still, I login and see how well I have done on ad space. :-)

Goof ups

When I started writing about things of public interest, got a few human visitors apart from the regular bots. Till date, my posts on Satyam has attracted the maximum number of visitors to my blog when compared to other posts. A few of my posts instigated anger and my blog became a place for people to vent their anger.
People and my blog

Shikha inspired me to start the music quiz section with her own section on song lyrics creating waves. Umesh inspired me to write humorous posts. Badri got introduced in my life. Balaji encouraged and supported me all the time. Deepak pestered me with IMs on the idleness of my blog. Gayu stood by me and commented on almost all posts. Sarayu, one of my early and regular commenters encouraged me to write more. Priya was always a silent visitor and she pitched in with her advice offline. Sabaree, Magesh, Ananth spread the word about my blog at office. Thank you all! :-)

I learned a lot this one year and found that I ain’t a quitter at least in blogging. :-)

After a ton typos and million full stops, I am blogging because I want to express my life and feelings to this world. After all, I am a man and not a super man or What a man. :-)

Weird things I do

I am tagged by badri. So, I have to shout about six weird things I do or did. Most things I do seem weird to my friends and family. Pretty tough to pick six. Will try….

  • I don’t hesitate to sing irrevelant of the location I am in. I love my karaoke sessions at home where I mute the TV and sing songs. Gayu and mom are always the mute spectators to the show.
  • I like to grow long hair (Dhoni style) during summer and cut it short during winter. Mom always complains about this.
  • While I was in college , used collect a lot of film song books ( paattu book or பாட்டு புக்) and sing songs with my friends sitting at the last bench. Have a few of them with me now.
  • I used to read novels and stories on the eve of important university exams.
  • I don’t hesitate mixing up food and eating them at one shot. ie; I mix up Sambhar, Rasam and curd rice together and eat at one shot. Dad always complains that it will end up in a chemical reaction. Who is a chemical engineer ? :-)
  • I wear sunglasses while I ride a bi-cycle. (This does not seem weird to me. I mentioning it here as I get a few strange looks from people).

I here by tag the following souls.
Umesh
Shikha
Deepak

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