Telugu content on the web grows

Another article in my newsvine column:  Telugu content on the web grows.

[http://veeven.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/22/162844-telugu-content-on-the-web-grows] 

రేడియో మిర్చి 95 FM

రేడియో మిర్చి 95 FM, ఇది చాలా హాట్ గురూ!ధ్వని స్పష్టంగా ఉంది. తెలుగు రేడియో ప్రియులకి మరో మంచి ఛానల్.

ఇంకా చూడండి:

• http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k6/apr/apr244.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Mirchi

Calendar, veevenised!

This is for anyone (like me) who got bored with the calendar thing that comes with XP. I just made it beautiful.

Before:

After: (It reminds the good old table calendar.)

Want to try? You need a browser that supports XHTML. (Firefox 1.5 and above is OK. Opera, may be. IE6, sorry.). Here, you go!

Your comments are welcome.

Firefox 1.5.0.2 has been released!

Firefox 1.5.0.2 has been released. And my update went smoooooooth!

First, the notification saying there is an update available:

Then, I proceeded with downloading it (the incremental update just 557 KB):

Updateds were downloaded and ready to install:

And, then new Firefox 1.5.0.2

My Three Things: Writers

This is the second in the series of my three things. And, it is about the writers whose books have a positive influence on me. They have brought a great change in me. Well, I do not read a lot of books: I am very selective.

1. Stephen R. Covey and Ayn Rand: I read just two books of each. Mainly, I tried to integrate the principles told in these books in to my character. I keep going to these books on a regular basis.
2. Edward De Bono and Robert Kiyosaki: For fun and profit! Again, not more than two books of each.
3. Yandamoori Veerendranath: He adds that dash of nativity.

There are some more. But these are the ones I like most and learn most from. I am very thankful to those who introduced me the writings of these writers.

Updates on Lekhini

Let’s start with improvements:

1. On-demand conversion: Sometimes you want the input to be transformed right then. Now, you can press the down arrow key to see the output instantly (and, the cursor remains in the input box).
2. Sometimes you may (when the cursor in the output box) want to go to the input box using the keyboard. Now, you can! Use the up arrow key.
3. About page: Now you can read what?, why?, and how? of Lekhini and opinions of other people about Lekhini in the about page.
4. Some additions and minor re-arrangements of elements. Now Lekhini’s page layout should swiflty adjust itself even on wide screen displays. You can send me screenshots if you have really wide monitor with high screen resolutions (> 1500 pixels wide). So, I can see any problems.

What’s next?

1. Didn’t you see that the help page is still empty?
2. A downloadable package that works offline. Right now, you can save it as "Webpage, complete" to use it offline.
3. On-the-fly conversion (I'm not really sure I'll do it.)

What can YOU do?

1. Tell your friends about Lekhini: http://veeven.org/lekhini/
2. Contribute to and spread Telugu Wikipedia.
3. Get and use Firefox.
4. Be happy!

What do people say?

There were mentions about Lekhini on some online forums. Some nice people blogged about it. Some other nice people expressed their views on Lekhini (either in blog comments or to google groups). Still nicier people told all their friends about Lekhini. The niciest have been silently enjoying using Lekhini.

On all major search engines (except Google), my Lekhini makes it to the top 5 for the search word "lekhini". Google doesn’t seem to have crawled Lekhini pages yet.

It gives me a very satisfactory feeling that I did Lekhini. Thanks for all your support.

(I’m an English fanatic. Otherwise, I would have written this post in Telugu.)