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Google for Cooking Knol-edge Contest

noreply@blogger.com (Sreeja Ravikumar) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:56:00 +0000

If you know any one of the following languages(Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada or Malayalam) and you think you are a good cook then get ready to walk away with 150 USD worth of prizes and Sanjeev Kapoor cookbooks.Google is launching the Indian Cooking Knol-edge Contest to find the best recipe in five Indian languages based on the recent launch of Indic Transliteration on Knol.

For example, typing "aloo" in English transliterates into Hindi as आलू . Similarly, "urulakizhangu" becomes உருளைகிழங்கு in Tamil and ഉരുളകിഴങ്ങ് in Malayalam while "bangaladumpa" becomes ಬಂಗಳದುಮ್ಪ in Telugu and "aalugadde" becomes ಆಲುಗಡ್ಡೆ in Kannada.
For everything else you need to know about the contest from the steps for writing a Knol in Indian languages to the detailed rules and regulations, please visit the Indian Cooking Knol-edge Contest now.

World's cheapest car -Tata Nano is launched

noreply@blogger.com (Sreeja Ravikumar) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:57:00 +0000

The Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car, has been launched in India.

Costing just 100,000 rupees ($1,979; £1,366), the Nano will now go on sale across India next month, with deliveries starting in July.

This is what the owner of Tata : Ratan Tata has to say about Nano.

We wanted a find a safe way to transport Indian families at an affordable price

But let's see if this is going to be a success or failure in the future especially for a country like India , were the roads are already clogged up . But Tata says the Nano will be the least polluting car in India.

Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/7957671.stm

Symbol for Indian Rupee

noreply@blogger.com (Sreeja Ravikumar) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:18:00 +0000

Major countries in the world have distinct identification symbols for their currency - $ represents the US Dollar, £ is used for GBP(British Pound Sterling), € for Euro, etc.Use this link to view Worlds currency symbols, but there’s still no official currency sign for the Indian Rupee.

While symbols like Rs and रू are commonly used to represent the Indian Rupee, these are no official currency signs and therefore the Government of India has now announced a public contest to pick up a sign that will represent the currency of India.

The entries should be sent in a properly sealed envelope labelled “Entry for Symbol for the Indian Rupee” latest by 1300 hours on 15th April 2009 along with a bank draft of Rs.500.

This PDF form from the Ministry of Finance has full details of the competition. Some of the points are mentioned below

The currency symbol should be applicable to the standard computer keyboard and must also represent the historical and cultural ethos of the country as widely accepted across the country.The symbol has to be in the Indian National Language Script or a visual representation

Members from Reserve Bank of India and art institutes such as Sir JJ Institute of Applied Art, National Institute of Design, Lalit Kala Akademi, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Art & Culture would comprise the jury that will select the winning currency design.

If you are a creative artist, this is your ultimate chance to create history .The Designer of the finally selected design will get a prize of Rs.250,000/-

Something about Favicon

noreply@blogger.com (Sreeja Ravikumar) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:15:00 +0000

When I saw Google's favicon, I wanted to know more about favicon.From sources I found out that Favicon is the short name for Favorites Icon. It has some specifications .It should be 16 X 16 pixels with 16 colors and the file name should be favicon.ico.

Once you have such an icon file in hand , just upload it to your website :- simply put it in your root directory and the web browsers that support favicons will locate it eventually.Now you can see your icon on the left side of your URL and if you have URL in your favorites menu it will display the icon there as well.

Some tips :

1. If you liked some websites favicon and you want to view/download it , go to the websites home url and append favion.ico to the URL.. Not clear check below ?
Eg : If you liked Wikipedia's 'W' shaped favicon Goto http://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico , you will get it. :-)

2. Try this favicon generator to create your own favicons

Google Favicon

noreply@blogger.com (Sreeja Ravikumar) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:56:00 +0000

Something which I noticed recently .Google has changed their Favicon from Capital 'G' to small 'g'.

What is the reason behind the change of Favicon ...?

Many people are searching for the reason.. Many liked it many disliked it.In my opinion it's little dull compared to the old one due to the dim background. There would be some good reason for it lets wait and see..