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The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling Available for Pre-Order
Image via Wikipedia The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling is now available for pre-order on Amazon. This book of fairy tales was written to supplement the Harry Potter series and will be published in two new editions on December 4, 2008. The Standard Edition features all five fairy tales from the original The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a new introduction by J.K. Rowling, illustrations reproduced from the original handcrafted book, and commentary on each of the tales by Professor Albus Dumbledore.
Amazon’s exclusive Collector’s Edition includes a reproduction of J.K. Rowling’s handwritten introduction, as well as 10 additional illustrations not found in the Standard Edition.
Photosynth – Virtual Tour
Have you ever visited Taj Mahal or Pyramids of Egypt or the castles in England? Nope? Haven’t you worried about it? What you gonna do about it?
Don’t worry Microsoft has come up with an idea to solve your problem. You may not be able to afford a trip to Washington DC but you can afford to browse online rite? (Just like me)
So saddle up and visit http://photosynth.net. This site will provide you virtual 3D trip to famous locations in the world. Now I’m browsing through Pyramids , bit excited and wondering how big it is.
To view these virtual locations you need to install a plug-in which enables you to browse them in browsers. You don’t need to install any new standalone applications.
How does it work?
Photosynth is a potent mixture of two independent breakthroughs: the ability to reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and the technology to bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet.
Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point the photos were taken from. With this information, we recreate the space and use it as a canvas to display and navigate through the photos.
Providing that experience requires viewing a LOT of data though—much more than you generally get at any one time by surfing someone’s photo album on the web. That’s where our Seadragon™ technology comes in: delivering just the pixels you need, exactly when you need them. It allows you to browse through dozens of 5, 10, or 100(!) megapixel photos effortlessly, without fiddling with a bunch of thumbnails and waiting around for everything to load.
Even you can use your images that you took from your digital camera and make such virtual tour. This application will help you to synchronize your images and make a 3D virtual object. Imagine you moved to new home and wanna share it with your friends, isn’t it a wonderful idea????
Tamil Interface for Blogger
Blogger is one of the most popular blog portal owned by the internet giant Google. As per Google’s initiation to provide their products in local languages, they have taken steps to give Tamil interface for Blogger.
Currently you can check out the Tamil interface in Blogger Draft. A translation seems ok.
So far we have Good number of Tamil interfaces from Google including Orkut, Gmail, Main Search Site, Google News and Google Docs. Soon Blogger.com will also join with this queue.
PS: Tamil Interface for WordPress is already available.
Web Hosting Geeks
People some time get annoyed by their existing hosting service and look for new hosting services. I was searching for hosting advices over the net and found this wonderful web site. This web site is giving tips on how to choose new web hosting services.
If you wanna know cheap web hosting, then a list Top 10 web hosting services of 2008 is available on Web Hosting Geeks site. Read more
NHM Writer – Indic Unicode Writer
NHM writer is one of the most famous Tamil Unicode writers. It lets you type in Unicode Tamil format, which is a globally recognized encodings.
Recently NHM writer released their new version with support to several languages such as ssamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil & Telugu.
I prefer NHM writer over Keyman for Three reasons.
- It’s really a small software and less than 1 MB
- It supports 5 layouts (including Tamil 99 and Bamini)
- It enables Regional Language support in Control panel without Win XP CD. Read more
Blog Action Day ‘08
Are you a blogger, who worries about the issues around you, and wanna make some awareness about those issues? Then you gotta join this Blog Action Day 08. On 15th of October (my birthday as well) you need to write a post about Poverty. Last year Blog Action Day made awareness about environment.
Check out this cool video. It’ll explain you more about Blog Action Day.
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day
If you believe in change, and wanna make some change join this initiation and support them.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
This Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price will hit the screens on 21 November 2008. If you happen to read the book, then you know the heat of this book. I hope unlike Harry Potter and Order of phoenix, this movie will come up to the standard, just like the third movie.
In this movie, dumbledore passes down his memories to harry and prepare him to encounter the deadliest enemy ever, the dark lord, also you’ll come to know interesting stories about Snape. Interesting isn’t it?.
I can’t wait to see the movie. Seventh book will be made into two films as Warner Bros said. Wait for outstanding Harry fantasy. Hooooray…!
Google Adsense offers RSS Ads
I just wanted to insert Ads within RSS feed but google makes big fuzz. According to google it’ll take some time for them to set-up a process for the migration of feeds from FeedBurner to Google Adsense. If you want it to be done now, you can drop them an email with your feedburner user name and Adsense email address.
Google will soon provide a self-service process to migrate from an account on the original FeedBurner website to a Google Account. Currently, migrating your feeds from from FeedBurner to a Google account is a manual process. We will assist you directly to ensure a successful migration. The only way you can use AdSense for feeds is through your Google Account.
To migrate all of your feeds, and your account from feeds.feedburner.com to Google, please contact us at adsense-support-aff@google.com and provide the following information:
Your FeedBurner account username
The Google Account email address you use to sign in to AdSense
We will migrate your account and contact you with specific steps for you to follow once migration is complete.
I’d rather wait for some time than taking part in this mess. Today Daily Blog Tips has also written an article on this topic.
What is a Blog??
Two years back, I wanted to share my ideas and views with rest of the world. I found that having a web site will help me to interact with the world. I’m not competent enough in English so I just wanna start my site in Tamil.
As I began to explore more about setting up a web site, I found that setting up a web site and maintaining a web site needs much more technical knowledge. I almost given up and one day I come across http://www.blogger.com.
I started my Tamil Blog over their and leaned about blogs. According to Wikipedia
A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual,[citation needed] with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
In my simple words I’ll say, Blog is a simple and effective platform which will help you to set-up your website within minutes. Also it’ll maintain articles or posts in chronicle order.
If you wanna set up a free blog, then you can make your account in blogger.com or wordpress.com. Both of those sites have their own pros and cons.
Once you master in blogging platform you can buy your own domain as I did and can install a famous blogging platform such as WordPress.
Enjoy blogging and share your dreams with rest of the world.
This article is part of a group writing project
Facebook Prepares for Next Phase
It seems facebook has taken initiations to revolutionize the way it works. New version of facebook is available to use and facebook is keen on three aspects according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
We had three goals to improve Facebook in this version. First, we wanted to make everything clean and simple to use. Reducing clutter makes it easier for you to find what you’re looking for and share information with others. Second, we wanted to give you more control over your profile. Everyone should be able to express themselves how they want, which means privacy controls and control over how content appears on your profile. Lastly, we wanted to show the most recent and relevant content. People share so much on Facebook that it’s easier to keep up with your friends by focusing on the newest and most important information.
I hope we can get better experience via facebook in future. You can also try new version of facebook. Look for the try it now link on the top left hand corner.
New Facebook home page mainly there are three tabs and First one is Wall where we can find the News feed and some frequently used application along with network details. Tab info contains our contact details. Tab photos contain photos and tab boxes displays all the applications. No longer are profile pages too long and hard to load.
This simple and elegant desingn will bring more joyful experience to facebook fans, but I found that chat is missing.. why?? any idea?
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