Election sites

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)

http://www.adrindia.org/home/index.asp

National election watch

http://nationalelectionwatch.org/

Action for good governance and networking in India

http://www.blackbridge.co.in/agni/index.asp

I could not keep up my word

Once in Telugu Bangalore Bloggers group
I told that I will keep the bloggers meeting live till my stay in Bangalore.
But I could nt able to . I have no reasons.
I cant say lies . So sorry friends.
But will try soon.

వంటకాలు

indiacuisine.blogspot.com

vantakalu.blogspot.com

andhrarecipes.in

rnr-zone.blogspot.com

thotasandhrarecipes.blogspot.com
andhrafoodnetwork.blogspot

www.top-indian-recipes.com/blog

www.what2cook2day.blogspot.com

www.indianrelish.blogspot.com

wwww.recipejunction.blogspot.com
andhrastylerecipe.com

andhrakitchen.com

sanjeevkapoor.com

recipesindian.com

talimpu.com

indianladies.com

indianrecipesonline.com

స్వామి వివేకానంద

When I Asked God for StrengthHe Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

When I Asked God for Brain & BrownHe Gave Me Puzzles in life to Solve

When I Asked God for HappinessHe Showed Me Some Unhappy People

When I Asked God for WealthHe Showed Me How to Work Hard

When I Asked God for FavorsHe Showed Me opportunities to Work Hard

When I Asked God for PeaceHe Showed Me How to Help Others

God Gave Me Nothing I WantedHe Gave Me Everything I Needed

- Swami Vivekananda

Indian Language Transliterators

Source:http://vbsowmya.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/indian-language-transliterators-part-1/

1. Padma:By and large, of all the tools that I have found, I have felt that this extension of firefox is the best thing of all. Well, this is a firefox extension, which enables you to read non-unicode telugu content on the web on browsers like firefox which can’t display them properly. Ofcourse, the task for which I use it is to do literally everything ranging from searching in Indian languages to Blogging and mailing. On my scale of 10, I would give it a 8.5. 8.5 because of three reasons. One is that I cannot save offline whatever I type in Padma. The other is that - this does not work in google docs. and the last one is that it does not provide direct typing in to telugu. I should again select the text and convert it to Telugu.
2.Lekhini:Lekhini was perhaps the third online transliterator, which I came across almost one year before. The first two being - padma online and higopi. But, this was the one to which I sticked to, for quite sometime, till I discovered the other advantage of Padma extension. It is a highly flexible typing interface, which I still like a lot. You need not take any typing lessons at lekhini. You can type directly! Further, since it is simple javascript, you can save the page and use if offline, though there are better options offline than this. However, comparitively, I rate it as 8/10. My reasons being - 1)it is something like a different site. You need to cut,copy paste all the time. 2)It would have been nice if it had some option to save files on your desktop, if not online,with a user account and stuff. 3)It is not as intelligent as Quillpad.
3. Higopi.com:This is an online converter which supports nine Indian languages. It is also very much usable. However, somethings in its encoding makes the already lengthy RTS even more lengthy. Quick typers used to RTS might have to stop, wait and go. Like the above two, it provides toggling between English and Indian Language, which is highly necessary. It has only one textarea unlike Lekhini, which is in a way good, as you can see at the same place if you typed rightly or not. One positive point I would like to say on its side is that - it provides the transliteration for 9 Indian languages, unlike Lekhini. I rate this on the scale as 7.5/10. The reasons being the same as lekhini and one more - You cannot see the keypad map and the typing window at the same time in this tool, which makes it an unfriendly user interface.
4. Quillpad.com:This is THE most intelligent typing tool I saw till date, I can confidently say. I don’t think this ever made a mistake in all my trials with it. It corrects itself and presents to us the most probable output. for example, I type: mIru elA unnAru in lekhini or padma or higopi. Here, I type - miru ela unnaru? - and presto! I see the same output in Telugu - “మీరు ఎలా ఉన్నారు?” -which not only means lesser effort in typing, but also the software understanding our needs. Quillpad is presently incorporated in Rediffmail and rediffbol. It even has this facility of sending an e-mail. However, this is quite vulnerable enough to spam, perhaps. Since it is incorporated in rediff client, the complaints about copy-paste and saving files are not as greatly noticeable in this one, perhaps. Nevertheless, I never used it much. I can’t say why. I rate it as 8.5/10. My only complaint in this case being - it is not a simple keystroke like Lekhini or Higopi or Padma in this case. You have to go to the drop-down and change the Language. The advantage of this is - you can write a single post in multiple languages. But, how many people exist, who write so? Toggling between Indian language and English would have been better.
5. Telugu toolbar plugin for Firefox:This is another avatar of Padma kind of mapping. It is good. I used it only for a short while, before realising the potential of Padma. But, I liked it to some extent. Since it is instant typing, the question of copy-paste or save does not come here. That depends on the application in which you are using Telugu toolbar. My one and only complaint about this is that - it would have been perfect had it worked in rich-text areas where you type mails or write blogposts. It worked in Blogger textbox but not in wordpress text area (This was sometime long back. I don’t know about the situation now). I rate it as 8.5 only for the above reason. I would not have hesitated to give a 10 if only it had the facility to type anywhere online.
6. Telugu Type pad by Vishal Monpara:This is a kind of passable interface and typing tool. Here, and only here I saw a wierd mapping of having “E” for the short sound “e” and “e” for the long vowel sound “E”. That is, to type - “cheque” in Indian language, you should write “chEk” and not “chek” :)) It supports 8 languages. I saw this tool being used somewhere else too. But, I am unable to recollect right at the moment. However, nothing is special in this tool. It is just an average tool. 7/10 perhaps.
7. Bhomiyo.com:This is the most cumbersome tool that I have encountered so far. I am talking only about the typing tool and not about the other products of Bhomiyo. The very mapping itself is wierd and without any reason. To type “amma” keystrokes are: Am\m. It does not make sense for me in any sense. To type “Alochana”, it is l?cn. The ? is because, no mapping is provided there for the long - “lO”. The only option you have is to go to your mouse and click the button. I have already cribbed about it sometime back…so, not anymore. I can’t rate it above 5 or 6.
8. Gamabhana:This has all the facilities of copy-paste, open-save stuff that I mentioned before. Nevertheless, I did not use it that much, for the reason that there is some problem with the telugu page. Further, I think it is still under development, from what I understood in chat conversation with Omkar Joshi, the maker. I am looking forward for its full-fledged version with a lot of hope. Its not fair to rate now, but, I expect it cannot be below 8/10. The story behind “gamabhana” in the words of Mr Omkar Joshi - ” gamabhana : in marathi when child starts to write on a slate these are letters to begin with ga ma bha na n i didnt hav ne other name in mind by the time i decided to giv it a name :)”

small effort from bangalore blogger side

Source: From Shankar Reddy (Bangalore Blogger team member)

అందరికి, చాలా రోజుల తరువాత అందరికి జాబు వ్రాస్తున్నాను. ఉభయ కుశలొపరి. ఇక అసలు విషయనికి వస్తాను, ముఖ్యముగా ఈ జాబు ద్వార మీకు బ్లాగును పరిచయం చేయబొతున్నాను. మీ లొ కొంతమందికి వీటి గురించి ఇప్పటికే తెలుసు అనుకుంటాను. ఒక్క మాటలొ చెప్పాలంటే బ్లొగ్ అంటె డైరి. విటిని ఎవరైనా అంతర్జాలములొ(ఇంటెర్నెట్) చదవవచ్చు లేక వ్రాయవచ్చును. మనకు తెలియని ఎన్నొ విషయలు ఇక్కడ తెలుసుకొవచ్చు సినిమ, ఆటలు,పాటలు,వ్యక్తులు, కొత్త ప్రదేశాలు ఒకటేమిటి ఎన్నో విషయలు తెలుసుకొవచ్చు . మీరు మీ సొంతంగా బ్లొగ్ లు వ్రాయవచ్చు. జరిగిన విషయలు జరుగుతున్న విషయలు వ్రాయవచ్చూ. వ్రాసిన తరువాత వాటిని గుంపులొ పబ్లిష్ చెయవచ్చు. అలా వ్రాసిన బ్లొగ్ లను ప్రపంచ వ్యాప్తంగ ఎందరో చదివి వారి అభిప్రాయలను వ్యక్తపరుస్తారు. ఇకపోతె ఈ బ్లొగ్ లను ఏ బాష లొ అయినా వ్రాయవచ్చు. మన మాతృ బాష లొ వ్రాద్దాం. మన మాతృ బాష ను మనం మరువకుండ మన తరువాతి తరాలకు అందిద్దాం .... మీలొని సృజనాత్మకతను వెలికి తీయండి. మీ బ్లొగ్ ను మొదలు పెట్టండి.

తెలుగు లొ వ్రాయుటకు క్రింది సైటు ను చూడండి. http://lekhini.org/

ఈ బ్లొగ్ సెవలను క్రింది సైటు కలిగి ఉన్నయి. http://wordpress.com/

https://www.blogger.com/ ( https://www.blogger.com/ )ఈ సైటు కు మీ జిమైల్ అకౌంట్ ను ఉపయుగించుకొవచ్చును.

నాకు ఓ బ్లొగ్ వుంది. నా బ్లొగ్ చుడలంటె క్రింది చిరునామ లొ చుడండి. ఇప్పుడు ఇప్పుడె దినిని మొదలుపెట్టాను. http://ssreddyr.wordpress.com/

ఇంకా ఎందుకు ఆలస్యం మీరు మీ బ్లొగ్ ను మెదలుపెట్టండి.

క్రింది చిరునామా లో అన్ని రకాల బ్లొగ్ లను వీక్షించ వచ్చు....

http://koodali.org/ http://www.jalleda.com/http://www.thenegoodu.com/

ఇట్లు

మీ శంకర్

In last Bangalore meeting We decided that it should reach other Telugu people in Bangalore.

One of our effort is this one .

Send me ur comments and feedbacks and how u feel that we can reach more people...

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