Avro makes instant messaging in Bengali child’s play. MSN Messenger (I have tested Windows Messenger Live) and Trillian works great with Bangla text. You can simultaneously key in text in both English and Bengali – changing the input language seamlessly at the press of F12 hotkey. It has not been possibe to write Banlga in…

Thanks to Avro, the numero uno Bengali input software, working with MS Word in Bangla is just child’s play. No more issues e.g. no spell-check errors, seamless transition from English mode to Bangla mode at the press of a key (F12) or a single click. If you are using Notepad, the notepad file has to…

Yes you can name files in Bangla on your Windows. Avro, the highly popular software already clocking 100,000 downloads, makes it easier for you. This has been made possible by the following- Windows 2000 and later versions provide support for Unicode. It is possible to write English and Bangla using a single font, thanks to…

Any mail solution supporting Unicode will let you mail in Bengali. You can of course use Avro to make things easier! I could not write in Bangla in Yahoo. Probably they don’t support Unicode. I am telling how to write in Bangla in Gmail. 1. Open your Gmail mailbox. Click Settings. Under the option Outgoing…

Is it possible to read or write Bengali on these operating systems? Since these Windows editions don’t have support for Unicode, you won’t be able to use Avro with them. However, there are some primitive ASCII based softwares that will let you do so, but that you can use only for printing purposes in your…

Typing in Bangla has never been easier! The latest version of Avro Keyboard — the robust and versatile Unicode-compliant Bangla writing software — supports phonetic typing. For example, if I type ami banglay gan gai in English I get the corresponding Bangla text! Avro Keyboard 3, free to download and use, has really surpassed all…

The Kolkata Book Fair (Boi Mela) is the greatest yearly attraction I look forward to. The Book Fair is not only about buying books. We get to touch and feel the books and even smell the freshly printed books with crisp pages. Delicious! It’s really worth checking out Greatbong’s blog – a brilliant post where…

This January I got 1137 unique visitors (even though my site was down for almost 4 days) — this, though not a big figure, means a lot to me. I launched my site in September last year. In the first month I got 147 visitors. It increased slowly but steadily… I am especially thankful to…

Justine Henin-Hardenne is in the Australian Open women’s singles final having knocked down Maria Sharapova in the semifinal. Losing the first set, she came back into match to win 4-6 6-1 6-4. I am a great fan of Henin-Hardenne and the least that of Sharapova. So nothing could have been better news for me. Up…

The Madhyamik (secondary examination of my state) syllabus has been thoroughly revised. In our time — I gave Madhyamik in 2003 — we had telegram-writing. It carried 10 marks in the English paper. Now that the syllabus has been restructured, I wonder if it is still there. I, for one thing, think that telegram-writing should…