In all my school years it never really struck me that I can actually get books from the bookstalls along the footpaths of Golpark. As this revelation dawned on me, I have been a regular customer there. The books there are a steal if you can strike a good deal. You may choose to buy…

Do you listen to a lot of music? Then you must be telling your friends more often than not what you are listening to. There are cool ways you can let the world know what music you are playing — online. With the help of plugins you can display the current track you are playing…

I have just given my site a complete design overhaul. There may be some glitches here and there yet to be fixed. Do tell me if you you notice anything. Also, tell me how it looks in your browser esp. if you have 800×600 screen area. And don’t forget to add your comments on the…

My database went kaput. I could not fix it and restored a backup taken a few days back. In doing so, I lost some comments and some votes. 🙁 Lesson learnt: Take backup of database as often as possible. Every alternate day at least, if not daily.

Omi Azad (www.ekushey.org) has stolen Bangla fonts made by Microsoft and is distributing that with design credits! It is really a shame that they have resorted to this kind of unscrupulous and fraudulent activity. I cant help wondering how can people be so imbecile? What a waste of time and energy! They take things for…

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…