Niponwave

Happened to go to get a pre-viva haircut. Then thought against returning to hostel and went to play pool instead! For the first time ever. Offline, I mean, for I’ve played the Yahoo pool hundreds of times and happen to be the best player in my circle! The rules are the same. But had […]

How to create your college, university or company network on Facebook?

Microsoft has just released their all new transliteration-capable Indic typing tool. The old input tool which came with Windows by default was sans la cutting edge and people were using existing programs like Baraha (Hindi), Avro (Bengali, Assamese), etc or relatively new web-based Google transliteration. The Microsoft Indic Typing Tool, released as a beta […]

Unicode is the standard to write Bengali. Explained - the disadvantages of Bitstream technology and why Anandabazar is still using it.

I have tried to shed light on this blog before and many times on the Omicronlab forum. But new users continue to be at-a-loss-what-to-do when they see only boxes instead of the Bengali letters. Or the Bengali script appears anyway, but the vowel signs may not show in the correct order!
First, make sure you have […]