Govt of Tamil Nadu - Text Books Online.

If you interested to teach your children with Tamil Nadu Text Books,
it is available for download to public.

http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/

From Std 1 to Std 12.

In addition, it is available in Tamil and English medium.

Just want to share with you all.

Sun - OpenOffice Free

Tired of buying Microsoft Office software everytime. Are you spending too much money to buy Microsoft Office?

Time to say Final Goodbye to Microsoft Office.

Sun donated OpenOffice to public.

It is FREE and replacement to MICROSOFT OFFICE.

Here is the link.

http://java.com/en/download/javacom_update.jsp

Merry Christmas

Dear All

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens

MERRY & HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!

New websites to read

I just found some cool websites today. Please visit when you get time.

Techcrunch

Scrybe, the online/offline calendar provides nice features. It released their Beta version.

OpenLaszlo, the premier open-source platform for rich internet applications

Google's Orkut is an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends.

Ugenie is a powerful new tool to help you find the best price on what you want. You can shop for a single item, or customize a bundle of items. Either way, we'll compute the bottom-line price (including shipping, taxes, and discounts). We find the cheapest way to buy the exact items you want from one or more merchant sites. Our prices are accurate, we don't take money from merchants for preferred placements, and it won't cost you a penny.


Zooomr Universally the best way to share, search, store and sort your photos online.

VoiceCheap, Free phone calls with the VoipCheap. Call your online friends for free as well as a special selection of popular international destination

HeyMath

HeyMath! is an E-learning system that supports the work of teachers in teaching and assessment, whilst helping students in Grades 5 - 12
(Ages 10+) build a strong foundation in Math and become independent learners.

It is not FREE. Yearly $100 per student, if the student from USA. For Schools from India they are charging Rs.600/- ($13) per year.

It is very nice place for our kids to learn Maths in fun and informative way. They have sample lessons.

Sample Lessons are very nice.

MinuteClinic in USA

In USA, if you have Health Insurance policy and want to visit your doctor for common illnesses, such as strep throat, bronchitis, ear infections, sinus infections, MinuteClinic provides quick, convenient care.

MinuteClinic provides a consultation with a health care professional, a prescription when clinically appropriate and the choice of having it filled onsite.

One Minute Tip

The One Minute Tip is a collection of Podcasted technology tips, interviews, quickstarts and videos for people who don't have time to read manuals cover to cover. We will find and Podcast these "gems" three times a week.

Google Guide

If you are a regular Google user. You may want to check out this site www.googleguide.com A site full of helpful

Google on Mars

First there was Google Maps. Then Google Moon. Followed by Google Earth. What’s next? Mars of course.

TV shows on Web

Want to watch TV shows on the Web, check out http://www.im.com

They offer Free TV shows. Need to download their software, which also free.

To watch programmes you need high speed connection.

Innocentive

InnoCentive® is an exciting web-based community matching top scientists to relevant R&D challenges facing leading companies from around the globe. We provide a powerful online forum enabling major companies to reward scientific innovation through financial incentives.

I came to know about this site from NPR radio.
In this website anybody can become member. If members give expected solutions to the challeges they will be rewarded.

Photos of India during WWII

From Vasanth Blog I found reference to nice collection of more than 600 photos of Inidan cities during the second world war. The photos are very nice. These photos are available Digitial South Asia section of University of Chicago.

The Hensley Collection is comprised of photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Glenn S. Hensley. The images include a rich array of photographs taken in Calcutta during 1943-44 by Mr. Hensley, a professional photographer participating in the surveillance of the Japanese in Burma for the U.S. Army. During his off-duty time Mr. Hensley used his ethnographer's eye to capture daily life in a number of locations around India. The majority of the images are from Calcutta and its environs. Other locations in this collection are Madras, Kharagpur, Agra, and Burma. The photographs and notes were prepared by Hensley for his wife to use in teaching world history courses in Missouri during World War II.

[The Hensley Photo Library]