Recently while researching the web for ebook readers I came across Pi. This looks like the only ebook reader made with India in mind. It’s sellers www.infibeam.com claim that it has Indian languages support and is available in India for Rs.9999. The gadget will be out this month end.

I am really thinking of ordering one for myself. Before that I want to be sure that there is sufficient material available in English and indian languages I know. I think this gadget needs some free ebooks/materials in Indian languages to become popular. Right marketing strategy and understanding the taste of Indian book readers is way to go for this gadget launchers.

My best wishes with them. Before buying I would like to go thorugh reviews of this gadget when it comes out later this month,

February 3rd, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments Off

If you ever feel that you need some programing practice then grab compiler of your favourite langauge and visit this link : http://www.spoj.pl/problems/tutorial/ 

This links has many-many programing problems to solve !

September 20th, 2009 | Category: programing | Leave a comment

I tried many ways of creating a video CD/DVD that would play on my DVD player. The  only software which worked for me was “DVD Flick“. Hereis a tip which most people dont know:

 If you try authoring the content on rewritable CD or DVD, it might not work on all DVD players. Just use a CD/DVD R (not RW) and it will work. If you are still having problems , create a ISO using DVD Flick and then burn it on a CD/DVD R.

When I use a RW media, it works fine on my computer, but does not work on my DVD player. So you can test using a RW media on your computer, if all is fine burn it onto a CD\DVD R .

So next time you try creating a video DVD for your DVD player remember that !

July 26th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

While exploring the web for XAML tools and utilities, I came across this nice ‘PowerPoint to Silverlight Exporter’ utility.This nice little tool can be downloaded  here : http://www.codeplex.com/pptx2silverlight. When I ran it , I was surprised by its simple user interface. I quickly created a sample PowerPoint presentation for testing. In my presentation, I added slides containing:

• Screenshot of my website.
• Different fonts.
• Clipart

My presentation looked something like this:

Sample presentation created using PowerPoint.

Then, in the ‘PowerPoint to Silverlight Exporter’ , I uploaded this presentation file and clicked on the link to convert. I was surprised to see an IE window open, containing my presentation hosted inside Silverlight Plugin.

PowerPoint to Silverlight Converter UI.

The utility seems to have a small builtin webserver for running the Silverlight application it generates. The Silverlight application exported by it, contained thumbnail view, navigation buttons and  a fullscreen button.

The exported Silverlight application.

I was curious to find the physical location of the output on my disk, so checked the configuration file of the utility located in ‘C:\Program Files\HCL\PPTConverter’.  It showed me this:

<add key=”BaseAddress” value=”C:\PPT2SilverlightData” />

Exploring this location, I found the files generated after exporting test.ppt where stored in  ‘C:\PPT2SilverlightData\CustomWebServer\MyWebServerRoot\Test.ppt’ folder.

Though this utility is interesting, it seems to be converting individual slides to images. It does not actually convert elements of the presentation to XAML objects.  I think this would be too much to ask for. But if it ever happens, I can use PowerPoint to create cool Silverlight applications

April 18th, 2009 | Tags: Silverlight, XAML | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment