Re: [AI] Need info to learn French
good to know our indian blind family is multicolor,and multicultural it will be real fun if every body will be to gather in second access india convention held at ahmedabad it always nice to gather all of us under one roof and share our thaught hope to see you all in access india convention firoz - Original Message - From: "Vishwanathan K S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Need info to learn French > thanks for the info.I shall try to get the contact details of Manas and > arun > from Sushmeeta. > Best Regards, > K.s.Vishwanathan. > Tel No: 022-28738192 > - Original Message - > From: "firoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:50 PM > Subject: Re: [AI] Need info to learn French > > >> hi, >> >> i just got this info. from sushmita mam that >> >> manas is working as tourist guide and learn german and spanish language >> also >> >> also one more blind student arun iyer is learning german language >> >> actually both are not on the list currently >> >> firoz >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Vishwanathan K S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: >> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 7:43 PM >> Subject: Re: [AI] Need info to learn French >> >> >>> Dear Subramani, >>> Thanks for the info. >>> Best Regards, >>> K.s.Vishwanathan. >>> Tel No: 022-28738192 >>> - Original Message - >>> From: "Subramani L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: >>> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:20 PM >>> Subject: Re: [AI] Need info to learn French >>> >>> No, Geetha Shamanna in Bangalore has done her course in German and she is a translator. Subramani -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of firoz Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:10 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Need info to learn French thats great but apart from you i do not think any body has done some thing in germany atleast i do not info. about it thanks firoz - Original Message - From: "Vishwanathan K S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Need info to learn French > Dear Firoz, > please let me know if some one from access india group can give info on > german language also.I have done two levels of German language and wish to > pursue learning the further levels. > Best Regards, > K.s.Vishwanathan. > Tel No: 022-28738192 > - Original Message - > From: "firoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:03 PM > Subject: Re: [AI] Need info to learn French > > >> our own access indian member "zainab" is working as french to english >> translation field >> >> you can get information from her also >> >> firoz >> - Original Message - >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Rohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:06 PM >> Subject: Re: [AI] Need info to learn French >> >> >>> For French you can perhaps contact the Alliance Francaise in your city >>> and for German Max Muller Bhavan. The other alternative is to do the >>> language courses with Hadley School for the blind. Subramani >>> >>> On 6/19/08, Rohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Friends, Kindly throw some light with regard to learn french or any other foreign language. If someone would like to persue his or her future in this then which are the institutes to start the course and where can he use this foreign language after doing the course. Help would be appreciated. Rohan. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n >>> >>> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> with the subject unsubscribe. >>> >>> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >>> please visit the list home page at >>> >>> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessind
Re: [AI] Database
Kindly tell how and whom to send our informatio. Dr.Kalpana - Original Message - From: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 10:10 AM Subject: [AI] Database > About a year ago XRCVC had emailed a form on accessindia requesting > members to complete the same with their respective information but hardly > any one had replied. > I have personally taken up this project. > For the last 2 months I have been writing to many of you personally > requesting you to send your information in but hardly any of you have > bothered. I had decided to ask a few members at a time so that I could > have personal interaction and as yu do not seem to like to respond to > general mails. > It is shocking that you have not understood the need for a database . > > There are many reasons for wanting to have a consolidated online database > and I will just explain a few. > > 1. When job mapping is done at companies the facilitator has an all India > reference and it is easier to convince the companies. > 2. When parents of visually challenged and the newly visually challenged > visit Associations for help they are generally scared and disheartened by > the disability. These organisations could use the database to increase the > confidence levels. Its like when I was going blind I thought for a little > while that I would never be able to continue with my career till I saw > Deepak Motiwala a blind senior Solicitor doing well in his career. I was > lucky that I did not have difficulty finding Deepak's name or address what > would have happened had he been from another city and I hadnt been told > about him. This database will be online and will be useful to both > organisations working for the welfare of the visually challenged and the > challenged themselves. > 3. About a month ago Amar Jain had asked on accessindia, the names of > Visually challenged lawyers. Did any of you notice that there were so many > lawyers on and off this list but none of us could give a complete list or > a reasonablly good list. Had this database been available this question > would not have arisen and the replies would have been better and Amar's > job done faster. > 4. There was an email from Prateek agarwal regarding IT sector but he has > not specified in what part of IT sector does he want information. The > database would have helped him. > 5. Last week I was fighting a case against the Maharashtra Public Services > Commission for a totally blind candidate. Even though the question was not > before the Court but the Court did ask casually that could a totally Blind > person do the work of a Naib Tahsildar. Of course I said yes but had I > known at that time that our very own Rajesh Assudani had got the > appointment letter from the very same Commission for the post of Naib > Tahsildar the Court would have passed the order much faster. > > I hope I have explained my case for the database and all of you will send > in your details and especially the 75 people who have got mails on this > issue from me. please ask your friends and do definitely make it a point > to do it this weekend. I will not stop sending you reminders but you > better take responsibility too. > > Thanks for reading this mail and sorry for being so direct about this > issue. I was losing hope about ever finishing this project. > > A very big thank you to those who have filled up their details and sent > the forms. > Regards Kanchan > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Database
Respected madam I think most of us were unaware of such an issue like me. And before everyone in this list repents on this and thereby increases the traffic in this thread, I feel someone should come up with the exact information about how we should proceed in this regard. Awaiting someone's earliest reply. Regards Vamshi. G Landline: 0877-2243861 Mobile: 09949349497 E-mail ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vamshi. G On 6/21/08, pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About a year ago XRCVC had emailed a form on accessindia requesting members > to complete the same with their respective information but hardly any one > had replied. > I have personally taken up this project. > For the last 2 months I have been writing to many of you personally > requesting you to send your information in but hardly any of you have > bothered. I had decided to ask a few members at a time so that I could have > personal interaction and as yu do not seem to like to respond to general > mails. > It is shocking that you have not understood the need for a database . > > There are many reasons for wanting to have a consolidated online database > and I will just explain a few. > > 1. When job mapping is done at companies the facilitator has an all India > reference and it is easier to convince the companies. > 2. When parents of visually challenged and the newly visually challenged > visit Associations for help they are generally scared and disheartened by > the disability. These organisations could use the database to increase the > confidence levels. Its like when I was going blind I thought for a little > while that I would never be able to continue with my career till I saw > Deepak Motiwala a blind senior Solicitor doing well in his career. I was > lucky that I did not have difficulty finding Deepak's name or address what > would have happened had he been from another city and I hadnt been told > about him. This database will be online and will be useful to both > organisations working for the welfare of the visually challenged and the > challenged themselves. > 3. About a month ago Amar Jain had asked on accessindia, the names of > Visually challenged lawyers. Did any of you notice that there were so many > lawyers on and off this list but none of us could give a complete list or a > reasonablly good list. Had this database been available this question would > not have arisen and the replies would have been better and Amar's job done > faster. > 4. There was an email from Prateek agarwal regarding IT sector but he has > not specified in what part of IT sector does he want information. The > database would have helped him. > 5. Last week I was fighting a case against the Maharashtra Public Services > Commission for a totally blind candidate. Even though the question was not > before the Court but the Court did ask casually that could a totally Blind > person do the work of a Naib Tahsildar. Of course I said yes but had I known > at that time that our very own Rajesh Assudani had got the appointment > letter from the very same Commission for the post of Naib Tahsildar the > Court would have passed the order much faster. > > I hope I have explained my case for the database and all of you will send in > your details and especially the 75 people who have got mails on this issue > from me. please ask your friends and do definitely make it a point to do it > this weekend. I will not stop sending you reminders but you better take > responsibility too. > > Thanks for reading this mail and sorry for being so direct about this issue. > I was losing hope about ever finishing this project. > > A very big thank you to those who have filled up their details and sent the > forms. > Regards Kanchan > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Database
Expecting the form to my personal I.DOn Sat, 2008-06-21 at 10:10 +0530, pamnani wrote: > About a year ago XRCVC had emailed a form on accessindia requesting members > to complete the same with their respective information but hardly any one had > replied. > I have personally taken up this project. > For the last 2 months I have been writing to many of you personally > requesting you to send your information in but hardly any of you have > bothered. I had decided to ask a few members at a time so that I could have > personal interaction and as yu do not seem to like to respond to general > mails. > It is shocking that you have not understood the need for a database . > > There are many reasons for wanting to have a consolidated online database and > I will just explain a few. > > 1. When job mapping is done at companies the facilitator has an all India > reference and it is easier to convince the companies. > 2. When parents of visually challenged and the newly visually challenged > visit Associations for help they are generally scared and disheartened by the > disability. These organisations could use the database to increase the > confidence levels. Its like when I was going blind I thought for a little > while that I would never be able to continue with my career till I saw Deepak > Motiwala a blind senior Solicitor doing well in his career. I was lucky that > I did not have difficulty finding Deepak's name or address what would have > happened had he been from another city and I hadnt been told about him. This > database will be online and will be useful to both organisations working for > the welfare of the visually challenged and the challenged themselves. > 3. About a month ago Amar Jain had asked on accessindia, the names of > Visually challenged lawyers. Did any of you notice that there were so many > lawyers on and off this list but none of us could give a complete list or a > reasonablly good list. Had this database been available this question would > not have arisen and the replies would have been better and Amar's job done > faster. > 4. There was an email from Prateek agarwal regarding IT sector but he has not > specified in what part of IT sector does he want information. The database > would have helped him. > 5. Last week I was fighting a case against the Maharashtra Public Services > Commission for a totally blind candidate. Even though the question was not > before the Court but the Court did ask casually that could a totally Blind > person do the work of a Naib Tahsildar. Of course I said yes but had I known > at that time that our very own Rajesh Assudani had got the appointment letter > from the very same Commission for the post of Naib Tahsildar the Court would > have passed the order much faster. > > I hope I have explained my case for the database and all of you will send in > your details and especially the 75 people who have got mails on this issue > from me. please ask your friends and do definitely make it a point to do it > this weekend. I will not stop sending you reminders but you better take > responsibility too. > > Thanks for reading this mail and sorry for being so direct about this issue. > I was losing hope about ever finishing this project. > > A very big thank you to those who have filled up their details and sent the > forms. > Regards Kanchan > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject > unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Help needed regarding the technical writingand other accessible careers for VIs.
Dear list members, Firstly, I'm sorry for the horible mistakes that I've made in my previous mail since they were not written with my own hands. A week ago I posted my requested about the accessible careers for visually impaired, followed by the technical writing, unfortunately not many responses. Is there any horible mistake with my English? for your conveenience I'm posting the request again with necessary corrections. i am to undergo a training program in technical writing at " Tech-Total " in Hyderabad. They agree to teach me the seven tools used in technical writing. They are one ms-word, ms-power point,ms-visio,Adobe Frame maker ,photoshop, snag It of Tech smith and robo-help. Could any one please tell me how far these tools especially the last five are Accessible with Jaws8 or above .If u have any additional information about it please do let me know. Members can reply to my personal to my personal e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of increasing the traffic on the list. Thankyou Warm regards Govind. M: 9959392651 technical writing To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Yahoo-Google agree online ad deal
Yahoo-Google agree online ad deal Yahoo rejected a $47.5bn offer from Microsoft Yahoo has agreed a deal with Google which will see Yahoo use the search engine giant's advertising technology. Under the agreement, Google ads will appear alongside some Yahoo search results in the US and Canada. The announcement came after Yahoo said it had failed to persuade Microsoft to renew its bid to buy all of the internet company. Recent talks concluded after Yahoo rejected a Microsoft proposal to buy just its online search business. Potentially lucrative Yahoo said the agreement with Google could be worth up to $800m (£410m) in additional revenue every year. Alarm bells were already ringing on Capitol Hill over Yahoo's 'limited' trial in April of Google's technology Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Technology Correspondent The Yahoo-Google drama BBC dot.life technology blog "This commercial agreement provides Yahoo with the opportunity to deliver more relevant ads to users and provide advertisers and publishers with better advertising technology," said Eric Schmidt, Google chairman and chief executive. "We believe that the convergence of search and display is the next major development" in online advertising industry, said Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang. The partnership will initially last for three years, but could last up to 10 if Yahoo decides to renew. Google said the deal did not need regulatory approval but that it would delay its implementation by up to three and a half months to give the US Department of Justice a chance to review it. However, the deal is likely to attract attention from competition regulators in Washington, according to the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. "Alarm bells were already ringing on Capitol Hill over Yahoo's 'limited' trial in April of Google's technology," he said. Alternative deal The markets closed before the Google deal was announced. Shares in Yahoo had closed down 10% after it said its attempts to revive Microsoft's $47.5bn (£24bn) offer for the whole of Yahoo had been unsuccessful. Cannot play media. You do not have the correct version of the flash player. Download the correct version Yahoo chiefs strike deal The shares fell as low as $22.50 earlier in the trading session, their lowest level since the software giant first offered $31 a share for Yahoo in January. Yahoo rejected a new proposal from Microsoft to buy just its online search operations. "In the weeks since Microsoft withdrew its offer to acquire Yahoo, the two companies have continued to discuss an alternative transaction that Microsoft believes would have delivered in excess of $33 per share to the Yahoo shareholders," Microsoft said in a statement. "This partnership would ensure healthy competition in the marketplace, providing greater choice and innovation for advertisers, publishers and consumers," the company said. Yahoo, however, did not want to sell off only one part of the business. It said such a deal "would not be consistent with the company's view of the converging search and display marketplaces". Microsoft sources told the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones that the company was no longer interested in a full takeover because Yahoo had been "underperforming" and was losing some of its key staff. Yahoo's shares closed 10% lower at $23.52, while Microsoft finished 4.1% higher at $28.24. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7451946.stm Vikas Kapoor, MSN Id:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Yahoo&Skype Id: dl_vikas, Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Behind the scenes of Firefox 3.0
Behind the scenes of Firefox 3.0 By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley About 15% of net users browse the web with Firefox There is a clear sense of anticipation building at the Mozilla Foundation's headquarters in Mountain View, California where engineers have been working for the past 34-36 months perfecting Firefox 3.0. "This is the biggest release by far of Firefox," says Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at the non-profit that drives the web browser's development. "We couldn't have done it without the two million people around the world already running it and the other 20,000 helping give us feedback, working out the bugs and constantly refining it," he said. Version 3.0 of Firefox is set to debut on 17 June and the Mozilla Foundation aims to try and set a world record for the most downloads in a day when the software is unleashed. It will have to do well to beat Firefox 2.0 - that version racked up 1.6 million downloads on the day it was first released in October 2006. Mr Schroepfer said Firefox 3 promised to be faster, easier to use and more secure than rival browsers. He claims that Firefox 3.0 loads webpages three to four times faster than Firefox 2.0 and more than seven times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). However, with all manner of factors beyond Mozilla's control affecting browsing speed those claims may prove hard to sustain. Alongside the speed improvements goes the "Smart Location Bar" - a feature known as the "Awesome Bar" internally at Mozilla. Schroepfer: "This is the biggest release by far of Firefox." Mr Schroepfer calls this novel feature: "The biggest user experience change... since tabbed browsing." The feature gives the browser's address bar a mechanism for quickly returning to web pages without bookmarking them, even if a user doesn't remember the address. It can also search "tags" - keywords that users associate with a particular page. "Arms race" Security was also high on the development team's list of improvements for the new version. Mr Schroepfer told the BBC: "It's an arms race between the good guys and the bad guys. This is not scare tactics or boogie man kind of stuff. "We have seen a huge uptick in malware attacks because they are financially motivated," he said. "This is billions of dollars a year. There are clear incentives for people to do this because they make money so you need some good guys on your side to block them out." Included in Firefox 3.0 are malicious software spotters that tell users when they are on a website that has been compromised. A red box will pop up in the middle of the screen warning users of the danger. Firefox 3.0 warns when users stray on to a booby-trapped page Mr Schroepfer said: "This new type of attack where people are hijacking legitimate websites and using them as mechanisms to try and install software on your machine is truly worrying. Behind the warning system is a list of infected sites that is updated every 30 minutes to keep up with the pace of web attacks. When Firefox 2.0 was launched, said Mr Schroepfer, its security focus was phishing attacks, where fake websites ask for personal details such as bank account or social security numbers to aid identity theft and give access to a user's financial accounts. "I think people adapted and thought phishing isn't working and then they switched to malware attacks," said Mr Schropefer. Other features include almost 5000 add-ons to customise a page, making the image on the back button bigger than the forward button because that is the one used more often, and extending how long history stores page information to three months. Since Firefox launched in 2004 it has gained a steadily increasing share of the web browsing market. Now, on average, about 15% of web users browse the web with Firefox. "Our goal because we are non profit isn't world domination," said Mr Schroepfer. "It's just to make sure the internet is open, collaborative, competitive and innovative." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7456151.stm Vikas Kapoor, MSN Id:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Yahoo&Skype Id: dl_vikas, Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Google's experimental Gmail toys
Google's experimental Gmail toys By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley In a first, Google is opening up its testing process by calling on tens of millions of Gmail users to put new features of the service through their paces. Gmail Labs has launched 13 settings for users to play around with and tell engineers directly what they think of them. The most popular features will become part of the Gmail product The new developments, which are only available in the UK and the US, show up as a red tab at the top of the page. Gmail product manager Keith Coleman says: "This marks a big change in the way the company does product development." Generally speaking products are tested internally on Google staff for weeks if not months and then refined before being released to the public. Never before has the firm opened up the testing process and brought in outsiders on such a large scale. Smaller scale usability tests have been done with invited visitors. Mr Coleman says: "We want to take the next step and let Gmail users help us do that refinement." Old Snakey The new settings include things like Pictures in Chat, which puts portraits in chat sessions, and Superstars, which lets you put different icons on mail. Old Snakey lets you play the classic game in Gmail and E-mail Addict forces you to take a screen break by locking you out of the Gmail for 15 minutes. Keith Coleman: "We are looking for little nuggets of innovation" Mr Coleman says the features are "really rough and have gone through no filtering in terms of product analysis or design analysis". "They have just gone through a general code review process to make sure they are safe to run. "They have also gone through less testing than a typical feature would. But what this is is a way to take our ideas and get them out to the public." After testing, users will get the chance to tell the developers directly what they think of them. The most popular are likely to become a regular part of the Gmail product. Time for ideas The service was unveiled to a small group of journalists, including the BBC, who had been invited to Building 47 at the Googleplex for a rare view of the team at work. Every idea is treated as having value Normally such spaces are off-limits to people outside the company. As well as being shown the new service ahead of release, we were also walked through the offices where engineers take 20% of their time to come up with ideas and work on them. The 20% time is part of Google's core ethos. "The idea behind Labs is that any engineer can go to lunch, come up with a cool idea, code it up, and ship it as a Labs feature to tens of millions of users," explains Mr Coleman. Staff write suggestions on a whiteboard to keep track of everything being played around with and who is working on what. Another display shows how many bugs an upcoming application needs to get fixed and which engineer is working on it. Spam Tsar The whole workspace is divided into areas covering various aspects of Gmail from the calendar to documents and from the reader to spam. Brad Taylor, the Spam Tsar who keeps Gmail free from offers you don't want The guys fighting to keep spam out of the Gmail inbox are tucked away in a dark corner of the office. Brad Taylor is known as the Spam Tsar, a title he quite enjoys. He has been working on Gmail since its public launch in 2004 and says he has seen a real growth in the amount of unsolicited e-mail flooding into the system. "Originally when we launched 25% of e-mail was spam. We caught a lot of that. Over time it's grown and grown and currently around 75% of all e-mail is spam and so our job has got a lot harder." Top secret In the heart of this open space is the so-called "war room". Here half a dozen engineers are huddled into a cramped office to work on top secret projects. Everyone there was tight-lipped about what the next big thing coming out of the room would be but helpfully quipped that it was a new colour. Dreaming up the future of Gmail Todd Jackson, another Gmail product manager, was more serious when he said that the engineers didn't leave until they had either solved a particular problem or fully developed a new feature. Situated next to the office cafe is the Usability Lab, where Gmail invites small groups of six to eight people to test new applications to see how they will fare with the general public. Nika Smith, who helps run the Lab, says instead of having a two-way mirror to watch participants and how they interact with a product, they are a little more high-tech. "We have this little hidden camera next to some flowers and one in the corner of the room. We just want to know how they use Gmail and see from the users' perspective what their experience is like. "Then we just watch how they interact with the product and work out what improvements are needed." A-Team P
Re: [AI] Help needed regarding the technical writingand otheraccessible careers for VIs.
Hi Govind, I had unsubscribed from the list for a while and did not see your previous message. I am sending my response to the list, as others who intend to take up technical writing as a career can also benefit from it. Among the tools you mention, I worked extensively with RoboHelp and Adobe FrameMaker. While RoboHelp was nearly completely accessible, FrameMaker was almost totally inaccessible. Both RoboHelp and FrameMaker have come a long way in the six years since I stopped working as a technical writer, and things could have improved in the newer versions. I suggest that you enroll in this course and get as much out of it as possible. The certificate will help you find a job, and once you have the job, you can negotiate with the employer to allow you to do what you can do best, which is write. Meanwhile, in addition to the course, ensure that you hone your technical writing skills as much as possible. Read technical magazines and manuals and try to write step-by-step instructions for performing various tasks on the computer. Since your profficiency in using the tools will be below par when compared to your sighted counterparts due to their inaccessibility, your best bet would be to impress your prospective employer with your writing skills. So try to concentrate your energy on that. Hope this helps. Geetha - Original Message - From: "govind reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 7:04 PM Subject: [AI] Help needed regarding the technical writingand otheraccessible careers for VIs. > Dear list members, > Firstly, I'm sorry for the horible mistakes that I've made in my > previous mail since they were not written with my own hands. > A week ago I posted my requested about the accessible careers for > visually impaired, followed by the technical writing, unfortunately > not many responses. > Is there any horible mistake with my English? > for your conveenience I'm posting the request again with necessary > corrections. > i am to undergo a training program in technical writing at " Tech-Total " > in > Hyderabad. > They agree to teach me the seven tools used in technical writing. They are > one > ms-word, ms-power point,ms-visio,Adobe Frame maker ,photoshop, snag It of > Tech smith and robo-help. Could any one please tell me how far these > tools especially the last five are Accessible with Jaws8 or above .If > u have any additional information about it please do let me know. > Members can reply to > my personal to my personal e-mail at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > instead of increasing > the traffic on the list. > > Thankyou > Warm regards > Govind. > M: 9959392651 > > technical writing > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Scientists Invent Bionic Eyeball To Cure Blindness
Dear sir. Please enlighten the group whether this equipment can help restore the vision of those blind persons whose eye ball has melted away and also tel us the cost of getting it fixed. Mittal. - Original Message - From: "shahnaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:18 PM Subject: [AI] Scientists Invent Bionic Eyeball To Cure Blindness > IANS >Wednesday, 18 June , 2008, 12:39 > Hamburg: > German scientists have invented a wireless bionic eyeball that can > restore vision > to patients who have become blind due to retina damage or disease. > The new prosthetic device caps 12 years of research to help these > patients. This > work has resulted in a unique system - a fully implantable visual > prosthesis. The > scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits > and Systems > in Duisburg, Germany, say that the bionic eye can bypass the damaged > retina. > For more news, analysis > | > For more Science and Medicine news > The system comprises an implant and an external transmitter > integrated in an eyeglasses-frame. > The implant system converts the image patterns into interpretable > stimulation signals, > and data and energy are transferred to the implant by a telemetric > link. Nerve cells > inside the eye are then stimulated according to the captured images. > The intact cells > are innervated by means of 3-D stimulation electrodes that rest > against the retina > like small studs. > As long as there is no damage to the optic nerve, the vision signals > can be sent > to the brain just like they are with healthy eyes. "For normally > sighted people that > may not seem much, but for the blind, it is a major step," comments > Hoc Khiem Trieu > of the Fraunhofer Institute. "After years of blindness, the patients > were able to > see spots of light or geometric patterns, depending on how the nerve > cells were stimulated." > Trieu has been involved from the outset of this project, which was > funded by the > Germany's Education and Research Ministry. Together with two other > scientists, Ingo > Krisch and DMichael Goertz, he translated the specifications given by > the medical > experts and material scientists into an implant and chip design. "A > milestone was > reached when the prosthetic system finally operated wirelessly and > remotely controlled," > explains Dr. Krisch. > "A great deal of detailed work was necessary before the implant could > be activated > without any external cable connections. "The designs became smaller > and smaller, > the materials more flexible, more robust and higher in performance, > so that the implant > now fits comfortably in the eye," reports Goertz. > The scientists are to receive the Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize 2008 > for their work. > > > > Bring your gang together. Do your thing. Find your favourite Yahoo! > group at http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Tiny refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers
Sci. & Tech. Tiny refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers WEST LAFAYETTE: Researchers at Purdue University are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers. A press release by EurekAlert says, unlike conventional cooling systems, which use a fan to circulate air through finned devices called heat sinks attached to computer chips, miniature refrigeration would dramatically increase how much heat could be removed, said Suresh Garimella, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering. The Purdue research focuses on learning how to design miniature components called compressors and evaporators, which are critical for refrigeration systems. The researchers developed an analytical model for designing tiny compressors that pump refrigerants using penny-size diaphragms and validated the model with experimental data. The elastic membranes are made of ultra-thin sheets of a plastic called polyimide and coated with an electrically conducting metallic layer. The metal layer allows the diaphragm to be moved back and forth to produce a pumping action using electrical charges, or "electrostatic diaphragm compression." In related research, the engineers are among the first to precisely measure how a refrigerant boils and vaporizes inside tiny "microchannels" in an evaporator and determine how to vary this boiling rate for maximum chip cooling. The research is led by Garimella and Eckhard Groll, a professor of mechanical engineering. "We feel we have a very good handle on this technology now, but there still are difficulties in implementing it in practical applications," said Garimella, director of the Cooling Technologies Research Center based at Purdue. "One challenge is that it's difficult to make a compressor really small that runs efficiently and reliably." Findings will be detailed in two papers being presented during the 12th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference and the 19th International Compressor Engineering Conference on July 14-17 at Purdue. The papers were written by doctoral students Stefan S. Bertsch and Abhijit A. Sathe, Groll and Garimella. New types of cooling systems will be needed for future computer chips that will likely generate 10 times more heat than today's microprocessors, especially in small "hot spots," Garimella said. Miniature refrigeration has a key advantage over other cooling technologies, Groll said. "The best that all other cooling methods can achieve is to cool the chip down to ambient temperature, whereas refrigeration allows you to cool below surrounding temperatures," he said. The ability to cool below ambient temperature could result in smaller, more powerful computers and also could improve reliability by reducing long-term damage to chips caused by heating. One complication is that the technology would require many diaphragms operating in parallel to pump a large enough volume of refrigerant for the cooling system. "So you have an array of 50 or 100 tiny diaphragm compressors, and you can stack them," Groll said. The researchers conducted laboratory experiments with the diaphragms in Garimella's Thermal Microsystems Lab, developed a computational model for designing the compressor and validated the model with data from the lab. Findings showed that it is feasible to design a prototype system small enough to fit in a laptop, Garimella said. The model enables the engineers to optimize the design, determining how many diaphragms to use and how to stack them, either parallel to each other or in series. "If you stack in one direction, you get more pressure rise, and if you stack in the other direction, you get more volume pumped," Groll said. Learning how to manufacture the devices at low cost is another major challenge, with industry requiring a cost of about $30 each. "We can't currently produce them at this price, but maybe in the future," Groll said. Another portion of the research focuses on learning precisely how refrigerant boils and turns into a vapor as it flows along microchannels thinner than a human hair. Such evaporators would be placed on top of computer chips. Bertsch, the doctoral student who led work to set up experiments at the university's Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, observed how refrigerant boils inside the channels and measured how much heat is transferred by this boiling refrigerant. He also created mathematical equations needed to properly design the miniature evaporators. "This overall project represents the first comprehensive research to carefully obtain data showing what happens to heat transfer in arrays of microchannels for miniature refrigeration systems and how to design miniature compressors," Garimella said. "Eventually, we will be able to design both the miniature compressors an
Re: [AI] Database
Organising information regarding career and educational issues is a crucial step. For hosting such a database, there must be a proper website. In US, American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), has opened a career connect website that hosts information for and off people engaged in various careers. They have an interesting feature called "search for a mentor". Under this, one can search for a particular job field, and the search finds mentors that work in that field. The mentors are categorised according to different parameters. National Federation for the Blind (NFB) hosts different lists that serves different interests. For example, they have lists based on travel, technology, writing, etc. In India, an attempt has been made to gather information on disability by www.disabilityindia.org. We probably need similar kind of approach. Regards --- pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About a year ago XRCVC had emailed a form on > accessindia requesting members to complete the same > with their respective information but hardly any one > had replied. > I have personally taken up this project. > For the last 2 months I have been writing to many of > you personally requesting you to send your > information in but hardly any of you have bothered. > I had decided to ask a few members at a time so that > I could have personal interaction and as yu do not > seem to like to respond to general mails. > It is shocking that you have not understood the need > for a database . > > There are many reasons for wanting to have a > consolidated online database and I will just explain > a few. > > 1. When job mapping is done at companies the > facilitator has an all India reference and it is > easier to convince the companies. > 2. When parents of visually challenged and the > newly visually challenged visit Associations for > help they are generally scared and disheartened by > the disability. These organisations could use the > database to increase the confidence levels. Its like > when I was going blind I thought for a little while > that I would never be able to continue with my > career till I saw Deepak Motiwala a blind senior > Solicitor doing well in his career. I was lucky that > I did not have difficulty finding Deepak's name or > address what would have happened had he been from > another city and I hadnt been told about him. This > database will be online and will be useful to both > organisations working for the welfare of the > visually challenged and the challenged themselves. > > 3. About a month ago Amar Jain had asked on > accessindia, the names of Visually challenged > lawyers. Did any of you notice that there were so > many lawyers on and off this list but none of us > could give a complete list or a reasonablly good > list. Had this database been available this question > would not have arisen and the replies would have > been better and Amar's job done faster. > 4. There was an email from Prateek agarwal regarding > IT sector but he has not specified in what part of > IT sector does he want information. The database > would have helped him. > 5. Last week I was fighting a case against the > Maharashtra Public Services Commission for a totally > blind candidate. Even though the question was not > before the Court but the Court did ask casually that > could a totally Blind person do the work of a Naib > Tahsildar. Of course I said yes but had I known at > that time that our very own Rajesh Assudani had got > the appointment letter from the very same Commission > for the post of Naib Tahsildar the Court would have > passed the order much faster. > > I hope I have explained my case for the database and > all of you will send in your details and especially > the 75 people who have got mails on this issue from > me. please ask your friends and do definitely make > it a point to do it this weekend. I will not stop > sending you reminders but you better take > responsibility too. > > Thanks for reading this mail and sorry for being so > direct about this issue. I was losing hope about > ever finishing this project. > > A very big thank you to those who have filled up > their details and sent the forms. > Regards Kanchan > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make > any other changes, please visit the list home page > at > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Database
very good suggestion Roopakshi. Dr.Kalpana - Original Message - From: "Roopakshi Pathania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Database > > Organising information regarding career and > educational issues is a crucial step. > > For hosting such a database, there must be a proper > website. > > In US, American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), has > opened a career connect website that hosts information > for and off people engaged in various careers. > They have an interesting feature called "search for a > mentor". > Under this, one can search for a particular job field, > and the search finds mentors that work in that field. > The mentors are categorised according to different > parameters. > > National Federation for the Blind (NFB) hosts > different lists that serves different interests. > For example, they have lists based on travel, > technology, writing, etc. > > In India, an attempt has been made to gather > information on disability by www.disabilityindia.org. > > We probably need similar kind of approach. > > Regards > > --- pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> About a year ago XRCVC had emailed a form on >> accessindia requesting members to complete the same >> with their respective information but hardly any one >> had replied. >> I have personally taken up this project. >> For the last 2 months I have been writing to many of >> you personally requesting you to send your >> information in but hardly any of you have bothered. >> I had decided to ask a few members at a time so that >> I could have personal interaction and as yu do not >> seem to like to respond to general mails. >> It is shocking that you have not understood the need >> for a database . >> >> There are many reasons for wanting to have a >> consolidated online database and I will just explain >> a few. >> >> 1. When job mapping is done at companies the >> facilitator has an all India reference and it is >> easier to convince the companies. >> 2. When parents of visually challenged and the >> newly visually challenged visit Associations for >> help they are generally scared and disheartened by >> the disability. These organisations could use the >> database to increase the confidence levels. Its like >> when I was going blind I thought for a little while >> that I would never be able to continue with my >> career till I saw Deepak Motiwala a blind senior >> Solicitor doing well in his career. I was lucky that >> I did not have difficulty finding Deepak's name or >> address what would have happened had he been from >> another city and I hadnt been told about him. This >> database will be online and will be useful to both >> organisations working for the welfare of the >> visually challenged and the challenged themselves. >> >> 3. About a month ago Amar Jain had asked on >> accessindia, the names of Visually challenged >> lawyers. Did any of you notice that there were so >> many lawyers on and off this list but none of us >> could give a complete list or a reasonablly good >> list. Had this database been available this question >> would not have arisen and the replies would have >> been better and Amar's job done faster. >> 4. There was an email from Prateek agarwal regarding >> IT sector but he has not specified in what part of >> IT sector does he want information. The database >> would have helped him. >> 5. Last week I was fighting a case against the >> Maharashtra Public Services Commission for a totally >> blind candidate. Even though the question was not >> before the Court but the Court did ask casually that >> could a totally Blind person do the work of a Naib >> Tahsildar. Of course I said yes but had I known at >> that time that our very own Rajesh Assudani had got >> the appointment letter from the very same Commission >> for the post of Naib Tahsildar the Court would have >> passed the order much faster. >> >> I hope I have explained my case for the database and >> all of you will send in your details and especially >> the 75 people who have got mails on this issue from >> me. please ask your friends and do definitely make >> it a point to do it this weekend. I will not stop >> sending you reminders but you better take >> responsibility too. >> >> Thanks for reading this mail and sorry for being so >> direct about this issue. I was losing hope about >> ever finishing this project. >> >> A very big thank you to those who have filled up >> their details and sent the forms. >> Regards Kanchan >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the >> subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make >> any other changes, please visit the list home page >> at >> >> > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest
Re: [AI] Database
Hi Kanchan, you never wrote to me. Further, such database has to be updated from time-to-time. Thanking you, Professor Shyam M. Sayanekar - Original Message - From: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:40 PM Subject: [AI] Database > About a year ago XRCVC had emailed a form on accessindia requesting > members to complete the same with their respective information but hardly > any one had replied. > I have personally taken up this project. > For the last 2 months I have been writing to many of you personally > requesting you to send your information in but hardly any of you have > bothered. I had decided to ask a few members at a time so that I could > have personal interaction and as yu do not seem to like to respond to > general mails. > It is shocking that you have not understood the need for a database . > > There are many reasons for wanting to have a consolidated online database > and I will just explain a few. > > 1. When job mapping is done at companies the facilitator has an all India > reference and it is easier to convince the companies. > 2. When parents of visually challenged and the newly visually challenged > visit Associations for help they are generally scared and disheartened by > the disability. These organisations could use the database to increase the > confidence levels. Its like when I was going blind I thought for a little > while that I would never be able to continue with my career till I saw > Deepak Motiwala a blind senior Solicitor doing well in his career. I was > lucky that I did not have difficulty finding Deepak's name or address what > would have happened had he been from another city and I hadnt been told > about him. This database will be online and will be useful to both > organisations working for the welfare of the visually challenged and the > challenged themselves. > 3. About a month ago Amar Jain had asked on accessindia, the names of > Visually challenged lawyers. Did any of you notice that there were so many > lawyers on and off this list but none of us could give a complete list or > a reasonablly good list. Had this database been available this question > would not have arisen and the replies would have been better and Amar's > job done faster. > 4. There was an email from Prateek agarwal regarding IT sector but he has > not specified in what part of IT sector does he want information. The > database would have helped him. > 5. Last week I was fighting a case against the Maharashtra Public Services > Commission for a totally blind candidate. Even though the question was not > before the Court but the Court did ask casually that could a totally Blind > person do the work of a Naib Tahsildar. Of course I said yes but had I > known at that time that our very own Rajesh Assudani had got the > appointment letter from the very same Commission for the post of Naib > Tahsildar the Court would have passed the order much faster. > > I hope I have explained my case for the database and all of you will send > in your details and especially the 75 people who have got mails on this > issue from me. please ask your friends and do definitely make it a point > to do it this weekend. I will not stop sending you reminders but you > better take responsibility too. > > Thanks for reading this mail and sorry for being so direct about this > issue. I was losing hope about ever finishing this project. > > A very big thank you to those who have filled up their details and sent > the forms. > Regards Kanchan > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] How to retrieve Password from Outlook Express
Dear Friends, Please guide me, if a password is saved in Outlook Express is there any way to retrieve it? Arup To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] AccessIndia Digest, Vol 26, Issue 81
On 6/21/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Send AccessIndia mailing list submissions to > accessindia@accessindia.org.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of AccessIndia digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Re: Database (Kalpana Kharade) >2. Re: Database (vamshi . G) >3. Re: Database (balaram) >4. Help needed regarding the technical writingand other > accessible careers for VIs. (govind reddy) >5. Yahoo-Google agree online ad deal (Vikas Kapoor) >6. Behind the scenes of Firefox 3.0 (Vikas Kapoor) >7. Google's experimental Gmail toys (Vikas Kapoor) >8. Re: Help needed regarding the technical writingand > otheraccessible careers for VIs. (Geetha Shamanna) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:07:14 +0530 > From: "Kalpana Kharade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [AI] Database > To: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Kindly tell how and whom to send our informatio. > Dr.Kalpana > - Original Message - > From: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 10:10 AM > Subject: [AI] Database > > >> About a year ago XRCVC had emailed a form on accessindia requesting >> members to complete the same with their respective information but hardly >> any one had replied. >> I have personally taken up this project. >> For the last 2 months I have been writing to many of you personally >> requesting you to send your information in but hardly any of you have >> bothered. I had decided to ask a few members at a time so that I could >> have personal interaction and as yu do not seem to like to respond to >> general mails. >> It is shocking that you have not understood the need for a database . >> >> There are many reasons for wanting to have a consolidated online database >> and I will just explain a few. >> >> 1. When job mapping is done at companies the facilitator has an all India >> >> reference and it is easier to convince the companies. >> 2. When parents of visually challenged and the newly visually challenged >> visit Associations for help they are generally scared and disheartened by >> the disability. These organisations could use the database to increase the >> >> confidence levels. Its like when I was going blind I thought for a little >> while that I would never be able to continue with my career till I saw >> Deepak Motiwala a blind senior Solicitor doing well in his career. I was >> lucky that I did not have difficulty finding Deepak's name or address what >> >> would have happened had he been from another city and I hadnt been told >> about him. This database will be online and will be useful to both >> organisations working for the welfare of the visually challenged and the >> challenged themselves. >> 3. About a month ago Amar Jain had asked on accessindia, the names of >> Visually challenged lawyers. Did any of you notice that there were so many >> >> lawyers on and off this list but none of us could give a complete list or >> a reasonablly good list. Had this database been available this question >> would not have arisen and the replies would have been better and Amar's >> job done faster. >> 4. There was an email from Prateek agarwal regarding IT sector but he has >> not specified in what part of IT sector does he want information. The >> database would have helped him. >> 5. Last week I was fighting a case against the Maharashtra Public Services >> >> Commission for a totally blind candidate. Even though the question was not >> >> before the Court but the Court did ask casually that could a totally Blind >> >> person do the work of a Naib Tahsildar. Of course I said yes but had I >> known at that time that our very own Rajesh Assudani had got the >> appointment letter from the very same Commission for the post of Naib >> Tahsildar the Court would have passed the order much faster. >> >> I hope I have explained my case for the database and all of you will send >> in your details and especially the 75 people who have got mails on this >> issue from me. please ask your friends and do definitely make it a point >> to do it this weekend. I will not stop sending you reminders but you >> better take responsibility too. >> >> Thanks for reading this mail and sorry for being so direct about this >> issue. I was losing hope about ever finishing this project. >> >> A very big thank you to those who have filled up their details an
[AI] Regarding the database
Hello ma'am, I would like to have the form. Regards. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] The Baby that set off a hi-tech revolution
Date:22/06/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/22/stories/2008062256862000.htm Front Page The Baby that set off a hi-tech revolution Bobbie Johnson Engineers in Manchester celebrate the 60th birthday of the first digital computer Called the Small Scale Experimental Machine It took 52 minutes to answer a maths problem LONDON: Weighing in at over a tonne and comprising 1,500 valves and kilometres of wiring, it is not what most people would recognise today as a computer. Despite its antiquated appearance, however, this enormous machine - once nicknamed 'The Baby' - was once the cutting edge of technology. Some of the pioneering engineers behind it gathered in Manchester on Friday to celebrate the birthday of what was the world's first digital computer. Sixty years ago that day, The Baby completed its first calculation, giving birth to technologies which we are still using. The anniversary drew some of the pioneering engineers involved in its development to the city's Museum of Science and Industry to see a replica of the machine in action. "The birth of The Baby changed the world forever," said John Perkins, a Professor at a local university's faculty of engineering. "We hope the celebrations will raise the profile of computer science and encourage the brightest and best of the next generation." Early trials Formally called the Small Scale Experimental Machine, The Baby filled a laboratory at the university but had less processing power than a 21st century calculator. In early trials the machine failed to produce a result. But on the morning of June 21, 1948, Baby finally delivered: offering the answer to a mathematics problem that it had been posed 52 minutes earlier. Geoff Tootill, the only surviving member of the three-man team who built the device, said he had no idea about what the future held when the switch was flicked. "We couldn't foresee that a computer could be so inexpensive and so powerful. It's been borne on me over the years that the computer was becoming not only more important, but also more known to the public - this was completely foreign to us. In the 1940s we were accustomed to the very tight security discipline during the War." That first program the machine processed in 1948 was intended to solve a complex mathematical problem: determining the highest proper factor of 2 to the power of 18. And yet the machine could not add or multiply - it could only subtract. But Baby was at the edge of technology. Teams from around the world were racing against one another to produce the first modern computer, with academics and engineers in the U.S. and Germany close to building functioning machines. Although other computers had been built when Baby came into operation, they were designed for a single job or required rewiring to perform a different calculation. Baby was the first which could be reconfigured for different tasks simply by altering programs in its memory. Instead of storing information on a hard drive, as is done today, Baby kept its data in a cathode ray tube - the same sort of technology used in TV screens. Manchester was one of the world's leading centres of computer science and development, and later that year Alan Turing - the mathematician made famous for decoding Nazi ciphers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War - joined the university to help work on Baby's successors. That produced the Manchester Mk 1, one of the first commercially available computers, and the forebear of modern home computing. Tribute to pioneers Chris Burton, who masterminded the building of the replica, said it was necessary to capture a tangible tribute to the pioneers in Manchester who brought about this revolution. Baby's power pales in comparison to even the most common modern gadgets - an iPod can hold more than 640 million times more information. And the most powerful supercomputers today are light years ahead of the first model. - © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2008 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] IT's going to be touch-and-go tomorrow!
Date:22/06/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/22/stories/2008062255811200.htm Front Page IT's going to be touch-and-go tomorrow! Anand Parthasarathy Multiple makers unveil new mobile phones for India at Singapore CommunicAsia show - Photos: left, centre, Anand Parthasarthy; right: Samsung handout Which is the prettiest?: From left: LG's touch phone, 'Secret', Nokia's N71 computer-phone and Samsung's candybar 'Soul', vying for attention at the CommunicAsia show in Singapore last week. SINGAPORE: Why tap keys when a light touch will do? As mobile phone makers cram more and more features into their handset offerings, keypads get more complicated - and they shrink: Some of them seem to be designed for the fingers of pre-school kids. And when we adults use them, we end up hitting two keys at a time. The industry seems to have woken to our yelps ... which is why so many of the upcoming cellphones previewed last week at Asia's biggest technology show, CommunicAsia in Singapore, featured touch-sensitive screens to access most features - rather than struggling with a Lilliputian keypad. Secret from LG >From Korea, LG brought the latest phone in its Black Label series: the KF750 >with neon coloured controls that respond to a mere touch to access music, >photos, FM Radio and documents. The phone is named "Secret," presumably because its slide-out conventional keyboard seems to be a well-kept secret. Made from glass-and-carbon fibre, the ultra thin handset has a 5-megapixel camera and special software to create one's own music videos. Samsung, the other big Korean player, unveiled the "Soul" phone, with its Magic Touch technology for the main navigation controls, which change chameleon-like, depending on what one wants to do. The Soul has a keyboard if you want one; but Samsung also showed a mobile phone-computer, "Omnia," which was wholly touch-based. This flagship product seems to be saying, "I do everything that Apple's 3G IPhone does - and some more!" Nokia had its own touching offerings to show in Singapore, but it gave pride of place to a pair of phones - the E 66 and E 71 - for those who like to mix their business with pleasure: they sported hardcore office features which can be swapped for a 'free time' look and feel. Both of them came with built-in Global Positioning System satellite receivers which helped one navigate streets and highways with ease ... a feature that is becoming as mainstream as a camera on the phone. As these phones become available in India in a few weeks, it's going to be 'touch and go' for customers as they taste these new tactile and navigation features on their handsets. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] ncert english books in braille
Hello Rajesh Sir, Please contact to: NIVH 116 Rajpur Road, Dehera Dun 248001 [Uttara Khand] or AICB Sector 5, Rohini, New Delhi 110085 You can also get DAISY Books to: NAB DELHI. Concern person is Mr. Sandeep Kumar. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The books of NIVH are chiefer than any other agency. Regards. - Original Message - From: "Rajesh Asudani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:11 AM Subject: [AI] ncert english books in braille > friends, where can I find NCERT english books for standard eighth ninth > and tenth in braille? > > > Rajesh > > > > Notice: The information contained in this e-mail > message and/or attachments to it may contain > confidential or privileged information. If you are > not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, > review, distribution, printing or copying of the > information contained in this e-mail message > and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If > you have received this communication in error, > please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and > immediately and permanently delete the message > and any attachments. Thank you > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] ncert english books in braille
I doubt AICB is printing NCERT books. They are printing Delhi and other State board books. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
