Re: [AI] Banks-Order dated 29 April 2006 in Pincha's case

2008-06-28 Thread Pamnani
Thanks Got it.

Kanchan Pamnani
Advocate  Solicitor
9, Suleman Chambers,
Battery Street, Colaba,
Mumbai - 400 039.



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 Will be grateful if someone sends me the order- scanned or not no problem. 
 Link will also do
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Re: [AI] Banks-Order dated 29 April 2006 in Pincha's case

2008-06-28 Thread Rahul Cherian

Hi ,

where can i find a copy?

Thanks,

Rahul Cherian Jacob

Mobile: 98403 57991


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 Thanks Got it.
 
 Kanchan Pamnani
 Advocate  Solicitor
 9, Suleman Chambers,
 Battery Street, Colaba,
 Mumbai - 400 039.
 
 
 
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Re: [AI] Can a visually challenged person use a creditcard?

2008-06-28 Thread phani srikanth
hi, yes certainly we can use it. i am using it for internet banking
purpose and paying every bill online now. u can make online purchases
online very easily. how ever you have to take some precaution while
using it over shops as we do not know how much amount has been swiped
with it so be careful. the recent reserve bank guidelines also permit
the issue of credit card to blinds.

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 I want to know if a visually challenged person can use a credit card?
 If yes, then how?
 Thanking you all.
 warm regards.
 Dinesh thole.
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Re: [AI] is anyone using GPS device?

2008-06-28 Thread hitendra
Hello
You can contact NAB Delhi on there helpline number which is 011 64556968.

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Subject: [AI] is anyone using GPS device?


 hey folks, what's up?
 Well, wanted to ask one thing.
 Is any of you using any GPS device?
 Actually, there are some companies wich produces GPS device.  One very
 popular in my knowledge is nokia 6110 navigater.
 According to nokia, this device is very helpful for visually impaired
 people as well.  Because rightnow only eight city's map (excluded
 jaipur) is loaded in it, I can't get any support in my city. However,
 if any of you is using nokia 6110 navigater or any other GPS device
 specially in delhi, Mumbai, ahamdabad, pune, banglore,  please let me
 know how far it's helpful for us and how it works.
 Your replies in this matter will be highly cherished.
 With profound regards,
 Prateek agarwal.
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Re: [AI] is anyone using GPS device?

2008-06-28 Thread Roopakshi Pathania

A good topic.

I also wish to know do the GPS trackers in the market work with Indian maps?
For example, Way Finder by Freedom Scientific, Trecker by Humanware or Sendero 
GPS?

Regards

--- On Thu, 6/26/08, prateek aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: prateek aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [AI] is anyone using GPS device?
 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
 Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 2:13 PM
 hey folks, what's up?
 Well, wanted to ask one thing.
 Is any of you using any GPS device?
 Actually, there are some companies wich produces GPS
 device.  One very
 popular in my knowledge is nokia 6110 navigater.
 According to nokia, this device is very helpful for
 visually impaired
 people as well.  Because rightnow only eight city's map
 (excluded
 jaipur) is loaded in it, I can't get any support in my
 city. However,
 if any of you is using nokia 6110 navigater or any other
 GPS device
 specially in delhi, Mumbai, ahamdabad, pune, banglore, 
 please let me
 know how far it's helpful for us and how it works.
 Your replies in this matter will be highly cherished.
 With profound regards,
 Prateek agarwal.
 Cell: 09928341197
 e-mails:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [AI] help needed regarding pivot table

2008-06-28 Thread Roopakshi Pathania

Hi,

As far as my knowledge,  navigating a pivot table is like a more or less moving 
through a normal table. 
I think what you are talking about is creating a pivot table?

If so, then after you have pressed the finished button on the pivot table 
wizzard, you would land in the pivot table it self.
Now press f6 to access the pivot table tool bar. You can tab through options 
and select the fields you need to insurt. Depending on your office version, you 
can access other options regarding the pivot table.
To find more options, just cycle through the tool bars by pressing control + 
tab.

Write to me if you need more instructions.

Regards


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 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
 Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 10:15 PM
 hi dear members, can some 1 please help me to know how can
 we read the data in the pivot table in excel using jaws?
 I have to read some important data which is available to me
 in the pivot table and jaws does not reads it.
 your any and every help is highly appreciated.
 regards, 
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[AI] Test mail, please ignore

2008-06-28 Thread Geetha Shamanna


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[AI] Nokia buys Symbian to set the OS free

2008-06-28 Thread Jitendra
Nokia
  is leading the charge among mobile phone manufacturers and service 
providers to make the Symbian OS the standard in mobile devices. Nokia, 
who already
owned 48% of Symbian Limited, is buying the remaining shares and will be 
moving the company to a royalty-free licensing model. At the same time 
they're
working with ATT,
LG
  Electronics,
Motorola ,
NTT DOCOMO,
Samsung ,
Sony
  Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone to 
establish the Symbian Foundation for the development and distribution of 
the OS.

By getting the backing of so many industry leaders they've virutally 
assured their smart phone OS of choice a place in the market for the 
next few years.
It probably doesn't hurt that it helps established companies at the 
expense of newer competitors like Google's Android. Being an established 
platform and
royalty-free arguably gives them the advantage.

Although a number of companies have already licensed the OS, the only 
company to make much progress in actually deploying it has been Nokia. 
They're hoping
that the establishment of the Symbian Foundation will make it easier for 
other manufacturers to deploy it on a large scale.

Ten years ago, Symbian was established by far sighted players to offer 
an advanced open operating system and software skills to the whole 
mobile industry,
said Nigel Clifford, CEO of Symbian. Our vision is to become the most 
widely used software platform on the planet and indeed today Symbian OS 
leads its
market by any measure. Today's announcement is a bold new step to 
achieve that vision by embracing a complete and proven platform, offered 
in an open way,
designed to stimulate innovation, which is at the heart of everything we 
do.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14591.cfm

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[AI] Help me to play a vidio CD

2008-06-28 Thread ashik
Hello Friends,
When I press Enter in the CD Drive, the vidio CD already inserted does not get 
started. Instead, a list of folders appears. I have tried pressing Enter on the 
folder named VCD, but it doesn't work too. Please help me how to play the vidio 
CD in my computer.
Thanking in advance.
Ashik Hirani
Mo.: 09824894941
Mo.: 09428855867
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Re: [AI] required warm solution for this cool problem

2008-06-28 Thread Gajendra Vyas
hi friend,
you better start using open-book that is easy to use. you can consult 
dictionary while reading in open book.
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 hello my dear list members,
 how are you all?
 well here is my problem, I.E i have been using ABBEY fine reader 5.0.
 The prime problem i am facing is that, i am unable to scan multiple
 pages and read multiple pages.
 so i request you all to help me and make me to feel comfortable with
 fine reader.

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Re: [AI] Help me to play a vidio CD

2008-06-28 Thread Rohiet A. Patil
Hello sir,
Open the folder named MPEGAV. You will find the tracks like absique01, 02 
etc. press enter on it. This way you can play the VCD.
Rohiet
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Subject: [AI] Help me to play a vidio CD


Hello Friends,
 When I press Enter in the CD Drive, the vidio CD already inserted does not 
 get started. Instead, a list of folders appears. I have tried pressing 
 Enter on the folder named VCD, but it doesn't work too. Please help me how 
 to play the vidio CD in my computer.
 Thanking in advance.
 Ashik Hirani
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Re: [AI] Can a visually challenged person use a creditcard?

2008-06-28 Thread Adhimoolam Vetrivel Murugan
That's why I always check my activities online after using the credit
card in retail stores. You'll also have the receipt and henceforth it
shouldn't be a problem in verifying it.

On 28/06/2008, phani srikanth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 hi, yes certainly we can use it. i am using it for internet banking
 purpose and paying every bill online now. u can make online purchases
 online very easily. how ever you have to take some precaution while
 using it over shops as we do not know how much amount has been swiped
 with it so be careful. the recent reserve bank guidelines also permit
 the issue of credit card to blinds.

 On 6/28/08, dinesh thole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello to all.
 I want to know if a visually challenged person can use a credit card?
 If yes, then how?
 Thanking you all.
 warm regards.
 Dinesh thole.
 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Mobile: 9922942801
 Skype id: dinesh.thole
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[AI] The software that refuses to die!

2008-06-28 Thread renuka warriar


Date:29/06/2008 URL: 
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/29/stories/2008062956061300.htm 



Front Page 

The software that refuses to die! 

Anand Parthasarathy 

Microsoft to kill off Windows XP on Monday, but users still want it 

- Photo: Anand Parthasarathy 
 
Not dead yet! Monday marks the 'expiry' date for Windows XP; but many users 
still prefer it to the anointed successor, Vista. 

Bangalore: When it was launched in October 2001, the new version of Microsoft's 
operating system for personal computers, Windows XP was so named for the
new eXPerience it provided. 

Tomorrow, XP will spell eXPiry. Microsoft will stop selling the XP version to 
retailers and PC manufacturers from June 30. They have been asked to stop
preloading XP on their products from that date. There is a small exception made 
for low cost platforms, which will be able to continue loading the stripped
down 'home' version of XP for another 6 months. 

But to the rest of us, Microsoft seems to be saying: We gave you a bigger, 
better version called Vista, more than 18 months ago. So start learning to love
it - or lump it. But lay users as well as corporate customers say: Thanks, 
but no thanks! We don't care for Vista: it is bloated and sluggish; it irritates
us with a hundred promptings; it doesn't work with most of our peripheral 
printers, scanners, CD/DVD drives; and it takes so long to start or stop (unless
we do a costly hardware upgrade), that it is driving us crazy. 

There are lots of good things in Vista: multiple tagged browser pages; a whole 
new 3-D look and feel... but the canny Indian 'janatha' user hasn't found
it to be 'paisa vasool' and in any case XP still works fine. 

As PCs become smaller, lighter, less power-hungry, what people want is a 
smaller, quicker PC software that lets you get on the Web - which today houses
a lot of their tools and files - fast. Vista is not it. 

XP will die at the hands of a misguided killer: Microsoft, said the Web 
magazine, ITWorld.com a few days ago - and many in the industry agree. 

Over 140 million copies of Vista have been sold, says Microsoft; but analysts 
Forrester found in April that only half the enterprise world has planned an
upgrade to Vista. 

The entire Intel organisation (a key Microsoft partner) has decided to stick 
with XP. So what can the rest of us do? Microsoft has already announced that
the next iteration after Vista will be Windows 7 - possibly in 2009. If we want 
to continue using XP on our machines, no one can really stop us. The canny
Indian reseller and assembler community will find ways to support us, with or 
without Microsoft help. We can continue doing our computing, the XP way,
till we see what Windows 7 offers, leapfrogging over Vista in the process. 
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[AI] Pushmail service coming soon

2008-06-28 Thread renuka warriar


Date:29/06/2008 URL: 
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/29/stories/2008062956051300.htm 



Front Page 

Pushmail service coming soon 

Anand Parthasarathy 

You can read and reply to your e-mails on basic mobile phones 

- Photo: NetCore and TeleFlip resources 
 
Kill Blackberry envy! Ordinary phones can soon access e-mails. 

Bangalore: It's called Blackberry envy - and it afflicts many mobile phone 
users, who see owners of the iconic smart device constantly checking and 
responding
to their e-mails, which are pushed to their device 'in real time.' 

Such a service doesn't come cheap of course - any thing from Rs.750 to Rs.2,000 
a month in special charges. Those with other 'smart phones' with Internet
access, also command similar services. But the rest of us, owners of basic 
Rs.2,000 voice-and-SMS phones, have no way to access while on the move - the
e-mails that might be lying in our PC in-boxes at home or in the office. 

That is all set to change: Pushmail is here. Simply put, this means pushing 
your e-mail to your mobile phone in text format rather than waiting for you
to 'pull' it into your PC or laptop by using an e-mail service. 

The Mumbai-based NetCore Solutions recently launched a service called Emergic 
mail2sms which promises to forward e-mail from one's e-mail inbox to any mobile
phone as an SMS message, with the option to reply. 

One can decide to receive all e-mails - or just the ones from selected senders. 
While normal text messages are restricted to 150 characters, the pushed
mails can be up to 480 characters, after which they are truncated. A trial 
subscription is offered at the website of the company (http://m3m.in/). Abroad,
this is often a free service in its basic form: Momail.com and Teleflip.com are 
two choices in the U.S. and Europe. At the recent CommunicAsia show in
Singapore, Yahoo unveiled its own e-mail-to-mobile initiative which allows 
users to have their Yahoomail copied as text messages to their mobile phones,
with the option of sending brief replies. 

Manish Dalal, Yahoo's Senior Director for Converged Life initiatives, told The 
Hindu that the service would be offered very soon in India, not directly
to the user, but by leading Indian cellular providers with whom Yahoo is 
already talking. The latter would decide whether to offer the service free 
within
a value-added bundle or make a small monthly charge. In any event, it's time to 
stop envying Blackberry owners as we get set to join the mobile mail-checking
club on 'janata' handsets!
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[AI] Responding to the Sunday Times

2008-06-28 Thread Sanjay
I have pasted this article from Braille Monitor, July 2008.

   Responding to the Sunday Times
  by Avraham Rabby

  From the Editor: On February 10, 2008, the Sunday Times of London
carried a story about plans to teach echolocation to blind students in
Scotland and other places in the United Kingdom. The reporter clearly
bought into the notion that producing sounds to help determine one's
location was a wonderful new concept. Longtime Federationist Rami Rabby had
no intention of ignoring the opportunity to educate the reporter even if
the newspaper chose not to publish his response. The reporter did reply,
though it is fair to comment that he has not yet recognized his lack of
understanding. Here is the story followed by Rami Rabby's response:

   Blind Taught to See like a Bat
  by Mark Macaskill

  Blind British children are to be taught a pioneering bat-style
echolocation technique to visualize their surroundings. The children are
learning how to build up detailed images of the world around them by
clicking their tongue and interpreting the sound as it echoes back.
  The technique is used by animals such as bats, dolphins, and whales
to navigate and hunt in the dark. Bats are able to maneuver around caves
and catch tiny insects on the wing by emitting short bursts of high-pitched
noise and reading the sound waves as they bounce back to their highly
evolved ears. There is emerging evidence that blind people can harness
their sense of hearing-which is often more acute-to interpret reflected
sound and create detailed mental images of their surroundings, including
the distance, size, and density of objects.
  The technique is being piloted in Glasgow, where ten children aged
five to seventeen are being taught by staff from Visibility, one of the
city's oldest charities for the blind. The children are learning how to
make the clicking sound and how to use the technique even in noisy urban
areas, including the underground system.
  Blind people in America, where human echolocation was pioneered, have
learnt to differentiate between people, trees, buildings, and parked cars
by interpreting the pitch and timbre of the echo they produce.
Practitioners say they can determine the height, density, and shape of
objects up to one hundred feet away. People using echolocation can
determine the distance they are from an object by the length of time it
takes for the sound to travel back. Its position can be established by
whether the echo hits the left or right ear first. The size of an object
can be determined by the intensity of the echo. A smaller object reflects
less of the sound wave. The object's direction of movement can be
established by the pitch of the echo, which is lower if it is moving away
from the source.
  Echolocation has been endorsed by Professor Gordon Dutton, one of
Britain's leading pediatric ophthalmologists, who wants the technique to be
taught to blind and visually impaired people across the country. There are
about 385,000 registered blind and partially sighted people in Britain.
It's very exciting, said Dutton, of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children
in Glasgow. I have seen echolocation being used-it's quite stunning. It
has been demonstrated to me that it absolutely works. Of course there will
be skepticism and doubt, but the benefits are without question. It will
make a massive difference to the lives of blind and visually impaired
people.
  The project in Glasgow follows a visit last year by Dan Kish, a forty-
one-year-old blind man from California, who pioneered the technique. Kish,
who runs the not-for-profit organization World Access for the Blind, has
also been commissioned by the charity Common Sense to present his method to
the families of blind people in Poole, Dorset.
  His command of the technique is such that he can ride a bicycle on
public roads and distinguish between different types of fruit on trees
merely by clicking his tongue. A video on the Website YouTube shows Kish
and a number of his friends demonstrating their skills. Ben Underwood, a
teenager who lost his sight when he was three, has also become a celebrity
in America because of his ability to use echolocation to ride a bike and to
go skateboarding.
  Although there have been no scientific studies of echolocation,
supporters say it can hugely improve the lives of blind and partially
sighted children. While using a cane allows blind people to identify
obstacles in their path, echolocation is said to provide 360-degree
vision and can give them far greater freedom.
  It's a type of seeing in its own right, which probably uses similar
brain imaging mechanisms to eyesight, Kish said. Students almost
invariably become more confident, move faster, and