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NHM converter is a free-of-cost Tamil font encoding converter tool from the makers of NHM writer.

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You can use Google AJAX Feed API to create websites like Tamil.Kanimai .
I used AJAX dynamic feed control wizard to show my blog feeds in the Ravidreams homepage.

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NHM Writer is a never-seen-before tool for tamil typing.
Features of NHM writer:
1. Free-of-cost
2. Downloadable. An online version of NHM writer will be launched soon.
3. This makes your Windows system Tamil ready on installing this. So you will be able to read, write Tamil well in all Windows applications. This is cool, as every other software would [...]

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I was surprised to see AOL Tamil site today. When was it launched? Besides Hindi, Tamil is the only Indian language present there and the trend to give importance for Tamil can be seen in almost all Indian portals. But it’s just market logic. Next to Hindi, Tamil seems to dominate the Indian internet market. [...]

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Congrats for the google team for coming up with an intuitive Tamil transliteration scheme.
Pros:
- Tamil transliteration tools have so far been completely user dependent to specify the correct keys to achieve the desired spelling whereas google transliteration guesses the word like a mobile phone dictionary servie. So a novice user need not remember, learn the [...]

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A free and robust optical character recognition software. The one we have now, Ponvizhi, is inadequate.
A text-to-voice converter for Tamil to help blind and dumb people.
A voice-to-text converter for Tamil to help deaf people.
A spell checker module - both online and off line.
A Multilingual-Tamil- Multilingual dictionary module - both online and off line and [...]

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You can type, read Tamil in any computer with any operating system like Windows, Mac, Linux.
You don’t need to buy any software or new keyboard to type in Tamil. You get free softwares to do it and you can use the same qwerty / asdf English keyboard that you have to type in Tamil. [...]

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Testimonials from friends who changed to Tamil99
I have already changed to tamil 99. it looks really intelligent keypad. Stopped using **** after reading your article. Very valid point that in future understanding tamizh in terms of english letters is equivalent to slow poisoning. - சத்தியா
20 ஆண்டுகளாக பழகியிருந்த ஆங்கில தட்டச்சு முறைக்குக் கூடுதலாகக் கற்றுக் கொண்ட தமிழ்த் தட்டச்சு [...]

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Tamil99 users should be aware of some shortcuts / Syntax.
1. To write க்க just type க க in sequence. No need to press f after first க to bring the dot over க.
similarly, த+த = த்த, ம+ம = ம்ம.
2. For frequent combination of letters like ந்த, ஞ்ச, ன்ற, ண்ட, ங்க, ம்ப the same [...]

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Quick Tip: Use the latest Firefox 3 RC1 and you can view all Tamil Unicode sites properly.
For Firefox 2 users, read below:
Windows:
If you have a problem with reading in all Tamil Unicode sites (example: Tamil Wikipedia, Maatru!),
Then go to start-control panel-regional and language options-languages and check both the options in supplemental language support. For installing [...]

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