Baraha is a word processing application for creating documents in Indian languages. It is developed with an intention to provide a free software to enable and encourage Indians use their native languages on the computers. Baraha can be effectively used for creating documents, sending emails and publishing web pages. Baraha 7.0 supports Kannada, Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Bengali, and Oriya scripts. The following table shows the languages supported.
Provides an easy-to-use search engine for words and the results are quite detailed. Also offers 400 different language dictionaries.
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth’s easy-to-use menus and hypertext links provide automatic connections to databases, services, and electronic texts on other servers around the world.
http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/Canadians/
An enormous collection of biographies of Canadian actors, educators, and politicians.
Has a searchable online database containing 15,000 international names, past and present. This is a commercial site for the Biography television show.
A weather page especially for kids, parents, and teachers from KSTW-TV weather forecaster Nick Walker. Includes musical meteorology.
http://www.answersthatwork.com/
It’s a pity that all things online are no longer free. The ultimate troubleshooter at ‘Answer That Work’ is priced at $25 ( rs 1188 ) for a single license. You can search ‘Libraries of Answers That Work’, ‘The Task List’ that helps you figure out what a certain running process does & more. The libraries contain answers to numerous problems. Worth a dekko but once again, be ready to pay.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/
a free lunch does not exist. Take this site: it lets you search for free, but when you are about to get an answer to your question, you realize you need to register ( $9.95 or rs 466 per month ) for the complete answer. A definitive tech support site, you can search for solutions, question tech experts or as registered users, browse white papers & request web casts. Not bad.
Established in 1988, the CERT Coordination center (CERT/CC) is “a center of Internet security expertise”. Here, you’ll find almost everything you would want to know about the current state of internet security, in easily browsable form. Information about all the worms & Trojans out there, what’s being done about today’s problems, what you can do, research & analysis-it’s all there. Definitely a periodic must-visit.
Get your does of upcoming software releases from this site. There’s also daily technology news. Membership adds benefits such as customized news, contests, & the ability to speak your mind. You can also dig through the news archives. But the real gem here is the ‘File Forum’, where you can get some of the best software with comprehensive feedback from other users.
