e-Telugu workshop for Web Developers (Hyderabad, April 15)

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Veeven

e-Telugu, a non-profit organization striving to promote Telugu on computers and the web, is organizing a workshop for web developers on Building Telugu Websites. The workshop will last about 2 hours and covers various topics like Unicode, conveying language information in HTTP and HTML, typing in Telugu, using Telugu fonts with @font-face CSS rule, and Telugu in mobiles.

The workshop is on April 15, 2012 (starts at 10:00 am) at Honeypot campus. For more details, please see the post on e-Telugu website.
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Shubhalekha becomes the first Telugu book on Project Gutenberg

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Veeven

Pustakam.net had requested for help to add Telugu books to the Project Gutenberg. As part of that initiative, volunteers of Pustakam.net digitized Shubhalekha, a Telugu story by Mahidhara Ramamohan Rao and made it available on the Project Gutenberg website.

Shubhalekha is now (actually it has been a month) available to read freely online. You can even download it in various formats for different ebook reader devices. So, here is the link: Shubhalekha on Project Gutenberg.

Here is a screen shot of the Project Gutenberg’s Online Reader:
Shubhalekha ebook in Project Gutenberg

This is only the first Telugu ebook on Project Gutenberg. And, you can help Project Gutenberg to have more Telugu ebooks. You can help in typing, proofreading, etc. If you are interested, join the Guternberg_te Google Group.

I hope we will see more Telugu ebooks soon.

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Telugu Wikipedia reaches 50,000 articles

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Veeven

Couple of days ago Telugu Wikipedia reached the mark of 50,000 articles. Telugu is second Indian language to reach that mark after Hindi.

Telugu Wikipedia's Homepage
Homepage of Telugu Wikipedia

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SuraVara, new kid on the block

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Veeven

Chava Kiran (a co-founder of Kinige) started a new initiative called SuraVara to concentrate on Telugu language technologies. They started with two projects: (1) a book on Telugu blogging blaagu pustakam; (2) a keyboard for Telugu. Here is a brief introduction about these projects:
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SiliconAndhra releases 3 new Telugu Unicode fonts

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Veeven

On the eve of International Mother Language Day (Feb 21), SiliconAndhra, in association with the IT Department of Government of Andhra Pradesh, released 3 free Telugu Unicode fonts and also launched a website called Telugu Vijavam about technical resources for Telugu computing.

For the impatient, download these 3 Telugu fonts from Telugu Vijayam website.

Here is a screen shot of the homepage of Telugu Vijayam website:

Homepage of Telugu Vijayam Website
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Veturi.in, a Telugu website dedicated to Veturi Sundararama Murthy

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Veeven

Few fans of Late Veturi Sudararama Murthy, a famous Telugu lyricist, launched a website, veturi.in, as a remembrance to Veturi and as a place for fans of Veturi to share and promote their passion for Veturi’s Telugu songs.

Here is a screen shot of the website’s homepage:
Homepage of Veturi.in

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InScript+ an enhanced InScript keyboard layout for Telugu

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Veeven

Unicode 6.0 has standardized code points for Telugu characters. However, the classic or old characters cannot easily be typed. So, C-DAC has come up with proposal called Enhanced InScript Keyboard Layout. (You can get their proposal from their web site.) I implemented their proposal for Telugu in the name of InScript+.

With this keyboard layout you can type all the Telugu characters that are currently in Unicode 6.0 standard. The layout looks as follows:

InScript+ keyboard layout for Telugu

For more details about those old characters, please see this post in my Telugu blog.

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Typing Telugu in mobile phones

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Veeven

I had blogged about viewing Telugu in mobiles. Now, it is time for typing Telugu in mobiles. It is possible to type in Telugu in iPhone and Android phones. Here are couple of relevant links:
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Stock market related web sites or blogs in Telugu

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Veeven

Telugu content on the web is growing at a good pace. Lots and lots of web sites are coming up. This post is about web sites or blogs that offer information relating to stock market, shares, trading tips, etc in Telugu.

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Web sites for learning Telugu

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Veeven

There are many resources on the web to learn Telugu. These range from learning the alphabet to learning Telugu grammar and chandassu. Some of them even have applications for Android and iPad. Here are the links that I can gather:
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