Swanalekha JQuery plugin

Swanalekha is now available as jQuery plugin. Check it out.

This plugin makes it simple to use Swanalekha in your website/webpage.

Just include the jquery-swanalekha.js in your page and use it.

Some examples :

$("#t_input").swanalekha(); //will enable swanalekha on the element with id 't_input'

$("textarea").swanalekha(); //will enable swanalekha on all textareas

$("input").swanaleka(); //will enable swanaleka on all inputs, but only text inputs will actually be enabled

The Solar eclipse

We bunked office today and went to Kanakakunnu Palace. It was like a festival there. School kids from all over Kerala had come to witness the Solar eclipse.

This snap was taken through an aluminium foil.

Registered നിഷാന്‍.com

I registered നിഷാന്‍.com[redirected to this site now] recently from domainsite.com. These guys support unicode domain names by converting it to a cryptic string starting with 'xn-'.

May be you would want to register yours before someone else snatches it! :)

Swanalekha firefox add-on

Swanalekha malayalam transliteration tool has been packaged into a Firefox add-on.

You can install the add-on and type Ctrl-M on any textbox to malayalam-enable it.  Right now, this does not work in rich text editors (eg: gmail compose box).  I am still scratching my head on how to do that :)

The addon basically wraps the javascript used in swanalekha online.  The script was orignally written by Santhosh, thanks to him.

"Mr Darwin, we're sorry", The Church !

"People, and institutions, make mistakes and Christian people and Churches are no exception. When a big new idea emerges that changes the way people look at the world, it's easy to feel that every old idea, every certainty, is under attack and then to do battle against the new insights.

The Church made that mistake with Galileo's astronomy and has since realised its error. Some Church people did it again in the 1860s with Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection."

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fix-ml downloads cross 100.

fix-ml is a firefox extension which I wrote to convert atomic encoding of 'chillu' letters of malayalam unicode font in web pages, making it readable.

Few days before the downloads crosses 100.

Little things like this can make your day :)

Run a movie as your desktop background

Here's a cool trick for you.

Replace the boring wallpaper on your desktop with a movie.

$gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
$mplayer -rootwin -fs movie_file.avi