Palash Basak's Blog

Have you ever tried an online photo editor? I have just used one today and I had great experience with pixlr.com. It is just like the online version of Adobe Photoshop! No sigh-up or anything is required! Here is the link to the editor. http://pixlr.com/editor/ If yo uare interested about any other online photo editors, try this link!

APA (stands for American Psychologocal Association) is one of the most commonly used to cite references, particularly in social sciences. A comprehensive APA formatting and style guide could be found in the following link. APA Formatting and Style Guide The guide has been published by Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL). In this guide I have found good examples of the general format of APA research papers, in text citations, endnotes/footnotes and the reference page. This guide has been revised according to the 6th edition of the APA manual. To learn more about APA style you can visit it's website at http://www.apastyle.org/

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS Finally Google is going to through the biggest challenge to Microsoft! Yes, Google is introducing a new Operating System (OS) which will be available at free of cost! Although we have to wait about a year from now for it. As promised, the OS will be speedy, simple and secure! Follow the above link for details about announcement.

vYew - the name is quite unusual (sounds line view) but this is a cool site which provides live web conferencing service at free of cost! Although, you can’t have more than 20 collaborators at a time with the free subscription. I have found this site quite interesting and useful. You can watch an introductory video of the service in YouTube… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXDG8q51vI&feature=related To learn more about the service and registration process, visit its website … http://vyew.com/

One of my friends once asked me about how to download video from YouTube. At that point, I didn't know the answer. But I have learnt it recently and thought it would be good to share that with you! To download a video from YouTube , what you have to do is to visit the following website. Then select "Download Videos" option, put the link of the YouTube Video, choose an output format. You will also need to provide your email address. A link of the converted will be delivered to your email address and you can then download the file! http://www.zamzar.com/ Hope it will work for you!

While I was visiting the website of OmicronLab to download a Bangla Typing Software, Avro Keyboard, I have found an interesting map showing the visitors of the site. The map clearly shows that Bangla Speaking community (both from Bangladesh and India) is present in every part of the world! Throughout 2008, there were over 1.6 lakh (0.16 million) visitors in the site. People from 172 countries visited the site. About half of the visitors came from outside Bangladesh or India. If you consider visitors by country then India is the top (about 48,000). More than 34,000 visitors were from Bangladesh. United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, Italy, Japan, Germany, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia are in the top list of the visitors. You can find details about the visitors in the following link http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://omicronlab.com

A new website, Muktijuddho.org , on liberation war of Bangladesh, is scheduled to be launched on 26 December. The site is supposed to be used to store glorious memories and stories of the liberation war of the country. All are requested to provide their collected information to enrich the website. You can contact for that by sending email to mukti@muktijuddho.org.