Palash Basak's Blog

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/

I got questions from some of my friends about GPS. Then I thought it would be good to share some information about my own GPS to all of you. I have a Garmin handheld GPS which I have been using for about four years. I found it quite useful during my personal and official trips in home and abroad. During my trip in Durham, UK, the GPS helped me to find out my hotel (a small cottage) in a very windy, cold and dark night. The area was basically out side the main town and less densely populated. Without the help of my GPS it would be very difficult for me to find the place at that night! For those who are not familiar with the term - GPS stands for Global Positioning System. GPS can help you to understand your location anywhere in the world using signal from number of satellites. Now a days GPS is being used for variety of purposes, including personal and vehicle navigation, mapping, fishing, trekking, etc. Garmin is the pioneer in handheld GPS. The model I have got is eTrex Legend HC...

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!

I was amazed to read an article in Jugantor on 2nd February 2009. According to the article, electricity could be generated from Pathar-Kuchi, an indigenous plant of Bangladesh. I don't know the scientific name of the plant. It was claimed that substantial amount of electricity could be generated with the technology proposed by Dr. Kamrul Amal Khan, Chairman of the Department of Physics of Jagannath University and three of his associates. They explained in a seminar in Dhaka that 60-100 megawatt electricity could be generated from Pathar-Kuchi produced only from one acre of land. Click here to view the full article.

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

In the last page of Prothom Alo today (6 Jan 2009), an article has been published on "Neel Shaluk". The author (Sourav Mahmud) wrote a nice introduction of the flower and put a picture which was captured from Boga Lake, Bandarban. While traveling to Kuakata in September 2008, I took a picture of the same flower from a road side water-body somewhere in between Mohipur and Kuakata. The flower is really beatiful.