Chat, E-Mail, Blog in Konkani!

I am always
Posted on 2008-11-03
on the lookout for good, cost effective software’s for Indian language computing. I strongly believe that if we have to leverage computers to an all-encompassing advantage, it is absolutely necessary to make the computer talk the common mans language. Precisely the reason why my rendezvous with Lipikaar thrilled me. Lipikaar is Indian language software, which allows you to work offline as well as online in fifteen Indian languages. The software has two components - a desktop add-on and a browser add-on. The desktop add-on is for using Indian languages with productivity software from the office suit such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, etc. It’s a paid module, costing around eight hundred rupees, and can be easily downloaded from the Lipikaar.com website. Whereas the browser add-on is available for free. Using this add-on one can create emails, blogs, scraps, comments, chats and search in your favourite language on any website.
Lipikaar supports 15 languages Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali, Konkani, Sindhi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu. It is simple to install and use with its simple SMS-style typing. Using Lipikaar even the most complicated words can be typed effortlessly in seconds. It supports the complete character set as recommended by Bureau of Indian Standards including four forms of vowels and two forms of ‘r’ for south Indian languages. One can test the way the software works by visiting Lipikaar.com and typing in the interactive box provided on the website in ones own language.
All Windows versions support this application.
So what are you waiting for? Get going, Konkani Uloy, Konkani Boroy, Konkanitlyan Computer Choloy. DG