August 2009 - Posts
Folks! the stuff I have brought for you this time is something which may not be of everyone’s concern. Yet, I personally feel that everyone of you who is reading this blog post do have a facebook account. Using a facebook has always been fun and informative as well but the notifications it gives always haunts me. Do you constantly have like 99 new notifications, marked with the little red button at the bottom right in your Facebook account? Would you like to only receive important notifications, such as comments from friends, and skip the stuff various applications send you? Teso bhaye read on.
This isn’t a new feature though, but I thought why simply endure thousands of notifications and updates from applications and pages when you don’t exactly want them. So, I believe, it’s a better idea to simply turn them off. Here are a couple of ways to do it.
Click on the red “Notifications” button at the bottom right corner in Facebook. Click on “See All.” On the right, you’ll see a long list of every application that sends you notifications, and you can turn them off by unchecking them. Be careful, Facebook’s own applications which are probably useful to you, such as feed comments, are also on the list, so you’ll probably want to leave them checked.
An screenshot of the notification panel which you can see when you click “See All”.
That’s all! Enjoy your fresh new, unnecessary notifications free Facebook.
Ever heard of Microsoft Student Lounge? May be you have not yet! Let me tell you folks, Microsoft Student Lounge is a community platform which is hosted for Microsoft by Fast Track Team exclusively for students worldwide as the name itself suggests. As, MSP Web Portal is a private web portal for Microsoft Student Partners all over the world, Microsoft Student Lounge is specially a platform for all the students around the globe to access Microsoft resources and tools to support an individual in school, work and life.
Please, visit the website here.
Although it’s very clear now from the screenshot above, about the Microsoft Student Lounge, I have thought it necessary to list down some basic silent features of this web site.
Microsoft Student Lounge is simply a-one stop destination for students, those who are craving to learn newer Microsoft technologies. More precisely, the goal of this portal is to showcase MSP content, videos, blogs, outcomes, etc. in a single web page which also means that any ordinary student will also be able to post video content, search for MSP creations and participate in forums.
Here, a student will also be able to express his ideas and thoughts by uploading his images, texts, and video blog posts. Basically, there are six different channels a post can be made in: Technology, Student TV, Fun Stuff, Career, Microsoft & You, and A Good Cause.
Since, this site is a Student Community Platform, an MSP role may be of drastic importance here to bring an urge in his college/fellow students to participate here.
It’s a matter of pride for we Nepalese to enjoy the American software product(Disk Operating System) in our own mother language, Nepali . So, if you are not using it until now..then, I doubt, why and what are you waiting for..? Just click the link here to download the fresh release of Nepali Language Interface Pack(LIP) which is exclusively designed for the English version of Windows Vista.
This ultimately means that the Windows Vista Nepali Language Interface Pack is live!
You may directly click the link below to get into the Microsoft’s Nepali download page.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/E/A/4EAABDEF-85B5-4087-A322-31111C0DFFF7/LIP_ne-NP.mlc
A little background information on Nepali language
Number of speakers: 20 million
Name in the language itself: नेपाली
Nepali (sometimes also referred to as "Nepalese") is the official language of Nepal where it is spoken by roughly half the population as a mother tongue and by about 2 million people as a second language. It is related to Hindi but has borrowed fewer words from Persian and English (instead using more Sanskrit derivations) and it has been influenced by the neighboring Tibeto-Burman languages.
Nepali is also official language in the Indian state of Sikkim and is spoken by substantial minorities in parts of Assam West Bengal (around Darjeeling) and the country of Bhutan.
Interesting features of the language include the socio-linguistically complex pronouns (there are different forms depending on the social status of the person spoken to or of) and the existence of parallel negative conjugations of verbs.
Nepali is mutually intelligible with Hindi and Urdu speakers.
Classification:
Nepali belongs to the so-called Pahari languages (including, for example, Hindi), a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the lower elevations of the Himalaya which belong to the Indo-European language family.
Script:
Nepali is written in Devanagari script.
Well, I don’t find it necessary to explain anything more here about Nepali language or else it would directly mean like a famous saying in Nepali, ‘Indra ko agaadi swargako bayaan’ (Sorry folks for Roman Nepali! I ‘m really bad with Nepali typing I tell you! 
). But, I know you guys are genius with Nepali. Still, yes…still, for those rare people, who struggle to have a clear understanding of Nepali language, I suggest you to visit this page.
Also, please note that the Windows Vista LIP is already available in these previously released languages:
Afrikaans Georgian Kyrgyz Punjabi Albanian Gujarati Lao Serbian (Cyrillic) Armenian Hausa Luxembourgish Sesothosa Leboa Assamese Hindi Macedonian Setswana Azeri Icelandic Marathi Sinhala Basque Igbo Malay (Brunei Darussalam) Tamil Bengali (Bangladesh) Indonesian Malay (Malaysia) Tatar Bengali (India) Inuktitut Malayalam Telugu Bosnian Cyrillic isiXhosa Maltese Uzbek Bosnian Latin isiZulu Maori Vietnamese Catalan Kazakh Nynorsk Welsh Galician Konkani Persian