25 ways to work offline

25 Ways To Continue Working When You Lose Your Internet Connection (FORBS).

Literacy in India

Sad to find Arunachal Pradesh is the second lowest in terms of literacy among the Indian states (Wikipedia). Perhaps, this explains why dictatorship in the State Assembly (only one party dominates), only one student union dominates until recently. That also tells why there are few engineers, doctors, teachers, government officials from the state.

Also learned that Tripura State came on the top literate state recently (TOI, August 2013). This was achieved by the active involvement of the government and other community bodies.

About alcohol

While doing readings on alcohol to generate prayers, I learned these:

• In India alcohol is a State's Subject. So there is no nodal ministry in the Center that deals on this abuse.
• Alcohol does not need to digest; it goes directly to the blood stream.
• Indian Alcohol Policy Alliance is an NGO that advocates the harm from the alcohol abuse. Good article from them.
• Aamir Khan has an episode on alcohol on his Satyamev Jayate. 

Wordlist creator

One of the best I came across today from Cybertext

TextSTAT

From http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/textstat/ (After several hours of not being able to access their website [hopefully this was a small glitch on the day I tried], I FINALLY got to their web page and downloaded their software.)

• Simple to install and to run.
• The interface was pretty intuitive and I rarely needed to access the Help, except to get started (you have to create a ‘corpus’ first, which is like a container file into which you can add your files, then you click the Frequency button to get a Word list.)
• It deals with Word documents (no need to convert them to text).
• Double-clicking a word in the Word List opens the Concordance tab showing that word in context. Double-clicking the line in the Concordance tab opens the Citation tab where you can see the word/line inside its paragraph in the document; you also get a link to the document so you can open it from the TextSTAT application.
• You can export your word list to a text or CSV file, or to Word or Excel.
• Overall assessment — it did everything I wanted. It’s a keeper!
• Cost: Free!

To see ranking details of websites

http://www.vampirestat.com

http://www.7secretsearch.com

Free alternative to MS Office

MS Office is too expensive, over 10k! But then there are two good alternative I came across:
1. Libre Office: Perhaps this is the best freeware with lots of options.
2. Kingsoft: Just across today. Has only writer, spreadsheet and presentation. Very light, only 45 mb.

Remove all hyperlinks by using shortcuts

Remove all hyperlinks by using shortcuts

Lots of people prefer to use shortcuts, for they are simple and time-saving. Shortcut is available to remove all hyperlinks, and you don’t need to worry the document is too long.

1. Press “Ctrl-A” to select the whole document.

2. Press “Ctrl-Shift-F9”.

Note: The shortcut method will remove all underlying fields.

http://www.extendoffice.com/documents/word/635-word-remove-all-hyperlinks.html

Taekondo ministry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24478533

David and Goliath story

Interesting comments on David and Goliath.

My first mobile

My communication tool from 2006 Sep and randomly used until recently:)

Documentary

I found this site about a year ago but really got to download a few today "Religious Beliefs of India". Like to keep this handy.

http://www.crfmedia.com/

Good Free Windows Programs

Download App: A very good application for updating programs installed. Very handy and efficient.

Spybot: To remove malwares, cookies.

2xplorer: Option to view two windows simultaneously.

Skydrive: cloudstorage using Hotmail account. Can sync well. Provides 25 GB storage.

Googledrive: Storage upto 6 GB.

Flickr Upload: can upload upto 1TB.

WordWeb: for dictionary.

Driver Booster: for updating drivers.

Parents writing exams for children's entrance to schools

About two weeks ago a friend told me this bizarre story. The schools in Bangalore had become so competitive that the schools won't admit students if their parents are not educated enough. That's why parents had to write exams!

Some stand in queue overnight to be able to write such exams.

Looking for other sources whether such stories are documented.

Mobile finder

Explored for options to locate a phone after a person shared on Facebook. The person received anonymous calls from a particular phone number. I thought there should be a way to figure out where that phone call or at least where it originates:

TRUE CALLER: Need to login, but gives information on phone user (subscriber), name of service provider and its area.

MOBILE TRACKER: Provides the info at state level.

ALL TRICKS: Gives more options to find out phone location.


Not very satisfied with the service from the above links, but at least they give location in general.