It is such a shame that at the time of writing this, Google has not officially enabled Indic Font Support on Android, Guess??, Limited multilingual support from Android. What a shame!!!. I tried a hack to get around this by installing a kannada TTF font. You can expect the obvious, glyphs are not rendered correctly.
I was of the opinion that the TTF fonts were missing, NO, the fault is with the rendering mechanism on android ?, Wondering could it be because some of the Indic Fonts also require custom rendering support from the OS. I STILL Can’t believe Google missed Indic Font Support. Google needs to add Indic font support soon, It’s going to loose out big time in Indian markets!., C’mon, There is a dev lab in Bangalore, India!!!
Wake up Google!!
Issues
Ramblings of a Software Engineer, Amusements of a Geek, Cacophony of a Guitarist, An Entropy Admirer's and an Interesting Character's Musings..
Friday, 19 November 2010
Google, When can i get Indic Font Support on my HTC Desire ?
Energy Prices–How are they calculated ?
Ever wondered how the energy prices are calculated in the United Kingdom, Read this.
Orb TV
This is really impressive stuff. Install Orb TV on your computer and share your media with a lot of devices, Stream it live!. There is also a free app for the iPhone/iPod Touch, So You can enjoy watching ‘your’ media on the TV whilst controlling the entire thing from your iPhone.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Data is the key to unlock Humanities Riches!
This statement could be so taken for granted !
Well,
I was reading NY Times today and couldn’t stop thinking about the possibility of making sense of this all.What could be a bigger scientific experiment than exploring the humanities ?‘Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists argue it is time to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or philosophical “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing our understanding of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about method, they say, using powerful technologies and vast stores of digitized materials that previous humanities scholars did not have.’ - More HereThe two key words i was after were ‘Quantification’ and ‘Interpretation’. Quantification will make much sense for a computational scientist (like me) However, it can be argued that proper Interpretation also plays a vital role., for which an enormous computing infrastructure mainly centred around data crunching will be absolutely invaluable!It’s worthy to note that ‘The humanities and social sciences are the emerging domains for using high-performance computing’.Ancient to modern languages, Logic (the next thing which comes to my mind) , Literature, Law , History, Philosophy, Religion, Visual and Performing Arts, Music, Anthropology, Linguistics, Cultural Studies. Now, that’s an ennnnnnnnnormoussss list!. I don’t think an entire lifetime is enough to quantify and interpret that sort of an experiment!!, But with advances in distributed computing, This is merely a truth proposition.Questions which could be answered.
- Did the ‘Fountainhead of Indian ‘Logic’ Intellect come from its cultural roots’ ?
- Did Pythagoras come to India to learn ‘Logic’ ?
- How were the ragas born ?, Are the ragas mathematically a complex hash function of frequencies ?, How did such complex mathematical function get rooted into a seemingly divinity biased Carnatic music ?
- How did western musical instruments evolve in India ? Violin , Saxaphone ?
- Why is divinity the epicentre of music, atleast carnatic music ?. Can Athethists play carnatic music with same passion ?
- What Influenced the development of Lipis ? Was the spoken language invented first before Lipis or was it the other way round ?
- Do the Sanskrit proverbs actually interpret as Formal ‘Logic’ ?
- Was Shakaracharya an Atheist before he proposed ‘Aham Bramhaasmi’ ?
- Is Ayn Rand’s ‘Objectivism’ practised more by Indians than Americans ?
- Do Europeans exhibit ‘Existentialism’ traits than people from any other continent ?
- I want to stop now..Sky is the limit!! Endless possibilities..
Sunday, 14 November 2010
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