change log

Updates and advancements

[this month]

• blogspot.com (blogger.com) is no longer blocked by the college's proxy server listening at 192.168.0.2:3128. Kudos!! Its freedom to all the Blogger's.

• OpenOffice.org just got a version older. We've switched to OpenOffice.org 3.0.1. Its so much the better :D [Opensource rocks].

• 1624 fonts with us are all ready to show their worth. But finally our team has got unanimous over a font (this same font) named “Teen,sans-serif” [Guess they just could not forget theirs.....]

• हिन्दी support fixed in OpenOffice.org using CTL (Complex Text Layout). Using SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) & useful translations, “hai” became 'है'। Insert → Special-Character (using Lohit Hindi) has been useful to find key strokes. We also can write in other Indic languages, to name a few, Telugu.. Tamil.. Kannada.. Oriya.. Malayalam.. Punjabi.. Gujarati.. Bengali.. Assamese etc but reckon... who'd understand or translate 'em?

• Monthly Archives in text format (without our KNOL touch) would now on be accessible every month on our new blog knolthismonth.blogspot.com.

• Commenting (posting feedback) on all of the articles is now possible. Even anonymously!

• This month owing to the typos in the first issue The KNOL team decided to let the articles undergo a rigorous testing & checking procedure. We manually tried to check for structural errors or misleading sentences but lets face it.. after all we are humans. We're determined to improve, & hope such errors would be minimized in the future.

• New sections have been added. Like this one (change-log) & 'CRAPpy ideas' & Launch-Pad & SuperKnol (Collaborative Effort).

• iPaper
  Scribd.com converts the uploaded pdf documents into iPaper. iPaper can be very easily embedded inside any html page using the scribd's flash support. It offers a variety of modes like book-view, single-page-view etc. We have the November'08 issue available at knolthismonth.blogspot.com.

• SIZE
  We do the basic designing in OOo and then export it as PDF (Portable Document Format). Last time the whole document became 9.6MB large in size, all because of the Digital-Camera pictures in the Big-Story as well as the Committee-updates. We finally have been able to find a work around. Now while exporting the document we can reduce the DPI of images & the quality of the images. It'll help those who had trouble downloading it the last month.

• Owing to the viewer's interests, demands and feedbacks, we've discontinued the committee-updates section, making it totally autonomous.

• Pictures (snaps) of the contributors have also been added. Now you can even spot your favorite writer at the grocery shop (or maybe taking a stroll around café).
  

• Index page has agreed to show up this time.