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EIGHTH ISSUE of my Newsletter <<Back MAY 2001 Vol. II No.6 Personal Nikhil! Newsletter! INSIDE THIS ISSUE: - (1) Be Careful What You Say (2) Interesting Facts - How Five Vehicles Were Named? (3) Download of the Month - CrazyTalk - add voice and sound to your digital pictures (4) Latest from the Space World - (5) Jokes - Internet Humour =================================================================== (1) Be careful what you say - This is a simple moral-teaching story which makes us feel the importance of the words we speak. I found this story very touching, so instead of the usual write-up, I thought it better to post this story in my newsletter. It shows us that the encouraging words, if not well-chosen, can produce disastrous results and vice-versa is also true. So, go ahead and read this simple story touching the bottom of your hearts. http://in.geocities.com/nikhil2000_g/newsletter/news_09.htm (2) Interesting Facts - How Five Vehicles were Named 1. BUS - This word is short for the Latin word omnibus which means 'for all'. 2. CLIPPER SHIP - This long, slender sailing ship of the 19th century was named for its speed. It was said to 'clip through the waves.' 3. HELICOPTER - When Leonardo da Vinci, the 16th century artist/inventor first drew a design for a rotating wing machine, he called it a helix pteron, meaning 'spiral wing.' These Greek words were later written as 'helicopter'. 4. SCHOONER - This large sailboat was named after an 18th century game known as 'schooning', whereby children skipped pebbles across the water. 5. TAXICAB - This word comes from a one-horse carriage called a cabriolet. This kind of carriage for hire had a taximeter inside which recorded the cost of the ride. Today, cars for hire are called taxicabs, cabs, or taxis. ============================================================================ (3) Download of the month- CrazyTalk This program is for creative persons as it explores your creativity to add magic to the dull digital images by adding voice and sound. It uses TTS and speech synthesis technologies and enables the object in the picture to speak. Thus if you have a photograph of your near and dear ones, you can add your own dialogues, to make it more interesting. This program also allows you to import the images from other applications and customise them as per your creativity. You can use the Expression Editor of this program to create all animation projects. However after finishing your project, you can export your work as a Bitmap, WAVE file or AVI vvideo clip. This software can be downloaded from ========================================================================= (4) Latest from the Space World - * Asteroid Busting: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/defending_earth_010601-1.html When Earth is on the receiving end of a comet or an asteroid, things get messy. Fire, explosions, tidal waves, suffocation, climate change, crop failures and starvation can occur from regional to global scale. ================================================================================ (5) Jokes - Internet Humour (4) A traveling evangelist always put on a grand finale at his revival
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