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Why is Azhagi "Special" and "Different" (or) Why use Azhagi?
Apart from the very many Unique features it offers, Azhagi's fundamental strength lies in its unrivaled User-friendliness & Flexibility. Its transliteration scheme is the easiest and fastest you can ever find. It is 100% phonetics-compliant. Imagine typing a name like 'Sridhar' in very many different ways as 'sridhar', 'sreedhar', 'Srithar', 'Shridhar' etc. More such examples are at http://azhagi.com/easy.html. We suggest you to read that page fully and realise the immense userfriendliness of Azhagi so that you can use Azhagi at its easiest best, always.


What can you do with the Free (Basic) version of Azhagi?
Please visit http://azhagi.com/freefaq.html and you will find the necessary details therein, along with many other information.


What is the difference between 'Trial' and 'Free Basic Version'?
As long as you do not enter any password in the opening password screen of Azhagi, it acts as the FULL Professional version in 'Trial' mode (for 10 days, with some character and time restrictions). And, we hope you started Azhagi in 'Trial' mode and tried out all its sophisticated features like Direct Tamil Input in ANY windows application, Auto-Transliteration, Auto-Insertion, Pop-up Display, Reverse Transliteration etc. etc. If you enter the basic version password in the opening password screen, then Azhagi starts acting as a full-fledged Basic version. You can type as many pages as you want, save, print and email them. To know the differences between the various versions of Azhagi, visit http://azhagi.com/diffs.html


How can you directly transliterate/type in Tamil in ALL Windows applications?
The standard/professional versions help you to achieve Direct Tamil Input in ANY Windows application (like MS-Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook Express, Pagemaker, PhotoShop, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail etc. etc.) in 3 different typing modes - Phonetic (i.e. Transliteration - the most popular typing mode), Tamil Typewriter and Tamilnet99.

You can type in two different font encodings:
a) Tscii
b) Unicode

The standard version allows Tscii input only, whereas the professional version allows both Tscii and Unicode input. The standard version provides seamless conversion from Tscii to Unicode, nevertheless.

a) Tscii Input - Directly in ALL Windows applications (possible in Standard version and above)
b) Unicode Tamil input - Directly in ALL Windows applications (Possible in Professional version only)

What is Unicode? Why should one necessarily use Unicode?
Unicode is the Universal Font Encoding Standard recognised by Microsoft for now and the future. If you email/chat/share documents in Unicode Tamil, your WinXP/Win2K recipients do not require any Tamil font at their end to view your Tamil text. With Unicode, you can straightaway start typing in Tamil in any windows application without the need to set/change your application font to any specific Tamil font.

Unicode is immense power. For instance,
a) You can have File Names in Tamil!
b) You can do Sorting in Tamil (arranging in Tamil Alphabetical order - ascending/descending) in Excel/Access/Word etc.
c) You can also do Find & Replace in Tamil in Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Notepad/Wordpad etc.
d) Search engines (Google, Yahoo! etc.) support Unicode and hence you can search in Tamil itself. For a screen snapshot depicting the same, click here
e) You can have online forums in Tamil itself - for instance, see http://groups.google.com/group/illam

Unicode computing is possible at present in Win XP/2K and above. To enable Unicode computing in your computer, you have to NECESSARILY effect some settings in 'Regional and Language Options'. For more details on how to enable Unicode in your computer and effect Unicode Input in ALL Windows applications, click here to read step-by-step instructions, along with screen snapshots [You can also view these instructions offline (but, devoid of snapshots) by starting Azhagi fully, clicking on 'Help'->'Unicode Help' and reading the topics therein fully]. Azhagi provides a sophisticated Unicode 'Bulk Converter' too. With the standard/professional version, you can make use of around 25 FREE 3rd party unicode fonts. For samples and details, see http://azhagi.com/sai/uniFonts1.pdf. For creating Tamil websites, free dynamic Unicode (cum Tscii) web-font is also provided by us.


What is the Pricing for the commercial versions? What are the different Payment modes?
Please visit http://azhagi.com/price.html and http://azhagi.com/paymodes.html. If you straightaway wish to transact online via credit card or net'banking, visit http://azhagi.com/online.html.


Who are all the prominent clients of Azhagi?
Please visit http://azhagi.com/clients.html and you will get to know our prominent clients [L&T (LTM), Reliance NIS Academy, IP Rings etc.]


What are the benefits of joining the Yahoo! online Group for Azhagi?
You may join the 'Azhagi' yahoo online forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/azhagi (launched on 25th Jan 2006). It is ofcourse FREE. Being a member of the 'azhagi' group will IMMENSELY help you, as you will get to know answers to ALL your frequently asked questions on how to Email, Chat, Blog, Document, Print, Publish and Create Tamil websites using Azhagi. You will also get up-to-date news on software upgrades, offers, Unicode, Tamil computing etc. If you are used to google, you may also join http://groups.google.com/group/azhagi. We also have a "non-technical" general discussion forum at http://groups.google.com/group/illam, wherein emphasis is given to promote communication in (Unicode)Tamil.

All our group messages are moderated and hence you can be rest assured that you wont receive any junk mails. Also, you can always choose 'Daily Digest' option for receiving your group mails whereby you will receive only one mail a day, at the most. So, do join our group and avail the benefits.