Nithin Kamath's Weblog

People have been asking me time and time again on how do I create and send out the newsletters (in the past Lintux Newsletter, Weekly Picks, HaHaHaa and now Felicity), and each time I tell one, some else asks again. So I thought it would be in the best interest of all that I put this on my blog so that I can give the link to anyone who asks. Coming to the process it is a quite simple one, by the time you finish reading this you will be amazed at how simple it is!!!

To begin with you will have to create an HTML page with you content you want to send, for this you can use the tools of your liking. I personally use:
* ‘gedit’, an simple text editor to code the HTML content.
* ‘Firefox’ web browser to preview the HTML pages
* GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program for playing around with images.

Once you have an HTML page ready, you will require an email client through which you can send the page. I personally recommend ‘Mozilla Thunderbird’. Initially once you will require to configure the client to be able to receive and send mail. For this you would require an email service provider who provides SMTP/POP3 service. One of the good ones I use is GMail, Yahoo and Rediff do not provide this functionality in their free versions. To see how to configure Thunderbird for GMail visit this page or this page.

Once configured, just go to compose a new message (Ctrl+N) and in this window enter the ‘To’ and subject fields. Once this is done the focus will be in the message composition window, here goto Insert -> HTML and copy – paste the whole HTML code of the page you created initially. Thats it, just click the send button and you are done.

Hope to see many cool and creative email from you all soon….

Lately a lot of people have been asking me what my name means. So here is the meaning of both my first name as well as my last/surname, for all the people who want to know about it.

The name ‘Nithin’ has various forms of writing, some people write it as ‘Nitin’, ‘Niteen’ or how my name is ‘Nithin’. The name ‘Nithin’ means the ‘The master/follower of the right path‘. Suprised! If you are some one who knows me, do you think the name suits me now?

For my last/surname, I will quote what is mentioned in wikipedia:

Kamath is a common surname of Gowd Saraswat Brahmins in Konkani speaking communities. As is typical of Konkani surnames, it is believed to be derived from the name of the occupation. “Kaamthi” means landholder, cultivator or agriculturalist. “Kaamthi” is a contraction of “kaama” (work) + “maaththi” (soil). In modern times, the surname is no longer suggestive of the profession. The surname is also believed to be derived from “kaali maTTaachi” which means people from Kali Math. The intelligence of the Kamaths is attributed to their ancestors, who spent time in the Math learning from the goddess Kali.