HamaraShehar.com provides FREE Online PowerBuilder Courses

Aug 19, 2000

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Contact: K. Shankara Rao, Director, Ardent Citylink Services Pvt. Ltd., Ph: 7607433

HamaraShehar.com provides FREE Online PowerBuilder Courses

Hyderabad, Aug 19, 2000: In the days where paying thousands of rupees to the training institutions fetch you nothing but part of very basics of the software, HamaraShehar.com mayor announces FREE Online PowerBuilder Courses (regularly costs US$300/- per year) for HamaraShehar citizens. PowerBuilder online courses are authored and maintained by Prasad Bodepudi, author of three PowerBuilder Books, "The Revolutionary Guide to PowerBuilder", "Instant PowerBuilder Objects" and "PowerBuilder Vedas". While the former two titles were published in London, later was published in India. Online PowerBuilder courses are being accessed by more than 8,000 students world-wide including US, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, France, Russia, Africa via Internet. It has the following six unique courses in three PowerBuilder versions, 5, 6 and 7. Regularly, it costs US$ 300 for the online version. However, these are made available at free-of-cost to HamaraShehar citizens. Citizenship, another term for online registration in http://www.HamaraShehar.com, and is free to every one.

1. Introduction to PowerBuilder
2. Advanced PowerBuilder
3. Mastering PowerBuilder
4. Real-World Projects
5. Preparing for CPD Exam
6. Preparing for Technical Interviews

The last three courses are unique and are available for the first time in the history of teaching. They provide all solutions from learning the software to preparing for interviews including few real-world projects for the student at one single site and are not available anywhere in the world at any price. In addition to the regular lessons, Q&A, exercises, these courses also contain PowerPoint presentations, answers to exercises and step-by-step multimedia demonstrations.

HamaraShehar.COM is a fully integrated city- centric multi-lingual portal enabling one city at a time. It was launched by Hon'ble CM Chandrababu Naidu, AP and has in-depth content in English & Telugu; Hindi version is scheduled to launch in the next few weeks. HamaraShehar (Our City) has multiple aliases, MeraShehar (My City), ApnaShehar (Our City) and a Telugu variant ManaPattanam (Our City). The following is a brief summary of available channels.

How To...: This is a unique channel available only at HamaraShehar.com in three languages. This section helps citizens on the commonly required services such as getting ration card, driver's license, electricity connection, telephone connection, land/ building registration, registered marriages, etc. You can also share your experiences with other citizens and post your complaints.

The Ultimate Customisation: The most popular saying "Web designer's designing heaven is the visitor's hell" is no longer true in HamaraShehar. You can choose one of the sixteen colour schemes and visit all pages with the selected colour scheme. You can also choose one of the page layout and continue to browse the entire site. You can recall all those settings after login.

Fully Integrated Personal Tools: This section provides a note pad, task pad, organiser (calendar), classified clipping feature and email. In the next few weeks, you can even host your home pages in multiple languages at free-of-cost.

Classics: Yet another unique channel with more than 65 generation old famous classic tales and fables such as Akbar-Birbal, Panchatantra, Jataka tales, Paramananda Sishya stories, Tenali Ramalinga.

Classifieds: You can post classifieds at free-of-cost in several categories, clip classifieds into your e-briefcase, etc. In the next few days, you should be able to post a photograph too!

Entertainment: Has more than 500 (and growing every single day) jokes, cartoons, strip cartoons, photo cartoons, puzzles, updated everyday. Popular cartoonists Mr. Mallik, G.V. Amareswara Rao are some of the contributors to this section. This channel also has movie reviews, schedules, theatre information including city bus information that goes to each theatre.

Travel & Tourism: This is the only channel on the Internet that gives 100% travel information about twin-cities including in-depth hotels, foreign exchange information, ATM locations, national holidays, banks information and travel agents information. This section contains travel information of more than fifty places within the city.

Almanac & Weather: The only channel on the net with up-to-date weather information including wind direction available in all languages. This section also shows temperature recorded at various times round-the-clock. The Almanac section contains correct Sun, Moon information including inauspicious times, local and global events. You can add events from this section to their brief case.

Health & Fitness: This section has many articles written by our staff as well as experienced doctors in the city. This section covers modern medicine and alternate medicines such as Ayurveda, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, etc.

Wining & Dining: Contributed by famous cooks in the city covers all local recipes.

Discussions: You can discuss on local, very local, state, national and international issues.

Enquiry Centre: Across languages, visitors can search for PIN codes, STD codes, City Buses, movies, theatres, hotels, telephone directory.

Other interesting channels include Interviews, Columns, Culture & Festivals, News, Horoscope by famous astrologers and articles, book Reviews, Projects Showcase section to encourage young generation to get their projects published and much more being introduced every week.

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