Home Appliances without electricity usage

When I was a kid, Most of families had all traditional items at home for meeting the home needs.


As days moved on, people started to buy items which works with the help of electricity. Listed below are few among them.

Tube light

Fan

Table Fan

mixie

Grinder 

Vacuum Cleaner

Washing machine

Slowly, the traditional items started to disappear in many houses as it was occupying considerable amount of space in the room.




Now, that we are  seeing frequent power cuts, people started using inverter. The domestic inverter does not support the power consumption of heavy items like grinder , washing machine etc.


Well, why to go for inverter, when we still have items which works without electricity. It is good that we grab them from the market before it run out of stock.


Pictures provided for easy reference folks...

 

 Candle Lamp

 Panai Olai visiri 

 Traditional mixie (Ammi kal)

Traditional Wet Grinder (Attan kal)

 

Traditional Dry Grinder (Ural with Ulakkai)

 

 little ural for grinding spices

 

Broom for cleaning  

Washing stone for clothes

Pictures got by searching in Google images

I know.. In the fast moving world, we can't afford to spend hours of time in using these stuff. 

This is just a post to record the items which were used in the past generation (of course still used in current generation too.. :-)

--Dhanesh Amma

Bed time stories

Our little darling at home, sleeps after hearing bed time stories. Every day he used to ask for new stories.





But these days his story line is fixed. We have to tell him tom and Jerry story only. He picked up this as he liked the tom and Jerry cartoon much.



















His favourite episodes: Tom & Jerry with Duck


Every day we have to tell new episodes. But how do we tell new episodes without watching them? So we started our own Tom and Jerry episode.


Tom and Jerry Attending school...
Tom and Jerry going to beach...
Tom and Jerry travel in train to native for vacation...
Tom and Jerry visiting the Park...
Tom and Jerry doing shopping... etc etc..


The stories tied up with his activities.. It went on for a week and he understood the story line. On knowing story is coming to end, he started to modify the story line by a twist and making us to drag the story.


Upon completion of the lengthy story, he will ask for next story. I told him that I forgot and need some time to think and tell. Suddenly he told; Amma, I will tell a story. You listen and tell me back the same story. Clever boy. He said one tom and Jerry episode and asked me to repeat it. We have to tell it back, with the same story line as he said. If I make mistake he corrects it too. Oh no. This is tough.. A bed time story at 11pm and that too without making mistakes..


--Dhanesh Amma

Atbroker.exe application error

I use remote desktop to connect to a PC with Windows 7 . Got the Atbroker.exe application error followed by black screen. Could not view the desktop despite closing and reopening the session. Same error throw-ed out.


On surfing net, got a solution which works most of time.


Press "CTRL-ALT-END" (the equivalent of “CTRL-ALT-DEL” for remote sessions) followed by ESC / starting Task Manager from the options listed. - It worked for me.


When it doesn’t work, log in with another user and kill the session with the issue or reboot the pc.


--Dhanesh Amma