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• Rivira (Sinhala - IE Only)
Rivira main section in PDF format
(until next Friday) Page No.s :
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• Heladiva (Sinhala PDF Files)

• Siyatha (Sinhala)

• Irudina (Sinhala)

• Lanka Irida (Sinhala)

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• Budusarana (Sinhala Unicode)

• Navaliya (Sinhala Unicode)

• Vidusara (Sinhala Unicode)

• Sarasaviya (Sinhala Unicode)

• Wijeya Lama Puwathpatha
(Sinhala Unicode)

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= English Daily =

• Daily News

• The Island

• Daily Mirror Online, SL
( - Round the clock News Updating )
• Daily Mirror Print, SL

• The Morning Leader

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= English Weekly =

• The Nation

• Sunday Island

• Sunday Times

• Sunday Observer

• LakbimaNews

• Sunday Leader

• The Bottom Line

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= Tamil Daily =

• Thinakaran (Tamil Unicode)

• Virakesari Online (Tamil Unicode)

• Tamil Mirror, SL (Tamil Unicode)

• Uthayan (Tamil Unicode)

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= Tamil Weekly =

• Thinakaran Vaaramanjari (Tamil Unicode)

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Mobitel (Sri Lanka)
Email - GPRS - MMS Settings
(for Mobile Phones)

• Email Profile
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Set Name : Mobitel-Email
Access name : isp
User ID :
Password :
DNS 1 : 0.0.0.0
DNS 2 : 0.0.0.0

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• GPRS Profile
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Set Name : Mobitel-GPRS
Home URL: http://wap.mobitel.lk
Bearer : GPRS only
Proxy : ON
Address : 192.168.50.163
Port : 8080
DNS1 : 0.0.0.0
DNS2 : 0.0.0.0

GPRS settings ->
Access name : isp
User ID :
Password :

GSM settings -

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• MMS Profile
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Set Name : Mobitel-MMS
Server URL : http://192.168.50.165
Proxy : ON
IP address : 192.168.50.163
IP Port : 8080
Access name : wapmms

Version : 1.2

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Holidays - 2011 (Sri Lanka)

* Public

† Bank

‡ Mercantile

January
15 Sat - Tamil Thai Pongal Day *†‡
19 Wed - Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day *†

February
04 Fri - National Day *†‡
16 Wed - Milad-Un-Nabi (Holy Prophet’s Birthday) *†‡
17 Thu - Navam Full Moon Poya Day *†

March
02 Wed - Maha Sivarathri Day *†
19 Sat - Medin Full Moon Poya Day *†

April
13 Wed - Day prior to Sinhala and Tamil New Year Day *†‡
14 Thu - Sinhala and Tamil New Year Day *†‡
15 Fri - Special Public and Bank Holiday *†
17 Sun - Bak Full Moon Poya Day *†
22 Fri - Good Friday *†

May
01 Sun - May Day *†‡
02 Mon - Additional Bank Holiday †
17 Tue - Wesak Full Moon Poya Day *†
18 Wed - Day following Wesak Full Moon Poya Day *†‡

June
15 Wed - Poson Full Moon Poya Day *†

July
14 Thu - Esala Full Moon Poya Day *†

August
13 Sat - Nikini Full Moon Poya Day *†
31 Wed - Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramazan Festival Day) *†

September
11 Sun - Binara Full Moon Poya Day *†

October
11 Tue - Vap Full Moon Poya Day *†
26 Wed - Deepavali Festival Day *†

November
06 Sun - Id-Ul-Alha (Hadji Festival Day) *†
10 Thu - Il Full Moon Poya Day *†

December
10 Sat - Unduvap Full Moon Poya Day *†
25 Sun - Christmas Day *†‡
26 Mon - Additional Bank Holiday †

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• Calendar for the year => 1999 to 2019
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• National Holidays for 2011 (Sri Lanka)
(from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Website)
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• National Holidays for 2010 (Sri Lanka)
(from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Website)

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• Firefox 5 : Can not read Websites with Sinhala Fonts
(eg : www.lankadeepa.lk , www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/ )

01. Open "Firefox 5"

02. Type (Copy & Paste) " about:config " (without ") in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, (just like you type the url of a website to open it).

03. If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.
(Click "I'll be careful, I promise!")

04. Select and copy the following :
gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled

05. Paste that in "Filter" bar.
(Now you can see : "gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled - default - boolean - true")

06. Right-click on "gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled" and Click "Toggle"
(Now you can see : "gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled - user set - boolean - false")

07. Close "Firefox 5". That's all.
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• Download Firefox 5.0
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• The Changes done to "Sri Lanka Time Zone" in 1996 and 2006 :

GMT + 5:30 => Before (1996-05-24 23:59)

GMT + 6:30 => From (1996-05-25 00:00) To (1996-10-25 23:59)

GMT + 6:00 => From (1996-10-26 00:00) To (2006-04-15 00:29)

GMT + 5:30 => From (2006-04-15 00:00)

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• The official time changed five times before 1996 :

Jan 01, 1880 - GMT + 5.20
Jan 01, 1906 - GMT + 5.30
Jan 05, 1942 - GMT + 6.00
Sep 01, 1942 - GMT + 6.30
Jan 16, 1945 - GMT + 5.30
May 25, 1996 - GMT + 6.30
Oct 26, 1996 - GMT + 6.00
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