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New ISKCON Spain website

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:09:00 +0000

We just launched the new Official ISKCON Spain website. It has many features not available anywhere else like:

Many Prabhupada books in PDF
Deluxe lectures in Spanish
Bhakta Manual
Lots of new content

Please link to it if you have a spanish section on any of your sites or want to give your visitors a link to spanish content. www.harekrishna.es

Here are some captures:

The home page:

We have many books in PDF format so that anyone can download them inmediatly:

Like we did with the english lectures, we now have spanish prabhupada lectures with cover art and proper mp3 tags. They look fantastic on the iPhone or iPods that support cover flow.

And one more interesting feature is the bhakta manual. It is a PDF where in a very simple and graphical way people can learn how to start practicing bhakti yoga at home. It includes photos to create your own altar, instructions on how to chant japa, how to offer etc.

Please link from your sites to offer your visitors content in spanish.

www.harekrishna.es

Thanks!

ISKCON Tech team.

our last (and final) email BBT(i) vs Photo gallery

admin — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:12:37 +0000

Dear Pancharatna Prabhu,

This is our last email, explaining our understanding of the situation.
We have covered and explained the issue several times over by now.

- Regarding BBT(i) contacting archive.org, we have emails from the BBT
to other devotees showing that BBT contacted archive.org in relation
to us, while we were still in conversations, and other similar black
and white examples exist at your disposal.

- We offer our services to all devotee websites what to speak of the
BBT. It seems that BBT itself is not asking for help. Your good self
has already used some of our services like nectarshare.com,
pariprashnena.com, wiki.pariprashnena and worldsankirtan google group.
How is that for cooperation?

> The BBT is not trying to stop anyone from putting their own Krishna
> conscious content anywhere, but only trying to protect Srila Prabhupada’s
> property by exercising some basic controls.

So, if you are not trying to stop iskconmedia, what are we talking about here?
Your conditions are not “basic” but clearly elitist and crippling the
internet preaching.
We already asked BBT to give special arrangement as we do not fit any
of the possible offender categories, but remember: BBT has cut short
our conversations until we decrease the 20.000 photos to 20 low res
pics.

> All of these are great. But when there are two sites competing in the same
> market exclusive content is also very important.

You are talking about two physical shops in the same street, not about
the internet. You are talking about the Industrial age not the
Information Age.

Napster was closed and Bittorrent and a dozen similar clones were
created, so trying to stop digital sharing is a waste of time and not
very intelligent.

Many music bands, famed writers, etc. have realized by now that more
their digital content is freely
spread, more profit they make with their hardcopy sales and all the
other ways of monetizing.

We better adjust to the new paradigm or succumb to it.

CONCLUSION

All our problems are solved attributing a Creative Commons license to
the BBT digital material and having proper hard copy sale outlets.
CC regulates problems of piracy (copy and distribution for profit) and
manipulation of material by mayavadis, etc as CC license does not allow such
actions –>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

your servants at Iskcontech

How to tag portable gita - you can also help!!!

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:27:04 +0000

Only need a username and password to edit the BG tags for the portable version, please ask for it if you want to help.

http://www.iskcontech.com/portablegita

3 mins video howto:

http://www.vimeo.com/1022803

Finally! All Deluxe Prabhupada Lectures online.

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:38:25 +0000

A small step for a man, a great leap for humankind. Today we finished uploading all the zip files with the Deluxe Prabhupada Lectures. For the first time you can have Prabhupada lectures with proper tags and cover art. They work perfectly on iPods that support coverflow and iTunes too.

Check the Deluxe Prabhupada Lectures project site for more info

Download now

All the other lectures are at the Deluxe Prabhupada lectures site.

Unlimited ocean of Srila Prabhupada lectures

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:54:45 +0000

Today we have a lecture overload for you.We uploaded the following albums: conversations, festivals, hindi lectures, interviews, isopanisad, japa (don’t miss this one), krishna book dictation and morning walks. Remember that these are the only Srila Prabhupada lectures with proper tags and cover artwork. They will look great on the iPhone or iPods supporting cover flow.

Download the lectures below or visit the project site: Delux Srila Prabhupada Lectures to download other albums.

Download now

Visit the project site here:

Deluxe Srila Prabhupada Lectures

Your friends at www.iskcontech.com

Deluxe Caitanya Caritamrta lectures online

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:33:21 +0000

More lectures uploaded from the Deluxe Srila Prabhupada Lectures Pack.

Download Now

More at:
www.iskconmedia.com/deluxe-prabhupada-lectures/

More Deluxe Prabhupada lectures now available

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:26:49 +0000

We finished uploading some more albums from our Deluxe Prabhupada Lectures Pack.

These are nicely tagged mp3s with cover artwork. Perfect for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Click on the Albums below to download them as zip files or go to the main site to learn more:

http://www.iskconmedia.com/deluxe-prabhupada-lectures/

If you missed it you can download the whole SAMPLE PACK while we upload the rest:

http://www.iskconmedia.com/deluxe-prabhupada-lectures/

Help needed for portable Bhagavad-gita

admin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:32:17 +0000

Dear devotees,
We are currently working on a portable Bhagavad gita, one self contained downloadable html file fully searchable and compatible with any browser.The next action we are doing is to put “tags” in all the verses of BG, so that is fully and easily searched by themes and keywords (tags).
See the current work in progress here:http://www.iskcontech.com/portablegita
if you wish to help at your own time and easily from home, please tell us.The edition is easy, just from your browser, no need of email communication for changes. It is wiki style. As easy as click ”edit” and “save” in your browser to make the changes appear real time.
Thanking you in advance,
Contact:iskcontech@gmail.com

BBT(i) copyrights update

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:14:22 +0000

There is an ongoing debate and problem with our site iskconmedia.com and BBT(i)

To date they have not responded our arguments against knocking down our site,
http://www.iskconmedia.com/photos

The last email was a plain “we are not going to discuss until you abide by the “20 photo” limit per site” which is a contradiction. If we take the site down, what is to be spoken about?

Following is the link for the whole email exchange so far for the record, notice the last one, how they refuse to acknowledge our desire to continue via email.

http://www.pariprashnena.com/discussions/?PostBackAction=Download&AttachmentID=94

Deluxe Prabhupada Lectures Pack

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:40:18 +0000

Here we offer all Prabhupada’s lectures in mp3 format. They have been reorganized, properly tagged and sorted by albums.

We recommend using iTunes to see the cover art and of course iPhone or iPods supporting cover flow.

Now you can:

Download the Sample Pack

Check how to use iTunes

Browse all the Albums