You are "Free to Try" the professional version of Azhagi with NO LIMITATIONS, whatsoever. But, if you continue to use it, you have to make payment for it. The terms and conditions on which one has to make payment is different for individuals (or NPOs) and business entities which has been explained below.

 Payment by Individuals or NPOs 
If you are an individual using the 'free-2-try' Professional version of Azhagi for your own personal (non-commercial) needs or if you are an NPO using the aforesaid version of Azhagi for your 'not-for-profit' related works, you shall pay for using the aforesaid version of Azhagi at any time you wish. But, if you are well in a position to afford, kindly please pay sooner than later. You can ofcourse take a bit of your time to read the story of Azhagi since 2000 (Innovative, despite odds - a related story in 'The Hindu') before you make your payment. And, when you pay, we are sure you will be happy for the single reason that you will be paying for using the "best" of Tamil transliteration softwares.

We are humbly proud to say that ever since its inception in year 2000 uptil this date, Azhagi's transliteration scheme (compared to that of any other's you might name) has remained the most natural and most intuitive and in other words the easiest and fastest, working across ALL Windows applications. It is unrivaled in being 100% phonetics-compliant and is unmatched in it's innovativeness, speed, flexibility and ease of use. Azhagi is easily the Easiest, Fastest, Friendliest, Simplest, Most Flexible, Most Natural and Most Intuitive Tamil Transliterator, leaving it Peerless. It has many Unique and Innovative features. Its Sophisticated and Versatile. For more details on the aforementioned aspects of Azhagi, please read easy.azhagi.com and docs.azhagi.com.

Have a look at the following too:

Our Clientele	FREE Version Download	Highlights	Product Versions
Media Reviews	Commercial Version Download	Features	Pricing Details
Our Societal Support	Free Fonts Download	Unique Features	Payment Modes

Well, when you are taking your time to make payment for Azhagi, if you feel like, you may kindly please opt to do the following, for creating awareness of 'computing in Indian languages' amongst the general public:

• Spread the news of Azhagi, your easiest and fastest Tamil Transliterator, to as many as possible, in whatever ways you can.
  
• Get to know the history of Azhagi (Innovative, despite odds - a related story in The Hindu) if not known yet.
  
• Give a link to azhagi.com from your website (please see mazhalaigal.com or kaumaram.com for samples).
  
• Give a link to azhagi.com from your blog (please see mindpower-1983 or anbudan-aruna blogs for a sample. The link you give need not be exactly as in these blogs. Even a simple text link will suffice.
  
• Give a link to azhagi.com from your online group (please see illam for a sample).
  
• Have a write-up in your company/college/school magazine on 'Azhagi'. For collecting current info on Azhagi, please read existing writeups in azhagi.com/docs.html.
  
• Have a write-up in your website on 'Azhagi'. For collecting current info on 'Azhagi', please read existing writeups in docs.azhagi.com.
  
• Have explanatory articles or demos or interviews on Azhagi in your own website. For samples, please see the following pages from the editor of mazhalaigal.com, which contains links to various help tips and demos on Azhagi.
  
  • All-in-1 consolidate page with various useful help/demo links on Azhagi's installation and usage
    
  • Azhagi's transliteration - the easiest and fastest - the whys and hows explained - in 2 sequential articles
  • Demo pages put up in 6 sequential web pages, explaining a few key basic operations of Azhagi.
  Also, see this blog for Azhagi by Anthony - http://tamilsoftwares.blogspot.com
• Write to us at az@airtelmail.in on Azhagi - your comments, appreciations, suggestions, bug reports etc. etc.
  
• If you can, then kindly opt to do all (including every other extra possible way you can think of for promoting Indian language computing) of what we have stated above for all of the softwares which help one for Tamil or Indian language computing, a list of which has been provided here in this same page.

 Payment by Business Entities 
If you are a business (whatever be the type of business you do) entity, you can use the free-2-try professional version of Azhagi for evaluation purposes for a few days (say a week, at the most). If you wish to continue to use it beyond the evaluation period, you are legally bound to make payment and register the fully-licensed 'Professional' version.

We are humbly proud to say that ever since its inception in year 2000 uptil this date, Azhagi's transliteration scheme (compared to that of any other's you might name) has remained the most natural and most intuitive and in other words the easiest and fastest, working across ALL Windows applications. It is unrivaled in being 100% phonetics-compliant and is unmatched in it's innovativeness, speed, flexibility and ease of use. Azhagi is easily the Easiest, Fastest, Friendliest, Simplest, Most Flexible, Most Natural and Most Intuitive Tamil Transliterator, leaving it Peerless. It has many Unique and Innovative features. Its Sophisticated and Versatile. For more details on the aforementioned aspects of Azhagi, please read easy.azhagi.com and docs.azhagi.com.

Have a look at the following too:

Our Clientele	FREE Version Download	Highlights	Product Versions
Media Reviews	Commercial Version Download	Features	Pricing Details
Our Societal Support	Free Fonts Download	Unique Features	Payment Modes

 Benefits acquired by making payment 

Note: To know the pricing and payment modes, please always visit azhagi.com/price.html and azhagi.com/paymodes.html resp. To know the full registration procedure, please visit azhagi.com/register.html.

• You will get an activation code (password) so that you can register Azhagi with the same and become a fully licensed user of the professional version of Azhagi.
  
  
• Once you have registered Azhagi with your password, no pop-up screens will appear at the closure of Azhagi application.
  
  
• You can avail full technical support over phone (between 10am to 6pm IST) and over email (betweeen 10am to 10pm IST).
  
  
• Right now, the password we give you will have to be reset whenever you format your system but new password will always be given immediately (between 10am and 10pm IST, over email or phone) on request at such instances. Anyway, we are working on a modality (it will be probably ready by Feb 2009) by which you can use Azhagi in any machine at any time, once you have made payment - without the hassles of obtaining new password whenever you format your system or change your machine. The details of this modality and its license terms, once ready, will be posted in this very page. So, please do keep watching.

 Features of the free-2-try Professional version 

FEATURES	Professional Version (Free-2-Try)
Dual Screen Transliteration - Snapshot and details	y
Single Screen Transliteration - Snapshot and details	y
Email in Tamil. One-click instant button to send your emails thru Outlook Express etc.	y
Create Tamil documents in universally readable RTF format	y
Read your Tamil documents from MS-Word	y
Print your Tamil documents from MS-Word	y
Mixed Text typing (i.e. English and Tamil texts intermixed)	y
Copy/Paste your Tamil text to any external application (MS-Word, Pagemaker etc.)	y
Save your English and Tamil texts in two SEPARATE documents respectively and print/distribute/email them	y
Keymappings summary floaters - vertical (always-on-top), horizontal (either contained or always-on-top)	y
Change English-to-Tamil keymappings of letters like 'z', 'nj', 'ng' etc.	y
Text formatting and alignment. Option to set start-up font size, color etc.	y
Learner's keypad to teach/learn Tamil easily, along with pronunciation tips	y
Use backquote character as mey-uyir separator	y
Change keyboard layout from 'Phonetic' to 'Tamil Typewriter' or 'Tamilnet99'	y
Unicode Editor** (in-built) - you can type/email/print your Unicode text (OR) copy/paste it to any external application/window like Wordpad, Outlook Express, Blogs, Google/Yahoo Email Message windows etc. In this in-built separate editor for Unicode, only phonetic keyboard layout can be availed.	y
Unicode conversion** of your plain Tamil texts (in Tscii - generated in Azhagi or pasted from external source)	y
Find your Tamil text by typing in English (rather tanglish) itself, during 'Dual Screen' Transliteration	y
Word Count (on both Tamil and English texts)	y
Type Tamil numerals	y
Show recent files accessed	y
Choose a favorite folder to access/save your Azhagi files	y
Comprehensive, exhaustive Help documents	y
Direct Tamil Input in ANY Windows application in Tscii - Snapshot and details	y
'Search & Replace' on both Tamil and English Text during 'Single Screen' Transliteration	y
Direct Unicode* Tamil Input in ANY Windows application - Snapshot and details your recipients (using Win XP/2K/2k3/Vista) do not require any prior font installation at their end to read your Unicode Tamil docs, mails, chats etc. you can do 'Direct Tamil Input' in Word, Excel, Access etc. including IE Webforms, Blogs, Google Search and kind, without setting any Tamil font to start with. Font will be automatically chosen and set. you can have the names of your Files and Folders in Tamil. you can do Find & Replace in Tamil directly in MS-Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Notepad etc. you can do Sorting in Tamil (arranging Tamil texts in ascending/descending order) in MS-Excel, MS-Word tables, MS-Access etc. you can do Data Filtering in Tamil in MS-Excel. you can search in Tamil in google, yahoo!, msn etc. for e.g. click here you can have your own personal blogs to opine your views in Tamil. for e.g. see mindpower you can have online groups to share your thoughts in Tamil. for e.g. see illam you can have your MP3 Songs list in Tamil in Windows Media Player etc.	y
Unicode conversion** of Tscii HTML texts and files (*.html, *.text, *.js) Unicode Bulk conversion** i.e. convert multiple files at the same time, from Tscii to Unicode	y
Dynamic Tamil Web Font (both Tscii and Unicode compliant), to create your own Tamil website. See a sample site here. Click here for more details on procuring and using our dynamic font.	y
Chat in Tamil in Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Google Talk etc.	y
Reverse Transliteration - i.e. Type/paste in Tamil, get in transliterated English (i.e. in tanglish). You can reverse transliterate only Tscii Tamil texts, as of now. Click here for snapshot and click here for more details.	y
Auto'Transliteration - Transliterate your existing English texts (in MS-Word docs, Excel docs, Text fles, Web pages etc.) into Tamil in quick time. No need to retype your Tanglish texts to generate the Tamil equivalent. Click here for snapshot and click here for more details.	y
Popup Transliteration - Transliterate and display a line/portion/whole (max. 4000 chars) of the text of an external document you are currently viewing (say an Ms-Word document), in a separate pop-up window (in Tscii, as of now)	y
Auto'Insertion - Insert user-defined Tamil texts/paragraphs (e.g. 'murugan thunai', 'dear thambi', bharathiar poems, couplets from thirukkural, addresses, etc.) in any Windows application, using hotkeys. The user-defined texts can be in Tscii only, as of now.	y
Conversion of your plain Tamil Text (in Tscii) to TAB encoding	y
(*) Direct Unicode Input is possible in any external application which supports Unicode - like Wordpad, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, Notepad, MS-Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc. Without enabling Unicode fully, 'Direct Unicode Input' in external applications may be possible only in certain applications like Wordpad, Outlook Express and Internet explorer. So, for other applications like MS-Word etc., Unicode might have to be enabled fully. To get to know more details on enabling Unicode and typing in Unicode, please visit azhagi.com/uniset.html. Please note that in Windows Vista operating system, Unicode gets automatically enabled FULLY, along with the OS installation. (**) 1. To type in Unicode in Azhagi's in-built Unicode editor, you may not be required to enable Unicode fully. Azhagi's in-built Unicode editor may work in most Win98 systems too. Once you have generated Unicode Tamil text using Azhagi's in-built Unicode editor, you can copy/paste the Tamil text to any external application/window like Wordpad, Outlook Express, Blogs, Google/Yahoo Email Message windows etc. If the pasted text does not appear correctly in certain applications like MS-Word, Notepad etc., then Unicode might have to be enabled fully. To get to know more details on enabling Unicode, please visit azhagi.com/uniset.html. Please note that in Windows Vista operating system, Unicode gets automatically enabled FULLY, along with the OS installation. 2. To effect Unicode conversion, you have to navigate to "File->Convert to Unicode" from within Azhagi. To effect Unicode conversion, you may not be required to enable Unicode fully. Once you have generated Unicode Tamil text using Azhagi's Unicode Converter, you can copy/paste the Tamil text to any external application/window like Wordpad, Outlook Express, Blogs, Google/Yahoo Email Message windows etc. If the pasted text does not appear correctly in certain applications like MS-Word, Notepad etc., then Unicode might have to be enabled fully. To get to know more details on enabling Unicode, please visit azhagi.com/uniset.html. Please note that in Windows Vista operating system, Unicode gets automatically enabled FULLY, along with the OS installation.