Use Indian rupee symbol in your MS word

Now use India Rupee symbol in your MS word.

Foradian Technologies gives you the font to use the new Indian rupee symbol.


1.Download the attachment and copy the font in c:\windows\fonts.
2.Open MS word and start using the font.
3.Use the key which is just below the ESC button. (~)

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How Much Your Mouse Traveled So Far ?

Have you ever imagined how much you mouse traveled so far. Well this can be counted and you will be surprised to see the results. Two small utilities that can measure a lot of activities of your PC is mentioned below.

Win-o-Meter (Freeware)

This small utility measures your computer activity.

It counts the keyboard / mouse presses and computes trajectory that you have arrived by your mouse.

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How to hide stuff in CDs and DVDs

Many a times you might have wished certain stuff on your CDs and DVDs were private and accessible only to you and no one else. While you could achieve this using WinRAR or any other archiving software that can encrypt your data, it doesn't allow for quick access to the data as you need to decrypt and extract the stuff first. While this might not be much of a problem for a small amount of data, you might get into trouble when you’ve got gigabytes of ones and zeroes to hide. Now I know that for all legitimate purposes your stash of hidden data would never really get this extensive, but the keyword here is ‘legit’. What about the skeletons in your closet? (Read: porn) They need to go somewhere too, right? And you need a much larger cache for them. You *could* just take a hike and encrypt those files anyway but since questionable content has a tendency to amass gigabytes of space, you might get into some serious trouble while extracting the stuff; not to mention about the overhead associated with decryption. Your processor wouldn't be so happy about it.

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Operating System inside a browser

Have you ever seen a Operating System inside a browser? Have you ever seen a Internet Explorer inside a Firefox Browser? Maybe you have recently moved to Linux/Mac operating system from Windows but you are missing familiar interface and want to spend some time on Microsoft Windows but don’t have access to it, if this is scenario for you then here is windows4all.com. Windows4all.com is a Silverlight based online virtual operating system (sometimes called a Web OS or a Webtop or a cloud computer). It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser. Windows4all.com replicates the desktop environment of a modern operating system. It can give you a familiar work interface that looks the same whether you’re working at your home computer, or remotely from a borrowed or public computer. You can launch applications right away without installation. Windows4all.com is web-based and requires Silverlight 3 to operate. Application runs in Silverlight’s security sandbox. By default code is restricted from accessing your file system or doing anything that could hurt your machine. Besides desktop, taskbar, start menu and sidebar, currently it includes such applications:

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Reset / Recover Your Forgotten Windows Administrator Password

What will you do if you or any friend of you forgot the windows administrator password. How would you recover or reset it? There are a few tricks you can try ...

First Method:

Windows always created an "Administrator" account by default and assigns no password to it. So if you have forget your user account password then try this:

Start system and when you see Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press 'ctrl'+'alt'+'del' keys twice and it’ll show Classic Login box. Now type “Administrator” (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.

Now you can reset your account password from “Control Panel -> User Accounts“.

Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.

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Use your USB Pen Drive as RAM in Windows Vista

Windows Vista provides us with a feature called ReadyBoost. This feature enables us to make use of our pendrive as RAM, so that we can increase the performance of our PC.

This is how we can use ReadyBoost:
1. Plug in your PenDrive.
2. Open Computer
3. Right-click on the removable storage device and select Properties.
4. Click on the ReadyBoost tab.
5. Select "Use This Device" and "set the amount of space u want to use as RAM"
6. Click OK.
7. Bingo !! You are done.

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Use Your USB Pen Drive As RAM in Windows XP

We all know about using USB flash drive as RAM on Windows Vista. If somebody doesn't knows wait for my next post.

It would be great for us if we can use the same feature available on Windows XP? That would be a great alternative for most of the xp users who can not upgrade their old systems and running new softwares is not possible as they are equipped with a low RAM. So this nice software tool to use USB flash drives as RAM on Windows XP O/S is very useful.

This useful tool is developed by eBoostr and the trial version is available for free to download. This is an unlimited trial version, but you can only use it for 4 hours continuously. If you want to use for more than 4 hours, you need to restart your system. You can make your system run faster without making any further investment.

It is just 2.3MB to download. It supports Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 and is available in 39 languages. It requires USB 2.0 drive or memory card for operation and USB 1.1 is not supported as they tend to be very slow.

Download eBoostr
Source: www.eboostr.com

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