While It may take several months for the Consortium to include the new symbol in the standard character set but once that is done, you should be able to type Rupee using the standard keyboard without requiring any special fonts.

For example, If you want to type the rupee symbol in MS Word, you will have to type 0971 followed by Alt+x. Currently this combination will output an unused Devanagri character that the Indian government has proposed to replace with the new Rupee symbol. [More]

India is a great country. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world!!
I was just going through some Facebook intrinsics and collected data Facebook users based in India. [More]

This is really shocking story and i am ashamed to have become a victim of fraud insurance.

Ashamed, because I am an educated person and should have not fallen prey to the false commitments of the insurance agent.

But, I bet this can happen with anybody today. These insurance DSA's(Direct selling agents) and their insurance executives are too smart. Everything from day 1 to the day you actually pay the money and sign the documents to the completion of free-look period of 15 days is so well planned that you can't even get a string of suspicion in your wildest dreams. [More]

InformationWeek interviewed five accidental tech entrepreneurs, including the founders of del.icio.us and Digg and the author of the blog Dooce, to find out how they freed themselves from the paycheck-to-paycheck grind. [More]

Here are the books for Class 11 of NCERT syllabus. These books are in PDF format.
Just right click the image or the book name link and click 'Save link as'. You can also simply click on the image or the link to download the book in ZIP format.

Once you have the zip file, unzip it and you will find all the chapters of the book in PDF format. [More]

Dropping cell phones into the toilet (It has happenned with me yesterday and hence this article :)), into a pool, into mud puddles, into washing machines and even into a glass of fruit juice is not an uncommon activity that we human can perform easily.
I just dropped (accidently offcourse) my mobile phone in my toilet, and i can't express how difficult it was to take it out !! But i did it somehow and then found that the phone was dead. [More]

Listen to the engineers working at Google's Chicago office talk about how managers work at Google.

The main point which they have made is that Managers at Google does not interfere with Technical team's work. I believe this is precisely what sets Google apart from other companies. [More]

This is really weird but can we rely on Standard Chartered bank for doing transactions online?
I was just trying to make the payment of my electricity bill (NDPL) using my Master card credit card from Standard Chartered bank today at around 11:40 PM, 17 August from my home in Delhi, India. And I got this error of security certificate being not valid. [More]

This is true that gold is used in various parts of any electronic gadget like computer motherboards, mobile parts etc.. But can we extract that gold and make money keeping in mind the high sellable value of Gold in market?

The answer is yes, we can extract it at home too but the process is a bit long and clumsy and dangerous too if you are not familiar with chemical reactions. [More]

Because Microsoft has removed the activation requirement and provided a public download, they’re essentially giving this software away free (though that’s not how they’ve phrased it: “This version of Money Plus Sunset can be installed stand alone, or as an upgrade to any existing installation of Microsoft Money.”). Please note that you should not install this over your existing copy of Money Plus until after 31 January 2011, or you’ll lose online features and technical support. [More]

Every year, we get to hear so many unfortunate accidents that happen due to kite flying without taking precautions. This year, NDPL - Electricity provider in New Delhi, India has issued some precautions that should be followed to minimize the accidents. [More]

Carl Richards, a financial planner and a regular on The New York Times' Bucks blog, uses graphs and diagrams to explain personal finance. And as you know, sketches are always twice as charming when they are on the back of a napkin. Together, the collection provides sound financial advice, so that you don't end up poor and bankrupt, chasing the next Google or investing in entertainment [More]

NuCaptcha is a first-of-its-kind CAPTCHA technology that uses video to determine if users are human, not bots.



CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. These tests comprise warped letters and numbers displayed in a widely varying range of readability levels in a image format. The idea is that they’re supposed to be nonstandard enough to be indecipherable by automated spam programs yet simple enough for humans to understand and reproduce. [More]

I usually work in chrome as it seems to be the fastest browser for my noble internet browsing needs.
I normally open multiple tabs and always almost fee the need to carry over my work for next day and hence do not want to close the tabs already open. I just wanted some mechanism in chrome though which it automatically saves my browsing session and opens it again as and when i re open my chrome. [More]

Travel planner TripIt has brought an innovative concept- Their new service instantly understands and organizes your flight, car rental, and hotel confirmation emails. It can monitor your Gmail and automatically compile itinerary information for upcoming trips. [More]