Write the Indian Rupee Symbol using Common Windows Fonts

The India Rupee symbol is now part of the official Unicode standard but for you to type that new currency sign into your favorite word processor or spreadsheet using a regular keyboard, your existing fonts must be updated to the new standard as well. There are some font families – like DejaVu fonts - that have been updated to the new Unicode standard and thus include support for the new currency symbol but the problem is that these fonts have limited adoption. Well the good news is that Microsoft has recently updated all the common fonts the ship with Windows to include support for the new Indian Rupee symbol. That means you can open a...

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Half A Billion Blog Posts Later, Google To Give Blogger A Revamp

Google’s blogging service Blogger has been used for over half a billion blog posts (with over half a trillion words in total) to date, writes product manager Chang Kim on the Blogger Buzz blog. Those blog posts have been read by 400 million readers across the globe, Kim adds. And according to the video below, 75 percent of traffic comes from outside the United States (the service is available in 50 languages). Now the product is getting an overhaul, the biggest change being a more modern user interface for both the editor and the dashboard (fi-na-lly), built with Google Web Toolkit. Google says it will be showcasing the new design of the...

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New Twitter Stats: 140M Tweets Sent Per Day, 460K Accounts Created Per Day

Twitter is celebrating its fifth birthday and to commemorate the occasion, is revealing a number of stats showing its growth over the past five years. It took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day from the first Tweet to get to the billionth Tweet. In a given week, users send a billion Tweets. Users are now sending 140 million Tweets, on average, per day, up from 50 million Tweets sent per day, a year ago. The all-time high in terms of Tweets sent per day was 177 million sent on March 11, 2011. In terms of Tweets per second, the all time high was 6,939 Tweets per second after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day. This compares to the previous record...

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Google Switches to Generic 404 Pages

Google previously was serving pretty useful 404 errors or pages that are displayed when someone types an incorrect URL in the address bar or when the requested page has been removed from Google’s servers. For instance, in the previous implementation, if someone requested a non-existent page like google.com/email – it will show them links to related sites, like Gmail, instead of serving a dead-end 404 error. That has however changed recently and Google now serves generic 404 errors that point nowhere. The new design doesn’t even have a search box. Beautiful but less-usef...

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How to Trace your Laptop

To allow law enforcement agencies access a novel method of tracking and recovering lost laptops, leading anti-virus solution provider Quick Heal has launched a service. All that a laptop owner has to do is register with 'Quick Heal' on its website for the service through Mac-id and it keeps continuous track of where the laptop is. If the laptop is stolen the tracker service traces it on the basis of Mac-id and IP addresses. This information can then be used by the police to track the laptop down and retrieve it, said the company press release. The method is aimed at helping police by providing them an interface with the website, said the company...

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