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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

How to Type Indian Rupee Symbol from your Keyboard on your Computer

Recently Indian Government released Indian rupee symbol so you need to use Indian Rupee symbol rather than just typing Rs whenever you need to mention Indian currency. Foradian technologies created the Indian rupee fontshow Indian rupee symbol using your keyboard in your Computer. which you can download and install in your Computer.Lets see  how to use Indian rupee font to
Download and install Indian Rupee Font in your Computer
Download Indian Rupee font.rtf to your Computer
Now copy the Indian Rupee font and paste it in Fonts folder.

How to type Indian Rupee symbol in your computer to show it in Office Applications and in other text editors
1.To type Indian rupee symbol open Ms Word
2Change font from time New Roman to Rupee Foradian select the Font size and click Ok to save changes.
2.Now hit ~ key below Esc button on keyboard to get Indian Rupee symbol in Ms Word ,you have to do similarly in Notepad also.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Gmail offers free phone calls

With technology from its acquisition of Gizmo5, Google is taking on Skype and the rest of the telecom world 
 Google on Wednesday began offering free and low-cost online phone calls to Gmail users in the US through the integration of its Gmail and Google Voice services.

At a media event at its San Francisco office, Gmail product manager Todd Jackson, Google Voice product manager Vincent Paquet, and Google communications product manager Craig Walker recounted how Gmail has grown from an e-mail client into a communications hub that supports Google Talk instant messaging, video and voice chat, and now phone calls.


"We have this communications platform between computers and phones," said Paquet. "Up until now, those platforms didn't communicate with each other, and that's what's about to change."


By integrating Google Voice with Gmail, Google may be able to help Google Voice avoid the fate of another one of its perhaps too innovative services, Google Wave. Gmail has hundreds of millions of active users and exposing them to the opportunity to make free and low-cost calls should encourage wider use of Google Voice.


Google Voice was made available to the public in June after a lengthy period of closed testing. Walker declined to reveal current user numbers for the service; in June, Google said it had over a million active users of Google Voice.


Gmail users will be able to make calls from their Web browser -- provided there's a mic and speakers -- to the phones of people in the U.S. and Canada for free, at least for the remainder of the year, and at a low rate internationally.


"We're saving people a lot of money," said Walker. "The prices we offer this at are super-competitive."


According to a price comparison chart published by Google, a call from Gmail to a U.K. landline is billed at USD 0.02 per minute, compared to USD 0.021 plus a connection fee using a "leading Internet telephony provider," presumably Skype. A call from Gmail to a UK mobile phone is billed at USD 0.18 per minute, compared to USD 0.253 per minute plus a connection fee.


Walker said that Google is committed to maintaining free calls to the U.S. and Canada through the end of the year, and that the current plan is to maintain this rate. He said that Google believes it can make enough money on international calls to sustain the service.


Gmail users can make calls without a Google Voice account but cannot receive them; those doing so will appear to be calling from a generic number, which, if called, will promote Google Voice.


Paquet said Google was not ready to offer Gmail calling to business customers using Google Apps. While he would not explicitly state that Google is working on administrative controls to make the service manageable by IT administrators, he made it clear that Gmail calling for Google Apps users will appear eventually.


Gmail calling for users outside the US is also under development and localized versions can be expected in the months ahead.


Walker said that Google continues to work aggressively to allow users to port their existing phone numbers to Google Voice. However, he was unwilling to commit to a specific timeline for availability.


To promote Gmail calling, Google will be deploying Google Voice phone booths at airports and on campuses for travelers and students.
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