New Windows 8 Features

Preview New Windows 8 Features [Videos]

Windows 8 Copy Paste

Windows 8 will present all pending copy jobs in this single dialog, instead of multiple floating pop ups. Now you can also pause, resume, and stop each copy operation in progress and get contol over which copy jobs to complete first. Also note each copy job in progress shows the speed of data transfer, the transfer rate trend, and how much data in left to transfer in a neat chart for a great visual assessment.
Also when 2 files have a similar file name, now Windows 8 has a new approach to conflict resolution. All source files are on the left and target location files on right in one single dialog screen and you can choose which file to keep in one extended screen.

Windows 8 USB 3.0 Support

Microsoft foresees that by 2015, all new PCs will offer USB 3.0 ports. USB 3.0 will be 10 times faster than USB 2.0 with improved power management that results in longer battery life. Transferring your heavy HD movies will be much faster and will save much time. See how Windows 8 plans to incorporate USB 3.0

Download Free Indian Rupee Font

The new Indian Rupee symbol is officially accepted and now download free India Rupee fonts for your documents.

How to Download and Install India Rupee Font

Fordian Technologies has created the new Indian rupee font for free download. Its simple to use.

Download the Rupee font (.ttf file) and install in your computer fonts folder (typically C:\Windows\Fonts).
Select “Rupee” font from the drop down list of your fonts in your application
The grave acent symbol – ` (the key just above “tab” button in your keyboard) is used to type the new Rupee symbol.

Run the video below (in full screen) for a step-by-step view to install the Rupee font.
Update: You can download Rupee font installer free here.
Update: How to Add India Rupee Font Symbol in Blog Posts
Update: Now get a dedicated Indian rupee keyboard key too.
I am sure you want to insert the new India Rupee font symbols Rs. in your WordPress blog posts. You can download Rupee font or use the Rupee font installer, and it would display well in your Microsoft Word documents, but if you try the same in your blog posts it would not work.
After the Indian Government approved the new Indian currency symbol, many services are actively working to integrate the rupee font online. WebRupee has introduced a Web API for the Rupee symbol font which provides a simple, cross browser method for using the Rupee symbol on your webpage, blog or anywhere on the web.

Javascript Method to Add Rs. Rupee Font Symbol

This the best automated method. Simply cut and paste the javascript code below to your website footer file and it will convert ALL Rs symbols to Rs. Rupee font symbols on all your blog posts.
<script src="http://cdn.webrupee.com/js" type="text/javascript"></script>

CSS Method to Add Rs. Rupee Font Symbol

If javascript is not your style, then simply cut and paste the stylesheet code below to your website <head> area and it will convert all Rs symbols to Rupee font symbols wherever the span tags are found around the Rs text
Add this CSS stylesheet
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cdn.webrupee.com/font">
Wherever you want to convert the Rs. – add the span tags and use the Webrupee class to call the CSS.
<span class="WebRupee">Rs.</span>

How do we implement Rs. Rupee Symbol on our site?

Since we have limited use of the Rupee symbol on our WordPress blog, we don’t want to load javascript or call external stylesheets on all pages.
We pasted the CSS and span code on selected articles like this in html format, and you can see the Rs. symbol right now working on this post.

How to Type Indian Rupee Symbol using Keyboard Keys

How can you type Rs. Indian rupee symbol from your existing keyboard keys? The new Indian rupee symbol is a hit, but many find usage difficult because there is no rupee keyboard key.
Right now you can download rupee font and use the symbol in your office documents easily. Webmasters can easily use rupee symbol online and add the rupee symbol to articles easily (like in this article). But what about having a direct keyboard key.

Type Rs. Indian Rupee Symbol

The Unicode Technical Committee has approved a code position for the Indian Rupee Symbol Rs., which means it will be available in modern keyboards soon and can be easily used across mobile phones and various web services. But till that happens, the amazing people at Foradian have a nice tutorial guiding you how to map the rupee symbol to a key in your keyboard.

Download the Rupee Keyboard file (.zip) and extract the files
Double click Rupee Installer.exe file and follow the instructions – now 4 new fonts will install to your computer with support for new rupee symbol in Unicode recommended code position
Double click Keyboard Install.exe file - a new keyboard layout is installed in your computer. Right click on the task bar and select language bar from the toolbars menu > click on small keyboard icon and enable the Rupee Foradian Keyboard Layout
Now you can use the grave accent key on the keyboard to type the rupee symbol by selecting the Rupee Foradian Standard fonts

Install Rupee Keyboard

Here is a step by step video about how they install the rupee keyboard.
If you set Rupee Foradian Standard as the default font in your browser, you can easily use the Rs. rupee symbol in any applications like gmail, twitter or facebook.

Windows Tips and Tricks

Wednesday, September 07, 2011