Recently, after long wait the symbol for Indian Rupee was finalized. With this India has finally stepped in the list of privileged countries having the symbol for their currency and has made a remarkable history. However, as claimed by the Government of India that typing the Indian Rupee symbol and its universal availability will not be possible for now and it would take more than a year for the symbol to become available worldwide.

Though for a while, you cannot have the Indian Rupee symbol on your keyboards but still you can type it. Yes! To satisfy your curiosity, you can now do it using the Indian Rupee font. One of the Mangalore-based Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd has newly created a font called “Rupee Foradian” which allows you to type the Indian Rupee symbol on the computer.

To get started using the Indian Rupee Symbol on your computer, you first need to download the Indian Rupee font from here. To install the font, go to the control panel and paste the downloaded font in the Fonts item of control panel. Once the font has been installed, you can press the “ ` ” key, the key located above TAB to insert the Indian Rupee Symbol right in to your document files.

Nevertheless, this Indian Rupee font has given us a way to quick start using our New Rupee Symbol on the computer. However, to use the symbol universally we have to wait till it’s incorporated in the “Unicode Standard”.

To guide you on how to type Indian Rupee symbol on your computer, I have embedded some tutorials that will help you in installing the font and then guiding you how to type it on your computer after the installation. The Linux and Mac users can check this link for a detailed tutorial.

Toshiba a leading Laptop manufacturing company has stunned the industry today by unveiling a dual touch screen device which will act as multiple variant – laptop, tablet PC or even a e-book reader. Set to launch in August this year Libretto W100 is new breed of netbook from Toshiba which will also seen as yet another iPad competitor and this time from Toshiba.

The launch of new Libretto W100 is part of Toshiba’s 25th Anniversary in Laptop business and am glad that I use the one of the oldest laptop manufacturer’s device. New libretto W100 offers dual 7” diagonal multi-touch screens that work horizontally or vertically hence making it perfect as ebook reader as well.  It also has easy navigation that supports virtual keyboards on other screen plus a soft track pad that let you type, click and browse.

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Today (9th December) is Computer’s very own Mouse B’Day ever since Douglas Engelbart first demonstrate very first mouse made of wood and had just one button, he demonstrated it for working with computers as part of GUI (Graphic User Interface) and the date was 9 December 1968.

A mouse is one integral part of computer system that has seen lesser development as compared to its sibling parts in today’s computers.

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