Prasanth's blog

I have seen products from manufacturers that look-alike a costly branded one. These products costs less (sometimes far cheaper) than the branded one, but an initial look and feel will be the same as the branded one. Be it dress, shoes or Smart Phones. But when considering long term usage, we are spending more with the cheaper products. Take the case of Smart Phones (Apple iPhone does not need a comparison here!) You have the market leader Samsung and other Chinese made like Moto/Lenovo, Honor, Oppo, Lava etc. They advertise the components used are faster and better than the market leader but costs half or less. But, they are not durable. An accidental fall is just enough to kill them. Recently when Corning introduced the Gorilla Glass 5, they mentioned this variant is harder than the predecessor, but they don't have control over the Smart phone manufacturer on how it is integrated with the device. So, the health of the display depends in part on the housing that holds it. ...

BSNL had provided the facility for Broadband users to check the current usage of data and data left in their account before the speed is reduced. The link have been removed recently, but you can check the remaining data in the following link while connected to the BSNL Broadband network: https://172.30.3.42/bsnlfup/usage.php If the High speed data is exhausted for you for the month, you can use the Top-Up button to subscribe to more data which will be billed in the current billing cycle.

Finally Indian Rupee  ( ` ) got a symbol. On July 15th 2010, the winner of the contest was announced and the new symbol of Indian Rupee was shown to the world.  The symbol is derived from a combination the Devanagari letter ‘र’ and English letter ‘R’. The font can be downloaded here . Installation instructions Unzip the zip file to C:\temp folder. Open Control Panel -> Fonts Select File->Install New Font...  In the new window, under Folders, select c:\temp The font will be listed in the 'List of fonts:' box. Click the font name and click 'OK', the font will be installed in your machine. Using the font In MS Word (or other word processing or similar applications), select the font 'Rupee Foradian' in the font list. To type the character, use the '~' key (top left key above 'Tab').