Disable "auto-add contacts" in GMail

Disable "auto-add contacts" in GMail

Every time when you send, reply or forward an email message to someone through Gmail, it automatically saves the email address of that person to your contacts list.

This auto-add feature can quickly jam your address book and it becomes ever more annoying if your contacts are set to automatically sync with your mobile’s address book.

To disable the auto-add feature in Gmail. Just go to your settings page and choose “I'll add contacts myself” for the setting that reads “Create contacts for auto-complete” - now you'll have manually added email addresses to your Google Contact which am sure most won't mind.

The Gmail people has added a some other enhancements like you get better warnings if you make typo in email address, etc,.

Source: Times of India


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Indian Rupee Symbol using 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.

Microsoft has recently updated all the common fonts the ship with Windows to include support for the new Indian Rupee symbol. Now you can open a document inside Microsoft Word (or notepad), select a popular font family like Arial or Times New Roman, and type the Rupee sign directly.

Update your existing Windows fonts by installing the kb2496898 hotfix available for both Windows Vista and Windows 7. Once installed, this will update the Arial.ttf, Times.ttf, Tahoma.ttf and some of the other font files on your computer with the latest version.

How to Type the Indian Rupee Symbol using Arial

Launch Microsoft Word, change the document font to Arial or Tahoma, and type 20B9 followed by Alt-x. If the 20b9 string is converted into a Rupee symbol, as in the screenshot above, the update has been successfully applied.


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