How The Internet Works

Have you ever wondered how the internet works. Well here's a sneak preview into it.

Indian Rupee Symbol Font | Free Download

The Indian government finally selected the rupee symbol. With this India joins the select group of countries that have a symbol to denote their currency. The other countries are USA, United Kingdom, European Union, Japan.

Download Font with Indian Rupee Symbol

To mark the occasion Foradian Technologies has brought out a special font with the rupee symbol.
It can be downloaded at Rupee Font Version 2

How Google Search And Adwords Work

A large number of you must be wondering how Google displays those results and the basis of ordering them. Also you may be keen on knowing how the advertisements are integrated in the search results.

The graphic below explains it all. It shows you the working of Google search as well as Adwords . You can easily see for your self how difficult as well as complex an SEO campaign can be. A lot of research has to go into a successful campaign. But before that years of hard work in getting that knowledge.


For a full size view please click on the graphic.

There Is no Available Connection Type | Nokia Phone Error

When the connectivity part of the NOKIA phone software is corrupted it blurts out a warning "There Is no Available Connection Type" although you may be having several valid connectivity options.

Solution To The Problem

The solution basically involves uninstalling the Nokia PC Suite Connectivity Solution as shown in the figure below.

In order to achieve this we have to follow the follow steps:

1.Go to Start > Control Panel and then Add or Remove Programs.
2.Select PC Suite Connectivity Solution and uninstall it.
3.It is better to remove Nokia PC suite as well as the cable drivers also
4. Restart the computer
5. Install Nokia PC suite again

Choose Strong Passwords and Improve Security

Well we all use passwords online for our various accounts - Be it email, shopping or banking. But having a strong password will make the difference between a secured
identity and one which can be easily cracked.
For example a password of 4 characters consisting of all Characters lower and upper case can be cracked in just 1.36 minutes by a mainstream desktop PC.
whereas a password of 8 characters consisting of all Characters will take average computer 2.10 centuries to crack assuming that you are using a random combination of upper and lower case characters and not any dictionary word.
The best password will be a combination of lower and upper case characters as well as special characters like _ (underscore) and - (dash).
More details on the relative strength of passwords is given in How Weak Passwords can be Hacked

Using Access parameter queries in Word 2003 Mail Merge

You must have notices that by default you cannot select parameter queries as as a data source in Word 2003. This is because the default settings have been changed in Word 2003. The solution to this is to change the default setting under Tools > Options > General in Word 2003.

What is a Parameter Query?

A parameter query is one in which the value of one of the fields in the query is entered at run time in order to filter the data rows returned. i.e. If in a company there are several departments and we create a query of the employee details, we can filter the query by the department of the employee. So, here the department becomes the parameter. If we wish to send a mailer to all the employees of the marketing department, we enter marketing when access displays the prompt to enter department at the time of opening the mail merge document.

Solution To The Word 2003 Mail Merge Parameter Query Problem

Create a mail merge document as usual. We are assuming that we will be using the open document as the mail merge document.
First we have to change the settings. Under Word 2003 Menus, Go to Tools > Options > General
Here under the general tab, click the check box Confirm conversion at Open as shown in the screenshot below.

Click OK and exit the tools menu.
Next click open data source on the mail merge menu. Browse to the required database and select it. When the confirm data source dialog box appears, select MS Access Databases via DDE (*.mdb;*.mde) and click OK. ( See the Screenshot below)

The list of tables as well as queries in the selected database will then be displayed to you. Here select the required parameter query as your data source.
Full in depth coverage of the nature of this problem including how to reproduce it as well as the solution is given in Word 2003 Mail Merge stops responding with Word was unable to open the data source

Related Access Tutorial - Refreshing Linked Tables

In case you are using Access over the network and have changed the location of the backend database, you will also have to refresh the linked tables. Details of this procedure are given in Refreshing Linked tables in Access