This post is not related to seo or Blogging, but I thought I shall share it with you all, as I am feeling very proud that Indian Currency has got its own symbol.

The symbol combines the Devnagri “Ra” and Roman Letter “R” with two parallel lines which denote the strength and development of Indian economy. Till now, the Indian currency was simply denoted by Rs or INR.

The symbol is designed by Mr. D Udaya Kumar, a postgraduate from IIT Bombay and teacher in IIT Guwahati. He will receive Rs. 2.5 lakh as prize money.

After getting an unique symbol, Indian rupee has joined the club of elite currencies which have similar distinct symbols, the US Dollar, Euro, Yen and British Pound.

It would distinguish the rupee from those countries whose currencies are also designated as rupee or rupiah, such as Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

So how to type the symbol using existing keyboards:

Foradian Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a Mangalore based firm has created a font called Rupee_Foradian, which can be downloaded from Company’s Blog for free at: blog.foradian.com

After downloading the font — a .ttf file — copy it to your computer’s C:/Windows/Fonts folder

Open a word file, type the first character(`) on the keyboard (it appears to the left of 1, select the character, and apply the Rupee_Foradian font.

I would like to invite all my fellow bloggers to share their thoughts on this.

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Some days before i was checking logs of one of my website related to travel and i found that an IP was sucking a lot of bandwidth from my hosting account. But the website (the IP) was not sending any visitor to my website. I got confused as what was happening, so i checked the website and found that they were leeching one of my video, using an iframe.

Means they were presenting my video to their visitors, opening directly from my website using an iframe.

In one way it was good for me because the video was watermarked with my website name, so my website was getting extra exposure. But my main concern was the amount of bandwidth they were leeching.

So i emailed them to either remove my video from their website or host it on their own server, but i haven’t got any reply from them…

So i have banned their IP from accessing my website.

I wrote this post because i though many of you would have faced this problem, or may face in future. So what to do in such a situation?

There are probably two easy solutions for this, which are as follows:

1. Use free video hosting websites: You can use free video hosting websites like youtube.com for hosting your video. Once you have uploaded your video on youtube.com, you can embed them anywhere on your website, without worrying about bandwidth consumption.

2. Permanently Ban the IP or Website from Accessing your website: You can permanently ban any IP or website from accessing your website with the help of HTACCESS file.

Example: If you know the IP address (For an example we take this case, suppose  it is 192.129.0.1) write

order allow, deny
deny from 192.129.0.1
allow from all

If you want to block multiple IP address using .htaccess simply add one IP address per line as below:-

order allow, deny
deny from 192.129.0.1
deny from 192.129.0.2
deny from 192.129.0.3
allow from all

You can even block a network range IPs using .htaccess:-

order allow, deny
deny from 192.0.0
allow from all

You can also use the name of the website like:

order allow, deny
deny from website URL(”website.com”)
allow from all

If you are using wordpress blogs there is a good plug-in available for blocking IP Addresses

Like: WP-Ban

If you are not familiar with HTACCESS File, let me show you how to make one

1. Open notepad
2. Write the code which you want to write in the HTACCESS (As shown in examples above)

3. Click Save As and type .htaccess in file name and choose Save As Type as All Files.

Next upload the file to the root folder of your website and you are done.

If you are getting any problem and need any help, please post in comments and i will try to help you out. Your suggestions are also welcome

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The NameCheap.Com (aff link) is my favorite domain reseller registrar and I book all my domains from them, Infact I have registered over 70 domains with them, because in my opinion they have the cheapest rate and you all know very well that “every penny saved, is every penny earned”, and the other benefit is when you book domains from them you get Whois Guard and SSL Certificate for one year for free.

Now the ICANN fee has increased so you will not be able to save like before, but a little amount will do.

The NameCheap Coupon Code for July 2010 is: LIBERTY

They also have an affiliate program where you can earn 15% commission for first time order and if you like, you can buy from my affiliate link.

So go ahead and book your domains with NameCheap.com

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NameCheap is a premiere company which deals in domain name booking, web hosting, VPS hosting and SSL Certificate selling. Every month they issue a coupon code from which one can have a rebate of a dollar on first time domain booking.

The Coupon code for June 2010 is: SUMMERTIME

You can use this code to book any .com, .net or .org domains for only $8.81 for one year.

If you want to transfer any domain to NameCheap you can use code: SWITCH2NC

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HOTTIME offers 10% off for VPS hosting plans.

Free SSL Certificate: NameCheap is offering free SSL Certificate, worth &49.95 with every purchase of new domain, domain name transfer, web hosting signup or WhoisGuard purchase

So enjoy these goodies and happy domaining.

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After a long tussle with Google over privacy control and after many news about China trying to hack servers in United States, the dragon has moved one step further and planning to introduce a system which will require web users to use their real names before posting comments online, hence curbing their anonymity.

Presently online administrators of major websites, who provide screening of internet posting, are only required to use their real names during registration

The government has confirmed it is pushing for an online real-name registration system. The issue has sparked fierce debate in China since it was first raised several years ago.

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