Wednesday 8 May 2013

How to get Wikipedia on a DVD just like Microsoft Encarta or Britannica?





It’s not official but a children’s charity group in UK has created a Wikipedia DVD with some 5,500+ Wikipedia articles designed for use by school children. You can download the school Wikipedia DVD via BitTorrent or the contents may be accessed online at schools-wikipedia.org



How can I download the whole of Wikipedia for offline reading ?




You can download an HTML dump of the entire Wikipedia Website for use elsewhere but the problem is that these dumps aren’t updated frequently and each can be a few gigs in size so don’t think about it if you are on a slow internet connection. A better option would be to download Wikipedia  as an XML file – they are updated nightly and you can use a software like WikiTaxi to turn these XMLs into human readable web pages that you may also read offline.



Thursday 2 May 2013

Use Google Fonts for loading website faster





 Google is now offering a convenient way to download Google Fonts, its 1,000+ collection of free, open-source fonts, to your desktop. Not only will your downloaded fonts sync to Google, they'll also help load websites faster if they use those fonts.

Although there are other ways to download Google Fonts to your computer, if you use the free tool SkyFonts as Google recommends, your fonts will be synced with Google's directory. So you'll always have the latest versions of the fonts (for example, if new characters are added).

Even if you don't plan on using the fonts for your own projects, installing the fonts locally, Google says, will make browsing websites that use those fonts faster, since your browser won't have to fetch the font data.

Download SkyFonts and Google Fonts via the link below. Once you've installed SkyFonts, browse the fonts collection on the website and select the ones you want to install. ( there's no "select all" option.)


http://www.fonts.com/web-fonts/google
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/05/download-google-fonts-to-your-desktop.html
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/google-brings-its-web-fonts-to-the-desktop/





Wednesday 1 May 2013

How to Clean a Laptop Screen with Household Products: 7 Steps







Cleaning a laptop screen is a must for a laptop owner. I found this interesting and detailed article when I my self needed to clean my laptop screen. Hope you will enjoy this detailed article


How to Clean a Laptop Screen with Household Products: 7 Steps