Emotionally Speaking

Avoid ‘Cost to Cost’ computer shop in Nehru Place

A few readers on another post on this blog have commented narrating their bad experience with ‘cost to cost’ computer shop at Nehru place. Here is a quick list of grievances against them: autocratic behavior, bad customer support, take-it-or-get-lost-we-don’t-care attitude of staff. I myself witnessed some of these on a recent visit to the shop. [...]

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Book Downloading sites like Library.nu and Gigapedia?

Sometime in mid-Feb a consortium of international publishers successfully drove library.nu to shut down operations and the website is no more there (which despite the immorality is a big loss to the international community). So are there other book downloading sites like giga pedia and library.nu? You may read some suggestions on this post though. [...]

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Buy online with Discount codes

Any smart online shopper will know that online shopping sites/ e commerce sites offer discounts/discount codes or coupons particularly in the starting phase when they are establishing themselves. This is true of Online Megastore Flipkart (I bought lots on 20 per cent off discount code two years ago, over and above the default discount) or [...]

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Don’t buy from Bag it Today or India Today

Bag it today from the India today Group is a bad online shopping option if you have been influenced by their ads or spam messages. Someone I know had ordered this shoe (see image) from them and got a black colour, poor quality shoes! India today group has earlier sent poor prints of good books [...]

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‘Downloading books’ is a popular search term on the web

This site gets some good traffic due to some search terms in Google related to downloading books, downloading ebooks, gigapedia, library . nu, best sites for downloading books, jstor free access etc. . With the SOPA/PIPA threat, megaupload  shutdown, the trend of searching free books or files on the web may only increase. These are [...]

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Samsung Galaxy Y is a very good smartphone

I am using the Samsung Galaxy Y since quite some time now. If you are looking for a very affordable Android smartphone then go for it without hesitation. I had bought the Samsung Galaxy Y GT S-5360 in 5990 rupees only after a thousand rupee discount coupon on Homeshop18 in late November. The present market [...]

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