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Having bought >120 books, I recommend Flipkart.com to buy books online (India)

27 March 2010

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UPDATE: June 2010. Now I have shopped some 350 books from flipkart.  Flipkart rocks! Flipkart now also sells CDs, DVDs, Music and games and have raised $8 to $10 million dollar VC funding (source); so expect more! I had a very bad experience with online shopping (I was cheated by Rediff Shopping and then [...]

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Fun: Get Your AVATAR or see my Avatar

8 February 2010

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Loved the film Avatar?! Want to Avatarize yourself? Want to see how your Avatar would look? There was this McDonald Ireland link that no more works now but another site called Avatarize Yourself works perfectly! You can create your Avatar, customize it, change background and share and/or download the image Avatar. The site may take some [...]

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What is Web Hosting: A Creative Definition

31 January 2010

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First the regular boring definition: “A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that  allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web.” If you are looking for the regular explanation you can read read the Web Hosting entry on Wikipedia. But if you are looking [...]

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Shopping Tip: How to find the cheapest computer prices in Delhi?

8 January 2010

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If you live in New Delhi or adjoining regions, you may be knowing that ‘Nehru Place’ in Delhi is the popular computer market in Delhi where not only Delhites but people from all of Northern India flock to get computers and electronics at the cheapest wholesale prices.

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My Nokia 1100 phone has completed four successful years

27 December 2009

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Almost unbelievable but true! Nokia 1100 for me proved to be a very reliable phone. It was also my first phone bought in 2663 Rupees: a basic, low-end model with all the basic functions (no camera, FM and such like). The photo on the left is my phone. I had bought the Nokia 1100 in [...]

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Some blogging errors wordpress.com bloggers should avoid

19 December 2009

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This blog was on free wordpress.com for a long time and I have a lot of experience and insight with the wordpress.com version of blogging. Reading the forums and learning from inputs in the WordPress forums, I had found out some shortcomings on many wordpress.com blogs. If your blog is with free wordpress.com, do [...]

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