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On choosing a good web hosting service : Experiences of a layman

I am planning to self-host two of my WordPress blogs [including this one] and recently did a lot of research online in finding some good web hosts, finding free WordPress themes [mostly magazine themes, my favourite] and ran into a lot of good information and useful tips and tricks. This is a brief collection of [...]

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Gigapedia: The greatest, largest and the best website for downloading eBooks

This is a detailed account of ‘www. gigapedia.com’ –”the knowledge sharing site”- including how to download books from the website with elaborate instructions and snapshots. Gigapedia is the largest repository of ebooks on the internet and better than any torrent site and a boon for students and research scholars not born with a silver spoon [...]

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How to get free access to JSTOR

The need for access to JSTOR in developing nations Access to JSTOR [the US based online 'Journal Storage' that archives academic journals]  is a major issue for research scholars and students particularly from the developing countries like India. The rule is that you need to be a member of a participating institution or library to [...]

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COMPUTER AND INTERNET FOR THE NEWCOMER

I am writing this post for my friends/acquaintances in JNU who are not well-versed with the computer/internet and are about to embrace these IT tools or are still struggling with it. This article is meant only for those like me who have not done any special study/course on computers/IT/software. I myself was more or less [...]

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