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Be careful while buying second hand bikes and other goods online

There are sites like bikes4sale dot in and others where you can buy second hand goods. I discovered what I am going to tell you while researching for buying a second hand motorcycle. When you find the name and phone no. of somebody selling you his or her motorcycle (bike), do run a Google search [...]

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Gigapedia is now library.nu

The hugely popular book downloading (“indexing”) site Gigapedia is now rechristened as library.nu and is available on the new web address. In fact typing Gigapedia.com will automatically direct you to library dot nu. While the reasons for it are not made public, it may be because Gigapedia may have rubbed the publishers the wrong way [...]

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On Guest Posting:Guest Posts are good for your blog

Inviting guest posts (paid or unpaid) is becoming a fashion in the blogosphere. It is not without reasons that Guest Blogging is on the rise. There are many freelancers, writers and bloggers (popular or newcomers) who are contributing many great articles on various popular blogs on various themes. Just because it is your blog does [...]

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

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 had [...]

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Fun: Get Your AVATAR or see my Avatar

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 [...]

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What is Web Hosting: A Creative Definition

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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