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Be careful while buying second hand bikes and other goods online

16 July 2011

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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

28 December 2010

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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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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 had [...]

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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 [...]

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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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