Year: 2007
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Suggesions for Buying a PC
Below are some suggestions before buying a PC. Please note that the PC market is changing rapidly and the information provided below may be outdated very soon. 1. Motherboard The motherboard, processor and RAM as a set form the most important component because these three things determine the performance of the computer and act as…
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Laptop Check
Certain things to look out for while buying a laptop: 1. The best way to know about a laptop / any computer part is to read reviews in the web. Make sure you do that before you make your decision. Sites such as http://www.notebookreview.com should be a good start to understand about the most popular…
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Resources On English Improvement
Grammar Books Two books which seem to have good reviews are: Murphy’s English Grammar with CD-ROM by Raymond Murphy and Advanced Grammar in Use with CD-ROM by Martin Hewings There are a lot of other good books and I encourage the learners to read their reviews on amazon.com and flipkart.com before buying them. Improving your…
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Quotes
Overtime, I realized that in life, there is always a possibility for the lesser likely to happen. It is this possibility which helps me to be prepared for failures even in the most favorable circumstances. It is also this same possibility which helps me hope for success even in the most adverse situations. — Rahul…
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Securing Your Windows OS
In this article, I shall be giving tips on how one can secure his Windows PC from virus, worms, trojans, hackers, spyware. I shall first start with a definition of all these terms, proceed to give a list of a few must have software and then suggest some other software to ensure maximum safety. Definitions
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Airtel GPRS
Note: The GPRS plan packages and the procedure for activating and deactivating GPRS might have changed. Kindly contact Airtel customer care for exact details. Update: I recently purchased a Nokia 3110 classic. This phone comes with EDGE and in-built modem. Using EDGE, the browsing speed seems to be reasonable. Packages This article is mainly for…
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Thinkpad Backup And Linux Installation Notes
Update Sep 22, 2007: This article was written when I had purchased a Thinkpad (refurbished T40) for the first time. The article had later been upgraded when my friends purchased T41 and T43. The backup solutions described here in this article are mainly using open source tools. Though I have tested them on Thinkpads, they…
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Great Love Story
This is a true story of a young college girl who passed away last month. Her name was Priya. She was hit by a lorry. She has a boy friend named Shankar. Both of them are true lovers. They always hang on the phone. You can never see her without her handphone. In fact she…
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Website Reloaded
A new year … a new look. My site has gone a complete redesign to make it more aesthetic, more feature rich and make maintainence for me easier. And the entire credit goes to Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) for building such a wonderful CMS.