Category: Tech
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Fake Kingston 32 GB Pen Drive
Recently a salesperson turned up at our office proposing to sell Kingston 32 GB pen drives for a very cheap price (Rs.1200 each). He claimed that he had stolen some of them from the port when the shipment arrived. We were not interested and so did not purchase any of them. As soon as he…
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Washing Machine
I generally avoid hiring a maid and like to automate the daily chores to the maximum possible extent. The biggest investment in this direction was the washing machine. This was purchased with the marriage gift money given by my Aunt Suchitra (Mom’s elder sister). After reading several reviews and comparing the different models of washing…
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Open Source And Free Software
Here is a little something for those new to the terms or those who are confused between these two terms. For quite sometime, I had this simple idea: Open Source – Software for which source is available Free Software – Software for which we do not have to pay
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A Two Year Old Pending Gift
About two years back my friend and IIIT classmate Swetha told me that she would like to gift me something. I told her that I’d let her know when I really need something. That is because then everytime I look at the gift I’ll get reminded of her :). And now after two years, I…
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Cheapest VoIP Provider to India
Betamax, the company behind low cost voip services such as VoipDiscount has now come out with another offering Actionvoip. While Actionvoip does not provide free calls to any destination, it does provide the cheapest rate to call up Indian landlines (46 paise / minute) and mobiles (66 paise / minute). This is so far the…
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Reduce loss by stolen debit or credit cards
Any idea on how much your wallet (+mobile) could be worth (generally speaking) keeping apart the liquid cash? – 60 k (credit card) + 25 k (debit card) + 5 k (calls using mobile SIM) = Rs.80000. So if someone gets hold of it and you don’t become aware of it immediately, you could be…
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New Domain Registrar
While I was just settling down this morning to finish “The Google Story”, I received a mail from my current domain registrar “Mitsu.in” reminding me reg. the renewal of my domain “amaram.name”. And as always, I ended up spending a few hours reviewing the current domains and choosing what I felt was the best :).
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Choosing A Web Hosting Provider
My site had faced a big downtime last week – for 4 consecutive days. Thanks to the then hosting provider Powweb, I had to face this problem. As a matter of fact, I had sent them a mail immediately when my site went down. They took 2 days to respond and said that the problem…
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Pinnacle-to-go Review
Website: Pinnacle-to-go
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Comptia Network+ Certification Resources
Comptia is a certifying authority. One of its exams which I had given and cleared in April 2006 was the Comptia Network+ Certification. I wasn’t planning to take it. But as I was anyway reading a book on Networking Basics (which actually was a guide to Network+ Certification exam), I decided to take it. And…