With tight wallets and tighter budgets, its not a good feeling to sit at home and bemoan the state of the economy and the job losses. We should rather take up the opportunities offered by the recession before its too late! So what are the best deals available? I have compiled a list of the [...]
Continue reading...25. June 2009
Status messages of my friends on facebook have revealed to me that pop legend Michael jackspon is ‘perhaps’ dead.
Continue reading...27. May 2009
World War 3 has been a popular topic of recent books and astrological predictions. (Few years ago a Nostradamus prediction interpreted by author Michael Rathford said that there would be a WWIII in 2007 and the Antichrist would be resposnsible for it. It urned out to be quite an uneventful year). While the books are [...]
Continue reading...27. April 2009
A whole lot of websites and blogs offer RSS feed subscription to visitors these days. Amazingly, few people outside the world of blogging and web designing know what’s the fuss with this orange button RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, which really isn’t that simple a term to understand. For the layman, clicking on that [...]
Continue reading...13. April 2009
Luck by chance I landed on the website of one of my favorite authors, William Dalrymple, whose new book – Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India – will be published by Bloomsbury in October. I’ve copied this excerpt of the accompanying blurb from the Amazon UK website: “Nine people, nine lives. Each one [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2009
The Sunday Mirror has tied up with National Express to offer the unbeatable deal – travel by bus to any city in the UK for just one Pound – Choose from over 80 destinations! HOW TO BOOK Visit www.mirror.co.uk/nationalexpress and click on the link to book. Register your details and choose where you want to travel. Payment [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2009
The annual Kingfisher calendar for 2009 is about to be out! Only 3 days to go and you can check the countdown on the official Kingfisher Calendar site. Dr Vijay Mallya – India’s liquour baron – popularly known as the king of good times, has done it again! View the making of Kingfisher Calendar 2009 here:
Continue reading...3. August 2008
Mozilla Firefox has loads of fans, but many of them complain that sometimes the world’s favourite browser acts as a memory hog, i.e. takes up too much system memory. Today we will show you how to optimize firefox for faster loading while taking up less system resources. This firefox tweak works on versions 2+ and 3. [...]
Continue reading...19. July 2008
The 15 second IMAX trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that that has been in speculation for some time is now online! It’s basically a dark background and has Professor Dumbledore’s voice saying, “Once again, I must ask too much of you, Harry.” It then fades into the Half-Blood Prince logo. Check it [...]
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3. May 2009
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