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May 2010

Enjoy Free e-books this Holidays

E-readers are catching up nowadays. Thanks to e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook and Sony‘s Reader, e-books are getting popular nowadays. You’ll find plenty of free e-books that you can legally download and keep. These are mostly public domain works, which means their copyright has expired. Most of the e-books are classics. And the titles which are [...]

CFL or LED Lamps, which is the better alternative.

Not long ago, the only type of lighting source available to the world was incandescent and florescent lamps. America passed out Energy Independence and Security Act mandating the end of incandescent bulbs by 2012-2014 time period. This was a great step to conserve energy and limit the CO2 produced from fossil fuels.

PanicButton, a Browser Extension to Keep Bosses in Good Humor.

If you work in an office environment and have a workstation allotted to you and your boss keep coming to your workstation on some pretext or the other, you often find it difficult keep tab on your stock investments and simultaneously posting status messages on Twitter and Facebook difficult. You feel your are good in multitasking and can manage [...]

Google Chrome Browser Sheds Beta for Mac and Linux.

Google Chrome has finally shed Beta tag for Mac and Linux users.  This was one new avid Google Chrome fans on Mac and Linux were eagerly awaiting for long. Google Chrome has established itself as one of the better browser and has stood out well on test parameters against its rivals. There are many new [...]

Chemistry, Key to Securing Good Rank in IIT JEE.

Aspiring students give lot of importance to Maths and Physics while they are preparing for IIT JEE. But, Chemistry always takes the back seat. If one takes the time spent on preparing for Maths, Physics and Chemistry. Physics and Maths would take 40% each while Chemistry has to contend with 20% of the total allotted [...]

Homeschooling Option, Tread With Caution.

Homeschooling was in past looked upon as the option exercised by conservationists who wouldn’t believe in established practiced norms about education and would believe in imparting education to their children at their own pace and beliefs. But over past decade or so the trend has caught on. More and more parents are now opting for [...]

Sharing Printer Over Internet.

Yes it is possible. With PrinterShare, you can share the printer through Internet without worrying about calling your admin or for that matter adjusting the firewalls or security permissions. PrinterShare works on cross platforms and gets installed on the machine being used to and from sending prints. There are many packages which can be used [...]

Which Online OCR Service Shall I Employ.

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. This technology is employed for converting image or PDF documents in to text with or without formatting. There are many tools which can be employed to get the desired results. But in case you are handling big documents where you would like to preserve the formatting then you should [...]