3 Reasons why online shopping is better

Saturday, August 23, 2008 4 comments

If you are one among the millions who think that online shopping is costly compared to traditional shopping, you definitely have to read this article, and understand the truth about online shopping.

3 Reasons why online shopping is better
  1. The costs like rent for space, maintenance, wages to shopkeepers, electricity bills, water bills, tax etc. are avoided for the seller thus reducing his running cost enabling him to sell at lower profits.
  2. You need not spend your valuable time, energy and money to travel to the shop, pick up and come back. Time saved means, you can spend time for other things.
  3. Shopping websites give feedback option and ratings and good secure money payment systems to avoid getting cheated, and now its almost a 100% perfect system.
Finally you get a product spending lesser price, time and effort. Now tell me do you still want to shop the traditional way ?

Here is my experience

I wanted a 2GB Micro SD card for my E6. I inquired shops and found that it costs somewhere between Rs. 450 - Rs. 800. More over in the place where I live you have to spend majority of time in evening traffic jams. I headed over to ebay.in spent some 15 mins and got the best deal and got it at Rs. 398 along with shipping to my doorstep !!

See the screenshot below for more details











List of online shopping sites for Indians


http://www.ebay.in - my personal favorite, and a great time killer (warning !)
http://www.indiaplaza.com
http://shopping.rediff.com
http://www.homeshop18.com
http://shopping.indiatimes.com

For worldwide, especially US

www.ebay.com

www.amazon.com
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Free Java dictionary for your mobile phone


If you have a Java enabled mobile phone, installing this software is a must for anyone. Who doesn't need a dictionary ? Viren's Dictionary is a free dictionary that can be installed on any handset that supports J2ME applications.

It also has touch screen support, and its 100% free software. It might take some time to install depending on the phone, but after installing, its fast and easy to use. Below is the download link and free activation key.


Enter this information to use it
Name: free
Key: 587856

Click here for the download page

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To Format or Quick Format ?

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3 comments

Long ago I had an amazing computer hardware lecture session, at the end of which the tutor failed to answer one simple question I had asked - "What is the difference between format and quick format option ?"

Now Google has helped me find the answer to that same question. Do you want to know too? Then read on.

The difference lies in checking the disk for bad sectors which is not performed in a quick format.
But in a normal format, the majority of the time is consumed by the process of scanning bad sectors.

So perform a quick format when you are sure that your hard disk is devoid of bad sectors. Otherwise if data is written on bad sectors, you will soon suffer data loss.

Source

Now chat in Native Indian languages in Google Chat !

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3 comments


"Sometimes there's just no substitute for expressing a thought in your own language." - Google Talkabout blog.

Now add spice to your chat conversations by directly chatting in native Indian languages. Google Talk team has introduced 5 more transliteration bots just for Indian Users.

If you want to transliterate to Tamil, add en2ta.translit@bot.talk.google.com in Gmail chat or Google Talk.

List of transliteration bots

To get your messages transliterated, you can add these bots

Languages Bots*
English to Hindi en2hi.translit
English to Kannada en2kn.translit
English to Malayalam en2ml.translit
English to Tamil en2ta.translit
English to Telugu en2te.translit

* don't forget to add @bot.talk.google.com

Steps to Group Chat in Native Language

To make the chat better, you can create a group chat session. Follow the steps in your GMail chat.

  1. Add en2ta.translit@bot.talk.google.com as a friend.
  2. Next start a chat conversation by clicking on the added bot.
  3. Invite more friends and make it a group chat.

What can be improved in this ?

The only irritating thing I found was that every text is displayed twice, both in english and in native language. Instead if the Gmail chat team does something to supress the english text, it will be really cool... and not cuil :P

Hey, the native fonts don't appear properly !

If you use anything other than IE6+ or Firefox 3, the fonts won't appear properly. Check this link to solve this problem.

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Best of Techtola

Friday, August 01, 2008 1 comments

New to Tech Tola? You have landed at the right post. Here is a summary of the best posts of Tech Tola. They have been arranged into 11 categories to make sure readers find it easy to pick their choice.

And Don't forget to leave your comments with your choice of best posts !




Tech Tola Special

Have you ever searched a site to download virus samples ?

Trace the location of anonymous users on the internet

A new revolutionary 100% working way to prevent Email spam

Ways to prevent 70% Virus in your PC
New Definition of PORN !
Let your callers hear NOT REACHABLE instead of switched off the mobile

My Heritage - Check out which world celebrities resemble you !
Want all your friend's deep secrets in your inbox ?
After 30 minutes I realized I was chatting with a BOT !

Google
Do more with your google search - Tips and Tricks
Get the real top 10 songs statistics with google
I Googled for Google logos "anigot alofem" !

Firefox
Better GMail, Firefox addon to make your GMail rock !
Browser inside Browser inside Browser - Fun with Firefox

Image generators
ImageChef - One of the best cool funky generators, very good site.
Fake Magazine Cover - Your face on world famous magazines !
Animated mobile screen savers - Generate favorite animated pics with your text on it.

Timeless News
Bill Gates II from India ?
India tops the 'F' word search - I discovered

Reviews
Google Docs Vs Zoho Suite

XP tricks and tips
Things that won't want in XP and how to do them.
Forgot your XP, Vista or any windows version password ?
Hide folders in XP, a cool way to do it.

MS Office
Fun with MS Word
Create tables in Outlook without Mouse and menus

For Indians Only
Get location using first 5 digits of Indian Mobile Phone numbers
Useful SMS everyday on various topics - FREE !
(includes news, stock, cricket, jokes, health, travel, love and more..)

Jokes
Helicopter Malfunction near Microsoft

Pixellent Posts
Offices of Digg, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter

Internet was CRAP in 1996
Ambigrams - you have to know what they are !
Celebrity Twins - Check out the fake celebrity twins. Twins of Beckham, Britney, Harry potter.
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