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Notice: after planning it for years, I moved this blog out of blogger/blogspot (which google has abandoned long ago) to wordpress on a fine evening in Dec 2024. This notice will stay here to warn that things might be broken. Let me know if you find anything.

  • Get free e-books especially pdf format

    There are many websites out there offering free e-books. Many give pdf versions whereas others provide html ones. There are a wide variety of books from editable wikibooks to pirated books too.
    (To know more about wikibooks, click here)

    It is very difficult to stick with one website and be adamant to get every book you need from the same. Websites prominent in English literature may not have a single piece on Indian History. Such difficulties cannot be eliminated.

    Though google books is an excellent resource, when it comes to latest copyrighted materials, you will have to disappoint your heart. Therefore, I am putting in a few websites which will fetch you what you want.

    When searching use phrases like “e-book”, “ebook”,”free download”, “download”,etc.

    Best of luck for your purpose.

  • The working method for time management

    Everyone craves for time. But, time does not give away itself to everyone. It chooses only those well-planning, efficient schedulers only to give its blessing. What differentiate time less men from men having surplus time?

    It is the method of time management that does the trick. Most people know what things they need to do for their life and what things are to be avoided. They also know for sure that they should devote more time to urgent and necessary things.

    But what some of them doesn’t know is how to do these AT THE RIGHT TIME.

    To get time to do everything – allocate time for everything and spend only the allocated time on each matter.

    On deciding how much time to spend on a thing use the criteria of priority.

    For example – I am a student and I have to learn. But I love blogging too. If I start blogging without setting a time frame I will go on doing it and my learning would be in trouble. So I set limits. I allotted 15 minutes for this post.
    And in practice, I started typing at 9:00 PM today and at 9:15 I will stop (1 minute more)

    You needn’t make a time table for a whole day. But you should be careful to get time for all important things. Decide how long you will be doing the next task.
    Do it.
    Finish it in time.
    Stop it.

  • Searching for confidence? Here it is

    A lot of people are confident about themselves. But lot more are not. There are also a lot who lost their confidence half way into their lives. For all of those who wants to gain confidence, and tons and tons of it, here is an excellent blog that I found.

    Steve Errey’s
    The Confidence Guy
    Wired into Truly Confident Living

    (All the three lines link to the same site – it is just the name that is on three lines)

    Similar posts: Best blogs, Best Educational sites

  • The Grid – Internet of the future.

    I’m giving links to two news-pieces.

    Both of them are about the Grid – very high speed internet that will surprise you by its speed. Almost 10,000 times faster than what we use now.

    But this astonishing thing was made in order to make available, the vast amount of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider, world wide. So, even if the experiment fails, it has caused something great.

    Click here to read about it
    Click here to read the CERN’s role in it.

  • The Large Hadron Collider

    Did you know that the Large Hadron Collider is not just an experiment, but a landmark in human history?

    If you didn’t you SHOULD visit the website of European Organization for Nuclear research and know what the LHC is.

  • It’s only Federer

    Roger Federer 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 Andy Murray. 5th consecutive US Open. 13th grand slam. Truly, the greatest ever tennis player. It’s Roger Federer.

    Now for those who said his touch is gone, here is the hot reply. Watch the US Open final once again and you will know why the US Open is probably the toughest tournament (for the opponents). And Rafael Nadal was nowhere to be seen.

    Federer walked away with his 1.5 million dollar cash money and a brand new lexus just now from the Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York. Andy Murray who defeated Rafa in the semi final got a million dollar too.

    But the real beauty was in the way Roger played and seeing that no one can deny that… he… is… still… the… greatest

  • US Open Semi-final result

    In the earlier semi-final which featured Roger Federer the defending champion against the Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, Federer had secured an easy win. (6-3,5-7,7-5,6-2).

    But the attraction of the year – Rafael Nadal lost to Andy Murray in the other semi (2-6,6-7,6-4,4-6)

  • A very short definition of the whole world

    A joke that makes you think. I got from the blog funhike.blogspot.com

    Worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was:
    “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”

    The survey was a huge failure, In Africa they didn’t know what ‘food’ meant, In India they didn’t know what ‘honest’ meant, In Europe they didn’t know what ‘shortage’ meant, In China they didn’t know what ‘opinion’ meant, In the Middle East they didn’t know what ‘solution’ meant, In South America they didn’t know what ‘please’ meant, And in the USA they didn’t know what ‘the rest of the world’ meant!

  • Some cool and light softwares

    Those of you who frequently get stuck due to memory requirements are surely in need of softwares like these to find a way out.

    Cool PDF Reader : The world’s smallest PDF viewer/reader to view, print, and convert PDF files to TXT, BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF, EPS. It is only 626KB for download and doesn’t need lengthy installation, just download and run. Freeware!

  • Best Orkut threads

    Here is a list of the best threads or topics in orkut which I get from various communities. As they usually get updated do visit again and again.

    Language development :
    1. Hindi :
      Community : India, Topic : IC-370 Hindi school
    2. English :
    Jokes :
    1. Community : India, Topic : Joke corner ** UNOFFICIAL **