Flipkart: The Book Store at Your Door

Flipkart is Bangalore based online retail book store where you can search books by title, author in an intuitive user interface and get it shipped to your home in a discounted price.

This is one of the biggest online bookshop in India for best prices and shopping for all kinds of rare books, discounted/cheap books, textbooks, novels and general interest books which provides free shipping on all books if total order amount is more than Rs. 100 otherwise Rs. 30 are charged as shipping charges.

Payment can be done using Debit Cards, Internet banking, Damand Draft or Cheque.

Online book store is quite competitive space with other players like Amazon, Pustak, IndiaPlaza, Landmark, FirstandSecond, Strands and InfiBeam are also in same band. But Flipkart is doing quite good here.

Go checkout some books and flip some pages at Flipkart.

Weboword : Vocabulary Visually

Weboword

Weboword is a kind of visual dictionary that primarily uses pictures to illustrate the meaning of words. Weboword creates a simple situational meaningful stick figure comic to illustrate example use of each word and also provides valuable synonyms and details about its origin.

Apart from this it also has vocabulary search engine and weekly crossword section.

You can also subscribe to its feed services so it can directly available to your feed reader or mail boxes whenever they will publish a new word.

Its the must tool for all those who likes to keep updated with their vocab knowledge and specially all MBA, GRE, SAT, CAT, GMAT, TOEFL, IELTS aspirants who likes to build their vocabulary visually.

Quillpad for Indian Languages

Quillpad is a web based online typing tool for Indian language where one can type in Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Nepali. QuillPad is created by tachyon technologies.

With Quillpad, all you need to do is type the phrase in English as you would say it in a particular language and Quillpad will do the automatic transliteration into corresponding language. Yes, this is quite comfortably supported in mobile.

Quillpad can be licensed for commercial use while it’s free for personal use.

Because English is not enough! so check out this cool Made in India product Quillpad.

Restore Show Desktop Shortcut

I accidentally lost shortcut button “Show Desktop” from Windows XP Taskbar’s Quick Launch section. I tried various probabilities and combination but couldn’t restore it. Though Windows+D command was handy but I wanted my shortcut button back. Finally after some googling got a simple solution …

Create a file with name “Show Desktop.scf” with following contents:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Drag this file to Quick Launch area and it works.

Another simple way:
click Start>Run and type this command: regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32 and done.

Amul’s Bread Butter ki Jhappi

Amul once again came up with an awesome creative poster ad with the hint of Sanjay Dutt’s jhappi offer to Mayawati in this election season.