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I am looking to get a laptop for home use. Mostly it would be used for MS Office and browsing. What's your Budget? - Can spend up to 60-70K What will be your primary usage for the notebook be? MS Office (for school going kid) General browsing Watching occasional movies What size and...

Need a few recommendations for wireless keyboard and mouse. Strictly no gaming, just casual everyday use. Full keyboard preferred and mouse should be light (my 6 yr old son would also be using it). Looking for long battery life. I will be using it from a distance of approx 4-5 feet. TIA

Mahindra is being quite active on the digital front with their new car launch XUV500. They've launched a campaign where one can guess the price of this car and win the car itself if it's the closest !! Mahindra XUV500 Click on the link on the circle which drops in the top cam feed (is it a cam...

I am sure we'd have quite a few of independent consultants amongst us who have worked on projects for US based firms/individuals. How do you guys get paid? What is the simplest and cheapest option to receive foreign remittance in India which is almost hassle free for the US client i.e. no new...

Starting today, you can now make ISD calls from your MTNL (Maharashtra Telephone Nigam Limited) landline/Garuda, phones at your local rates! You do not even have to activate the ISD service. Instead of dialing 00 for ISD you just have to dial 1300. Source: http://mumbai.mtnl.net.in/promo_isd.pdf

Can you guys recommend some Indian site (which accepts Indian credit cards in INR) which are reliable for sending rakhi to US (Chicago)?

I have a 500Gb Seagate HDD (RMA'd once - received refurbished HDD) which is in warranty until 2013. This HDD has started developed bad sectors and shows up 10 'red' blocks in HD Tune. I have quite a bit of data on it which I don't want to lose and I don't have any spare HDD to back that data...

I have a Gigabyte G31M-S2L board. My existing 7600GS has gone kaput and hence I am looking at a new card. Because of the tight budget and minimum power requirements I've finalized a Sapphire Radeon HD4350 512 Mb card. I need to know whether it'd fit on my board or does my board calls for a low...

I am running the following box (only necessary details mentioned) 1. Gigabyte G31M-S2L 2. Dell 2209WA 3. Leadtek 7600GS PCIE card 4. Intel C2D E7300 I'd connected my PCIE card to the Dell using DVI-D and it was running perfectly with the onboard VGA disabled. Yesterday when the box suddenly...

Need to know an online cake shop who can deliver in Goregaon (W). TIA

My neighbor's PC has been acting strange since a few days. This is how he described the symptoms 1. The PC just restarted while he was working on a Word document. This happened a few times in a span of 20 mins 2. The PC did not show up the mouse pointer when he started. 3. The mouse pointer...

Will try and follow the recommendation template (in a different way though) here, Printer for text printing 1. Recommendation required for - Printer 2. Budget = <5K - looking at value for money. 3. AIO or Print only = Open to both 4. Size = Compact 5. Printing requirements = Mostly B&W text -...

Can anyone recommend a good power adapter/transformer which can convert our local 230v to 120v to be used with US based devices? One of the product that I am getting has this listed in the power section, "Comes with power adapter (wall wart). Input 120V AC 60Hz Output: 6VDC 3000mA" I want...

I have a mobo having USB 2.0. Whenever I copy any data from my internal SATA HDD to external drives (pen drives, My Passport), via Teracopy, the speeds that it shows is just 3.5 MB/s. Somehow this appears too slow. I've read that practical speeds of USB 2.0 should hover around 15/20 MB/s at...

Can all cameras be used as a USB drive? The idea is to keep the camera connected to the PC, keep clicking pictures, and to be able to access the pictures as images directly from explorer. These images would then be uploaded in a custom application. Which camera supports this kind of functionality.

What is the cheapest source for 500Gb My Passport? 1. eBay - 10% coupon (max Rs. 1000) 2. TE dealers 3. Lamington road hunting Need to get this on an urgent basis Edit: The title of the thread seems to be misleading - it appears as if the thread has info about cheapest available HDD instead...

Which is the most PC-friendly camera (cheaper variety)? We need to create a software where the images captured from the camera can directly be saved to the HDD via the program so that we can give it some unique name and capture the info in a DB. Also any tips on how to do it (Access/VB.Net)...

I'll be going to Lamington road to buy the following for the first time. I know the area vaguely - the road in particular and the police station etc. 1. WD My Passport 500 Gb 2. Toslink/Toslink cable (which brand) 3. Coaxial/Coaxial digital cable (which brand) 4. Optical to Coaxial convertor...

I am into application development and am interested in keeping in tune with the new trends in web based software development, media distribution, innovating UI for web, etc. Can you guys recommend some blogs or website for the same?

Has anyone tried shopping online from Prime? Do they keep their rates updated? How is the delivery, etc? I noticed some good rates (at least for couch potatoes like me) on their site. Better than a few of our dealers.