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Camera Life - Web Site Design Template

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Came across Camera Life's - "Help wanted" post in sf.net. The project is looking for a simple website template. So I decided to contribute a design to them. Below you can find the existing site and my suggested site design. Current design: New Suggestion : Click above to Zoom Looks better huh? ;-) - Rajesh Sundaram

Line Art - Porsche Cayenne

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Me getting more obsessed with Line art using photohop ! :-D here is my favorite SUV.. the Porsche Cayenne ! Click the above image to get the hi-resolution JPG. - Rajesh Sundaram

Volkswagen - Scirocco Car - Line Art

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First attempt to trace a hand-drawn line art over the VW Scirocco. Click below to open the full resolution JPEG. - Rajesh Sundaram

Just Dial - Business Plans and Tips

Just Dial - Business Plans and Tips Just Dial.com - a classifieds website and business contacts phone service offers two plans to enlist your business info into their database. 1. Business Listing for One Year 2. Business Listing and Promotion on Cost-Per-Enquiry The Time-bound Plan 1 doesn't have any guarantee that there will be good leads generated. The Cost-Per-Enquiry model guarantees qualified leads every month. This plan operates similar to google adwords. You need to bid for every enquiry. So if a business owner Mr.A agrees to bid Rs.X and if Rs.X is higher, then he will receive the highest priority. Likewise businesses can bid for each enquiry. On the whole this is pretty much similar to Google Adwords, except that instead of clicks, you bid for enquiries. The cost involved: The Plan 1 - Business Listing for one year.., costs around Rs.15,000 The Plan 2 - Cost Per Enquiry... costs around Rs.50 per enquiry. And they ask you to bid higher to receive more calls. And yes, thi...

Arctic Cool PL2 - 80mm Blue fan

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It was a long time since I did any cosmetic changes to my home pc. Couple of days back, in eBay.in, I came across a 80mm cabinet fan from a company called Arctic Cool. It was a transparent body with blue lighting. And it costs Rs.250 (USD 6.00 appx) . I ordered one and received it yesterday. Today was the action day and I installed the fan replacing the old black stock fan in the front port. After the connection, I switched on.. and boy ! oooooooohhhhh... that was lovely. I never knew blue fans are damn cool. Kudos to Arctic Cool. :-) My dull system now looks sexy ! That fan is from Arctic Cool which is in Switzerland. But still the manufacturing is in China. At frist I thought Arctic Cool was a taiwan company. No it is not. The susrprising thing is they got a patent for that fan. Donno if that patent is for technology or design? Anyhow the fan works cool and totally worth every penny of it. Did I forgot to mention that it has a speed controller that lets the fan to spin from 1200 to...

Google Adwords - The "What is it?" Guide for beginners

Google Adwords - is a paid online advertisement and management service from Google. It works as a marketing campaign tool that helps one to create Text/Image/Mobile ads and show those ads when someone searches for a "specific word/phrase" in google. The probability that Google will show the ads depends on how much you bid for a particular keyword. Getting into Google Adwords is quite easy. Adwords has one of the best UI design among todays web services. Starting from signup. Every common doubts and questions are answered right on the screen in the form of Help snippets. One doesn't need to find a help doc or search the google again. Their concept is like a Campaign can contain multiple Ads (google calls the advertisements as ad groups). For example, Nokia N-Series can be a campaign name which contains advertisements targeting N-Series phones. Now in the Nokia N-Series campaign, the campaign manager can create a series of ads viz. "Nokia N71", "Nokia N82...

shaadi.com - bad customer service experience

It may be more than a month since I logged into shaadi.com. And today when I logged in, I got shocked to see that my profile has been discontinued. The reason? I don't know. But their alert page says : Dear Rajesh Sundaram Your membership on Shaadi.com has been discontinued due to one or more of the following reasons: * You requested that the profile be deleted. * The contents of your profile were found highly unlikely to be true. * We received numerous complaints from other members regarding your conduct. * You have used Shaadi.com for commercial purposes. * You have violated the service agreement accepted by you when you became a member at Shaadi.com. You can read the agreement here. If you have any concerns, questions or objections, feel free to contact us. Regards, Shaadi.com Customer Relations I never received any notification email stating that my profile has been discontinued. Well, what they gonna lose if they send a small notification email prior to discontinuing a profile...