Agnivo Roy

Yes, even being a technology enthusiast, I was using a pretty outdated PC as my work desktop. Personally, I am a non believer of frequent upgrading; why scrap a thing while it servers you right? It was a Socket-A AMD Sempron 2200+ on Biostar nforce2 board based system I assembled myself in late 2003. It served me faithfully for more than 4 years working avg. 16 hours a day in this hot tropical Indian climate (yes, I don’t have AC). The mainboard failed in early August and system won’t even power on. As I need to remain online everyday due to my nature of work and profession, I needed to quickly think of some hardware, go buy and assemble them to get back to my …

2007 was the year of the highly popular Asus EEEPC (or triple-E PC as some prefer to call them) . The 3E PC from Asus is a cheap ultra-portable sub-notebook that raised eyebrows all over the world considering it’s features, performance and target audience.

The notebook received rave reviews from the top gadget reviews from all over the world and Asus plans to sell millions of units in 2008. (they sold over 350,000 units in Q4 2007!)

Those of you who aren’t aware of the Asus EEEPC, let me introduce you to the laptop.

Asus EEEPC 700/701 Specifications

CPU : Intel Mobile Celeron 453 900MHz. (underclocked by default)
RAM : 512MB DDR2667 SO-DIMM (1 slot)
HDD : 2/4/8 GB …

Almost every informed webmaster, SEO expert, online marketer and website promoter is aware of social bookmarking and its benefits to increase traffic multiple times. Social bookmarking is considered a web 2.0 promotion and marketing technique which has SEO benefits as well. Planned and carefully executed social bookmarking campaigns can increase brand awareness, readership, membership and can result in a constant source of daily traffic flow. Sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Slashdot, Propeller etc. have grown over years and are hugely popular now.

Why Exchange Social Bookmarks?

However, natural social bookmarking is slower and depends upon the mood of the social bookmarkers whether they’d make your story popular or not. Sometimes, planned social …

Hi, this is Agnivo Roy, a final year computer applications student from India asking for your help to fulfill his dreams of gifting himself an Apple Macbook Pro laptop on this 22nd. Birthday. (15th. September) Hey, I’m the guy who writes all the unique and informative articles here on this blog!

Why do I need Contributions?

Yes, I could have accumulated the money needed to buy the MBP myself over years. I’m a student myself and things don’t come easily in this part of the world. Things that are default and cheap in the developed countries are dreams in the third world countries. That doesn’t mean gadget freaks can’t lay their hands on …

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In the first week of December 2007, I decided to upgrade my current 256MB guaranteed RAM OpenVZ VPS to something stronger and consolidate a few other shared hosting accounts to a single Virtuozzo based VPS. As usual, I turned to WHT forums for handpicking some reputable providers who have good feedback, reputation and of course, some special offers running. Yes, I’m a bit overzealous about comparison shopping and VirPus Networks caught my attention.

Initial Impressions : Researching about VirPus I concluded that they are a financially stable organization and have been in business for 2 years now. …