{Updated Deals}* Amazon launches Diwali Dhamaka Week get amazing discounts now

With Diwali around the corner, all the online shopping portals want to grab their bite from this festival season sales. All the major ecommerce stores are giving heavy discounts to attract customers.  Recently Flipkart made a buzz with BigBillionDay Sale, a one day special sale, which had took a bad turn leaving customer angry, due to its poor website performance and some price rigging complaints.

Starting today Amazon launched its DiwaliDhamaka offers, with new deals daily for the next week till October 16.  Amazon started pitching this sale for a week now, it’s time for us to wait and see how this anticipated sale turn out to be.

In addition to the massive discounts by Amazon HDFC Debit and Credit card users can receive 10% Cash back (no minimum purchase require) of maximum Rs. 2500. This Offer is valid till 15th Oct 2014

Make this Diwali more memorable with amazing shopping indulgences and huge offers. Avail big discounts on your favourite accessories, apparels, utensils and electronics and every other article from the biggest online shopping dhamaka site Amazon.in with amazing Amazon Diwali Offers. Here are few deals to make sure that your shopping is enjoyable and also auspicious this year, avail Amazon India Diwali Offers 2014.

Click here to visit the offers page, coupons will be applied automatically. 

According to a recent study by Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry ofIndia(ASSOCHAM), “Online shopping may increase by 350% during Diwali as against the jump of 200% in August-September as a result shopping malls have started feeling jittery as the footfalls in malls is likely to go down by 50-55%

During Diwali, Online shopping estimated to cross Rs. 10,000 crore. The online retailing to see the biggest flip ever in the history, going forward this trend will not only continue but it will grow by leaps and bounds. “At present the market is estimated at Rs. 12,000 crore and could cross Rs. 1,00,000 cr. a year in India over the next three to four years”

Google's new April Fools' Pranks

Last year, Google pranked all of us by introducing a new feature called Gmail Motion that would let users type emails by using gestures. The Institute of Creative Technologies later brought the concept to life.

Here are the Google new pranks:

Google Fiber

Gmail Tap:

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Get Noticed with these unique (E-Commerce) Gifts

Firstly, I wish you a very-very happy and prosperous NEW YEAR 2012 in advance. With the new year fast approaching I remember those old school days, I exchanged greeting cards and gifts with my friends. Now a days with the increasing E-commerce trend sending gifts to your loving ones is just single click away. Here are few Online stores that may help you with some new unique gifting Ideas this new year 2012.

Get Noticed with these unique (E-Commerce) Gifts this New Year:

Flipkart.com: The Online Mega Store of India, offers you to buy/gift items from its widest categories of Books, DVDs, Games, Cameras, MP3 players, Mobiles and Computers. It recently added Pens and Year diaries to its list. You can also send e-Gift vouchers up to Rs 10000/-.

Coming to payment methods Flipkart accepts Debit/credit/net banking they had at-least 4 different Payment Gateways integrated. They introduced Cash-on-Delivery. Then they are also doing order on phone. Payment via DD/Cheque is also accepted. Flipkart provides free delivery on all items if your total order amount is more than Rs. 200/-. Otherwise Rs. 30/- is charged as delivery charges. It also has a 30 day replacement guarantee on its products with any defects or problems. With the help of the Customer Care you can choose (negotiate) when(date) your Gift/Item should be delivered.

Similar sites: Infibeam, Ncarry.com

Zoomin.com: Though the whole world is moving towards digitization with eBooks and e-transactions the experience of passing time some printed family photo albums is more better than watching them on a screen. Zoomin.com India's top Photo printing websites, offers you to make customized T Shirts, mugs, Laptop skins, Flip books, calenders, posters, frames and many morewith your photos.

The website interface is clean, and you can make the payment after customizing your product with adding text, backgrounds, layouts, re-sizing the images Zoomin.com offers doorstep delivery all over India also with a option of speed delivery. Shipping charges apply. The print quality of Zoomin is exceptional, if you have some cool shots of your friend/family member you should try gifting them with these prints(memories) this year sharing your best moments. Zoomin also gives a free flipbook for it's first time users. For more discounts and coupon follow them on their Facebook fan page.

Similar sites: snapfish.com by HP and printbindaas.com

Villcart.com: presents a range of handicrafts, handlooms and cottage industry products made in the villages across India that you can buy for yourself /gift someone. The Vision of this is to  enable village folks achieve sustainable livelihoods by providing marketing support for their produce.

They provide a wide range of product categories like Personal utility (bangles, ear rings, key chains, hair clips), stationery (diary, pen stand, visiting card holder, folders), kitchen items (vegetable and fruit basket, tea set, coffee mugs, trays), fabrics (khadi shirts, stoles, dupattas), home furnishing (curtains, cushion covers, bed sheets). Free shipping in India for over Rs 200/- purchase. It also has a return/exchange policy for damaged goods.

Best place to gift for people interested in handicrafts.

NurturingGreen.com: A new online store that promotes gifting varieties of plants to your friends. Gifting a plant to your loved one simply reiterates your concern and care for the person and promotes a message of life and an everlasting relationship.

 The site also provides different options of sorting based on the occasion, plant type, price etc.These plants come in a jute pot which are easy to maintain and they also support welfare of the rural women.

The plants cost varies form Rs 100 to Rs 125,000, Costliest one being 80 year old bonsai from China. Shipping charges apply. Best gift for green enthusiasts.

Once again Happy New Year 2012 in advance,

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Aakash is sold out..!

Kapil Sibal's made in India low cost tablet, Aakash is sold out for now. The company thanks the users for their overwhelming response and also quotes that Currently Aakash is SOLD OUT with tweet (@aakashdatawind) today.

The much anticipated world’s ultra low cost Tablet PC, Aakash tablet was made available for sale online on this Dec 12th. Datawind, the developers of Aakash has put up for sale about 30,000 tablets on the internet at the cost of Rs 2500 each. The fact that within 6 days all the 30,000 pieces being sold out shows how eager people are to get the tablet into their hands.

Definitely there is no other touch pad computing device or tablet available close to the price of Aakash. The company is also gonna launch an Upgarded version of Aakash, Ubislate-7+ this January  loaded with great features at an excellent price of Rs. 3000 only. Along with the functionality of a mobile phone, 700MHz processor (three times that of the original tablet), a battery of 3200 maH (lasts for up to 5 hours). It comes with a headphone/mic plus integrated speaker.

You can pre-book the commercial version Ubislate-7+ here.

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Best Timeline Cover Photos

As Facebook made it's new kind of profile, Timeline available everywhere from today. And one of the best features of this timeline is adding a cover photo. It is good that you take your own time in making the cover photo such that it represents you the best because it's the first thing people see when they visit your timeline. Below are few creative cover photos the web. Have a look at them and leave your comments.

 

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Get Free .in domain for your Business

Ever wanted to run your business, online? Here it is, you can get a free .in domain, free email address and also you can host your website free for one whole year.

Google India in association with ICICI Bank, Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises and Hostgator launched a new program Get India Online where they make small and personal business get online with just 3 easy steps. It also provides you with free tools and resources to run your site along with free .in domain and email address.

The 3 easy steps include:

• Choosing a domain name for your business
• Filling a form with your business information
• Choosing a professionally designed template customized to your business and publish

Google India has also made it mandatory for businesses to enter their Permanent Account Number (PAN) or Tax Deduction Account Number (TAN) at the time of registration. Since these numbers are unique for every individual / business, you can’t avail it more than once. Also Google uses it for the validation of your resident status in India.

To give you an idea of what can happen visit the success stories of Khosla Printers and Vijashivi International.  After your first 12 months you'll have the option to renew your services with HostGator at a discounted fee. For more queries click here.

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Get Secured and Better Facebook

Starting with some recent news update…“Facebook held its f8 developers conference on Thursday where it unveiled the new Timeline layout for user pages. The new Timelines replace the familiar concept of Wall and Profile; Facebook won't use those terms going forward. You can opt out of the new layout for now, but Facebook will eventually force you to switch to the new version simply because it will be unable to manage both. Facebook said on Thursday that the rollout of timelines will be very gradual."

Today I would like to introduce you two new things that make your Facebook better.

MyPageKeeper.org:  Researchers from University of California and security experts from StopTheHacker.com have joined forces to provide this as a service. Hackers, malicious individuals and even Facebook friends can unknowingly post malicious content on your wall, like “Click here to find who deleted you”, “Facebook shirts” etc…Visitors to your wall may get infected with viruses, may get scammed by phishing campaigns.

Using MyPageKeeper puts you in charge of what content can be allowed on your wall and news feed. You have the power to protect your friends visiting your profile from getting infected with malware. MyPageKeeper scans and monitors all content posted on your wall and news feed to protect your online persona on Facebook.

Also it’s easy to use and as many on the web it’s completely free. Once you visit the site you just need to allow it read your wall, personal info…that’s it. You are done and secured. Use the Settings tab at the top right corner to change your notification settings.

BetterFacebook.net: Better Facebook developed by Matt Kruse is a free browser extension that improves the Facebook site by adding lots of great enhancements and functionality. It has over 75 individual options which control many features of Facebook! Some of them are:

• Themes: Lets you customize your Facebook experience by changing the colors, layout, styles, and images used. Tired of the boring blue and white Facebook? Personalize it!
• Hide Posts You've Already Read: Better Facebook gives you the ability to mark posts as "read" - either individually or everything on the page - and they will be hidden next time you visit! Only new stories will be shown by default.
• Highlight New Comments: If a post you have marked as "read" has new comments, Better Facebook will automatically detect this, and (optionally) make the post visible again so you can see the new comments. You can even mute the post so new comments don't appear anymore
• Character Counter In Status Updates: Facebook allows 420 characters in your status updates, but it doesn't tell you that you've gone over the limit until after you try to publish it. Better Facebook adds a character counter to the status update box so you always know how many characters you've typed.

To know more click here. This browser extension runs in most browsers and installs in just a minute. Once if the extension is installed you need to go and login into Facebook, it’s that simple.


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