Amazon.com announces order deadlines for 2009 holiday

Amazon.com announces order deadlines for 2009 holiday season.

Amazon has introduced these shipping enhancements just in time for the holidays. For the 2009 holiday season, the following order deadlines apply for delivery by Dec. 24:
Dec. 17: FREE Super Saver Shipping
Dec. 20: Standard Shipping
Dec. 22: Two-Day Shipping (order as late as 7 p.m. PST; varies by item; free with Amazon Prime)
Dec. 23: One-Day Shipping (order as late as 3:30 p.m. PST; varies by item; just $3.99 per item with Amazon Prime)
Dec. 24: Same-Day Shipping (order as late as 1 p.m. PST; varies by item; just $5.99 per item with Amazon Prime


source: Amazon Investor Relations

Hottest product that ships internationally on Amazon:

experts exchange hack

Technical questions(for computers) searched on google usually point to experts-exchange.com (i would give a 50-50 chance for this site to appear in the top 10 links when searched via Google) is a site which has the experts who exchange solutions, which requires registration which is not necessarily cheap.

So, how would you view the solution ? Solution is as simple as seeing it from Google.

You use the Google’s cache. Using Google’s cache illegal ? No, of course not, its been provided by Google for free. Experts-exchange is identifying Google bot when requested for a webpage content and responding with the actual data that is not shown to a normal user unless registered. You might need to scroll down to the end of the huge categories section to find the actual solution in experts-exchange. Pretty cool ha !

If you want to view a cached page that is present with Google, simple use “cache:http://blog.sair.am/” in Google Search

Happy Hacking !

Airtel to support Twitter via SMS (India)

You can now SMS tweet from your airtel mobile.

http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/hello-bharti-airtel.html

Follow me @sairam and at FF @sairam

a dumb but a clever hack for .co.cc and Weebly

Maintaining four individual domains having similar content is a little pain.

So, I decided to scrape off the cc domain sairam.co.cc(which I bought for $3) after an year and so, planned to redirect it to a constructed website on Weebly.

But, there is a little problem with the way you redirect from one url to another at http://www.co.cc , You cannot redirect a .co.cc domain to another .co.cc domain which could be used by spammers. But the flaw in the concept was one could redirect links via other links. The one that is free, short, customizable, famous is a URL shortener. So I cooked up a tinyurl link for my site and got it running.

Also, checked using http://www.url.sc/ – A free anonymous proxy (since DNS usually takes few hours to get updated).

So, what’s new about sairamkunala.co.cc ?
I am making another homepage for me on a neat, good looking, customizable interaface (so customizable that you can also add javascript into it), add analytics, add links, adsense,flickr widgets etc. for free on Weebly. The Interface provided by Webbly is very intuitive and neat.

The positive points about the site

• Intuitive Interface
• Loads of templates
• Customizable themes
• Free Subdomain
• Link to a domain through A DNS record
• Pro membership
• Cheap Hosting

Negative points:

• Cannot add custom widgets
• Cannot have more than one domain pointing to the same weebly site

Kindle drops its price to $259 and its available in India

And the good part, its available to more than 100 countries for $279 including India. yay!

Oops ! forgot the custom duty !!

Looks like there is a ton of competition over the ebook reader and tablets. Waiting for the Apple Tablet (releasing in Jan 2010 according to rumors)

Image used from http://designplanning.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/macbook_tablet1.jpg

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Computer Peripherals in Kondapur

I had a little problem handling several USB devices with only 4 ports on my desktop and 2 ports on my laptop. I felt its time for me to buy a USB 2.0 Hub.

1. USB 2.0 Hub (Zebtronics) : Rs.150/- . Did not find anything cheaper than Rs.300/-  in ebay.in for USB 2.0, but found a lot within Rs.100/- for USB 1.1 which is closer to 4.8Mbps speed.
2. Male to Female  USB A Type (USB Extender): Rs. 100/-
3. IDE Y Connector : Rs. 20/- . Found nothing less than Rs.60/- + shipping in ebay.
4. IDE to SATA Power Convertor: Rs. 10/- . Same as above. damn! sellers on ebay are really exploiting people

Shop Details:
Shiv Shakti Electronics
Branch Office: Shop No. 2-41A/1/1, Kothaguda,
Opp. Haveli Bar & Restaurant, Kondapur to Hafeezpet Raod, R.R. Dist.
Phone: (040) 64577642, 9966957874, 9985669880
Website: www.shivshaktielectronics.com

Helpful for those living near Madhapur, Kondapur, Gachibowli in Hyderabad city.

a new tripod for my dsc t-70

Image © Ebay

I was searching for a mini tripod for my camera from the past couple of months. IIIrd Eye in Ashoka Metropolitan mall (Hyderabad) had few mini tripods which were not for sale. I googled them up but ended up in an U.S. site which was a little of 20 USD. After few weeks of searching on the roads, I decided to try my luck on ebay. And, it ended up as my savior.

A mini tripod was on sale for INR 205 (close to USD 4) and free shipping (voila) at omaxphotographics at Ebay.in. And now, I can place my 2nd order at ebay.

Weekend’s Rummyfied

Q) What did you do on the Saturday ?
Ans) Played Rummy

Q) What about Sunday ?
Ans) More Rummy

Q) Anything else ?
Ans) Bought myself a fresh pack of UNO cards at Crossword,City Center and a wrist watch made by Cartier at a custom notified shop named “Richie Rich” at Road No.12 Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.

And, that’s the summary on how I screw up yet another weekend.