local resources in India
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Linux User Group at IIT Delhi
http://www.lug-iitd.org/Main_Page
An unofficial student-driven GNU/Linux User Community at IIT Delhi.
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Nehru Place IT Hub
http://www.npithub.com
Website for Nehru Place in Delhi.
Search shops, products, prices
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Tibetan Software/Computer Services
http://www.tibetsites.com/Tibetan_Software.htm
Links to websites by and about Tibetan IT,
at TibetSites.Com, archive of websites on Tibet
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Tibetan Technology Center
http://www.tibtec.org
“Dedicated to harness modern technology for helping
the Tibetan community in India.”
Our own Geek Center in Dharamshala!
books
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Apress.Com
http://www.apress.com/
"Books for professionals, by professionals"
Online technical bookshop. Download eBooks.
From the US.
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Shroff Publishers
http://www.shroffpublishers.com
All the great up-to-date technical books:
O'Reilly, etc. at nice Indian prices.
“The books published by O'Reilly are considered the
most technically proficient written manuals in the
world of international publishing.”
The office in Delhi is on Ansari Road, Darya Ganj,
in basement of Oxford Bookshop.
They have all the good books, and will let you browse
and buy what you want.
Their website search doesn't work very well —
just go to google and search from there, works great.
books online
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eBook Share
http://www.ebookshare.net
A site of free books, that really has books!
Uses torrent for downloading.
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Safari Bookshelf
http://safari.oreilly.com
Access to 10 technical books for USD 15/month.
All the latest books as soon as they come out,
as well as old books.
Searchable, change books, it's really good.
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Wikibooks
http://www.wikibooks.org
" ... was started on July 10, 2003 with the mission to create
a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit.
Since our founding, volunteers have written about 25,912 modules
in a multitude of textbooks."
Multiple languages.
buying
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Nehru Place IT Hub
http://www.npithub.com
Website for Nehru Place in Delhi.
Search shops, products, prices
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Tech2.Com
http://www.tech2.com
"India's technology guide" Hardware news and reviews,
some internet and software news, forums, ...
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Techtree.Com
http://www.techtree.com
"Making buying easy" — Reviews, classifieds, downloads, forums.
discussion
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Amit Agarwal
http://labnol.blogspot.com
“Digital Inspiration — Web 2.0, Software Reviews,
Productivity Tips, Technology, Getting Things Done, Screencasting,
Downloads, Interesting Pictures, India”
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Rajesh Jain Blog
http://www.emergic.org
Rajesh Jain's Weblog on Emerging Technologies,
Enterprises and Markets. Computing in the developing world,
focus on India.
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TibetSearch Forum — Computer Troubleshooting
http://tibet.tibetsearch.com//index.php?bn=tibetsearch_computer
Announcements and howtos on many computer subjects.
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Wired
http://www.wired.com
The magazine about IT culture.
general
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Ask Dave Taylor
http://www.askdavetaylor.com
Questions and answers about all kinds of things
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BBC World Click
http://www.bbcworld.com/click/
News and comment about IT in the world today
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FOLDOC — Free Online Dictionary of Computing
http://foldoc.org
A venerable and famous resource of computer info
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Geek.Com
http://www.geek.com
“Geek.com was created to fill a gaping hole on the 'Net
— a place that Geeks could call home,
and where those who aspire to be Geeks can get their feet wet!
Get ready to enjoy the Online Technology Resource for Geeks
— written by Geeks for Geeks.”
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GeeksToGo.Com — Tech Support Forums
http://www.geekstogo.com
"Free Computer Help. Need a tech expert? You've come to the right place!
With over two hundred thousands members,
Geeks To Go Tech Support Forums have hundreds of technology experts
that donate time to answer your computing questions.
Member helping member. Fast, friendly and free!"
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GuruJi Search
http://www.guruji.com
"The Indian search engine"
"India's first crawler technology based search engine focusing
exclusively on the needs of the Indian searcher. ... our crawlers
(our smart programs) crawl the web to find high quality
Indian content, ..."
City-specific search as well as India search.
And friendly too.
WebWalker.to and TibetanGeeks.com are indexed there!
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How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com
Explanations about things in most of the categories
of the physical world. Including, of course,
computer:
Hardware, Internet, Peripherals, Security, Software
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HowTo Forge
http://www.howtoforge.com
http://www.howtoforge.com/forum
A repository of how-tos
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Lifehacker.Com
http://www.lifehacker.com
“Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites
that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.”
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Steve Bass's Tips and Tweaks
http://www.pcworld.com/columnist/id,43/columnist.html
Great info about everything computer.
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Taragana Blog
http://blog.taragana.com/
Blog of interesting tech news by Angsuman Chakraborty.
Useful
how-tos,
inspiring
"about us"
page with interesting quotes,
much more.
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Tibetan Software/Computer Services
http://www.tibetsites.com/Tibetan_Software.htm
Links to websites by and about Tibetan IT,
at TibetSites.Com, archive of websites on Tibet
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Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org
Good clear information about everything IT —
and everything else too
hacking
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Hacktivismo
http://www.hacktivismo.com
Hacking activism —
using IT for human rights and democracy around the world.
linux/unix
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Linux User Group at IIT Delhi
http://www.lug-iitd.org/Main_Page
An unofficial student-driven GNU/Linux User Community at IIT Delhi.
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Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com
Server-grade linux distributions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and
Fedora Core (FC)
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Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.org
A linux distribution that specializes in a
beautiful graphical interface, developed to
be a complete replacement for MSWindows.
network
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Air Jaldi
http://www.airjaldi.com
“Empowering communities through wireless networks”
Home of the
AirJaldi Summit 2006,
Dharamsala, India, October 22-25
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Tibetan Technology Center
http://www.tibtec.org
“Dedicated to harness modern technology for helping
the Tibetan community in India.”
Our own Geek Center in Dharamshala!
programming
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PHP.Net
http://www.php.net
The home of the PHP web programming language.
web development
video tutorials
add resources info
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