Sometimes, the thinking that has got us so far is inadequate to handle the problems of the place our thinking has got us to!
— Albert Einstein

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books

  • Apress.Com http://www.apress.com/ "Books for professionals, by professionals"
    Online technical bookshop. Download eBooks.
    From the US.
  • 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

  • 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 if you can afford it.
  • 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

  • Nehru Place IT Hub http://www.npithub.com Website for Nehru Place in Delhi. Search shops, products, prices
  • Tech2.Com http://www.tech2.com "India's technology guide" Hardware news and reviews, some internet and software news, forums, ...
  • Techtree.Com http://www.techtree.com "Making buying easy" — Reviews, classifieds, downloads, forums.

discussion

  • Amit Agarwal http://labnol.blogspot.com “Digital Inspiration — Web 2.0, Software Reviews, Productivity Tips, Technology, Getting Things Done, Screencasting, Downloads, Interesting Pictures, India”
  • 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.
  • TibetSearch Forum — Computer Troubleshooting http://tibet.tibetsearch.com//index.php?bn=tibetsearch_computer Announcements and howtos on many computer subjects.
  • Wired http://www.wired.com The magazine about IT culture.

general

  • Ask Dave Taylor http://www.askdavetaylor.com Questions and answers about all kinds of things
  • BBC World Click http://www.bbcworld.com/click/ News and comment about IT in the world today
  • Dawa at Men-Tsee-Khang http://dawa.men-tsee-khang.org Useful technical info especially for Tibetans
  • FOLDOC — Free Online Dictionary of Computing http://foldoc.org A venerable and famous resource of computer info
  • 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.”
  • 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!"
  • 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!
  • 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
  • HowTo Forge http://www.howtoforge.com http://www.howtoforge.com/forum A repository of how-tos
  • 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.”
  • Steve Bass's Tips and Tweaks http://www.pcworld.com/columnist/id,43/columnist.html Great info about everything computer.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org Good clear information about everything IT — and everything else too

hacking

  • Hacktivismo http://www.hacktivismo.com Hacking activism — using IT for human rights and democracy around the world.

media

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linux/unix

  • Red Hat http://www.redhat.com Server-grade linux distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Fedora Core (FC)
  • Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.org A linux distribution that specializes in a beautiful graphical interface, developed to be a complete replacement for MSWindows.

network

  • Air Jaldi http://www.airjaldi.com “Empowering communities through wireless networks”
    Home of the AirJaldi Summit 2006, Dharamsala, India, October 22-25
  • Tibetan Technology Center http://www.tibtec.org “Dedicated to harness modern technology for helping the Tibetan community in India.”
    Our own Geek Center in Dharamsala!

programming

  • PHP.Net http://www.php.net The home of the PHP web programming language.

web development

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