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1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.') Ans: Normal office work, basic 3-D modelling (Solidworks)...

Hi digitians, I am planning to purchase a new mobile, budget is 18k. I want to buy from reputed brand and not go with Indian brand. My primary requirements are: Superb camera with good low light performance, good signal reception, good battery and lagless operation. Currently, I am considering...

Friends, I need a budget netbook for basic document editing and small model editing, etc. Pls suggest accordingly 1) What is your budget? (INR or USD) Around 20K, lower is better 2) What size & weight consideration (if any) would you prefer? Not larger than 12" screen. The netbook...

I have gathered a huge collection of camera recorded videos, movie DVDs, VCDs, TED videos, other ripped videos, etc in a wide array of formats. I want to convert them in a uniform format primarily for saving space. The requirements are: 1. should be common format (not some obscure or uncommon...

I earlier had Sony DSC W35 as my first camera which went bad after a nasty fall on concrete floor. So I plan to change my camera. The budget for new camera is 15K INR can exceed couple of thousands if I get a real good improvement in image quality and performance but not for unnecessary...

Hi friends, I need guide to buy a phone without camera as camera phones are not allowed in my office. I don't have any particular preference of brand but it should be reputed brand. As regard to other features, the more the better. Also, I don't have much budget limitations, currently I am...

MY ubuntu installation gone kaput. please help me. I tried to take snapshot of while using some compiz eye candy. Suddenly i got a message that /home/******/Desktop folder is not present. and the system logged off from GUI. after logging in again I found that only wallpaper is coming and...

Friends, I need a software for doing simple image editing particularly jpg / png format. Don't suggest me Gimp. Its too advanced and powerful for my requirement. I want to do some simple editing like cropping, highlighting, drawing some lines/ arrows, boxes, cricles. etc. My search has...

I am currently using Ubuntu 8.10 and everything was fine till yesterday. But today when I started my computer, it is not connecting to internet. I use Asianet cable connection through ethernet. The motherboard model is Asus P5KPL-CM. Friends, till yesterday everything was fine but today no...

Friends, I am really confused on a selecting a multimedia player which can cater to maximum number of formats without installation of any codecs / codec pack separately. I want the player to have good output video quality, should be able to play most of the formats including divx, various avi...

Friends, I am looking for a new antivirus for my home pc. As i don't have internet connection at home now, i need an antivirus whose updates can be downloaded seperately and then updated later on. The antivirus can be free or commercial. I have seen many good antivirus cannot be updated...

In our office we have recently switched to VISTA Ultimate. The Vista installed is 32 bit Ultimate Edition. Recently I upgraded my os with SP1. After installing SP1, the computer has now become slow. Any suggestion what should I do to improve the performance. Should I uninstall SP1 from the comp?

I plan to buy a new PC and my config is also finalized.Thanks to help from all you guys. Now , when purchasing I need to verify that all the component I get is what I asked for. As it is possible to check seal and cover for almost everything except for the RAM, which usually the vendors give...

Friends, based on your suggestion I finalized this configuration Intel C2D E7200 eVGA112-CK-NF77-A1 / Abit I-N73HD / Asus P5KL VM Zebronics Bijli cabby with 400 W PSU 250 GB SATA II HDD (Seagate Barracuda) 7200 rpm 1 GB DDR2 RAM 667 MHz x 2 (Transcend) Lite-on DVD RW Numeric UPS 500W...

Hi, I want to buy a cheap but good quality MP3 player. My budget is around 3k. I don't plan to buy any separate earbuds or so. So the bundled one should be atleast decent. FM radio is a must with display. Don't require video player in it. Should have good battery life. If any one from Cochin...

I need to use chat with some friends using rediff account (Rediff Bol Messenger), how can i chat with them... I also have a rediffmail ID and occasionally use Rediff Bol in Windows... Any way I can import the list of friends and chat with them using any other client in Linux... Please help me

This small tutorial, i have created from a lot of reading of references and personal experiments, since I am relatively new to Linux (especially Ubuntu where it is the default file manager), I recommend all newbies like me to read and see and explore the power of nautilus. Nautilus is a...

Last few days, I have been busy installing Ubuntu and then making it work all the things like Windows. Well thanks to help on this forum and other older threads, I have been able to connect my mobile (airtel connection) to browse net, install support for restricted multimedia format...

Today, I installed Ubuntu 6.06 and tried to browse net. I am using Airtel GPRS to browse net in Windows. After some reading here and there, I went ahead with the task and ran the command and then edited the file /etc/wvdial.conf to change the PHONE NUMBER to "*99#" USER NAME to "user"...

Recently 2 of my friends purchased AMD based machine. 1st one : Compaq 3029 Lappy running on AMD 64 turion X2 proc and 2nd one : AMD Athlon 64 3000+ AM2 socket proc with Asus M2N mobo. I tried to install 64 bit Ubuntu 6.06 on both of them but unable to do so. On Compaq lappy i am able to run...