All Information about Civil Services in India

This site is a complete information portal that provides, list of tools and resources for the prepration for the Civil Service exams conducted by the UPSC India. It says that its advisors list consists of IAS, IFS, IPS and various other officers within India's top civil services.

Information at a Glance :-

• About Civil Services
• IAS Preparation Tips and Subject Resources
  
• UPSC Exam Syllabus, Stratergy Tips, Question Papers
• Information on IAS books, coaching centers, study groups
• Current Affairs
• Miscellaneous for UPSC
• Free UPSC Study Material
• etc.

A must visit site for anyone wanting/preparing for civil services in India.....All The Best
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50states.com : All information about United States of America

This is an excellent information portal about all the states of U.S.A. This site has covered all the depth and crucial informations. There is a seperate link for each State, Commonwealths & Territories.

Informations covered at a glance :-

• State abbreviation and capital city name
• State maps, tax forms, climate, profile
• Economy, Population, Media, Ancestry and Genealogy
  
• Location & City Guides, Museums, State parks
  
• Area Codes, Zip Codes, Local Resources
  
• Schools, Colleges, Business Schools Directory
• Real Estate, Hospitals, Internet Service providers
• Fast Facts & trivia, Current Events
• etc.

A must visit site, if you want to know United States of America better...
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Good News Folks : NCERT Textbooks online for free download

Here it goes....Good news for all the student......

Although, NCERT books are not expensive enough, but still, now there is no need to buy them from the market.

In order to impart quality & updated education and to reduce the pressure on the students, NCERT has made its textbooks, for Class 1st to Class 12th, available on its website for free download.

For the list of NCERT Textbooks Classes I to XII Click Here

And to download them free Click Here

Select Class, Subject, Book Title and that's it, you will get the pdf link of your book, in which links for each chapter is given, click them to read or download.

So Happy Learning ....... get good marks and have a great future ahead, ALL THE BEST
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Good Informative sites about CPUs, Microprocessors, Motherboards, Chips etc.

Here are the list of sites that discuss different CPUs, Processors / Microprocessors, Motherboards, Chips in detail. Their pin diagram, datasheet, architecture, internal circuits, functionality, technical details, characteristics etc.

cpu-world.com : rare microprocessors, co-processors and microcontrollers; microprocessor architectures, socket and core names pages; CPU/MCU families, pinouts pages, support chips, benchmarks, odd looking chips; Online tool - Identify chip by part number; BSP · CPU · FPU · MCU · SoC · Other ICs and lots of other information.



gecko54000.free.fr : virtual CPU museum, the Gecko's CPU Library; Collection is grouped by manufacturer and then by family; large CPU and FPU collection; documentation, ressources, packages, sockets sections; till now 3113 images in 784 albums.



antiquetech.com : vintage chips that is difficult to find; some of the most discussed old chips : Intel 4004, MOS 6502, Motorola 6800, RCA 1802, Rockwell PPS-4, NEC uPD751, National Semiconductor IMP-00A.




Microprocessor Report has been the leading technical publication for the microprocessor industry since it was first introduced by Michael Slater in 1987. Microprocessor Report is exclusively subscriber-supported and dedicated to providing unbiased, in-depth, and critical analysis of new high-performance microprocessor developments. The newsletter covers the microprocessor implications of emerging platforms, emerging personal computer technologies, new memory and system logic chips, mobile computing devices, embedded processors, DSP technology, and intellectual property issues.




cpushack.com : Microprocessor Museum of CPU History for Intel CPUs, AMD Processor History, Cyrix Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and more. Till date : Total CPU's: 2228, Total manufacturers represented: 104, Total EPROM's:560

AVG Antivirus Free Edition for Home Users

AVG Antivirus Free Edition is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements).

Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free virus database updates for the lifetime of the product; and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files. Version 7.5 includes improved virus detection based on better heuristics and NTFS data stream scanning, smaller installation and update files, and an improved user interface. The newest version is also compatible with Windows Vista.

click on logo to download it ......
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OpenOffice.org : Excellent and free alternative to Ms Office

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.


OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community.

OpenOffice is a free, Open Source alternative to MS Office with a Word compatible word processor, a complete Excel compatible spread sheet program and a Power Point like presentation software and drawing program and also allows to save to PDF file.

Click on image above to download it.......
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oRipa Screen Recorder : Record your windows desktop activities

oRipa Screen Recorder is a handy tool to record your Windows desktop activities in real time and save it as a video file. oRipa Screen Recorder also captures anything you can hear on your PC, such as, music and talking through the PC's microphone.

oRipa Screen Recorder is great for making all kinds of movies, including:
1. Make software, Web site and product introduction demos and tutorials.
2. Real time record audio narration to your captured videos.
3. Turn PowerPoint presentations into movies.
4. Enhance your online help documentation.

oRipa Screen Recorder is absolutely a free software and click on image above to download it.

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Free Screen Recorder : Record your all desktop screen activities

Free Screen Recorder is an easy-to-use screen recording program to capture screen activities and sounds to standard AVI video file. If you move the cursor, launch a program, type some text, click buttons, select some menus - anything you see on the screen - Free Screen Recorder will record all these, and sound from your system microphone.

It is an ideal tool to make software demonstrations, develop videos for training and tutoring.

A must have tool and guess what! it is absolutely free of cost. To download it, click on image above.....

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Screen Capture Utility : Capture any part of, or the full screen

The Screen Capture Utility allows you to capture any part of, or the full screen by using a mouse click, or a hot key combination.

You may also send a captured image to the clipboard if you want to pass it to another program without having to work with the file. It also offers different modes like "transparent mode" and "idle mode" that give you some unique options.

Click on image to download it, and guess what, it is absolutely free.

paint.net : Excellent, better and free replacement for windows paint

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions.

Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.

and it is absolutely free..........

Download it here or click on image to download it.
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