Anyone who has been using any Windows OS for some time now knows that you have to reinstall the OS at least once every year. Whether its a deadly virus, hard disk crash or just that Windows has eaten up your partition and is now crawling like a snail, you will always find some or the other reason to reinstall Windows.
If you have a branded desktop which came with drivers disk or a restore disk, you can easily install all the drivers once you are done with the reinstall. However, if you are from the majority herd who have assembled their desktops from the grey market, chances are that you will start hunting for device drivers immediately after you re-install Windows.
A very Happy Independence Day from woikr! May this day brings more and more gadgets to India at cheap prices
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In addition to the 64th Indian Independence day, today is woikr’s 2nd anniversary and we have a special article for you. We present you with the Indian tech startups that we are proud of. These have been formed within the last decade and showcase the skill set of the abundant Indian talent.
In addition to our list, we are pretty sure that there are many more which you might know of. Feel free to add them in the comments below. Here is our list (in no specific order):
Apparently, all is not well between the Indian Railways and the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). After terminating the catering contract in Rajdhani, Duronto, Shatabdi & other mail and express trains, Indian Railways is allegedly planning to launch its own online ticketing site.
With a profit of approx. INR 1.22 billion, IRCTC is the largest ecommerce site in India, responsible for 30% of all rail booking in India. However, Indian Railways feel that IRCTC lacks in terms of infrastructure and customer support, and is therefore planning to take the task in its own hands.
[via PI]
If you are one of those people who think that the Indian Rupee symbol was designed in a day or two, you need to look at the following presentation prepared by the symbol designer D Uday Kumar, assistant professor at IIT Guwahati:
Looks like Google has hired some really smart and talented advertising agency to create ads for Google Chrome browser. Following the previous ad for extensions, they have released the following ad which is another example of sheer genius and amazing creativity:
Google is slowly joining the bandwagon of companies that go above and beyond to make awesome ads for their products. The list includes Honda, Vodafone among many others.
Check out Google’s latest ad for Google Chrome extensions:
[via This is awesome]
This is by far the most awesome unboxing we have seen till date:
Artist Peter Root had the patience to get 100,000 staples, break them into different sizes and arrange them into this beautiful piece of art over a period of 40 hours! He has titled the project Ephemicropolis:
[via This is awesome]
Unless you were born in or before the 70s, there is no excuse for you to not have watched Avatar – the highest grossing and the most successful film ever made in the history of mankind & Na’vi.
While Avatar took us on an epic journey through the dense forest and exotic vegetation of Pandora, the sequel to the movie will take us deep into the planet’s ocean.