Every pickup truck owner wanted their rig to be more functional and reliable as well as protected from all sorts of damages. That is why installing their trucks with various performance add-ons is always an option. If you want to increase the usefulness and hauling capabilities of your truck bed while ensuring that its finish is free from scratches and dents, outfitting it with bike racks is a smart move. These are functional add-ons that are designed to carry and hold your bikes behind your truck. No matter how careful you place your bike on your truck bed, still they…
Automotive
Bike Racks as the Best Hauling Alternatives for Your Truck
Business
States to meet FM to finalise GST list
NEW DELHI: States will meet finance minister Pranab Mukherjee next month to finalise the list of items to be included in the proposed Goods and Services Tax, which will become the basis for rates in new indirect tax regime and decide the fate of the Centre’s fiscal stimulus. “We will meet the finance minister on October 8 and then finalise the list,” chairman of Empowered group of State finance minsters Asim Dasgupta said. The states have decided that there will be two basic rates in their GST structure — one standard rate and the other lower rate for essential items.…
Tech Support
What You Should Know Before Buying a Digital Camera
Digital images are created by light being focused onto semiconductors. The popularity of digital cameras has been closely linked with the increasing popularity of personal computing, both in terms of making advances features possible and how people prefer their pictures. Digital photography allows a paperless age, where people often prefer to store, view, and share images over the computer instead of printing them physically.
Talk to those you know who own digital cameras before buying one. Friends and family can offer the best advice, and tell you which brands and models they favor or are disinclined towards. You can make…
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Know More About How To Choose an Ebook Reader
The advent of the digital age has definitely made this world a more convenient place to live in. For instance, even the most avid reader would balk at the thought of bringing his favorite books with him wherever he goes. But with an electronic book reader, you don’t only bring your top five books, you get to take the whole library with you. It doesn’t matter if you’re traveling or just having a cup of coffee at the nearby caf, your books go with you everywhere. However, owning an ebook reader could cost you a few hundred dollars, and if…
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Ebay is Boring Compared to New Electronics Auction
Burbank, California – Muulu (muulu.com) is growing in popularity as a cheaper alternative to eBay. Why? Because the average winning bid for new electronics items, like iPhones, game systems, and iPods, is substantially lower on Muulu than on Ebay. People pay for bids. These payments buy down the possible winning price of the item being auctioned until it is won for well below wholesale price. Other electronic items include HDTVs, laptops, desktop computers, and GPS systems.
The biggest thing that draws people to Muulu is the insane deals. People can win a new Apple iPod Touch for $90, a new…
Business
U.K. Reconsiders Ban on Product Placements in TV Shows
LONDON — The British government is moving toward lifting a longstanding ban on product placements in TV shows on commercial networks, in a move that would aid the country’s struggling commercial broadcasters, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday. Ben Bradshaw, secretary of state for culture, media and sport, is expected to explain why he thinks the ban should be lifted in a speech to the Royal Television Society this week. The British Broadcasting Corp., whose TV networks in the U.K. don’t air advertisements, will continue to ban product placements, or deals in which companies pay for a product…
Business
China Strikes Back on Trade
BEIJING — China indicated Sunday it would restrict U.S. imports of chicken and auto products after Washington’s move to slap punitive sanctions on Chinese tire imports, raising tensions in a trade dispute ahead of two planned meetings between the countries’ leaders. Many observers in China say ties between the nations should remain unharmed, noting that China’s measures could limit imports in two areas that it already tightly controls — and thus might not have a huge effect on U.S. exports. But the measures add to worries about trade protectionism amid rising unemployment around the world.
Business
Retail majors bet big on business intelligence
Branded retail giants in the Rs 40,000-crore organised retail sector are betting big on adopting business intelligence (BI) software as a service (SAAS) model on monthly rent basis. With the move, the retailers plan to discontinue expensive software licences such as SAP, Oracle and Business Object. This is to counter a major challenge on how to save the time and cost in implementing BI solutions as a cost-effective measure, according to retailers and industry experts. Sunil Mehta, chief executive officer, Next Retail India Ltd from the belt of Videocon Industries Ltd (VIDEOIND.NS : 233.75 -2.4) said , “We first need…
Facebook
iTunes Has New Facebook Feature But Is Apple Preparing To Take On Facebook Credits?
iTunes may have just taken a massive blow at iLike today with the launch of a “share on Facebook” feature which will enable users to post iTunes songs to their profile. While there are few details about the new feature, there is the potential that actual song samples will eventually be posted to your Facebook feed. Such a move would be a direct attack on iLike who began offering a similar service since Facebook first opened up the stream. While the new “Share on Facebook” feature is extremely valuable, of more interest was a statement by Apple about the number…
Computer
White screen on Notebook Acer
I have notebook named acer aspire 4710. Sometimes the screen of my acer notebook goes whole white. When I have left the notebook for over 30 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. It suddenly display a white screen . This also happens at random times, sometimes white screen comes and it wont go away. Restarting the notebook seems to boot normally but the flaw repeats a few days later; my screen turns white again.
I found on many forum and blog in internet some people have got the same problem for their notebook acer product. Their notebook having the…
Facebook
Despite Passing On iLike, Facebook Appears Still Interested In Music
Just last week we wrote about the MySpace acquisition of iLike and this week it appears that some form of agreement between Facebook and Spotify is in the works according to Techcrunch. The rumor is based on a status update by Mark Zuckerberg in which he simply stated “Spotify is so good.” While Mark may be a victim to the classic “shiny object syndrome” found in much of Silicon Valley, he probably wouldn’t have written the update had something not been in the works.
Whether or not discussions or near the final stages, Spotify is most definitely an interesting product…
Hack
Maple beats up Arduino, takes its shields
The Atmega168 at the heart of every Arduino is an eminently capable chip; its ilk have been seen working as a basic web server, playing back digital audio, even generating TV signals. But as projects continue to grow in sophistication, reality rears its ugly head: Arduino can handle any one of these tasks very well, but it often requires squeezing every last instruction cycle or bit of memory in the device. Even the ’368 chip and the Arduino Mega are stopgap measures. Sooner or later, you have to graduate to long trousers—move up to a more capable microcontroller platform—an uncomfortable change usually involving…
