I was a complete noob when i just bought my new telescope as a first time user. My telescope was just a very basic model and it just costs $80. It came with 20mm lens, 6mm lens and barlow lens (3x) along with a small stand. At first i struggled to understand the concepts of optics and telescope.

After experimenting quite a while i understood the setup and working of telescope. Here is what the most important points you …

Many people just dont know how to enable a clear type font in WinXP and how greatly it improves the readability on the monitor if you have LCD or Notebooks. If you are elderly person having problems with readability in your computer, you must switch to clear text font and it is just easy.

Just see for yourself….

Below are 2 similar images demonstration the typography and readability of cleartype vs standart font in windows.

(i) Clear Type Font Display

(ii) Standard Type …

Planning to buy a motorbike or a car in India?

If thats yes, then this start of 2009 may be the good time to buy your dream vehicle (car or motorbike) in India.

The global financial crisis have greatly affected on global consumerbase including auto industry and many manufactureres are feeling its heat to cut down the prices of autos worldwide.

i have observed the prices of motorbikes, scooters of major brands

Motorbikes/Two wheelers = Less by Rs. 3000 to Rs …

If you are a small time earner from adsense program and have selected standard delivery mode (postal air mail) chances are the cheque which could take anywhere between 7 days to 1 month for you to receive depending on the place/city you live in India.

Normally most adsense publishers receive their cheque by the first week of every month by standard postal air mail. I have noticed that the cheques are sent from singapore by air mail. If you …

I was literally confused for a long time and i couldnt take a decision on whether to buy an iphone or ipod touch. iPod touch is much cheaper and its interface is as good as the one in iphone. I decided to buy ipod touch so that i could enjoy internet, mail, video and music since i am not too much a phone user. I have other nokia phone doing the job.

I was fascinated with beautiful crystal clear display from …

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Washing clothes is one of the hardest work for any person in the planet. Recently i have purchased a LG top loading, fully automatic machine ($375) and i was very surprised, being a first time user i really didnt know how to use a washing machine. I hate to admit it but its the truth.

If you are planning to buy a automatic washing machine… here are the features that is a must have for a good washing …

Until recently i have encountered a sudden new attacks of spam registrations and many many spam threads posted in my forum. I just cant figure out how as I have already enabled captcha in registration page and enabled email confirmation. Despite this somehow spammers managed to bypass the registration and managed to post spam threads.

Fighting spam involves great amount of work. Just make sure you do the following settings in your vbulletin forum.

1. Enable captcha and Email Confirmation forum …

i have noticed a weird problem ever since i updated to Firefox3. It tends to show certain websites a bit stretched and the CSS div float behaves abnormally by stretching div or shrinking them.

i believe the div float is the problem. With the previous versions of firefox this problem seems to be bit unnoticeable.

I just couldnt explain this abnormal behavior more than this.

ok, you have bought a vbulletin license and looking to customize the look of the forum. Giving a good professional look to your forum can be well worth it to attract more users to signup. If you are willing to spend $20 – $50 there are number of places to look for.

First check out

http://www.vbulletin.org

This is a official vbulletin add-ons site where plenty of skins and plugins are available for free download provided you have a valid vbulletin license.

The following …

If you are thinking of buying diesel car in India, then be prepared to have 4 lacs+ to buy it.

i have been searching for a best low cost diesel car as my budget was way under 4 lacs. Although many say that Indica V2 is the best car, swift also very good competitor. The pricing of

Tata Indica V2 (starting at 3.7 lacs)
Maruti SWIFT (4.2 lacs plus)

and of course they are all ex-showroom prices. To get the on-road price …