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Come Mother’s Day and you rush to the nearest flower or jewelry shop to get your mom a quick gift. We are sure that mothers are thrilled to get these gifts but just for the sake of experimenting, how about looking for gift alternatives? Say, take a look at some tech gifts that your mother can use. A decade ago, your choices in terms of tech gifts might have been limited. Not anymore; now, you can choose from a wide variety of gadgets, right from the good old smartphones to TV boxes and AirPlay speakers. Read the rest of this entry »

Looking for gifts has never been easy. People seem to have different ideas about how a gift should be- is it just about the functional value of the gift or is it about its emotional value? These are just some of the primary considerations. The others are usually related to the personal choice of the person receiving the gift- his areas of interest, the kind of things that would please him and what not. Read the rest of this entry »

The digital age is well upon us, and has been for some time. We’ve seen music digitized by CDs, movies digitized by DVDs, mail digitized by E-Mail, and film digitized by digital cameras, so it should come as no surprise that books have been digitized as well. In e-book form, the average book is only about 20MB in size, meaning a MicroSD card the size of your thumbnail could easily hold millions of novels, and with an E-Book Reader, you can literally carry a library of books right in your pocket. The current e-book readers on the market offer all sorts of different features, so we decided to take a look at some of the most popular.

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