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With the emerging use of e-commerce websites in India, people tend to buy products online. From clothes to home appliances, from grocery to eye wears, everything has an online destination. The e-commerce websites are also coping up with the requirement of their customers. As buyers often prefer buying products only after viewing and trying them, ecommerce websites introduced the try before buy option. Buyers do not wish to disclose their debit or credit card information to any website, so online buying websites have the Cash-on-Delivery option. Buyers are most of the time unsure about a product before buying as they haven’t physically seen or touched the product. So ecommerce websites have return policy. Shipping duration is another issue faced by the customers. But the online shopping portals now offer next day delivery too. And the list goes on.. The websites have tried solving every problem of buyers to introduce this online buying technology in India. But.. Are you still doub...

Source: rlandkabaena.blogspot.com   Did you know that 17 trees make 1 ton of paper? So saving paper ultimately helps in saving trees. But do we really do our bit to save the green creatures in our environment? It would be easier by simply following 2 steps: Recycling and Using paper only if required. Recycling is a small way for us to show to our world and community that we care. Recycling helps us give back to nature what we take from it. Did you know that up to 80% of waste generated in your workplace is recyclable paper? If not disposed correctly this paper is wasted and cannot be recycled. Proper segregation is the answer to ensuring this does not happen. Ensure when you dispose waste paper you dispose it in the correct manner. This not only helps in keeping your environment clean and tidy but also reduces your carbon footprint, decreases pollution and also decreases the load on landfills. Landfills are an increasingly pressing problem. Less and less land is availab...

There are great websites which can be our daily utility tools while on work. But we are least informed about them. What if you have a shortened URL and want to make sure about the URL befind it without actually opening it – unfurl.com You are asked to create flowchart, wireframe, network diagram and your are all lost: lovelycharts.com Take screenshot of an entire web page? Ctrlq.org/screenshots A website you can dive into to get hundreds of such online tools: dailytekk.com Here are a bunch of useful websites I found on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Best-Of-X/What-is-the-best-web-site-very-few-people-know-about

Photo cakes are becoming increasingly popular nowadays. While many of us never knew about this technology, it's provided by many cake shops from Monginis, Brownie Point to The Chocolate Room. Source: yummycakesindia.com How is photo cake made? 1 would wonder how is the edible photograph actually put on the cake. Well, this is actually because of 2 food materials – edible icing paper and food coloring products. The scanned image is printed on the icing paper which is made from rice/potato/cornstarch and the food coloring is used as ink to print the picture on the cake. How to order a photo cake? A picture cake has to be ordered at most 3 days prior to the day you want the cake to be ready. Some of them allow 2 days and some even 1 day. But cake shops do not usually agree for 1 day time. So if you are planning for a photo cake, well, plan in much advance. The photograph to be printed on the cake has to be given as a soft copy - by email/pen drive etc. Bette...