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Chevrolet Spark – Another small car!

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After my previous reviews on various small cars, next in the series is Chevrolet Spark. Television commercial of this car prompted me to test drive the same. I am referring to an ad which promised its customers of '3 years without any service costs'. I took an appointment to test drive this chevy spark car recently when the maker of this car General Motors(GM) was busy filing bankruptcy back in USA. Don't worry about that news as this is what its Indian subsidiary has to say on the whole … Read more… about Chevrolet Spark – Another small car!

Review – Bing fails to impress me

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Microsoft's new search called 'Bing' is made public today. I just played around with a varied set of tests on Bing and here is my review based on my findings. As always, my very first search query is 'http' and the very first impression for me was a total disaster. It was damn faster though! Bing said it found about 13,100,000,000 results for the search query! While the very first page displayed the top 10 search results for the search query 'http', only one was relevant while the remaining 9 … Read more… about Review – Bing fails to impress me

Twitter : The good, bad and ugly

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I have been using twitter for about 3 months now. With all my experimentation and observations with twitter, I am convinced that twitter is everything one can think of in the current social network realm. It can be good, bad and even ugly depending on how an individual uses. To illustrate each of the situations, I am sharing my real time experiences with twitter. Those were the initial days for me with twitter when 'BarCamp Bangalore 08' (#bcb8) event was held during 1st week of March 2009. The … Read more… about Twitter : The good, bad and ugly

5 Queen of the night flowers in 1 day!

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Queen of a night flowers bloomed again today on my roof top garden. This year there are 5 flowers on a single evening! Today was a pleasant rainy day and when I came back from classes, these special guests were waiting for me to begin a photo shoot session :) The aroma of these flowers is intoxicating and hope you enjoy looking at these flowers as well. Unlike regular plants, these flowers bud out of leaves directly and not from the stem. You can go through my previous posts on this night … Read more… about 5 Queen of the night flowers in 1 day!

Maruti Ritz : Here it comes!

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Maruti Ritz is the latest car being released in 2009. Here is a quick sneak peek review on what you can expect from this car. More details to follow after the test drive for which I have already registered :) Engine options: All new K12M Petrol engine that is made completely of aluminum. Because of this, it is light in weight when compared with other engines and expected to yield a good mileage. This engine is a 1.2L, 1197cc engine and is capable of putting out 85 PS of power at 6000rpm, with … Read more… about Maruti Ritz : Here it comes!