Get the Best Travel
Deal
For all those travel enthusiasts
who wish to get the best travel deal, this website is for you. With the best
discounts on flights and hotel deals, it also offers great city tours &
attraction packages and group packages, along with vacation deals getting you
the best price to choose from offered by different airlines and hotels. There
are various affiliate programs that one can choose from such as car rentals,
cruises, hotels and vacation packages. With the city tours and attractions, the
advantage is that it provides booking of ground transportation for families
traveling with children. Once registered with the company, you can also track
your trips, and discounts offered on a timely basis. It is a good negotiating
power and search technology that can get you the best discounts to help you put
together that vacation you were waiting for all year round.
Pakistan captured as
Never before!
It’s a dream to travel all around
Pakistan, and explore each and every corner of this beautiful, charming and
mysterious country. Not only mine, but of a lot of young and old whom I meet on
a regular basis. Well, there is a good chance that this website will let you
travel through places in Pakistan which the majority have only heard of barely,
and could only dream of visiting it. As the name suggests, the website is run
by a travel enthusiast, who is passionate about his travels all around and
across Pakistan. A beautifully fresh web design tempts you to browse through,
but the absolutely stunning photography by the author of the website wants you
to pack your bags and take off on the road less travelled. From mountain tops,
to glaciers, to even just a random day at Karachi Sea View makes you wonder the
wonders we are missing out on in our country. This travelogue is a great place
to learn more about your country, exotic places to visit, save some picturesque
wallpaper, and can be of help as a guidebook to develop your own itineraries
around Pakistan.
Music all the way
Next time you feel bored and have
the need to shut out the outside world completely, at work, or while studying,
it’s as simple as ABC. Since most, no all work is done on the computer through
the internet, you can have the best of best collection of music, mixes put
together by other people. So much faster, convenient and less distracting than
searching for a single artist and their specific collection, one can just
choose from their favorite genre of music, and listen to the best internet free
radio. Playlists put together by the ones who know their music. The best bit is
you can also share your own mixes and add it under the current tags or
introduce a new tag according to your mood. The site is modern looking, funky
and easily navigable. Music can be searched through tags, artists and
description. All it requires is an internet connection and you can indulge in
the world of music all day, and keep switching your tracks according to your
mood.
Think it. Feel it. Hub it!
When I was looking to put down my
thoughts on my travel and photography, I came across HubPages. I found it very
easy to use and navigable and most importantly it gives you a complete presence
of publishing as you feel, and want to. It is a personalized web page with a
distinctive url. It is a great platform to publish what you think, learn or
read and review, discover content of other people, which can prove to be very
aspiring and interact with other likeminded individuals who share similar
interests as you. One can post questions when curious to find out more of what
people might think and how they think. You can blog with all kinds of
multimedia content, and add references to your blog. One can add various polls
and tables to their regular posts to add variety to your published work.
Hubbers (HubPages authors) can also earn money by publishing their hubs on
topics they know and love, and earn recognition among fellow hubbers, through
the community-wide ranking system. One can earn through AdSense and other
affiliate programs. It’s a great platform to learn more from others experience,
create your profile and learn according to your interests and earn through
popularity count.
From the World of
Math
The most simplistic and extensive
mathematical resource on the web, which can be used easily in classrooms by
teachers, by parents at home and by students themselves to not only quest their
thirst for knowledge, but also to strengthen their understanding of
mathematical concepts. The website is a step to enhance the educational
community and is a project of Wolfram Research makers of Mathematica. The
website covers all topics under Algebra, geometry, number theory, probability
etc. All the same, the website not only provides information to strengthen concepts,
but also features a number of innovative interactive demonstrations of
matrices, abacus, point-line distance etc; Live 3D graphic applets of other
mathematical terms which can be best explained in a 3D graphical form. The Web
Mathimatica examples are a superb learning point, as it is interactive and one
can change coordinates in order to clear their concepts. I feel if all our
subjects can be transformed in such an interactive learning format learning in
classrooms can be a fruitful experience all together.
Blog and Brand
yourself
A new and innovative way of
getting more people on board to get to write and also brand themselves as
freelance tech writers, or brand their businesses. It’s a local platform to
indulge in social media, and other aspects of online marketing and selling. It’s
a news and views website for the online world of the online world. Their other
newer services are an Open Academy and online learning platform, through which
they conduct online and offline courses, on Internet Marketing, Professional
Blogging, Basic IT courses for beginners and graphic designing. With this
venture in vocational training, they have certainly taken a step ahead in proving
their worth and exercise their own knowledge base of what they already know to
how far they can stretch themselves as a growing organization on the web.
A Book with a Cup of
Tea
Got bored of your regular book
collection and selection pattern? Well a good way to revive your soul is to get
a new recommended list of books through the London Review Bookshop. I
personally found this as a great online bookshop, which not only allows you to
purchase a book, but has a bookseller’s recommended list of books as well. Books
can be browsed through subject wise, if you are looking for something specific
under a particular topic. If in a mood to explore new titles and authors a
better approach would be to go through the bookseller’s choice, or the books
that have been recommended in the London Review Books magazine. The bookshop is
also involved in holding events like debates, and reading sessions of world
authors. So for the ones, who are in London, or are planning to, do make sure
you visit the London Review Bookshop, for they have a deliciously enticing cake
shop, serving its customers the luxury of tea and coffee, with some fresh
eateries. Ever feel the need to indulge in a world of solitude, you know now
how and where to find it.
Know thy Words of
Wisdom
It is human nature to be curious
and question why the universe follows a certain pattern, or the way Man has
evolved with time, and gained knowledge in this world with the words of the
wise, learned and ones who learn from history. This site is a great resource for
the curious mind, providing the biggest archive of free knowledge on the
teachings of religion, mythology and folklore. It has works of all ancient
texts, and books on all religions, written by religious scholars, books which
are no more in print and cannot be found anywhere. If you want to know more
about people or societies from a certain religion, or community, you are bound
to find some sacred scriptures about their ancient history. The entire 50
volumes of The Scared Books of the East issued by the Oxford University Press
between 1879 to 1910 are available. Studies of Confucianism, I Ching, of The
Quran, Prophecies and even Tolkien can be viewed here. The website at first
glance may appear to be outdated and old fashioned, and extremely simple, but
it certainly has a collection of books, and scholarly material that can be read
and researched on as a one stop shop of research. As the name depicts, the
sacred texts from different regions and ethnic communities are all available
for the inquisitive mind.
Recreating your Life
on a Pin Board
The latest social media platform
on the block, and is definitely catching up like wild fire. I am sure; most of
the readers of this magazine have already used this platform. So the
fundamental of this social website unlike others is that it lets you organized
and connects with people that share your interests, taste, and whom you can get
inspired by. It’s the easiest, funnest and fastest way to discover new things,
get inspired from people who share your interest and organize and plan out
things for yourself by pinning them on instead of a soft board an “online pin
board”. It’s like your personal diary, with all that interests you, gets you
high on life, be it house décor, interiors, fashion designing, recipes, your
inspirations of world travel, of being a technocrat anything and everything
that you thought as a kid you wanted to achieve. You could pin it up on your
board and strive towards your goal or day dream by just visiting your pin board
every now and then. So go on and get
started with pinning your best articles, photographs, houses, cars, favorite
places, memorable spots, secret recipes, desired architectural buildings or
just share with the world how you would want to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Get Recommendations
Ever been in an uncomfortable
situation when you are about to purchase a new phone, laptop, camera or even a
gift for someone and you find yourself stuck at the last minute? Some people
say it’s a good purchase, the shop keeper says it’s not, you can get something
better, and your heart is stuck on one item! Well, there are ways of resolving
this confusion and transforming yourself into a smart and knowledgeable
consumer. You get reviews on almost everything a genuinely unbiased review from
real people, who not only advise you to buy or not buy a particular product but
also provide an in-depth product evaluation, feature to feature and also
provide varied prices from different vendors and shops. This website not only
provides reviews and recommendations on electronic tangible items only, but
also reviews books, movies, gifts etc. It also has a section on family &
kids items, home and gardening, thus providing a complete family package. You
can browse through different categories and genres, or search through a price
range. It’s a simple website, and very easy to browse through, you may bookmark
this website for future referencing.
Science &
Medicine on your Desktop
The next time you fall ill, and
feel the need to question the way your body reacts and behaves, or feel the
need to keep abreast with the latest scientific news to hot the next
intellectual conversation at a dinner or a meeting, then just log on to this
incredible portal, dedicated purely to medicine and science. The portal is
literally an encyclopedia from news on medicine, new research on and about
varied illness, medications, new technology and science backing the medical
world, to an A-Z listing of publications from basic study of Biological,
Chemical and Physical sciences to Climatic Change to Molecular therapy. The website has regional divisions,
of Asia, Asia-Pacific, China, Japan, Europe, Americas etc. It’s a great website
if you are conference freak, since it has a year round listing of all
conferences and fairs taking place around the globe on anything and everything
related to the Science and Medical world. It’s a subscriber based paid website.
The journals and research study available is for the serious readers. The best
feature is a section on gateways and databases, which showcases a vast array of
information for researchers that want to commercialize their research, and be
smart bioentrepreneur to engaging with small and large companies looking for
commercial partnerships. It’s a great
forum to learn and be practical about it, for the smarter scientists.
The edited version was published in Spider Magazine for the June 2012 Issue
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