National Portal of India :www.india.gov.in

What's it about: Its the national portal of India to provide single window access to information and services provided by various Indian government bodies.
Features: The purpose of this portal is to provide the information on the services being provided by various government agencies for the citizens and other stakeholders. The portal claims "An attempt has been made through this Portal to provide comprehensive, accurate, and reliable and one stop source of information about India and its various facets".Once you visit this site, from here you can access many Indian government sites. You can book your train tickets and send e-post clicking from here as these links are available here.There are different categories to cater to different people. Like for citizens of India, you can get the details about Health,educatin,employement,housing,law and order etc details. Once you enter into a particular field, you will get to know what various schemes are available from government on that chosen field and also links to official websites of representing those ministries.

There is a How do I? section which gives details on how you can get a birth certificate, PAN number, Passport, Driving license etc and also the relevant forms are available for download.

Other sections like Business deals with how you can set up your own business, what forms are required from your side and what is the procedure of registering a company etc. These details are broken down to state level meaning how you have to deal with each state.

For overseas persons who want to visit India, this site provides details like Know India where you can find the culture and heritage of India and how to get visa and what options are there to study in India etc.They have the up to date news scrolling on their home page so you will not be missing what’s happening around when you are on this site.The information on this site is enormous and one has to visit and explore it as it is difficult to write everything here.You can get register here and you will get a personalized portal dealing with your state specific details and links to state specific government agencies based on your profile.

Conclusion: A great site to know the details of government of India and its policies. Links at various places, too, have been provided to other Indian Government Portals/websites.Visit them at http://www.india.gov.in/

Simple to complex ideas galore at Instructables

Want to know how to solve sudoku without using brain but using a simple methodical way or want to make a 5 people bike or you made something and want to share with others and show how they also can make it? then the place to be is http://www.instructables.com

Check some of great ideas like Solve Sudoku (Without even thinking!)
http://www.instructables.com/id/EJLUBKN48JEPD7QXGR/
or Inexpensive wall decor that will be easy to put together, fun to do, and take up a lot of space on a wall at
http://www.instructables.com/id/EVFXIRDZ9JEXCFKGTL/
like this you can get lot of ideas when you visit this site.

Iinstructables is the place where you can find step by step collaboration.The ideas can be explored by just clicking on the keywords which scroll continuously on the home page. You can enter into the site and explore where over 3000 great how to do guides are waiting to be explored.

There are groups where you can join and meet your like minded people and see what they are doing. Also you can get a rating for your creativity and comments from fellow users.Groups like electronics,home gift ideas, USB toys etc are there to choose from over 200 such groups.
They have forums where you can post your questions and expect some great answers.
If you want to contribute your work, you need to become a member which is free registration.They have a blog by the people who are responsible for this site where you can get latest updates about the site. Also there are some competitions happen from time to time and if you are lucky enough, you may be the winner!

If you are facinated with this site, you can subscribe to their RSS feeds and you will be upto date with the latest contributions and simple and usefule ideas. A great place to be collaborated and share ideas.(http://www.instructables.com)

Guide to America's fortune 500 companies

Many of us have relatives, friends working in US for various companies. If we want to know more about those companies we can visit their particular website. But, if you want to know details of the most popular fortune 500 companies all at one place and also if you want to know about their revenues and where they are located -- Visit www.americancompanies.com. It has details of over 500 companies spread across length and breadth of US.You have the option to view these company details either by their location or by their industry. The location details are drilled down to The west, Midwest, south, east and New York city. By industry, these are grouped into Manufacturing, Service, Financial and Information technology. You can find the respective companies in their groups. Once you click on the details of the company, you will get a small description of what they do and what are their major products and their sales and revenue details. You can also get the companies website address and also its location address. You can find the company building photograph along with the details. Soon to be added features include all companies rankings by revenues and revenue wise top 20 companies list. Some of the companies that find their place here are Enron,Microsoft,Nike,Pacific corp etc to name a few. On the home page, you can find "today's company" where the newly added company details will be there.
Conclusion :The site has got more textual content and even though you have the pictures of the companies buildings shown in their profiles, they doesn't take much time to load. The navigation is simple and easy. This site is mostly useful for all those who would like to know which company is doing what and what's their sales and revenue. Also, as a general knowledge we can get to know about the companies in and around a particular state and also we can understand how big a company is based on their sales and revenues.

Want to share with world? Diggit

Digg is your way of sharing what you think is appropriate. We come across innumerable number of articles, videos or a podcast during our routine searching. And once you are impressed with it, we would like to share it with our friends. Now you have the option to share it with the entire world. Just digg it. Meaning, submit the piece to www.digg.com.These days, we are finding a hyper link on the corners or below the articles or videos which says "Add to digg". You just have to click on that link and you are ready to share it with world.
What happens to your submission? After you submit, it will appear in the "upcoming stories" events of the page where other members can find it and if they like it, they digg. It. Once your article acquires some critical number of diggs, it becomes popular and will be moved to the homepage of that particular section. Now that way you can become popular.
If you don’t want to submit anything, just visit this site and read what is hot and what other people are reading or sharing. If you like something, you can comment or discuss about it with other members. And if you find it abusive, then you can notify it. If you don’t like it or if you feel it’s a spam, bury it and if all members feel the same, the article is buried and will be removed from the content.
The site is essentially a user driven social content website where surfers like us are building up the content. Its very useful to know and keep you updated with news or technology related happenings and also to view videos or podcasts.
And one more good reason to dig is, those links or articles are stored under your login name and you can retrieve them where ever you want. Essentially you are carrying your information with you not on your memory stick but on world wide web!. All it takes is to become a member of digg.com.

Download Licensed software Freely and daily

Imagine the common concerns we all face. You are working on some downloaded software and suddenly it says your evaluation period is out. Or when you click on that too important tool bar it say.. "You are not licensed to use. Pay and download it and start enjoying". Now, to answer to all these problems we all need a licensed software and imagine if it comes freely!. That’s what you get at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/.
What's it about :. You can download a licensed.. Yes I repeat a licensed software freely and daily from this site. All you need to do is to visit this site daily and see what's the software that they are offering for that day and if it suits your requirement, you have it for free.
Features The day's give away with details will be greeting you when you open the site with comments from already who downloaded it. And remember, it is strictly for a day and the time also is indicated how much is left before a new software replaces this one. They have RSS feeds option to keep you updated and allowing you not to miss the cool downloads. You can also spread the word by choosing to keep their banner on your blogs/web sites. You have the option to look into archives and know what’s offered but you certainly cannot download them any more.
Usefulness Well to all of us who are interested in getting the licensed software for our own use, we can get it free of cost here. It has variety of downloads ranging from virus check software to games and music and movie related software to educational software.
Conclusion:Well the catch word is free but with some stars on its top corner. you know what I mean.. Conditions apply. And what are they? "under specific Terms and Conditions, which limit the software usage to non-commercial only, and may also limit software updates and technical support".

seek your luck at seekluck.com

Name of site : http://www.seekluck.com

What's it about : In its own words "It aspires to promote entrepreneurship and self-employment" by providing guidelines and directions on how to make money

Features: You have different sections like Income ideas, Money masters,Money secrets, Cash courses and money makers. I will explain in detail what each fearure is for.
Income ideas : It gives some income ideas like for example Ebook business,internet business etc. There are good articles and how to guides for each idea. Its up to the self enterprenure to explore them and grab the idea develop in his own way
Money masters talks about stories about real person who made money and how they made it in their own words.
Money secrets :Let money seek you. How? visit this section to know about the secrets of making money and sustaining the money flow
Cash courses : a practical and step by step guide to make your first money as an individual. Learn about the crash courses about cash..

Look and placements : The site is clean with not many adsense coming into the main topics. Colors used are fine and the updates on each section are clearly mentioned on top corner for regular visitors. Probably they know once visited they will come again and again. For first time visitors also there is no problem in finding the topics of their intrest. The left corner of the page is for new visitor with clear description of topics and links to them.

usefulness : Useful for all those hardworking and willing to experiment and dare to dream people and earn some bucks out of their creativity and hardworking.

conclusion : Get ideas and think what suits you and do it with dedication and hard work. Keep in mind, dont think about the result but fulfill your duty. and This site provides the ideas to make money by thinking differently and also see what others are thinking and adapt them if you are fine with them.

Links to American Literature sites

Name of the site : http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/sites.htm

What's it about : This site has a treasure of information and links to various literary sites. Here you can find the sites related to American literature, General literature, Sites where you can read online, Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Primary Sources and some other Miscellaneous Resources
Features : Search the site option available using which you can search the site for any literary information

Look and placements : This is no nonsense no popups and limited jpg site. Meaning, most of it is in text and hyper links to other sites. So, it should load fast.

Usefulness: This site is mostly useful for all those literarory lovers who would like to have the information about American or general literature. They can jump from here. Make it as your home page and start moving to all the literature banks and start gaining knowledge and have the reading pleasure. There is a link on the top of the site to quizzes and crossword puzzles. So, if you are preparing for any literary quiz competition you should have a look at it first. They have an online quiz bank with questions and multiple answers and you can click on the correct answer. If your answer is correct a smiley :) comes other wise a big X So you know what’s correct and what’s not. This site has prominent links displayed on the top portion and they link to American authors, brief time line of American literature and events (from pre 1620 to 1920)and links to literary movements. This would help any research scholar who is looking information for his doctorate degree.There is a site update weblog also available which should help frequent visitors to have know the updates from time to time.

Conclusion: A great site for literature lovers with lots of links to variety of literary movements and periodicals.