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RSS Feed for Amazon Kindle Top 100 Free Best Sellers

RSS Feed for Amazon Kindle Top 100 Free Best Sellers

Published by Subigya Nepal on March 23, 2016

Amazon has a listing of the best sellers in the Kindle Store, and the listing is divided into two types: Paid and Free. Meaning, there's a list of top 100 best selling kindle books that are free, and also a list of top 100 kindle books that are not free. And according to Amazon, the list changes every hour.

List of Nepali data sources

Published by Subigya Nepal on January 7, 2016

Hi guys, its been a long time. I am tired of making empty promises (regarding posting regularly) so, let me not do it again. While I was beginning my data-science journey, I tried to collect as many sources for Nepali datasets as possible, and the following is the listing of the same. The problem is most of these datasets are in PDF (most are in a booklet), so you'd have to use some extraction utilities such as Tabula to convert it into a CSV or workable file format.

Visualizing Email Sentiment with Google Script

Published by Subigya Nepal on August 23, 2015

Hi guys, it's been a while. I have been busy with my studies. I will try my best to continue updating the blog regularly (i.e at least 2-3 posts a week) but please don't hold me to it.

Free $10 Worth of Anime Merchandises & Artworks (Free Shipping)

Published by Subigya Nepal on December 15, 2014

I recently came across this promotion, and thought I'd share it here; it has been a while since I last posted about any freebies (or any post for that matter.)

Websites That Offer Free Shipping To Nepal (and Worldwide!)

Websites That Offer Free Shipping To Nepal (and Worldwide!)

Published by Subigya Nepal on December 8, 2014

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over (and apparently Green Monday too). On these two days, western stores offer huge discounts on products. I was looking to make some purchase, but could not find a deal with free International shipping. Buying from stores, mostly those that are based on western countries, would cost you almost twice the actual amount just for sending the shipment. Some sites don't even offer paid International shipping, in which case, you have to use a reship service and that would cost you lots of dough.

How To Batch Crop & Straighten Scanned Photos?

How To Batch Crop & Straighten Scanned Photos?

Published by Subigya Nepal on October 25, 2014

I spent the last two days scanning photos from my family albums (about 900 photos). Scanning each photos individually will take lots of time, however not any further processing is needed. When you scan multiple images at once, you need to crop and straighten each photo from a single page you scanned.

JetBrains' Products Now Free For (Nepali) Students

JetBrains' Products Now Free For (Nepali) Students

Published by Subigya Nepal on October 2, 2014

A little late in sharing this wonderful news. If you don't know yet, JetBrains, the developer of awesome IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and PhpStorm have made their products free for students. And guess what? This is unlike other free-for-students offer. Most of the free-for-students discounts are limited to students of US university and colleges only. The way to check whether a person claiming to be a student to avail these sorts of discounts is in fact a student or not, is to make him use his university provided email address.

Boom Boom Boom! to brighten up your party!

Published by Subigya Nepal on September 29, 2014

Boom Boom Boom! is a webapp for your party.

What does it do?

Boom Boom Boom! throws up animations, text photos, graphics and different effects. You can use your mobile or keyboard to control it, or you can play the music and let the graphics change on its own.

How to login to a website via Google Script?

Published by Subigya Nepal on September 29, 2014

Whenever I have to accomplish something these days (in terms of programming that is), the language that I turn to at first is Google Script. I have gotten so used to it, and its interface that I prefer it over any other language, or services. The added bonus of using it is that you can run the script regularly by setting up a timer. No need to meddle with cronjobs and what-not on your server.

How to Install LiveReload in Ubuntu?

How to Install LiveReload in Ubuntu?

Published by Subigya Nepal on September 7, 2014

LiveReload is a handy tool for web-developers. Do you not use Dreamweaver alternatives for linux, or any other web development tools? If you make use of text editors to code and web browsers to preview the result, then you must be tired of constantly hitting the save button on your text editor as well as that reload button on your web browser.

Delim.co – Free Comma Delimiter

Published by Subigya Nepal on August 1, 2014

How often do you have to take a spreadsheet data and covert to a character separated value? Tabular data, be it a number or a text are all stored in a plain text form by CSV (Comma Separated Values) files. A CSV file can compile a number of records with separate fields, which are uniquely identified by a standardized literal comma, tab, any character or string. This type of file format has been widely supported and used in many fields. All types of spreadsheets and database management systems basically support these CSV files.

How To Resize and Create LVM Partitions on Ubuntu?

How To Resize and Create LVM Partitions on Ubuntu?

Published by Subigya Nepal on May 26, 2014

Too frequent BSODs and 'display driver not detected' messages were turning me insane. I decided to install Ubuntu via WUBI, but although the pain slightly decreased, the true potential of linux was still shrouded by Windows. I had been contemplating on completely formatting and installing Linux, and about a week ago, I finally did it. With just 1 Gb of RAM and a P4 processor, I thought Xubuntu would be the way to go - and it seems that I was right.

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