My favorite online shopping sites in India

Most of the sites are offering products in all most all the categories. But below are my favorites for each category.

• Computer / Electronics
• eBay.in (They usually sent me personalized coupons)
• Books
• www.infibeam.com (Really cheap than buying from book store)
• www.flipkart.com (Buy only if infibeam don't have the book.)
• Stationary
• http://www.allschoolstuff.com
• http://stationerybazaar.com
• http://koolskool.in
• Cloths
• I never buy online because we cannot tryout.

Important thing in online market is 'before confirming any deal check for discount coupons available for the sites'. Really you can save more.  Yesterday I got Rs500/- off on Rs1000 related to Dussehra from allschoolstuff
Getting coupons is simple.If you want to get coupons for eBay just google for eBay India coupons

There are some sites available to check the cheapest online price of products in single place. Use them if you don't have time to check all the shopping sites.

Seems the online shopping is really growing in India. Regardless the international giants enter into the Indian retail market or not, small retailers are going to face a tough competition from online. Hope I can add more sites based experience.

How to find your processor architecture is x64 or IA64

Today we had a situation in office that a COM component for zip compression is not working in 64 bit server machines. It was working fine in desktop machines .Most of the desktops have 32 bit OS and some are 64bit. When we looked into the issue little deeper, we could see that there are different COM for different processors. In 32bit we need to register one com library file which is not same in 64bit machine. 64 bit file is suffixed with the '64' word. The 64 bit desktops are working fine then why the 64 bit servers are not working.

Little more google brought one more file for 64 bit machine which is nothing but the com lib file suffixed with IA64. Then the direction of work turned to find out the version of processor architecture of server machines. We opened the properties of 'Computer' from start menu,DxDiag etc...But no luck. Finally a google gives the name of the environmental variable "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%". Yes it works.

echo  %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% 

Executing the above command in command prompt gives us the processor architecture of current machine. Still confusing what is x64 and IA64 ? Just google to get links like this or read wikipedia articles.

X86:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86

X64: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X64

IA64: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64

If you are interested more on environmental variables see this link.