I end up looking for an ebook more often than not. It’s a different story that I don’t read it. But I keep looking for ebooks online and I have my own collection of sites for ebooks. However, none of them have been dedicated to only providing me with the ebooks. I hit gold when I came across a site that offered exactly what I was looking for. A place for only ebooks.

This site however has is illegality sharing copyright books and hence I’ll not be hot linking to it. Rather I’d leave it as a source of information to my readers. This is an effort to share something that’s a very valuablr resource but a little evil. Following is the site:

http://www.ebook-x.com/

The site has books mostly in the category if computer related stuff apart from a few personality and soft skills related stuff. Feel free to try it for yourself at your own risk.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. ~ Albert Einstein

Mihaela Lica (Mig) is doing exactly this. She is the owner of pamil-visions.com.

Life’s too good when things are open source or for least free. I am so pleased to have subscribed to some great blogs. There are people who do a lot for community and for the benefit of people falling in the category of “novice”. This, of course, includes me. And I am in constant surge for information that’d help me make my sites and blogs a better place to be.

Mig is giving away fee SEO book for wordpress 2.5. Here’s the link to the blog post. I don’t think it’d be fair for me to provide the direct download link to the book from her blog. Moreover, the post is too good to avoid reading. So go there, read the blog post, download the book and drop a word of thanks for the great work she’s done with the book.

I haven’t gone through the book completely but with the glimpse of it, it looks good. Do drop in what you feel about the book.

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I own a couple of website and first thing that you need is to learn how to make a web banner, possibly one which has web 2.0 looks. I some how liked and enjoyed the one by thinkblogger.

What I am suggesting is that if you are blogger or a site owner you don’t want to be handicapped without skills like photoshop and web programming. Sitepoint has come to your rescue when it comes to learning photoshop. Sitepoint is giving away a complete ebook on learning photoshop for free. So if you have not grabbed your copy you might wanna do so from Sitepoint.

The book is titled The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques. This is a limited offer for limited time so get your copy today.

This is what the site has to say about their book.

The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques is the ultimate Photoshop compendium for web designers.

It’s brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style button, or wanted to create that seamlessly tiling background image you saw on a site recently, you need download this book.

In this world of piracy it’s easy to get the PDF version of good books. However, this free download comes as a refreshing change.

Today I am going to evaluate a site which I think is a great place to find stuff. The site is AvaxSphere.com. The site has stuff ranging from ebooks to movies. Following is the snapshot of the stuff available with the site.

The site boasts to have close to 10K pages and provides download from files hosted on files hosting services like rapidshare, megaupload and others. The site also has content which is not English, thus providing diversified stuff.

I researched the site and to my surprise this fantastic domain’s been registered just for on year and would expire this May. I am sure that the owner will renew it. I was keen to see if there was a mother domain that was driving content to this site, so I whoised avaxsphere.org and avaxsphere.net. To my surprise both of them were redirecting (possibly a 302) to avaxsphere.com.

Finally I found the link. The site is under the umbrella of avaxhome.ru (registered for 7 years), which also does a 302 to avaxsphere.com. So now it justifies 10K pages. Feel free to navigate the site and it’s section. There is plenty of great stuff like BBC, NGC and Discovery documentaries. Also is advisable to have a rapidshare account in order to unleash the potential of this site.

Rating this site on a scale of 10, I’d say it deserves 8. As per the other details of the site, the site’s been driving good traffic from:

Registered in Berlin, with approximately 10K visitors per month the site has a Google PR of 3 (surprisingly). Site has 97,000 pages in google’s index. Has an alexa rank of 630 which makes it into 0.01% of websites with alexa. AvaxSphere has close to 25000 (source cannot be disclosed) in-links (still surprisingly a PR of 3).

The site has around 408 people bookmarking it using del.icio.us. There are 10 articles on Digg and 27 diggs. The site has RSS feeds and is now part of Google Reader.

In all a great site to just kill your time navigating through it and downloading some cool and important stuff.

P.S. This is personal review of this website with information collected using various online tools. This review is not a paid review and is just driven by the motive of FYI.