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Take a look at four new recently-launched websites in the UAE offering the discerning customer greater value at every click.

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The best websites on the Net for Hindi movies

Dare, dream and discover. It's not about paper or the printed word. It's about opening up the doors – to the known and the unknown. It's all about books. Read on and tap into a whole new world on the Net.

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It's that time of the year when uppermost on everyone's checklist is to hunt for a special gift. But how different can you really get, surrounded and limited as you are, with the same old shopping malls? Here's how you can take the lead, literally, by parking yourself in front of your computer with enough time to check out these sites that offer an exotic range.

Email your emotions

Having fun is serious business for this man, to the extent that he started his own art film club when he did not find one in Dubai. His emails and messages are sprinkled with humour and wit.

Often nick names stick in the mind and stay there for life. Just like the Oscars. A popular story has been that an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' librarian and eventual executive director, Margaret Herrick, thought the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar and said so, and that, as a result, the Academy staff began referring to it as Oscar.

Photographs are actually all about papers, films, solutions and dark rooms. Though never associated in that manner in the mind. Photographs are more like precious memories and moments frozen in time. Capturing history or moods on film with images that immediately transport one into the time zone of the picture.

Pets are partners not toys. They care, they feel and they love – unconditionally. Only those who have pets know and understand how important they are. Sometimes a pet can be far more sensitive and attuned to your mood than any friend or family member.

With Venus, planet of love, money and self-worth, powerfully aspecting both Mars and Pluto, planet of rebirth, there's no telling how far reaching developments could be. Aim high and you're unlikely to be disappointed with results.' Ð Welcome to star gazing.