Exchanging foreign currency in Chennai

My experience with banks, regarding online foreign currency transfer, is that they take away about 1 or even 2 Rs/ Euro as part of their commission. And worst part is that you don't have any control or predictability over this.

Compared to that my experience with face-to-face money exchange with authorized dealers has been very good. My only experience is with Camera City in Chennai, and they give very good rate.

My experience is that they give

    -10 Paise/ Euro compared to rates available on XE.com, when you take INR in cash;
    +10 Paise/Euro compared to the XE.com rate when you take INR via cheque

You go there with your foreign currency, and your passport. And they give you INR along with receipt.

                          54, Cathedral Road, (Opp Hotel Chola), 
                          Chennai, 
                          Tamil Nadu-600 086 
                          India.

                         +(91)-(44) - 28110467 / 28110468 / 329 51 309 / 329 52 309

                         +(91)-9840425733

                         http://www.cameraciti.com/contact-us.aspx

Of course, if you must exchange money Online, I put my experience in the other post

Google Services That Don't Work on Chrome

It's very normal that certain Google services don't work as intended on IE. We even get message on IE6 that the user should shift to a modern browser, Chrome touted as one major example of those modern browsers.

But of late I am coming across Google services that are not working on Chrome but are working flawlessly on new versions of IE. Coming from a giant like Google, I find it disappointing. And also bit surprising, the front-end specific coding and very rigorous browser-testing is a standard procedure in Cognizant, I would expect Google would at least test their services on their own browser.

I am huge fan of Google. In fact among my friends I am mocked that I keep pushing for G+ usage, even on my FB stream. I hope they notice these problems and correct ASAP.

- Latitude.google.com: On Chrome the page doesn't load properly, so you can't even see the basic content. On IE it works perfectly.
- Alerts.google.com: When you try to modify an entry, or create a new entry; on Chrome you can only update the main search-term. The details like frequency etc. are not editable. On IE it works perfectly.

Renting house in Netherlands

There are several agencies that can help in this. In the past years, as I talked to several friends who were also looking for houses to rent, I found one site specially good- http://www.pararius.nl. Unlike site of individual agencies, this site presents houses from several agencies in a single place and then after short-listing the houses, you can contact the agencies directly.

One more tip from my friend Agor, I pasting as it is from one email of his-

...To be sure that you are renting the place from the real owners please check www.kadaster.nl. They charge you 2.95 euros for providing the information about the real owner based on the address details.

I want to tell you this because one of my friend rented an apartment via the marktplaats and the guy who rented the apartment told him that he is the owner. He had even registered in town hall for the apartment thinking that town hall will do all the verification but after 1.5 months when the real owner showed up, he realized the scam. He lost two months deposit to this scammer.

The scammer is the ex-tenant who stayed in the apartment. I hope to warn you all about scams like this when you rent a apartment directly and Kadaster will help you to find the real owner.

  

1)Click www.kadaster.nl

2) Select Particulier

3)Select producten en diensten

4)Select Kadastraal Bericht Eigendom

5)Select nu kopen

6)Enter the postcode and house no of the apartment you wish to verify

7)Select Kadastraal bericht eigendom

8)Click Naar Winkelwegen and pay through online

9)PDF will be opened with all the details