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Steve Jobs belongs to the league of famous college drop-outs that include Bill Gates ( Microsoft), Larry Ellison ( Oracle), Michael Dell (Dell) and Richard Branson (Virgin group).    Jobs, whose personal wealth is about $9 billion, in early years survived on money he got from selling coke bottles and weekly free meals at Hare Krishna temple in Oregon.  Jobs traveled to India in search of spiritual enlightenment and took to Buddhism, shaved his head and wore Indian cloths. Worked with HP in Palo Alto in California where he met Steve Wozniak, with whom he founded Apple Publishing house Simon & Schuster is set to publish the authorized biography of Jobs in November that will include his resignation. In the multiple-Oscar winning Hollywood movie Forest Gump, the lead character by the same name, played by Tom Hanks, refers to Apple as "some sort of fruit company" whose shares Gump ends up owning. In July 1976, Apple sold its first PC, ...

This post may seem to be out of context. But you can consider it as a review of some websites. Websites that provide free online content for education. For any student it is very essential to get good quality study material. Specially when we talk about Indian students they don't refer authentic material. These free resources might help them get good study stuff at their computers with ease. So here is the list of websites that provide Free & Useful Resources for Educational Content.   The fist website in my list is: 1) Academic Earth : Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. At Academic Earth, they are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. Know more about Academic Earth by visiting theri website: http://academicearth.org/about 2) NPTEL : NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Vid...