Housing in Leiden

Good Luck in House Hunting

http://www.accommodate.nl/

http://www.housinganywhere.com/

http://www.duwo.nl/

http://www.stichtingroofs.nl/roofs_en/default.asp

http://www.sfshousing.nl/index.php?la=eng

http://www.burohogeland.nl/

http://www.directwonen.nl/

http://www.easyrentals.nl/en

http://www.kamerraad.nl/

http://www.livingtoday.nl/english

http://rotsvast.nl/nl/Home/

http://www.deverhuurmakelaar.nl/eng/index.htm

http://www.vijfsterrenleiden.nl/index-en.html

http://www.pararius.com/english/clientHome.php?lvl1=1&lvl2=1

http://www.studentenkamers.nl/

http://www.kamerhulp.nl/

http://www.kamertje.nl/

http://www.kamerverhuur.nl/

New to Holland

The following tips has been very well organized by my wife Naveena, for the people who are new to Holland looking for education, doctors, cheap train tickets etc.


EDUCATION:

Link for  Masters Course Funding Organisation Called as ib groep :

http://www.ib-groep.nl/particulieren/international-student/default.asp


Link for vrij university Amsterdam: http://www.vu.nl/en/programmes/international-masters/programmes/programmes.asp

Once you become a  masters student in any of dutch univ you can commute by train for free from your residence to college. But you can get to know all such things in detail later once u are enrolled in any program. So distance and travel cost need not be a criteria for deciding your masters course

COMMUNICATION:

cheap calls from internet
http://www.rynga.com/en/download.html
which is much cheaper than the smart voip and voip discount.
India (LL) 0.012 incl VAT
India (Mob) 0.009 incl VAT
NL (LL) Free

So you can check it out and try


IMPORTANT:ALL THESE RATES KEEP CHANGING SO RECHARGE IT  BY MINIMUM CREDITS
USE NORMAL ONLINE BANKING FOR RECHARGE THROUGH IDEAL OPTION  AND DO NOT USE CREDIT CARD.


DUTCH LANGUAGE: Here are few language links which i found interesting to learn basic dutch all and links teach in their own way so you can try and

www.2bdutch.nl
http://learndutch.elanguageschool.net/course/view.php?id=2
http://learndutch.elanguageschool.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=29
http://www.nt2taalmenu.nl/

For interactive learning from native speakers (very quick way to make new friends and learn)

www.livemocha.com
http://lang-8.com/


JOB LINKS: Few Job search links

http://www.monsterboard.nl/

http://www.undutchables.nl/

http://www.unique.nl/umls

http://vacaturekrant.nl/

http://www.abroad-experience.com/

http://www.michaelpage.nl/
 

COOKING: There is one link for cooking which  inspired me to explore kitchen and I really enjoy to follow and cook the recipies from this web page. Believe me all recipies i tried so far has come out amazingly good. www.vahrevah.com

House Doctor(Huisarts): Registering with Huisarts is something very important when you need any medical advice. So here is the link http://www.zorgkaartnederland.nl/

You can just register with any of the doctor who is nearest to your house
You should have your resi permit and insurance card to register.
So you can do it as soon as you get both these cards. Let it be in your priority list.

Cheap Train and bus tickets:

For going around Europe you can find some interesting deals comming up now and then in the below sites. Keep looking now and then for real gud deals.

Train:  http://www.citynightline.nl/
Bus:   http://www.eurolines.com/

BOOKS: Undutchables is one important book I recommend you to read to get to know about dutch people, culture, habits etc... It is very interesting, funny and nice to read. I have a copy of the book you can come and pick it up when you are free.

Temple: Here is the temple link you can check the timings and visit.
http://www.hindutemple.nl/



So here is every thing I remember for a starter in Netherlands. Feel free to ask me for any doubts

Networking in Science and for Jobs

For Scientific networking its good below links


http://www.academia.edu/


http://www.biomedexperts.com/


For Job searching  and networking, the following link plays important role

http://www.linkedin.com/

Updating knowledge with better softwares

These are some of the tools which could help any students to maximize their efforts

Its time to change the pdf reader
Most of the people are still using adobe reader for viewing all pdf files etc.
Which is okay, but while reading if u want to highlight some text or bookmark some pages, then its not possible in free version.

But all these tools are still possible for free, check Foxit reader.


http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/index.php

Below given link is directly for the software:
http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/reader/desktop/win/4.x/4.3/enu/FoxitReader431_enu_Setup.exe

try it, you would love it for sure, especially while reading books, cool tool is to draw arrows to indicate and make pdf files.
use these things efficiently before they make you pay.

The only minor problem is after installing this software, though you unselect not to install toolbar in internet browser, it still installs, so one has to go to browser and disable that, thats all.


Trouble in Organizing E-books, check the below given link for the good software to organize your ebook collection

http://calibre-ebook.com/

main advanatage is, just by ISBN, this software can search all the metadata and  download them by single click

Its Free and easy to use

Wondering from where to get the ebooks of anything that exists, check the following link

Gigapedia : http://library.nu/

Ebookee: http://www.ebookee.net/

Scribd : http://www.scribd.com/

just Google the name of the book with pdf download; you can also find links from megapedia etc.



Google being famous and taken almost all applications for all sorts of people
for students application by name Google reader can do wonders
especially to track all the journals to read on time.

so easy llok for RSS feed, click it and read with google account.
Then you can read news, blogs and still keep track of journals in one page
for a quick tour follow below link
http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html

 This is after you collect the reference papers and want to organize and still use for referencing while writing Papers/reports/Thesis in word

http://www.mendeley.com/

This is Free software, it can search all the information of article just by doi
similar to endnote but then this is free software

Recently came across the below given link, which is very nice can do wonders for the people who wants to search or convert etc or anything just type and see

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

For the people more interested in planning/organizzing etc
check Mindmanager from http://www.mindjet.com/

I hope these links help you, anydoubts or you need more calrification, feel free to contact me
Good luck