Indian Govt's 5 SMS per day person to person restriction for 15 days

Hi! You have sent 5 SMS today. As per Govt. guidelines, you can,t send more outgoing person to person SMS today. Your SMS services will be resumed post Midnight.

From 18-Aug you have observed that you are getting this message while sending more than 5 SMS to a single person. This was the most ever heard rule by the Indian Government (TRAI), This news has been, rounds since July this year but it’s finally confirmed now. From 18th of August 2012 you can’t send more than 5 SMS to a person, and it has been a person to person Restriction Policy.  
As of now, many telecom operaters have implemented this and users have already started getting these type of messages, while others yet to go. But on a official note, I was not able to find any formal announcement on TRAI's website.

I know its a very sad news for all who chat through SMS. But this action has bound the telecom providers with a great competition, So soon there will be a way to recover it. Lets hope for the good. Stay in touch for more updates on it.

[Updated after 45 min of original post]

New updates are, Its not TRAI who did this. This not a new restriction. This is just a temporary thing for 15 days by Govt. of India. The decision was taken after reports of widespread circulation of SMSs and MMSs containing misleading information about Assam violence, threats to people of northeastern origin living in other parts of the country and doctored videos. 
The home ministry has asked department of telecommunications to implement the order through the telecom operators.
From Friday onwards, no one will be able to send more than 5 SMSs in one go and more than 20 KB of data through mobile phones during the ban period. This ban period is of 15 days.

For more info read: TOI, Yahoo, HT.

Aah! Finally a relief that its not permanent.

Share it. Share knowledge. Share happiness. 
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IF {this} THEN {that}

Internet, its not just a word, its a world. Now a days its growing like anything. There are number of services and applications available to manage, to educate, to entertain, to socialize, to share and to make you available for the rest of the world. But what if you can integrate them?



IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: "if this then that".

IFTTT, the service that lets you automate common tasks on the web, mostly focuses on consumer services like Dropbox, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Didn't get it? Bored for reading this? Now how about a magical trick?

Want to instantly save all your Instagram photos to Dropbox when you take them? What about automatically updating your Twitter profile when you update your Facebook profile? Or, what about sharing any article you read in Read It Later to Twitter and Facebook, staggered by time via Buffer? A small bootstrapped startup called If This Then That has abstracted a simple set of tools to help you do each of these things, and many more.

How this works?











You need to create a recipe, which contain a trigger(this) and action(that).


Recipes: are a combination of a Trigger and an Action from your active Channels.

Channels: are the basic building blocks of IFTTT. Each Channel has its own Triggers and Actions. Currently the are 47 channels supported, that includes facebook, twitter, RSS, sms, call, instagram, email, weather etc.

Triggers: The this part of a Recipe is a Trigger. Some example Triggers are “I’m tagged in a photo on Facebook” or “I post a tweet on Twitter.”

Actions: The that part of a Recipe is an Action. Some example Actions are “send me a text message” or “create a status message on Facebook.”

You can know more about IFTTT at IFTTT.com/WTF

Now some examples:

• If {morning} then {send me weather updates via sms}.
• If {anyone tag me on facebook} then {set its privacy to only me}.

In more simpler words you can do following:-

• iTunes #FreeAppoftheWeek via Email
• Created a photo album "tagged" and set the privacy on it to Only Me. 
• Text me the weather every morning.
• When Facebook profile picture changes, update Twitter profile picture.
• Every time you are tagged in a photo on Facebook, it will be sent to Dropbox.
• Let me know if it's going to rain.
• Keeping all the images you upload to FB photos in one safe place
• Save photo from Instagram to Dropbox

Also, there are many ready to you recipes at IFTTT.com/Recipes

Once you will understand the whole concept, eventually you'll fall in love with it. Like, I am. :)

Use it. Share it. Share happiness.

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Low Battery! WTF!!

How to improve battery life

Hello everyone. Namastay!
Now a days everyone's life dependents upon battery.
"Hell, What?" 
No people are not running on battery :P. But their important gadgets and devices are. And almost everyone faces the problem that after few months their battery's performance decrease drastically. So what is the problem actually? Are manufacturers not working on this thing? No, this is not. The reason is we are not caring out our batteries. 
"Who told you? I care my battery like anything. I kill unwanted tasks, switch off WiFi/ Bluetooth if I am not using, adjust screen brightness as per day light."

Well you are doing good, but I have discussed it with few battery experts and customer care executives. I came to know about many facts on batteries. Following are some best practices for you. So here we go:

• Always use the original/native charger to charge a battery. Each type of battery has some specification and you must use an original/native charger for it. Never use things like multi-battery charger, duplicate car chargers, etc.
• Don't charge if your batteries are not really drained out. I saw many people, As soon as they enter into their room or find a empty charger they just plug it in. You should always charge you device if its showing low battery sign.
• Charge it fully. Everytime when you charge your device, charge it fully(100%). Don't plug out in between.
• Try to avoid the use of device while charging it. I know its not possible everytime. But still you can keep this thing in your mind.
• Avoid extra heating of device. While charging you can put your mobile/laptop/tablet keep its back side in front. So that the batteries can cool down.

You can find these things silly, but believe me once you start following them, on a long run your battery performance will improve for sure. 

I am using mobile, laptop, tablet, trimmer, digital camera since ages :P and have not faced any battery problem :) (touchwood). 

I have tried to keep it more readable, simpler and hide most of the technical details. If someone want to know more, can write me.

Have fun with your batteries.
Share it. Share happiness.

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Micromax Funbook - value for money

Heyya all!!! Wassp??

I was on long leave from this dashboard. But when I announced to write this post, following was the reactions of people outside my house.












Crazy fans!! you know..


Few days back I bought my new tablet i.e. Micromax Funbook P300 and you can find the technical and hardware details of this product here or anywhere just google it. From the day I wanted to right something about my experience on this gadget and....  its AWESOME!!! in terms of satisfaction.
As per my experience on this:

• It is a true value for your money, available at 6000/- to 6500/- depends upon your local dealer.
• Just pay 500/- more and you will get a TataPhotone+ with postpaid connection (2GB free for 2 months). It works very fine with this tablet.
• OR just use any damm data card on it. Micromax announced that only TataPhoton will work. Well thats not true. I have used Alcatel with BSNL and TataDocomo, Huawei with !dea, Docomo & BSNL. Works smoothly.
• Front camera is OK, Sub-standard display (or you can say avg kindda), sound quality is good. Its a nice experience to watch video or movie on its. Supports all popular formats.
• Its handy, sleek slim design, touch is also good. Battery life is OK.
• Now lets move to its best part. Android 4.0(ICS). A number of free applications and games. I bet it will be your best time killer ever with full satisfaction.

In one line "don't think, just go for it". 

Feel free to contact me for any help/ query on Funbook and yes, of-course thank you all lucky people who read it.    

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Gifts to Jaipur. Wherever. Whenever.

"The Internet has made a number of things easier than ever before and that includes finding and giving gifts. Help others find the perfect gift for you. Create a wishlist, and it goes out to your friends and family. When you are out of town, then sending gift can help to keep the warmth of the bond between you and your loved ones intact."


Last week, It was my friend's birthday. He is a very good friend of mine. We have celebrated his birthday lots of time. But this year, I was not able to wish him personally.  I was thinking that what can I do and suddenly I thought that I can send him a birthday cake at mid-night and surprise him. I searched for it and finally found a service that was true value for money.

After the wonderful service I had some words with its owner and came to know that they a new start-up and looking for more publicity. I made up my mind to help him and finally I got time for it.

So, here comes the details about the service. One of the reliable online gift delivery services is provided by giftjaipur.com. This web-portal’s services are very professional and help you to send customized gift, facilitate you to buy something special for Valentine’s Day, birthdays, retirement celebrations or weddings. Occasion could be any; you will get perfect gifts for the particular occasion on giftjaipur.com.

Gift category available on giftjaipur.com are:

Birthday gifts, birthday cakes, birthday mugs, fresh flowers, special red rose bunch, eggless cakes, occasional cakes, chocolate truffle cake, designer cake, animated cakes, homemade chocolates, flavored chocolates, ferrero- rocher chocolates, wedding gifts, congratulation gifts, cookies, assorted gift basket for all occasions, rajasthan’s special sweets, Kaju katli, gulabjamunn, rasgulle.

So what you are waiting for, use reliable and economical service of giftjaipur.com and give a shocking surprise to your loved ones.

Create free online profile page

A personal web-page that's all about you. Create free online profile using about.me.
Using about.me services you can quickly build a personal and dynamic splash page that points visitors to your content from around the web.

This is my about.me profile.

Other then customizing and publishing your page you can also understand how many people see your profile, where they're coming from, and what they do on your page.

Create you online profile now.
URL: https://about.me/

Create a Panorama image

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. In most simple words its "wide format photography". The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio.

Above image is an example of panorama-image. Now its very easy to create these type of images.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. The stitched panorama can be shared with friends and viewed in 3D by uploading it to the Photosynth web site. Or the panorama can be saved in a wide variety of image formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by Silverlight's Deep Zoom and by the HD View and HD View SL panorama viewers.

You can download its 32-bit version and 64-bit version.

Find more details on its native web-site.

Facebook Wall of shame

Source: WordStream (Link)

Java is losing popularity

Despite the recent release of a major upgrade to the platform, Java is losing popularity based on the latest monthly assessment of programming languages by Tiobe Software.
The October edition of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, released Sunday, October 9, found that Java lost popularity in September, with an estimated 17.913 percent of developers using it as opposed to 18.761 percent in the previous month's index. Java still finished as the top language, but if the downward trend continues, the C language, ranked second with 17.707 percent of users, will be number one next month, Tiobe said.


Java has been tops in the index from 2001 until now with a few exceptions between mid-2004 and mid- 2005 and couple of months last year, when C took over, said Paul Jansen, managing director at Tiobe. He anticipates Java facing a long-term downward trend based on what he sees happening in the field. "This downward trend is probably caused by the fact that the Java language evolves too slowly compared to other languages, such as C#," Jansen said.
Rounding out the top 10 languages in Tiobe's index were C++, PHP, C#, Objective-C, Visual Basic, Python, Perl, and JavaScript. Objective-C and Transact-SQL scored all-time highs, with usage rates of 6.245 percent and .909 percent respectively, while Assembly re-entered the top 20 by claiming the 19th spot. Visual Basic.Net jumped to the 25th spot after ranking 39th last month, while F# dropped from 23rd to 46th.

This would be a very bad news for "Open-source community" too as java is the largest supporter. Well we can just wish best for Java and Java developers.

Source: InfoWorld, Tiobe Programming Community index

WebRupee

Symbol for Indian currency was approved by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010. WebRupee is a web api for the symbol of Indian currency, it makes the rupee symbol available to everybody on the web. WebRupee API provides a simple, cross browser method for using the Rupee symbol on your webpage, blog or anywhere on the web.

How To Use WebRupee?

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1. Add a stylesheet link in the head section of your webpage: http://cdn.webrupee.com/font
   
2. Add the following code enclosing your "Rs."
   
   

   span class="WebRupee" "Rs" span

   Rs. 200

OR

1. Just include the following javascript and it will update all the " Rs " / " Rs. " for you
   

Source: WebRupee.com

Create mosaic posters for facebook wall

If you want to create mosaic posters of your facebook profile pic using your friends's profile pics then just fit the bellow URL-

Frintr-http://frintr.com/

• Just visit the website and select which social network you want to use to create a mosaic image from your friends. The social networks covered are Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
• Once you select the social network it will prompt you to sign in with your account credentials.
• This will start creating a mosaic patterned images from your friends on the network. It is low resolution and hence free.
• I could also change the image which I wanted rendered in mosaic format. 

 

Secrets of Syncing, Streaming and Organizing

Don't mess with codecs: If you're tired of installing and updating audio and video codecs to extend your player's capabilities, make VLC your main media player. Easily the most compatible media player available, VLC can handle a multitude of file and streaming formats designed for iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, and more.
Prevent stream stutter: Though many factors outside your control could interrupt your video stream (especially if you're streaming from another user's PC rather than from a dedicated service such as Netflix or YouTube), one tweak that may help is to increase the size of your system's read buffer. This adjustment will make the stream take longer to start, but it can also smooth out some hiccups by introducing a little more latency.
In VLC, open the Open Network Stream menu, check Show more options, and bump up the number in the Caching field. In Windows Media Player, choose Options from the Organize menu, click the Performance tab, and manually adjust the ‘Buffering settings'.
Accelerate or slow down podcasts: If you want to play back your audiobooks and podcasts in Windows Media Player at a different speed from the one they were set to play at, you can arrange it instantly via a few keyboard shortcuts. Press Ctrl-Shift-G to make a podcast play faster, press Ctrl-Shift-S to slow it down, and press Ctrl-Shift-N to reset it to normal.
Automate photo uploads: Depending on which photo management software and online photo services you prefer, you may be able to upload new pictures automatically.
LiveUpload to Facebook can publish from Windows Live Gallery, while Picasa can post anything you put in a Picasa Web Album on the Picasa Website. If you favor Flickr, try Foldr Monitr, which can watch a specific folder for newly added images and post them to your Flickr account.
(For more on automating your media collection, see "Automate Your PC's Media Library.")
Tag photos from Windows: If you have a lot of photos on your PC, you'll probably want to organize them with a photo gallery app (such as Windows Live Photo Gallery or Picasa). But if you don't want to deal with an extra application, you can use Windows 7's built-in metadata support to maintain order among your photos by means of descriptive tags ("Kids" or "Vacation," for example).
Just select the pictures in Windows Explorer, click Show More Details... at the bottom of the open window, click Tags, and type the tags you want to use (separate multiple tags with semicolons). Once you've tagged your photos, you can search for them by placing "tag:" in front of your search string.

Must-have on a browser

Here are some useful tips to improve your web experience on any browser. Enjoy and share comments.


Capture a full-page screenshot: Ever need to snag a screenshot of an entire Web page? Three utilities designed for specific browsers -- Screengrab for Firefox, IE Screenshot, and Talon for Google Chrome -- are perfectly suited to the task.

Try IE-in-a-tab: Even if you typically don't use Internet Explorer, you should have a copy of it handy for special situations. You might need to see how your site works in IE, for instance, or a site you use might not support other browsers. For maximum convenience, IE Tab for Firefox and IE Tab for Chrome let you keep the Microsoft browser in a tab so you don't have to juggle multiple browsers at once.

Bring back the bookmark: If you got out of the habit of using the humble bookmark because synchronizing different sets of bookmarks was too much of a hassle, install Xmarks. It lets you sync your bookmarks across different PCs and across different browsers.

Verify sites' trustworthiness: The Internet can be a dangerous place, but the Web of Trust browser add-on promises to make your excursions there a little safer by telling you how the sites you visit rate in terms of privacy policy, vendor reliability, and child safety.

Save eight keystrokes from every URL: You no longer need to type "www." or ".com" in most URLs. Instead, merely type the unique part of the domain name that you want to visit -- say, pcworld -- into your browser's navigation bar, and press Ctrl-Enter. Your browser will automatically fill in the "www." and ".com" parts of the address.

Middle-click to open a link in a new tab: Middle-clicking a link (that is, clicking it with the scrollwheel) will cause it to open in a new tab. Middle-clicking a folder containing multiple bookmarks will cause all of them to open in new tabs.

Improve a site's printer friendliness: At most Websites, the "printer-friendly" versions of the content are pretty awful. So head over to PrintWhatYouLike.com, and pick exactly which page elements you want to keep in your hard copy.

Safely remove memory cards and Pen Drives without waiting

You're supposed to use the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system tray before unplugging memory cards and the like -- but waiting for it is such a pain that you'll be itching to pull your memory card without waiting for Safely Remove Hardware to do its thing. The key to making quick removal safe is to ensure that Windows isn't writing to the card without your knowledge; if the operating system behaves itself, you can eject the card whenever you want without corrupting your data.
To adjust your settings, first right-click the memory card in Windows Explorer, choose Properties, click the Hardware tab, select the memory card reader, and choose Properties; then click the Policies tab (you may have to click the ‘Change settings' button before Policies shows up), and choose Optimize for quick removal. Henceforth, you won't need Safely Remove Hardware.

Disable touchpad clicking when you type

If your touchpad is set to detect a tapping motion as a mouse click, it can send your cursor flying around your screen whenever your wrist accidentally brushes against the touchpad. Grab Touchfreeze, a free utility that automatically disables your touchpad while you're typing, and you won't have to wonder where your newly typed text ended up.

You can download this msi from Google Code.
 
Link

Enjoy.

Stick to one point of view (Windows7 Trick)

Windows will remember and abide by your View settings for each individual folder -- a level of faithfulness that's annoying if you like to stick with a particular view setting. Open a folder, click the Organize tab, and choose Folder and search options. Select the View tab and click the Apply to folders button at the top. You have a new default folder!

Change Windows Explorer's default folder

Tired of clicking through Windows Explorer to find the one folder you use regularly? You can save precious time and mouse clicks by making Windows Explorer open your favorite folder by de­­fault. Right-click the Explorer icon in your taskbar, and then right-click Windows Explorer and select Properties. In the Target field, add a space and a file path at the end of the ‘%windir%\explorer.exe' section, so that the new (longer) path looks like this: ‘%windir%\explorer.exe C:\Users\yourusername\yourfolder'.

Run apps from anywhere

You can launch applications and set parameters from your keyboard, without having to waste time digging through the Start menu to find the one you want to use. Press Windows-R to bring up the Run dialog box.

Launch taskbar apps directly (Windows 7)

Put your most commonly used appli­cations in the taskbar, and you'll use your mouse a lot less. Pressing Windows plus any number key will launch the program in the corresponding taskbar slot (so Windows-1 will open Windows Explorer, Windows-2 will open the app positioned to the right of Explorer, and so on).