Posts Tagged ‘ Internet & Mobile ’

Why I would recommend Flipkart

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My personal online shopping is more or less restricted to travel, web products, movie booking , Bill pay etc which are very standardized products/services. I have made most of my online product purchases on non indian ecommerce sites (google, amazon , bestbuy etc) though I have few transactions in my name in erstwhile baazee.com (now ebay.in) way back in early 2000. Why ? I think the primary issues being TRUST. Trust on the service provider and the product itself. In name of discounts and deals most of the online sites are selling cheap imitation of real products. Moreover the vendors also...

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Integrating FB social Plugin Like and Comment

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Integrating FB social Plugin Like and Comment

Facebook has made integrating of ‘Like’ , ‘Send’ and comments really a simple process with social plugin. I have implemented all three of them without using any plugin in my wordpress blog or creating an application ID on Facebook. You can find the complete documentation of the three social plugin on Facebook developer’s Page for social plugin. Facebook like : You can customize the like and send button for your blog. The customization include format , width , color , font and option to hide / display facepile (Thumbnail of friend’s photo). You can generate the code from here....

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Google +1 for your blog

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Google +1 for your blog

Google launched +1 recommendation button for publishers yesterday. This could possibly be the turning point in the Google vs Facebook war to control the web. Facebook has taken a lead by share and like button but google +1 is a bigger counter to all this. With Google controlling the major portion of publishers organic traffic they would be more than willing to install the recommendation button on their blogs and sites. The implementation is really easy and even easier for wordpress blogs. Step : 1 Select the desired size of the button. There are four option to pick from. Step :...

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upgrading of my blackberry 8520 firmware

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upgrading of my blackberry 8520 firmware

Few months back I joined the Blackberry train and bought a 8520 for myself. I found the phone quite handy and feature loaded even without subscribing to blackberry plan. The handset works smoothly using the standard mobile internet (GPRS) connection except for the push mail. Following application are seamless on blackberry 8520 on GPRS , practically every application which is NOT made for blackberry only - Gmail - Google Maps - Google Search - NGpay - FourSquare - UberTwitter - Gtalk Fantastic phone !!! I am now subscribed to the Basic Blackberry plan with Idea (email only plan). The...

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one year at indiatimes

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one year at indiatimes

29 September 2010 oh  just realized it’s been a year i have logged out of makaan.com and signed into times internet limited.  The year has been full of excitement and challenges.  I pulled my self out from a state of non working and retirment and had a stupendeo fantabulous time working with team communities.  Its been an amazing experience and fun to work  in the socialbookmarking and email space and much more. And as a mayor of Indiatimes :)  i thank everyone for the  encouragement and the support extended to me. errr… do this starts looking like a farewell mail to you…..then you are wrong, picture abhi baaki hai...

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Installing canon sx200 IS zoom ex browser without CD

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Installing canon sx200 IS zoom ex browser without CD

Hard disk crash or OS re installation is a nightmare I have gone through innumerable times  And the worse part to it it restore the all the previously installed software (and off course the saved password on browsers). Anyways most recently I have gone through this last fortnight. Now there are several of the softwares available (freeware obviously) of the shelf from respective sites and that’s the best way to get the updated version. And then there are many which come in form of CD with the products. They are the biggest pain point if you loose the CD’s over a...

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Safeguard your SIM card against misuse

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Safeguard your SIM card against misuse

There seems to be a perfect synergy in the marketing and sales department of cellular companies. Both departments are supplementing each other in growing the subscriber base (And possibly redcuing ARPU). The telesales ladies pushes hard to sell complementary ‘Golden’, ‘Platinum’ and matching/similar numbers to your current Mobile number in ever sweet voice. I have recd two such calls since morning. Good I have recieved two call in morning itself and now I can chill (My average incoming telesales call stands at 2). I am sure you want to know how have I managed this. Follow these simple rules to avoid...

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Google Wave – a new wave of communication

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Google Wave – a new wave of communication

Google announced to launch Google wave later this year. This is bound to create a wave across the Internet world. So what is exactly is a wave. In a simple words Google wave is a real-time communication platform. It’s a hybrid of email, instant messaging, web chat, social networking, micro bloging, file share all build into one interface. Features of wave : You can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process (contextual suggestions...

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