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Tata Photon Prepaid Balance and Usage Details
I recently wrote a small review of Tata photon prepaid. Since writing that review people have asked me how to check their balance left and usage details so I decided to share this: How do I check my Tata Photon Prepaid Balance? When I had bought my first tata photon datacard back in March, the [...]
Full StoryUnblock Firefox when Firefox is not working but IE is
My work takes me to different places, different offices. For the past few days I was working inside a network where for some inexplicable reason all browsers except internet explorer were blocked. All versions of IE were working just fine, but the network administrator through some firewall programme had blocked all other browsers. I am [...]
Full StoryTata Photon Prepaid Review
Tata photon has recently launched prepaid internet connection for their High Speed Broadband data card. Now I do have an excellent wired broadband internet connection at home (again from Tata indicom broadband) but still I went ahead and bought one for my laptop. Now I am usually carrying my laptop around and it made sense [...]
Full StoryDisable Automatic Updates Adobe
One of the annoying things about all Adobe Products is Adobe’s autotmatic update feature. I was today browsing the net on a slower network when I found that Adobe Automatic updater was downloading several MB’s of update files. While I like my adobe products to be updated, I would want that the program ask me [...]
Full StoryInternet Explorer Platform Preview
Microsoft has announced the release of a new platform to test it’s upcoming Internet Explorer 9 version, in what it has branded as “Internet Explorer Platform Preview”. The official Internet Explorer Blog released the following Information about the platform preview. Today we’re excited to release the first ever Internet Explorer Platform Preview. The Platform Preview provides [...]
Full StoryGoogle Certified AD Networks on Adsense
Google has recently announced the addition of Third Party Ad networks to their AdSense Programme. If you are an Adsense publisher, this is the mail you may have g0t: We have launched a new capability in AdSense allowing Google-certified ad networks compete directly within AdSense, which means that advertisers from these third-party networks will be [...]
Full StoryYoutube Full Screen Button Missing
If you are a blogger or forum owner, you might notice that when you embed a Youtube video in your blog or post, it’s missing the Fullscreen button. I personally own a VBulletin powered Oracle Forums. One of the members at the site shared a video and I noticed that the video was missing the [...]
Full StoryWho wants Google wave Invites?
Hi friends, I have had the Google Wave account for quite some time now, and I have 25 Google wave invites left. If you would like an invite, drop me a comment and your mail id. Related posts No related posts.
Full StoryChange your network but keep your existing number: Mobile number portability in India
UPDATE 2: As expected, MNP has been delayed again. Trai chairman J.S. Sarma said on June 8, 2010, “MNP should not go beyond September”. It seems now we are looking at a date of 30th September. However with the current plans of 3G rollout by end of this year, even this date seems unlikely. UPDATE: [...]
Full StorySite URL or index.php appended in Google Analytics
I have always had this strange problem that all my site’s URL’s in Google Analytics have my full site URL appended. I am talking about my Oracle Forums. I always ignored it because the stats were being shown correctly. Today, I decided to investigate it, and is it turns out the “fix” is really simple. [...]
Full StoryOracle.com Hacked?
Since I am the Administrator of an Oracle Forum, I also browse other Oracle related sites regularly. Among Oracle blogs and forums that I visit, I am quite frequent at the official oracle forums on the oracle.com website, i.e –> forums.oracle.com Today to my utter surprise I found a particular page on forums.oracle.com selling CIALIS [...]
Full StoryAirtel Website Builder Review
Bharti Airtel had entered into the Broadband Internet sector as a logical next step from it’s Mobile services. Airtel has entered into a partnership with a company called Akmin which provides website Building Solutions for PC & Mobile to provide Website Building Solutions targeting the non tech professionals’ market in India. So basically Airtel is [...]
Full StoryGoogle Analytics Hourly Data
Google Analytics provides hourly data for a few reports. The hourly data reports are available for the following reports: Visitors: Visits, Absolute Unique Visitors, Page Views, Average Page Views, Time on Site, Bounce Rate Goals: Total Conversions, Conversion Rate, Goal Value, Abandoned Funnels E-Commerce: Total Revenue, Conversion Rate, Average Order Value When hourly data is [...]
Full StoryUpgrade PHP 5.1 to 5.2 on centos with APC VBulletin
I have a dedicated server running CentOS 5. I run 4 Vbulletin forums and a few WordPress sites. Vbulletin is set to release their much awaited version Vbulletin 4 with Publishing Suite and all those fancy features. Being an active license holder, I decided to play with the new version by upgrading a test instance [...]
Full StoryTake screenshot without the taskbar
Often we have to take a screenshot of our monitors to maybe send it to demonstrate the problem we are facing to IT support or maybe to share with a friend. The keyboard key “Print Screen” is a life saver in such situations. However there is a small problem that when we take a screenshot [...]
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