You heard it right.

I just got myself a MTS high speed data card for FREE !!!

That too prepaid and no strings attached. Only thing its locked to the MTS network.

Yup a company in Pune was offering this on purchase of FRC998 voucher from MTS (3 GB for 3 months broadband ). So works out to Rs. 333 for 1GB per month which is reasonable and better speeds then Reliance netconnect+ for home use.

Best part of these prepaid plans are one can use the entire 3 GB in 1 month or spread across 3 months or keep the dongle in cupboard for 2 months and used it in the 3rd month (Its that flexible) unlike post paid which gets lapsed on the next billing cycle.

You would naturally ask why didn’t I go for the 3G. Well I don’t need it.

On a recent show of Tech Guru the anchor was candid enough to state dual core and then quad core and what not but for a decent tablet experience a single core is more than good enough.

Same way instead of buying over expensive 3G connection. I would any time prefer the 3.1Mbps service over the 7Mbps 3G because finally 3 things matter

* Throughput at peak loads (when everyone is accessing internet in the area)
* Cost
* Do you really need the expensive blazing speeds or a free modem with a flexible prepaid plan is better

 BTW Reliance has a wonderful plan for its Netconnect+. Rs. 3000 for 6 months for 18GB. You heard it right. You can use that 18GB flexibly over the 6 months period. Like for my last 10days of contact i have 2.5GB data transfer still remaining so guys in office are downloading heavy files like softwares, songs, games and what not when i an not in office

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How to automatically find a person has reached mobile coverage area or switched on his phone.

We many times want to speak to a person urgent but that phone is switched off or out of coverage area.

We keep calling and calling at different time intervals with a doubt that if that person switches on or comes in coverage would call back or not. Well there is no need to buy some mobile tracking app or something.

There is a simple easy solution on your mobile handset itself. Its there on every handset whether a smart phone or a phone costing Rs.800.

This is how you do it.

In your mobile -> Messages -> message settings -> Common settings -> Delivery report -> tick

Then when you send sms to the person the message will leave your mobile but as soon as its delivered you get a message back of delivery report.

Which means the mobile is in coverage area or that bugger has switched on the phone.

Pretty neat trick which costs nothing what do you think

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Ok so the world has shrunk and over seas clients are common.

Apart from good English its important to learn the accent. Especially the American Accent.

But arn’t we starting over doing it ?

Its important to understand and speak American accent you need to understand what that fellow is saying and you need to speak in his language. But I rather prefer the neutral accent used by the BBC.

About a week back i got a call from an Indian portal about a listing I put on their site on my requirements. This bugger started talking in American Accent that too with an Indian within India !!!

I got annoyed and played my trick of speaking with him in the Liver pool English which was difficult for that bugger to understand which forced him to talk in regular Indian English.

Well in India every 100kms the local language changes or the dialect changes but do you know that the Firangi land (UK) has the same thing.

Every city has its own unique dialect and funny part is if a Scotish fellow starts speaking with a fellow from Manchester. Both have a language problem even though its English.

Coming back to the point of the American Accent. Do we really need that in India to talk to Indians. What do these Idots think living in India and speaking with indian in Firangi tone they become foreigners HAHAHAHAH……

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I got a call today from a guy who wanted to design a website.

I asked him what’s it about. He said Chat. But I was unsure he was disclosing what he wanted. Rather he was trying to hide something from me.

Well after about 15 minutes he opened up slightly.

He had an Idea but unwilling to share. He said he would disclose it after signing a Non disclosure agreement. Well fine…

He has no money to work on the project.
He has no prior experience in the field.
He has no mentor from the field who can guide him
He has no technical staff.
He doesn’t know the hell of the business and wants to jump in.

This fellow was quoted Rs. 50,000 to build a project like Shiksha.com but had absolutely no idea of how a project has to be executed. Rather i felt he was fueling his alter ego for free.

When I told him a project like that must have costed Rs. 15 Lakhs he was stunned. It’s simply the salaries of atleast 20 member team for 6 months would easily come to that figure.

People don’t under stand that idea does have its value…

BUT

To implement it requires
* A lot of Conviction
* A lot of perseverance
* A lot of money
* Execution skills

Unless you are convinced on the project VC will throw your papers in the dustbin.

This fellow was inspired by idea of Mark Zuckerberg and saw him steal the idea or something in the film Facebook. BUT this fellow only saw the success and the money but failed to notice Mark’s belief and conviction in the idea that it will work. The 2 brothers who got the so called original idea might not have even attempted to explore it.

There are thousands of Ideas people have each day but 0.0000000001% get to see implemented half heartedly.

Sabir Bhatia a very bright mind and successful entrepreneur sold his company Hotmail.com to Microsoft. But then he started Arzoo a travel portal half heartedly and it failed even though he had to money and the fame and the biggest success story behind him

Conclusion is
* If you have an idea write it down
* If you have written it down explore if you have the passion to pursue it.
* If you have the passion; acquire skills and knowledge required to achieve it.

I fortunately know few Venture Capitalists who invest in new ideas (since I host some of their projects). They clearly say we don’t look at the project at its face value. We rather strive to see If the person coming up with the proposal has the conviction and knowledge.

Many times the idea might not be new but the inventor might be so much driven by the idea and convinced and did his homework well that we are tempted to put our money in the project. We have the money and are ready to stake it on a good idea. If the person with the idea doesn’t show his passion about it, its no point considering the proposal even though its very unique.

I cannot forget the line ” We stake our money not just on the idea but on that fellow”

People who became successful didn’t do so overnight. Some took well over a decade to come to the level they are at.

This is an original article has bee written by Dharmanath Fatarpekar for http://www.Skyweb.co.in/blog

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