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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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UPDATE : 10-MAY-2012

A lot has changed in last 8 months of this post and people still come to this page hunting so decided it needs update.

MTS is a doomed company. They are just short of launching a good plan and capturing the market. I had got calls from their customer service department asking for my feedback.

Its was the best product because unlike other companies this modem was coming free with a good data plan and a reliable and fast network. Well it ends there… the renewals are simply too expensive for regular users. I have about 4 MTS dongles in office bought only for the First recharge offer.

Is there an alternative… yes found one

Airtel 3G. Well you might not know but 3G rates for 7.2mbps are the same as 3.1mbps speeds. In case of Reliance 3G rates are the same as netconnect+ (CDMA) rates.

Now the offer… Airtel 3G with dongle is the cheapest one can find… the offer is 3.5GB for 3 months for Rs. 1700 that too with modem, that too unlocked so no code breaking service required and its a 7.2Mbps device.

Airtel has a 3G tieups with Idea Cellular and Vodafone. Both these are expensive but at no extra cost you can use your Airtel 3G on Idea and Vodafone. So you have 3 premium networks to chose from.

Speeds are fantastic. No line drops (major problem with reliance netconnect+). No hidden charges since its a pre-paid.  Liberty to change service provider but still the dongle will work since its unlocked. Yes it works well with Android too ( CDMA netconnect nor photon worked with my Android device).

Over all Airtel 3G is cheaper than all other service providers. If I don’t want 3G I can switch easily to 2G and have 2.5GB for Rs. 69 per month from TataDocomo on the same device.

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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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Hi friends,

I live in India but a major part of the last decade has been virtually in USA.

USA vendors, USA suppliers, USA based customers, USA based phone number and till few years back a USA based address (since my brother lived there).

All electronics like laptop, PDA, routers, lan cards, memory cards, cameras, toys were purchased in USA and someone carried them to India since till very recently they were very expensive in India.

I did understand that who so ever brings in will burden an obligation too but couldn’t help.

Well not with sheer chance but hard search I found a site which for a fee of $45 gives a permanent USA address not just that but also a UK and a China address.

Yup no more pestering friends to get batteries from USA or HDMI cable from Singapore.

 Most Ebay sellers do provide India shipping but some critical stuff I need sadly doesn’t have one and some do but they are prohibitively expensive.

Here is the site http://www.shopandship.com which can take local delivery within these 3 countries and ship the goods to your address even in India via Aramex couriers.

They also have a list of china based wholesaler sites which entertain drop-ship service. Like a 7” android 2.2 netbook for just ($72) Rs. 3276 plus customs or a 10” android netbook for Rs. 5300 apart from shipping charges from that drop ship address to India

There is a catch… if you publish the address someone might send your junk product brochures and you pay shipping charges for that and sadly there is no facility to club shipping from different vendors.U$10 to 18 per shipment is a bit expensive but it far outweighs making your relatives carry jars of pickles to USA.

Regards

Dharmanath
http://www.skyweb.co.in/blog

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I hate to see the sceen of dead and wounded on TV shown over and over again.

But I love to see the boring news analysis by the reporters and hats off to them. They really do their job unbiased and informed.

During one such on NDTV India when Srinivasan Jain asked Bharat Shah as why Zaveri Bazar was repeatedly target he gave all the regular stats of business but then Srinivasan put a googly to him.

Your Diamond Trading Centre at Bandra Kurla Complex is ready for a decade why haven’t you shifted out there which is a fully secure place. Well Bharat Shah was lost for words and then gave a lame excuse we will shift there in 2 years time. To which Srinivasan shook his head in dismay.

Well the Jewellers nor the Diamond merchants want to move to the DTC at BKC because all their black transactions would come out in open (that the precise reason why the DTC was convieved) and they are too cozy at the Pancharatna Building.

So well if they decide not to move, they have to accept it with all the perrels and all the people who are direcindirectly connected with the trade.

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I have tried numerious tools including paid ones to cut MP3 ringtones for my phone. I even get request from friends for specific parts. The last one was the guitar solo of Santana from chad kroeger’s “Into the night”.

Well i found this site http://cutmp3.net/ very simple interface. just select the sound file from local desktop and edit the start and end portions from the sound graph.

The recent best ones are from the Delly belly’s Bhaag Bhosadekay well you call it civilized Bose Dk or something really dont care but the spanish guitar and the electric guitar 16 second samples are really great; hats off to Ram Sampath. I made each of them as seperate ringtones for each of my cell numbers.

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