Per Second Billing

Tata Docomo

These telecom players are not only helping their customers but are also making better revenues with special plans. Other major players like Bharti Airtel, Idea, Aircel, Reliance, Vodafone have all introduced plans which allow the customers to talk on a second billing system. Here is how this stuff works out.

If a Call is charged at 50 Paise Per Minute then for 60 seconds the customer is charged 0.50Rs. At this rate the Phone Operators were getting around 0.75 Paise per second and as per TRAI data normally the average call period is around 42-45 seconds and not a full minute with the realisations at 50 paise per minute, which means that the company was getting 50 paise even if the customer didnt talk for the whole minute, but in the new system the realisations are at 60 paise per minute.

Vodafone Pay Per Second

Currently every telecom network except MTNL has opted for the Per Second Billing. Whats your take on this new billing system? Do you think you as a customer are getting better value through this package or you dont find any change in your monthly because of this billing system change.

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In order to avail these services you need to first buy the USB Modem for 3500Rs fees which comes with Lifetime validity. The prepaid offer gives you a minimum speed of 256kbps guaranteed.

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• Occasions – Hand Carved Code
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• Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List – CondeNet
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• Facebook – Facebook
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Apple iPhone Apps

• FIFA 10 by EA Sports – Electronic Arts Nederland BV
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• Golfshot: Golf GPS – Shotzoom Software
  Sport – £17.99 / €23.99 / $29.99
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• Dimensions – PocketDEMO
  Utilities – £1.19 / €1,59 / $1.99
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• Clinometer – max. precision level and slope finder – Peter Breitling
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• Modern Combat: Sandstorm – Gameloft
  Games – £3.99
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• uefa.com mobile – UEFA
  Sport – FREE
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• ESPN ScoreCentre – ESPN
  Sport – Free
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• Real Racing – Firemint
  Games – £5.99 / €7,99 / $9.99
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• Geared – Bryan Mitchell
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For Him & Her

• The new 13-inch MacBook Pro, is the high performance notebook for both him and her. It’s loaded with features, including Apple’s innovative aluminum unibody design, a revolutionary built-in battery that delivers up to 7 hours of use on a single charge, a brilliant LED-backlit display with greater color intensity, and a SD card slot allowing you to easily transfer your photos and videos to and from your MacBook Pro just as fast as you’re able to take them. Put them all together and you have the ultimate mobile solution for any household. The 13″ MacBook Pro starts at Rs.74,400 (MRP)
• The new iMac is the desktop that has everything for both him and her. It sets the standard for elegance and power while packing a complete, high-performance computer into its amazingly slim and the ultimate all-in-one design with the ultimate display. The new iMac line, starting at Rs. 64,900 (MRP), is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors for up to twice the performance. The ultimate all-in-one with the ultimate display.

Apple MacBook Pro

Under Rs. 5000

• Mac OS X Snow Leopard is an even more powerful and refined version of the world’s most advanced operating system. Snow Leopard builds on the success of Leopard with hundreds of refinements, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange, and new core technologies that take advantage of the powerful hardware in every Mac. It enhances the entire Mac experience in big ways and small, making the Mac more reliable and easier to use. Leopard users can upgrade to Snow Leopard for Rs.1,800; the Mac OS X Family Pack, which includes a five-computer license, is Rs.2,900, allowing you to install on up to five Mac computers in your household.
• iWork’09, Apple’s productivity suite, is the easiest way to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layout are easy using Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. New cinematic animations, transitions, and effects in Keynote will keep your audience captivated. And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so sharing your work is even easier. You can open Microsoft Office documents in iWork, save iWork files in Office formats, and email documents in your choice of iWork, Office, or PDF formats. If you want to share your documents online, try out the iWork.com Public Beta. The maximum retail price of iWork ’09 is Rs.4,700.
• iLife ‘09 is a suite of applications that help people get the most out of their photos, movies, and music—and it’s one of the biggest reasons so many people choose the Mac. iLife ’09 features major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand, and includes iDVD and an updated version of iWeb.
• iPhoto ’09 makes it even easier to organize and find photos, with new ways to search based on who is in the photos and where they were taken. iMovie ’09 adds depth with new, easy-to-use features that let you create a movie quickly or add refinements and special effects to your project if you have more time.
• GarageBand ’09 gives budding musicians a fun way to learn how to play piano and guitar, including lessons that let you learn to play hit songs from the artists who made them famous. iLife ’09 also includes iDVD for creating DVDs, and iWeb ’09 for authoring custom websites, featuring an expanded set of iWeb Widgets in a convenient browser. The maximum retail price of iLife ’09 is Rs.4,700.

Under Rs.15,000
Mac Box Set – Upgrade your Mac with the latest versions of Apple software — all in one box for Rs.10,000, or a family pack for Rs.13,500, allowing you to install up to five Mac computers in your household:

• Mac OS X Snow Leopard is an even more powerful and refined version of the world’s most advanced operating system. Snow Leopard builds on the success of Leopard with hundreds of refinements, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange, and new core technologies that take advantage of the powerful hardware in every Mac. It enhances the entire Mac experience in big ways and small, making the Mac more reliable and easier to use.
• iLife ’09, featuring iPhoto ’09, iMovie ’09, GarageBand ’09, iWeb ’09, and iDVD – iLife is a suite of applications that help people get the most out of their photos, movies, and music—and it’s one of the biggest reasons so many people choose the Mac. iLife ’09 features major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand, and includes iDVD and an updated version of iWeb. iPhoto ’09 makes it even easier to organize and find photos, with new ways to search based on who is in the photos and where they were taken. iMovie ’09 adds depth with new, easy-to-use features that let you create a movie quickly or add refinements and special effects to your project if you have more time.
• GarageBand ’09 gives budding musicians a fun way to learn how to play piano and guitar, including lessons that let you learn to play hit songs from the artists who made them famous. iLife ’09 also includes iDVD for creating DVDs, and iWeb ’09 for authoring custom websites, featuring an expanded set of iWeb Widgets in a convenient browser.
• iWork ’09, Apple’s productivity suite for home and office including Pages ’09, Numbers ’09, and Keynote ’09 – iWork, Apple’s productivity suite, is the easiest way to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layout are easy using Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. New cinematic animations, transitions, and effects in Keynote will keep your audience captivated. And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so sharing your work is even easier. You can open Microsoft Office documents in iWork, save iWork files in Office formats, and email documents in your choice of iWork, Office, or PDF formats. If you want to share your documents online, try out the iWork.com Public Beta.

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iPod touch is a great iPod, a great pocket computer and a great game player with access to Apple’s revolutionary App Store with over 100,000 applications and puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. Enough to keep him or her entertained for hours.

iPod nano, the world’s most popular music player now comes with a video camera, mic and speaker. Music lovers can now shoot video wherever they are, view it on their iPod nano and use their computer to easily transfer their videos to YouTube. The new iPod nano features an ultra-thin and sleek design with a larger 2.2 inch colour display and gorgeous aluminium and glass enclosure. Available in seven brilliant colours, the music player also has a built-in Pedometer and FM radio, giving you even more to play with.

Apple iPod Nano

Christmas Gifts for Kids

• Keep them entertained for hours with iPod touch. With thousands of games at their finger tips, there is never a dull moment.
• iPod nano, the world’s most popular music player, now has a built-in video camera that lets you record fun as it happens, then share it with friends on the Internet. It’s the video camera that’s small enough to take with you everywhere. The new iPod nano comes in seven brilliant colours including silver, black, purple, blue, green, orange and pink starting at just Rs.9,400 (MRP)

Under Rs.5,000

• Kick start the new year with the Nike + iPod Sport Kit. At just Rs.1,700, this is the perfect gift for the fitness fan.
• iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player and the first to talk to you, is the perfect stocking stuffer. Now available in five great colours starting at just Rs.3,700 (MRP). iPod shuffle’s intuitive controls are conveniently located on the headphone cord, letting you navigate and enjoy music without even looking.

Under Rs.15,000
The iPod touch is a truly great iPod, a remarkable pocket computer and an amazing portable game player. At just Rs.12,400 (MRP), the iPod touch 8GB is the most affordable gateway to the App Store giving you 100,000 reasons to buy an iPod touch.

Gifts with great design

• iPod touch feels even better in your hand thanks to the stunningly thin, contoured enclosure made of polished stainless steel.
• The new iPod nano with a built-in video camera comes in seven brilliant polished aluminium colours starting at Rs.9,400 (MRP)

Trend gadgets
iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. With so many games at your fingertips, it’ll be hard to decide what to play next.

Gifts for traveller
Everything’s in play with iPod touch. With movies, TV shows, music, games and apps at your finger tips you’ll have all the entertainment you need for you journey.

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Adobe DevSummit

Adobe Flash platform is the technology of choice to create and deliver the most compelling applications, content, and video to the widest possible audience, be it a consumer internet application or an enterprise application. Join us at Adobe Devsummit on 24th November at Chennai and 1st December at Hyderabad.

What’s in it for you?

1. Technical Sessions covering the latest developments on Adobe Flash Platform
2. Lightning talks and deep dive sessions from various experts in the Adobe community.
3. If you are relatively new to Flex, you wouldn’t want to miss the tutorial-oriented sessions. Feel free to bring your laptop and do-it-yourself along with the speaker.
4. And what’s more, all delegates will get a complimentary copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional Licence (non commercial)

Share your knowledge and insights on Adobe Flash Platform.

CHENNAI – 24th November 2009
Taj Coromandel
37, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Chennai – 600 034
Tel: 044 6600 2827

HYDERABAD – 1st December 2009
Taj Krishna
Road No.1, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad – 500 034
Tel: 040 6666 2323.

Agenda :
Adobe Flash Platform – The ultimate experience platform
Get on the RIA fast lane with Flash Builder
Flash Catalyst – The user experience design of tomorrow. Today.
Data centric development on Adobe Flash Platform
Learn by doing – Part 1: Build the user experience
Learn by doing – Part 2: Integrate with server

All attendees get a Flex Builder 3 Professional license* FREE! Its a recommended event for all designers who use adobe tools to edit their work because you can directly get in touch with the Adobe team and their latest products along with the happenings. In case you are interested or looking for more details check this out.

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Of course it has happened to us all. You are wandering through a party, a park, down the street, and you run into someone whose name you know you should remember. You can actually SEE them beside so-and-so at the fundraiser or know that they are the cashier at your preferred supermarket. You have seen them a million times and, every time, you have read their name-tag before saying “Thank you, Cashier X!” But now, now, on the street, in a crowd, with no tags to help you out, when you most need it, their name draws a complete and utter blank.

Recover Deleted Files

The fact is that, without even giving the slightest consideration to the consequences, your brain has simply deleted the information that it no longer deemed necessary. It is a sad truth, but a truth nonetheless, and a common one. Every day, we are faced with countless bits of seemingly useless information and our brains simply can’t, or don’t want to, deal with it all. And so, a lot of it is discarded. Not surprisingly, that is exactly how we deal with out computers as well.

Again, how many times have you gone looking for a file, only to realize that you had deleted it minutes before? How many times, honestly, have you slapped your own forehead when faced with a ‘Not Found’ message? What if you could simply press a single button somewhere and have all of that lost information back? Not all at once, of course, but more specifically, exactly what you need and, more importantly, exactly where you need it. Would that make you happy?

On the street, or at a party, you might not be able to readily find the help you need, however, in front of the computer, it’s as easy as opening your favorite browser and typing in the words “Data Recovery Software”. The results may actually be your salvation. Good Data Recovery Software is nothing less than a prayer answered for anyone who has ever inadvertently made the wrong click, for whatever reason, and it is reasonable to assume that anyone reading this article, by simple merit of the title, has done just that. In fact, it would be hard to find someone who hasn’t.

Data Recovery Software is designed to solve the everyday problems that we, ourselves, create when we accidentally click where we should never have clicked. If you need to recover lost files, accidentally deleted pictures, information swept away with all of the other info while uninstalling a program or find the phone number of a contact that you had tacked on to another file and forgotten, then Data Recovery Software might be your best, and perhaps your only, solution.

Whether you are looking to get back something you have inadvertently thrown away, accidentally deleted or that has been lost due to physical damage to the hardware, such as might be incurred in fires or a bad fall, Data Recovery Software is definitely the place to begin and most likely your best possible solution.

You can download the free Undelete File at http://www.01recovery.com/down.html to experience the benefit brought by Data Recovery Software.

Guest Writer : Bob is a freelance writer and software developer for at http://www.qiqisoft.com

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1. Focus There are many people who believe in Multi Tasking, but its not really going to help you because you need to decide which stuff can be multi tasked and which should be given full preference. In order to complete a business project you need to completely work on it and should not work on other stuff because that wont be helping you but in case of Entertainment you can go for multi tasking and run multiple tasks. Focus on a single point is seriously going to help you in increasing your productivity.
2. Find Similar Tasks Instead of working like a robot, try to find all the tasks you have to complete this week and then write them down somewhere. Then find out which of these are similar, example Going to Bank, Filing Tax Papers, Visiting Grocery Store etc and try to complete these similar tasks which are related to each other, in this case going outside from your Home.
3. Adopting Advanced Stuff This point related to all your stuff like Internet Broadband Speed, Best Laptops or Computer configuration, Work place setup etc all of which should be upgraded to the latest versions. If you are working from a slow internet connection, for sure your work would be slowed down in turn wasting your time.
4. 

   Increase Work Productivity

   Be Smart This means that you should start using all the services and products which are not only cost-effective but also would save your time while purchasing them. Instead of searching for a Local Business Store using your Yellow Pages Directory, you should call out services like JustDial, and get instant details which are recently updated. The same way you can use search engines like Google, Bing in order to find multiple information.

5. Increase Reading & Typing Speed Instead of reading a whole book or a complete website try to focus on those topics which are important for you. Most books have a Index Page and websites have a Sitemap or Search Box using which you can search those topics which are useful for your current research. Along with this its better to opt for Typing Tutors software’s in order to make sure that your typing speed is increased slowly because the faster you can type something, the faster you can complete that job.
6. Online Management Instead of visiting your Bank for transferring money to someone, opt for Online Bank Transfer system which can save your time and also the traveling costs. The same way you can use the Online services to Check Bank Account Balance, Pay Credit Card Bills, Pay Internet Bills & other Utility Bills, Shop consumer stuff Online which are required in daily use and which can be delivered to your home if ordered online at the same cost. This would save a lot of time along with costs and give you less physical strains because that would lead to no physical work and more time towards your main work.
7. Outsource Work Dont get yourself busy by trying to complete all the tasks yourself, because you can outsource most of your work to others and try to concentrate on your main work. You need not design or code your website manually and waste a lot of time and efforts, because professionals at Guru.com, Elance.com & GetaFreelancer.com are ready to complete your work at a very low price along with the perfect services.
8. Exercise & Sleep Its very important to make sure that you have taken atleast 6-8 hours long sleep in your everyday’s life, if not you would find that your body wont be able to accept all the work you try to do. You may feel strained and exhausted because of less sleep and body rest. Also try to exercise regularly to make sure that your body is fit and you can easily handle some kind of work stress easily.
9. Work Break While working, its important that you take a break every 2-3 hours because a short walk after continuous work can give you a good amount of break along with better productivity. Also this gives your eyes some rest along with the body. Also during your work break you can discuss about your current work with your friend or colleague who can help you with better ideas on how to complete your current task.
10. Distraction Instant Messengers like Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk can seriously waste your time while you are working because friends would continuously message you about something unimportant and make you divert from your work. Along with this Social Networking websites like Twitter, Facebook & Orkut are also seriously useless for people who are working. Along with this emails can also waste a lot of time of yours because you would regularly check your email account and reply to your mails wasting your time. You need to set a fixed time in your daily work and check email accounts or social networking websites in long intervals.

These tips are really useful for people who work Online and who have the ability to complete all their tasks online. If most of these ways are implemented properly anyone can find very high amount of increase in their work quality.

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Show Google Talk Icons Google Talk is slowly taking over other Messengers because of the simplicity, nice features and this one of the reason people prefer using Google Talk rather than other IM’s. Google Talk calls this service as ChatBack where in you can directly chat with your readers Live along with a Online/Offline iCon. The small icon looks cool and this feature does not require your blog reader to have a Google Account because it shows a small window to them where in they can directly chat to you and its shown as a Guest Chat. You can create your Chatback badge here. You can easily edit and customize the way you want your badge to be shown.

Yahoo Messenger Status Icon Yahoo Messenger is still the king of Instant Messengers mainly because people are habituated to this service and are still not moving to better service providers which is why we have included a way using which you can status icons on your blog. You can directly use the following code and edit the YourID section with your username of your yahoo account which means that if a user is going to click on the badge or icon on your website, they will directly get a window in Yahoo Messenger with your profile and option to directly chat. The only stuff required in this is that the visitor should have Yahoo Messenger installed on their computer to make this work. There are a total of 9 different styles which you can show you to your Readers by just changing the Style ID from 1 to 9.

<a href="ymsgr:addfriend?YOURID"><img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=YourID&m=g&t=StyleID" border="0"></a>

Yahoo Messenger Bagdes

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