Safe online shopping

The internet is an exciting place to shop. You can browse to buy anything, from a new camera, to a holiday or flight. Don't be restricted to the stores in your locality, or even country rather you can pick up deals at great prices on a whole range of products through any reputed shopping sites.

Shopping online is not an easy or safe as handing your credit card in a store or restaurant. So, if you take care of certain things it can be a safe deal. Below are the things you should take care:

• Never respond to an email request for credit card details. All fraud companies will conduct transactions with you over a secure website connection.
• Never respond to any email advertisement, and only visit sites you know or have book marked, and verify the address before browsing further.
• Only buy from trusted brands and websites.e.g:-eBay,naptol,indiatimes,rediff,sify,zapak etc.
• Only does business with legal companies check to see if they have a contact number, an existing retail store and a printed catalog to browse.
• Always check a website's privacy policy before going ahead with a purchase.
• Entering your details through a secure payment connection. You should notice when you click through to the transaction page of a company's website that the URL in the address bar begins https:// (instead of the normal http ://). This is the standard encrypted communication mechanism on the internet and means that your credit card details are being sent securely.
• Beware of deals that seem too good to be true.
• The internet may not the best place to buy clothes or other products. The best way to buy products you need to see, touch or try on.
• All reputable websites use secure payment systems. These are either a company's own system or a 3rd party system such as World pay or PayPal.
• When transaction over the internet, look at yellow padlock in the Grey status bar at the bottom of your browser page. This is an indication that the transaction is being conducted over a secure connection.
• As an extra precaution check to see if there's a gold lock at the bottom of the right hand corner of the browser. If they don't include any of these reliable indicators, you should think twice before handing over your credit card number.
• For your safety avoid Internet fraudsters, it's also a good idea to install and use security software such as Kaspersky Internet Security. It can provide you with industry-leading security services that will provide you more protection against the latest threats.

How we can use Bluetooth

In various areas Bluetooth is surprisingly conquering its use. This is a technology used by old to young generation. Available in phones, television, music system, mp3 players, camera many other devices. Below are some places where Bluetooth is used:

 In the office when you arrive your PDA automatically synchronizes with your desktop or laptop and transfer files, e-mail and schedule information. In office meeting, you access your PDA to send your presentation to electronic whiteboard. Within a minute you transfer wirelessly to the attendees before they leave the meeting.

In the home when you arrive the door automatically unlocks for you, the lights come on, and A/C starts according to the setting of your preference. By the help of Bluetooth an electronic bulletin board in the home automatically adds your schedule activities to the family calendar and alerts you to any conflict in scheduling. The home security system also have inbuilt Bluetooth facility, it automatically recognize you.

In the airport when you arrive for ticket and sit assignment, you don't have to stand in long line. To avoid the line you just use your PDA to present an e-ticket and automatically select your seat. The airline's on-line system checks identification via "ID-tag" feature built into your PDA and confirms your reserved seat. Using voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP), you can make free Internet voice calls courtesy of your airline.

In the hotel when you enter, you automatically checked in and your room number and electronic key are transferred to your PDA. As you approach the room the door automatically opens.

As you approach your car the door unlock automatically, the radio tunes in your favorite station.

At the racetrack, your PDA is used to download information on selected horses and jockeys, to perform analyzing using historical information, to place bets to request slow-motion replays and order foods.

New symbol for "Rupee"!

You might be thinking what this symbol mean?
This is new symbol for Indian currency "RUPEE". This have been a tough to invent the symbol from many symbols suggested by people engage in giving the symbol.But among all the designers,  D Udaya Kumar( post graduate from IIT.) was selected for his design for rupee symbol.He has been awarded Rs.2,50,000/- from Finance Ministry for his achievement.
According to D Udaya Kumar the symbol is design as such based on Indian tri color  with the lines added on the top and bottom representing the Indian flag. The symbol is primarily based on the ‘ra’ of the Devanagari script, with an attempt to incorporate the Roman script also, for international appeal.

 There where lot of suggestions for symbol like:

And many more near about 3000 designs were shortlisted for the competition.The symbol was approved by Union Cabinet.It has been announced that within 3 months the rupee symbol soon will be reflect in keyboard.Vendors say they will roll out the symbol as soon as the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) sets the guidelines, since it takes only a minor software change to incorporate it.  
The rupee symbol not be seen in coins and notes but will be used as Unicode Standard and in the major scripts used internationally so that it can be displayed and printed with ease."Rupee" word has been used by other countries too like Nepal, Sri lanka & Pakistan.To give a new stand , India wanted to give some thing new and unique way to its currency.
The new symbol was chosen because of its design capability to be part of existing software systems. The symbol will now be used on keyboards manufactured in India. Right now, as far as we know, there is no simple way to use the new Rupee sign while creating a document.

Do you love the symbol? 

Epic Browser: India’s own browser

For the first time Indian browser has been introduced to the browsing world. We have been using many different browsers like Mozilla Firefox, opera, Google chrome, IE 7 8….. And so on but this times “Epic” is totally our own browser.

Launch :

A Bangalore based software company has introduced this Epic browser. The browser has been created by a team of Indian engineers powered by Mozilla. Now it is available on internet. You can download it by this site:
http://www.epicbrowser.com/index.html
or
http://http.cdnlayer.com/href/epic-setup.exe

Interesting Features :

Epic provides a uniquely Indian browsing experience and you will feel this after downloading it.

It has loads of features:-

1. It has fast browsing and downloading.

2. It can type 12 different languages.

3.  It has free 1200 application like orkut, facebook, twitter etc.

4. User can download 1500 themes, wallpaper and add-ons.

5. Instantly get Latest Film Songs, Live Cricket Scores, Regional and Hindi Language News from a Leading Sources, Live TV. Stock Quotes, Events, Videos and Daily Jokes.

6. By keeping the privacy it deletes your data and Flash cookie. With One-Click Private Browsing starts. It doesn’t keep browsing Reports like search data ever.

7. Has maximum security for your computer because it has built in Antivirus that Scans your downloads automatically or manually for free and kills all virus during browsing or downloading.

8. This browser warns you if you are about to visit a viruses or malware web site. This feature is pretty good because now day’s hosted web sites have been growing like mushrooms. It also protects you from phishing sites too.

9. It offers you to connect with social networks like orkut, yahoo, facebook etc.

10. Through Epic the user can instantaneously get the maps across the world and can get the driving directions for different locations.

11.  It has backup facility so that you can to get the backup of your documents from the computer to your Mail with help of the file manager interface the user can upload and download the files/folders.

12. you can keep bookmark of your favorite links. Its very easy.

User Use :

1. You can follow Epic in Facebook(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Epic-Browser/122083967836793) and twitter.(http://twitter.com/epicbrowser)

2. You can build sidebar applications for Epic.

3. Get free mail for latest news and updation from Epic.(http://www.epicbrowser.com/mailingList.html)

Hidden Secret Service Codes for Chinese Mobile Phones

As we all know Chinese mobiles are getting BIG market in India and other countries. Here I'm sharing a few secret service codes for these Chinese mobiles. None of them was tested by me but all codes should work because these codes have been taken from a respected mobile manufacturer company:

Enter into Engineering Mode: *#110*01#

Enter into factory Mode: *#987#

Restore Factory Settings: *#987*99#

Check Software Version: *#900# OR *#800#

Default User Codes: 1122, 3344, 1234, 5678

Change LCD Contrast: *#369#

To Enable COM Port: *#110*01# -> Device -> Set UART -> PS Config -> UART1/115200

Codes to Change Screen Language:

Set Default Language:*#0000# + Send 

Set Language to Russian:*#0007# + Send

Set Language to French:*#0033# + Send

Set Language to Spanish:*#0034# + Send 

Set Language to Italian:*#0039# + Send

Set Language to English:*#0044# + Send 

Set Language to German:*#0049# + Send

Set Language to Thai:*#0066# + Send

Set Language to Vietnamese:*#0084# + Send

Set Language to Arabic.:*#0966# + Send 

Spell Checker in Mozilla Firefox

Most word processing programs have a spell-checker built right in, so what does one do for the web? I spend most of my time writing out form fields, contributing to forums and writing in blogs. Shouldn't there be a way to spell check in my browser?

There is, actually, but mysteriously enough, it's only for Mozilla Firefox. IE8 has yet to receive a built-in spell checker, but I assume that's not far off.

In the meantime, let's learn how to enable the spellchecker in Firefox! In truth, it's usually enabled by default, but if, for any reason, you find it's not working go to: Tools>Options>Advanced. Make sure the "General" tab is selected. Then make sure the "Check my Spelling as I Type" option has a check-mark next to it.