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How to find a Pincode of a Post-office or a Place in India ?

The Indiapost is there to help you. Go to http://www.indiapost.gov.in/pin/pinsearch.aspx and you can search Pincode, District  and Post-office too.

Listed below are some of the web design and development companies at Kuwait. Got all these links googling with the keyword “web design companies + Kuwait” . The links may not be relevant because its just google results .

• www.agck.com
• www.kccg.com
• www.webtech-kw.com
• www.design-master.com
• www.designbox.com.kw
• www.gulfclick.net
• www.q8click.com
• www.kuwaitnet.net
• www.emqube.com
• www.SimplexInteractive.com
• www.adlab-kw.com
• www.ewd.com.kw
• www.ireflexion.com

Was planning to buy a  laptop with a decent configuration for a long time.  A one month online research  ended me in to  Dell Studio series. Dell Studio was the only one that could  be in my budget with the required configuration. My budget was for about Half a lakh indian rupees and dell studio was starting on 42,500 INR range  on its base model.  The configuration i was looking  for was a core 2 duo processor, RAM more than 2 GB,  256MB graphics card , 250GB Hardisk, 9 cell batteries for more backup, 15″+ screen with higher resolution.

Buying Process:

Went to dell.co.in ->laptop->studio. Choose the base model from its preconfigured models and started customizing the laptop. Customizing the laptop is a good option that Dell provides to its customers. So after customizing i ended up in the below given configuration

• Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo Processor T6500 (2.10GHz/ 800 FSB/ 2MB Cache)
• Genuine Windows Vista(R) Home Premium 32 bit SP1 Edition (English)
• 15.6 ” Full HD(1080p)WLED (1920 x 1080)Display with TrueLife
• Integrated 2.0 Mega Pixel Web Cam
• 4GB Dual-channel DDR2 SDRAM
• 320GB SATA 7200RPM Performance Hard Drive
• Slot Load 8X DVD + /-RW Drive with DVD + R double layer write capability
• 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
• Artic Silver Palmrest
• Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 (802.11a/g/n) Half Mini-card
• Integrated Stereo Sound with Subwoofer
• Dell(TM) Wireless 370 Bluetooth Module
• 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
• -1 Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
• Integrated Fast Ethernet 10/100/1000
• 34mm ExpressCard Slot, (DOES NOT SUPPORT PC CARDS)

Amount : Rs 46,318.50
BCD/CVD/Excise Duty : Rs 3,268.01
VAT/CST/WCT 4% :  Rs 1,983.46
Total Rs : 1,983.46
Total before Discount :  Rs 51,569.97
Less Discount:  Rs 1,983.46

Total Amount:  Rs 49,586.51

After adding it to the cart, a form was given where i added my contact details and it was written than a dell executive would be contacting me. Mean while a pdf file with the customized configuration was e-mailed to me. Next day evening got the call from dell executive, it was from Chennai  and the customer executives name was Girish Krishnan .  He confirmed my order with the amount and asked me by which way i would make the payment,  he said if i do it via credit card the VAT would be waved off and also if  i do it on that day itself i would also get a DELL laser mouse and a Creative earphones as compensation. I told him to call me back after half-an hour so that i could make necessary arrangements. He again called after 30 Minutes and for the credit transfer he connected me to a IVR service in which i had to type the credit card details right through the phone.  After successful credit transfer he said that the laptop would be shipped to my given address in 7 days and told me to reply back to a mail that he just emailed me. The email was a kind of declaration form that i filled  and mailed him back

There was a delivery status  portal at dell.co.in that keeps track of the laptop delivery . Logging in to it with the reference details would show at what process  the laptop. is   I waited for 7  days and it wasn’t delivered on time, the delivery status  portal was  showing 14 days late delivery time. I just wrote back to the customer executive  but didn’t get any response from him. On the 10th day got a SMS from BlueDart(courier service) that its dispatched from Chennai, so on 12th day ie. on 11th September’09 i got the laptop delivered. It had a cartoon with a bunch of documents .After it  i didnt get a call back from the dell Customer service either asking if the laptop was delivered or is the laptop working well .

The Courier Pack with the Bill

The first Deck which has the accessories

The Second Deck with the laptop

At last in my hand. My first look

The Hood Logo

The right side with Power on switch, A/C port, USB port, Card Reader port

The left side with HDMI port, VGA port, LAN port, e-SATA port, USB port ,1394 port, mic jack  and 2 speaker-out jack(can be used for 5+1 speaker output)

The right side bottom view

Open View

The Keyboard

The power Button on right side

My Experience:

Well as i worked on it i think its a small beast. With 4 GB RAM almost all heavy RAM eating  application where running like a charm, the 7,200RPM hardisk also has a big hand on this performance.  The HD screen  with 1920 *1080 pixel resolution the desktop looked very lively and crystal clear.The 9 Cell battery is giving almost 4+ hours backup. Saying about its looks it looks real simple not that stylish, Well i wasn’t looking for look i was looking for performance . Tried playing  NFS undercover [ATI Radeon HD4570 with 512RAM ] and it  ran good on medium settings . Half-life 2 and Counter Strike was running good on high resolution. Playing games on 1920 *1080 is a bit amazing. The laptop speakers are giving a pretty good output..  loud and clear, i haven’t heard   anything  better than this on any other laptop.

Vista Base Score for this system is: 5

CRAP:

As the laptop was shipped with a preloaded vista it had only two partitioned drives. One was of about 270 GB(OS loaded) and another 15GB(recovery drive). But i needed it all partitioned to about 80GB drive each . So tried shrinking the drives with the default disk management utility from vista itself. But the 270GB disk wasn’t shrinking  beyond 170GB. The last option left was to use Partition magic for re partitioning . So i loaded Partition Magic 10 and as i opened the application it showed warning saying that there is a error in the disk and press yes to fix it, I had no other choice because without clicking YES the Partition Magic wont proceed . I Hit the YES button and all of sudden my desktop  ended in a blank screen . After a reset i found i lost my Vista. Checking the hard disk table, found that the whole 270GB drive was lost.WHAT THE CRAP,  Hopefully the vista installation disk was shipped with the package. Without wasting time used The Hiren bootable CD to partition the disk  to my desired size  and then installed Vista.  In almost 2 Hours finished installing both vista and its drivers.

My desktop

Google explanation is
We detect abnormal usage that may indicate that your address has been compromised, we may temporarily disable access. It will take between one minute and 24 hours for access to be reinstated, depending on the behaviour detected by our system.

Unusual activity includes, but is not limited to:

1. Receiving, deleting, or downloading large amounts of mail via POP or IMAP in a short period of time.
2. Sending a large number of undeliverable messages (messages that bounce back).
3. Using file-sharing or file-storage software, browser extensions, or third party software that automatically signs in to Gmail.
4. Leaving multiple instances of Gmail open.
5. Browser-related issues. Please note that if you find your browser continually reloading while attempting to access your Inbox, it’s probably a browser issue, and it may be necessary to clear your browser’s cache and cookies more here
   

I then again tried logging to gtalk application and a new message appeard saying “This account whas been locked and requires unlocking” and a captcha appeard to unlock.  After passing  the captcha , the account was unlocked . What a crap of no reason my account was locked

Below shown are the steps for Airtel landline/ broadband  online bill payment using SBI net banking.

Create an account in airtel.in

How to create account ?

• Either register here https://ebpp.airtelworld.com/care/RetailUserRegistration/ or
• call 121 from you airtel land line and ask them to create an account for you in airtel.in.

After that go to airtel.in and login

This is the airtel  login page .

After login, click Payment in the left navigation panel and you would land in this page , Click Make New Payment

Now click the account number for the service for which the bill has to be payed

Select the payment type and bank details and hit submit

Sbi login page comes. Login with your SBI account

After logging in select your SBI account number and hit confirm

Re-confirmation window comes confirm it ..

If transaction was successful you would get this page and would be redirection to airtel website in 5 seconds

Bill payment success page of airtel is shown. Click ok

Payment summary

and you are done !!!

The process would be the following

• Register with your mobile vendor(one time).
• Login to the portal.
• Select Online Recharge / Topup / Flexi
• Enter the amount and sumbit
• Select your bank
• You would be directed to your net banking website
• Login there with your net banking username and password
• Confirm the transfer and submit
• If your transfer was successful you would be redirected to your mobile vendor website showing a success page

Below given are screenshot of recharge of  BSNL mobile through SBI internet banking.

BSNL  login page

Select Top Up your mobile

Enter mobile number and select the denomination

Select the preferred bank

Login to the net banking portal

Select the account and confirm

Confirm the payment again

If its success this page would appear

In 5 seconds it would be directed to bsnl website where there also you can see the succes message if everything went fine

Summary of transactions

” Unlimited usage plans will have a fair usage policy of 10 GB/month. Beyond which the customer will be charged at Rs. 2/- per MB. ”
Then why do they call it unlimited .
Isn’t it a prank.
A simple way of fooling customers.

This was an attractive plan

• Unlimited@Night – 499
• Rs. 499/-
• 50 paise per minute during day (between 6 AM – 10 PM)

All of a sudden i noticed some three stars on side of this plan and it read below – ” Unlimited usage plans will have a fair usage policy of 10 GB/month. Beyond which the customer will be charged at Rs. 2/- per MB. ” The very next feeling in my mind was WTF!!

Here re some download calculations
With 3.1 Mbps speed ie. 396 KB/s download , you can download 1 MB in 2.5 Seconds ie.

in 1 Minute u can download 24 MB,
in 1 Hour u can Download 1.4 GB,
Night Unlimited has 8 Hours of download so 1.4 GB * 8 Hours = 11.2 GB per day.
So for a month ie . 30 days that would be some 336 GB .
Now 10 GB vs 336 GB. You decide the difference.

View there Tariff site

Its none other than Tim Berners-Lee’s – the inventor of the Web . His First ever post Click here to read it which has been archived at the World Wide Web Consortium site. His original server and content was located at http://info.cern.ch/ which is the world’s first-ever web server.

Who is the first Web surfer ? Its Robert Cailliau, collaborator on the World Wide Web project.

Tim Berners-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb browser in 1993

Web Blog – the term was coined by Jorn Bargerin in 1997