Wish  you Happy New Year 2012 !!

Best wishes for coming year- business & pleasure

BSNL  portal allows you to re-charge/top-up mobiles,landline phones and data card using Netbanking and Debit Card.There is no option for payment via credit card.Here is a way to use credit card for online BSNL recharge and top-up.

Update: Please try Paytm which offers excellent recharge and top-up options for BSNL 3G Datacard.

Paytm refund policy is quick and secure.

Paytm offers excellent customer support via social media like Twitter and Facebook

Check BSNL portal for updated recharge & top-up schemes  and enter the correct top-up and recharge amount

BSNL 3G Data Card top-up and re-charge @ BSNL portal using Credit Card

1.Go to Oxycash E-wallet

2.Enter your CC Details and an amount greater than the desired top-up denomination(atleast 10 rs greater than the desired top-up amount)

3.Submit and wait for transaction result.Note down the transaction number.

4. If transaction fails due to technical reason,login to e-wallet balance

4.Check your credit card account for any oxycash transactions(Unbilled transactions).If your credit card is charged and there is no balance on oxycash account,claim your Oxycash e-wallet top-up

When oxycash top-up is successful,proceed to BSNL portal

1.Login and choose your top-up or recharge for mobile,landline or 3G Datacard.Enter your mobile number and choose denomination.

2.You got to select the following payment bank option

3.Next,select oxycash payment(pay through cash card)

4.Enter your e-wallet mobile number and password.click paynow

In short top-up Oxycash using credit card and pay your BSNL bills,re-charge,top-up @ BSNl portal

A common error message when activating  KIS 2010 is “Activation code is not compatible with this application” or “this key file is not compatible with this application”.

When you get an error “Activation error. The entered code has exceeded the limit of allowed activations”, try converting the activation code to key file using Kaspersky online activation center.

Enter your activation code and click “Next”.Key in your email address and kasperksy will send a key file in zip format to your email id.

KIS 2010 allows activation only with activation code.Follow this post “How to activate kaspersky 2010 with key file?”
and try activating using key file.

If you’re getting the same error “Key file not compatible with this application”,just follow the steps below

1.Check the version of Kaspersky application installed on your computer.

2.If you bought the activation code for Kaspersky Anti-Virus application,you should install KAV application and activate it.

3..If the activation code is bought  for Kaspersky Internet Security,you should install KIS application and activate it.

4.Besides,the key for Chinese Edition can’t activate English Edition .

5.If you are using a 3 user commercial license ,the kaspersky application on all three computers must be the same version.

6.Please upgrade all your kaspersky application to latest version

7.The key file you downloaded may be corrupt.Download the key file again from Kaspersky Personal Cabinet or Zip file in email.Send the key file to Kaspersky support for analysing the key file via Kaspersky Help Desk Web-form

8.Uninstall KIS 2010.Download CCleaner,take a backup of registry and run the registry cleaner.Re-install KIS 2010 and try activation using key file.

9.Try activation using a different key file.If it works,submit a request to kaspersky for replacement.Better attach a scanned copy of the Purchase Receipt along with

* Date and place of purchase
* Activation code/ key file number
* Info about the owner: name, surname, e-mail address

If you have a purchased a genuine key,Kaspersky support will send a replacement key.I got the replacement in form of two 6 months activation code.

Netfirms is the fast,lowest priced and easy to use domain registrar.

Creating a CNAME is the first step after registering your domain for using Blogger Custom Domain

Please read the official guide from Blogger and Netfirms for creating CNAME .

Here are the steps for creating CNAME in Netfirms hosting account for blogger hosted domains.

1.Login to Control panel version 6.

2.Go to Domain settings

3.Click on the icon shown below to get into forwarding location settings.

4.Enter your domain name in the format(trailing slash at the end) http://www.yourdomainname.com/ and click on Modify.

5.Go to Admin>Cname

Enter your sub domain name as www

Cname as ghs.google.com

6.Click on add.

Please be advised it can take up to 24 hours for a CNAME to begin working as well as over 24-72 hours for a brand new domain to begin working.

Wait for 24hrs and then change settings in Blogger.

Blogger custom domain redirection is a simple process.Remember to enter your complete domain name starting with www in blogger settings.
Please wait for few hours and check your new domain.

If it’s working fine,then add your new domain name in google webmasters tool.

Now your blog template will show changes in RSS feed url .

Add this url or change your blogspot RSS url in sitemap settings.

Note:You may get this error message

if your CNAME settings are not updated or when there is an issue of load balancing .

Don’t worry about this message.Just wait for few hours and check your new domain.It should work fine.

If this error message re-occurs ,check whether your DNS settings for correct nameservers and lock status.

If your settings are locked,click on unlock and repeat steps 1 to 6.

DVDfast is offering free license code worth $24.95  for Fast Video Converter Pro as a Thanksgiving Gift.

You can grab this offer by visiting http://tinyurl.com/yhhqxhu

Download Fast Video Converter Pro at http://www.dvdfast.net/download.php?product=fast-video-converter-pro

Fast Video Converter is the most easy-to-use and powerful video converter supporting all popular formats like AVI, ASF, AVC, DIVX, FLV, H264, MP4, MOV, MPEG1/2, OGG, RM, RMVB, VOB, WMV, XVID, 3GP, 3G2, etc.

I tried converting a .mov file to MPEG and it was pretty fast with good audio and video quality.The interface is easy to use and supports batch processing of files.

There is no harm with the process smartupdate.exe (View in Task manager) running along when fast video converter is launched.You can also remove the smartupdate.exe in the installation folder and the program would still work fine.

An aspiring newsreader can get a feel of a teleprompter using their web browsers.
Cueprompter is an easy to use online service.Just paste or write scripts and press the “start prompter” button

I tried “I have a dream” script and it works well in most of the browsers.Voice and Accent Trainers should consider using this service for their “Rate of Speech” training sessions.

Related links:How to use snag it as teleprompter?

Kaspersky users may have witnessed an error message”Error connecting to proxy server” while running a manual update.


Here is a workaround for this issue

1.Uncheck Kaspersky NDIS filter option in Internet connection properties

2.Check your proxy settings in Kaspersky
3.Change update options from manual to automatic and run an update.

4.Check to see  if you’re behind a proxy

For KIS 2010,
-Enter kaspersky settings page and click on My update center

-Click on settings tab

-Click on settings tab under Run Mode.Update settings dialog box pops up.

-Click on source tab in update settings and select proxy server.

-Proxy settings dialog box will pop up.Uncheck”Use proxy server” and click ok

Try running kaspersky update and see if it works

5.Download updates from Kaspersky Technical Support or follow Kaspersky on Twitter

ELCOT is fully owned company of Government of Tamilnadu.In an attempt to bring down the digital divide in Tamilnadu,they have launched the Student Laptop Scheme.
This offer is only for students of Tamilnadu and valid till August 31st,2008 (offer extended on popular demand).

Help Line number for Student Laptop Scheme:044 65512311

Sale of this laptop is via Online Registration

Laptop specification and price sounds good.

“Laptop for all” could be the next election manifesto.

Take a look @ ELCOT’s Firewalk test

Watch Student Laptop evaluation procedure video.

Virtumonde is an adware skipped by most antivirus programs .When I ran a Kaspersky scan recently,it detected win32.monder.gen which cannot be disinfected or deleted.

I googled and found out that there was a fix for this adware using F-secure v-mode.zip.

I couldn’t download this file and readers can try the above Fsecure link at their own discretion

Learning is a never ending process.The word CALL stands for “Communication Aids for Language &Learning”.Today, companies are setting up their BPO units in tier2 and tier3 cities.
The demand for candidates with good language skills are plenty.I came across certain websites which provide better language learning experience.Language skills help you to expand your career options.

Here are the resources available on the web,

Download Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

Get a copy of Ann Cook American Accent Training pdf .
Interact with Ann Cook by joining American Accent Yahoo Groups

Australia network is offering videopodcasts of learn english program.Explore and download videos for business english,study english,living english at abcasiapacific.

Telephone Doctor,English connection,Language Quest,Direct English,English Online

Download Books on IELTS,TOEFL,SAT

Study Abroad –A must see link for overseas studies

Learn @ grammar,Better english

Osho’s grammar

Online Dictionaries,Slangs,Australian Slangs,quotes

Mariam webster—Online pronounciation guide,Reverse Onelook Dictionary,World of quotes,Brownie Locks

American Holidays:Pumpkin Nook,Aussie Slang,Koalanet,Manythings,Slang City.

Download Call Center terminology