Last December I moved from Dialog to Mobitel and bought Mobile Broadband connection. I didn’t realise that I’m making a grave mistake till I brought the modem home. From the day I bought the connection, it sucks.

It’s been almost 8 months ever since I bought the connection and I have a damn one year commitment with Mobitel. They really don’t give a damn about their customers.

I’ve been calling their customer care ever since and the guy answering the call always try to be a smart ass by saying “Sir, You need re-plug the modem” or “NO NO NO Sir! You should not start the mobile partner application manually, let’s restart your machine”. God what nonsense is this?? I’ve studied an IT degree and these people are trying to teach me how to plug the modem when they don’t have a good answer.

Lastly, I launched a complain and there were no response about it. As I remember when u lodges a complaint you’ll be given a tracking number but for Mobitel they don’t have such system because they can’t cheat their customers if they have system.

And I happen to have called Mobitel CC and nagged the guy and he told me, “Sir, they have found the root cause”. Yeah they have found the root cause after 8 fucking months. “Mmmm… Sir there is heavy network congestion in your area”, damn what nonsense even I know that. I don’t have to lodge a complaint to know that there is a heavy congestion.

I have no idea whether Mobitel will ever change or their customer care agents will ever learn to talk with the clients. I have another 3 damn months with Mobitel. I can’t wait to finish the contract with these cheaters who kept on cheating me for last 8 months.

If you are considering buying Mobile Broadband, please dear sisters and brothers DON’T BUY MOBITEL BROADBAND. They are bunch of CHEATERS, who have cheated me for last 8 months. They’ll NOT hesitate to cheat you also.

Following are the two common Error you’d get when you try to connect

The symptom of this problem is every time you select the Show hidden files and folders options under Folder Options, the screen just flashes when you click OK and the hidden files and folders are not unhidden. You can fix this problem with a registry hack:

1. Click Start > Run and type REGEDIT

2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Explorer
then Advanced

On the right side, double click the hidden value and give it a value of 1.

You should now be able to enable hidden files and folders.

This is a issue caused by virus, so please make sure to use a updated virus scanner.

There are some third party scripts and sites to enable background image for google.com page. Now the great Google itself introduced a way to add background image to your Google home page.

Procedure is very simple.

1. Navigate to http://www.google.com/addphoto


2. Upload a photo or select an existing one

All set good to go now. Hope u like the new background feature.

Google’s innovative Doodle’s are one of the most creative items I find online. Few weeks back they had Pac-Man game and I end up playing it whole day. Now the Soccer fever has caught up with us and Google respond to it with a FIFA Doodle.

If you visit Google home page you’ll see the FIFA Doodle. If you click the Doodle it’ll show the results with latest match. Check out the screen shot, it shows with Sri Lankan time also.

FIFA Schedule in Google

I’m going to bookmark the link “FIFA World Cup” so I can check match schedules via simple Google interface.

iPhone 4 will be available by this month 15th in USA. Today Apple made announcement on their web site also about their new revolutionary device (That’s how they call their device).

HD video is one of the most interesting feature with this phone and they have packed the device with iOS 4.

Also Check

• Official Site
• iPhone Models Comparison
• About Apple’s New OS
• iPhone 4 guide: preview, pricing, availability

We don’t have the very first iPhone officially released in Sri Lanka so can’t expect iPhone 4 to hit Sri Lanka any sooner. But there is a deal available for iphone 3G at Dialog for about 60 K (Correct me if I’m wrong).

On several posts I wrote about Google Transliteration. First they introduced it to Hindi then later other Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada also supported. Few months later they started to support more scripts such as Arab, Hebrew etc.

Today I found something interesting. Yeah now Google Transliterate supports Sinhalese too. Basically Google Transliterate is knowledge based phonetic translator.

Sinhala Transliterate in Action

Personally I don’t recommend anyone to use Google Transliterate as it’ll spoil your typing speed as well as you’ll become so dependent on Google, which is not good at all.

Anyway it’s good to have Sinhalese support. Soon this transliteration service will be available for Sinhalese in other Google’s products such as Gmail, Orkut, Google Search, Blogger etc. Especially the desktop IME client Google Transliterate IME will also be available soon.

Also Check

• Google Transliteration with Brand New Look
• Google Transliteration Scheme for Tamil

Adios amigos.

Daily Mirror Logo

Recently Dialog has started to offer SMS alert service from Twitter. You can send free SMS from the specified followers. I’m gonna tell you how to exploit this free service and get free Daily Mirror alert on your mobile.

1. Open a Twitter Account


2. Activate “Twitter SMS Alerts” on your Dialog Mobile


3. Follow Daily Mirror


4. Set to receive SMS alert from DM

You can use this simple method to receive free SMS alert from almost any news agency having Twitter account.

You can use this same technique to get alerts from many Twitter feeds such as Cricket, Astrology etc.
Have fun.

Have you ever wondered on “How to convert my blog into a Mobile friendly blog??”. Answer is very simple.

There are thousands of methods to do it, but here I’m telling you the easiest way of creating a mobile compatible site.

1. First visit the URL http://www.google.com/gwt/x
2. Enter your blog’s address and click “Go”
3. Now copy the URL from your Address Bar
4. Create a sub domain (e.g. http://m.mayuonline.com)
5. Redirect your sub domain to the URL copied on the step 3

That’s all. Now ask your friends and readers to visit your blog using their handheld devices on the newly created sub domain.

You can access my blog on your mobile devices at http://m.mayuonline.com

Hope you enjoyed the tip.

Before buying a computer accessory it’s worth doing an analysis on the accessory, especially on price and quality.

A simple Google search would reveal most of the quality issues related to the product but when it comes to price we Sri Lankans have to go either to a shop physically or Unity Plaza.

Here few of the online stores where you can check the price online. Hope it’ll help you reduce the work load.

Some of the blow mentioned shops are offering products to buy online too. MAYUonline is not recommending any of these sites. This is just for your information. If you are to buy something online buy it on your own risk.

• http://computer.lk
• http://laptop.lk
• http://barclays.lk
• http://ibuy.lk
• http://usedcomputer.lk
• http://japansoftpc.com/
• http://www.futureworld.com.lk/
• http://techgsmsl.com/
• http://shop.memory.lk/

Recently Google has announced that they are going to stop supporting FTP publishing Blogger blogs. Initially they’ve planned to stop the support by February but then due to the noise made by bloggers Google has postponed it to May.

Google claims that there are several reasons why they stop supporting FTP, but in my opinion I see it as more of an arrogant tone of a giant.

So I decided to move my blog to WordPress one of the best blogging platforms on earth. Thanks to Ravi (Successful WordPress Freelancer) for pointing me to correct resources.

Procedure is very simple. Please read Ravi’s Blog for guidelines and if you wanna retain your incoming links and redirect your feed visitors then you gotta read the post from DW.

Happy Blogging. WordPress ROCKS!!!

PS: My moved site is active up and running, I didn’t lose a single incoming link.