Earlier I told you an example where GEO news copied news content from AAJ News. Now I found another example where GEO has copied news contents from India Times’ sports news. See the images below. Click on photos to see large version.

I subscribed for the daily SMS bundle offer from zong by sending “sub” to 700. I received the following replies from zong.

1) “You have ordered package Daily SMS 500 for SMS_Bundle successful.”

2) “You have ordered package Daily SMS 500 For SMS Bundle successfully. The package is activated now. Keep enjoy with ZoNG.”

You see the simple English language mistakes in these replies? “successful” is used instead of “successfully” and in next message “Keep enjoy” is used instead of “Keep enjoying”
Should big companies like Zong, ignore such things?

Here is another misleading message from Zong. I had low credit in my Zong sim, to be exact seven (7) Rs.  I called to my brother’s phone and I heard a recorded voice saying

”You have insufficient balance left. please recharge.
aap ka balance na-kafi hay, brai meharbani recharge kar lain.”

As the message started, I thought my balance is over and I disconnected the call without talking to my brother. I used a different phone to make the call. Today, I checked my balance and I was surprised to see it was 7 Rs. I tried to make the call again, and noticed that after playing the the above message, Zong connected the call to my desired number.

But why they are playing this audio message? There is no reason for this. Especially the text of the voice message is completely misleading. The balance was sufficient for call, but still they said it’s insufficient ( na-kafi ).

I request Zong to remove such messages or at least change he wording of the recorded message.

Do you have similar experiences? Share in comments.

V-fone is wireless phone service by ptcl using CDMA2000 1X technology. They are covering over 10,000 urban, suburban and rural villages. The network is already enabled for Voice, Dialup-Internet access (153.6kbps) and EVDO Broadband.

I have found many people around who have lost their CDs which come with Huawei sets, provided by PTCL in their V-Wireless ( V-Phone ) package. So I decided to put it on web for easy search.

Please download the setup from http://www.dotriz.com/wp-content/uploads/huawei_ptcl-v-wireless.zip

Installation guide for PTCL v-wireless is available on their website. You can view these instructions at http://www.ptcl.com.pk/contentp.php?NID=118

Originally posted by Aamir Atta at ProPakistani blog.

We all know that people on internet are legitimately earning thousands of dollars per month through Adsense – of course this is nothing new to you and we have discussed many case studies before on this topic.

But today, I am going to reveal those individuals and teams which are exploiting youngsters to earn illegally through Adsense. These teams are formally working in an organized manner, through which they prepare a team of around 1000 members -  where every member cross clicks other’s website and ultimately everyone earns money.

For the purpose, two investigative teams visited such so-called companies separately, and findings were really shocking for me at-least.

By the way, all this was exposed to me when I saw a classified advertisement in “Daily Jang” on Sunday, March 22, 2009; which read “You can earn from 8,000 to 30,000 per month with spending just few hours on internet, for details visit Google Link (company’s name)”

Consequently when I visited this place, I was shocked to see how crazily and eagerly innocent youngsters were gathered there to snatch their chance of earning money through internet. I am sure they didn’t know that they are going to fraudulently earn money through an illegal way. On other side, Kabeer Khan, GM of Google Link, was very expertly revealing hidden truths of Google Adsense.

He falsely claimed that he is member of Google Company; in fact he called himself distributor of Google. Furthermore, he said that Google give out free website to those who click their ads and so on…

Below is the audio that we (secretly) recorded, while Kabeer Khan was briefing a bunch of fellow. (Sorry for low audio quality - Please use headphone to clearly listen to Kabeer Khan)

Other company is called PakEarn.com they have a specialized website with Franchises throughout country. They have thousands of people in their Group and are exploiting and forcing people to earn through Adsense.

How and What These people do?

• First of All a member is asked to get a 3 day training, for what they charge members Rs. 1,000.
• Once training is done, they make Blogspot blog for their members with adsense account as well
• Afterwards, they give out a list of 1000 Yahoo IDs to each member, and ask them to stay in touch with them for cross clicking
• Out of 1000, members are asked to interact with specific members on a specific day of month – this way, each member will click a website after 7 days, to avoid fraud click detection
• Members are asked to pay the company 10 percent of their first month revenues

Message for FIA

Guys get in action; this is your area as these people are misleading innocent Pakistanis. And believe me, people signing up for their membership are really innocent (they were asking Kabeer Khan, if he will pay them monthly or bi-monthly; they even didn’t know that Kabeer hasn’t got the guts to pay them at all, instead he is compelling them to make money for him)

I am uploading their website and postal address details in this ZIP file (Size: 1.43 MB) for FIA to download and grab these people.

Message for Pakistanis

Don’t go to such companies at all. Google Policy does not allow you to fraudulently click on ads individually or collectively. You can find Google’s Policy (rules) for Adsense here:https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182

Still you can earn thousands of dollars by legitimate ways, just like many other people on internet (from Pakistan). Also note that if you can not make website, leave this thing - and work in the area of your interest. It is just like that i can’t be a jeweler, while I know they earn huge money.

Allah has written your livelihood and you gonna get it anyway; either though good or bad means; so its better if we get it through good means only.

Message for Bloggers

Please spread the word, and save this country as,

• If these groups mature, Google may think of blocking Adsense in Pakistan as whole – and we all may end up with empty hands
• Also those advertisers, who are achieving their targets through Adsense - are loosing their money; save them as well

Pakistani news channels and news websites are really hot these days due to continuous crisis in country. I mostly read news on BBCUrdu.com. But whenever I want to get almost real-time news online, I mostly see Geo / Aaj TV websites.

Today I found an interesting thing, News about Punjab assembly session on stairs out side Assembly Hall. Yes .. it is itself quite interesting but my topic is little different. I noticed that textual news on Geo and Aaj TV websites was 100% same. Not even a comma or full-stop difference.

See below and read text of both images. First one is from GEO and second one is from AAJ TV. Screenshots taken on Thursday Feb 26, 2009 from GEO and Aaj Tv websites.

Do you see any difference in text? Suggest a title for this in your comments.

Drop.io is the simplest way to share files online. Simply set up a private space to drop any files by phone, email, web, widget or fax and then share them with whoever you want via a variety of outputs.

Drop supports variety of ways for adding files to your online dropbox. These include Web Form, Email, Phone, Fax and Widget.

First create a space ( called drop ) using online form and give it your desired name. Add files and set an optional password and settings for your space. For basic users, that’s enough. You can give your drop url to your friends & colleagues to download or upload files for sharing. Maximum space limit is 100MB for your files.

People who want some more can use email address and phone number of the drop to upload files using email attachment, voice mail and fax. You can also use the Drop Widget to upload files from your own website or blog.

I kept wondering for several months to find a solution to read my yahoo email in outlook. But every source claimed that we need Yahoo Mail Plus subscription for this. But finally I found a solution to do this without subscribing for Yahoo Mail Plus.

YPOPs 0.9.5 for windows does this all for you, and does this for free. YPOPs! is a free open source software that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. You can use your favorite email client, be it Outlook, Thunderbird, or whatever else you like and connect to Yahoo! Mail seamlessly.

This application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at one end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo! The same concept holds good for SMTP as well.

YPOPs only needs a small software to be installed on your PC ( download here ) and then configure your email client like outlook, thunderbird or what ever you use. Instructions to configure email clients are available on YPOPs website.

Fumpr.com is a free and fast photo sharing website. You can upload your images for sharing in just few seconds. No registration needed and no unwanted delays. Another plus point of this website is the possibility of using these images directly in blogs, forums, emails and anywhere else you want.

Just browse for your image and click ‘Fump’, that’s all. It’s really that simple.

I use Google Reader to read several feeds of my interest. Recently I wanted to rename a tag ( category ) but I didn’t find this option any where in Google Reader. Finally I had to google for it and I found the solution of Googlified blog. Here is what Haochi Chen writes …

Many people complained about the lack of  tag renaming feature in Google Reader. Sure, there is no direct way, but a simple get around would do the trick, and this is how you do it:

1. Go to the Settings page of Google Reader
2. Enter the tag name you want to change in the input field that labeled “Filter by name, tag, or URL” (right side of the page)
3. Click “Select: All {number} subscriptions” (left side of the page, right under the “Subscription” tab)
4. Create a new tag under one of the feeds in “Change folders” (find “New folder…”)
5. Go to “More actions…” and choose the tag you just created under “Add tag…”
6. Go to “More actions…” again and click the old tag that you don’t want, under “Remove tag…” to remove the tag.

That’s it, six steps aren’t much, you can do it under a minute.

From GoogleTalk blog ..

Do you have a blog, online profile, or some other personal web page? Would you like to communicate more with your visitors? Today we’re launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it “chatback” because instead of you doing all the talking on your blog, your visitors can talk back to you. Sure, they could leave comments, but those are public and hard to use for a real conversation. With chatback, it’s a real instant message session.

To use chatback, you must have a Google Talk account … but your visitors don’t have to! They don’t even need to have an email address, or to have ever used instant messaging.

When they visit your site, they’ll see a badge like the one on the right showing your online status (available, busy, offline) and, if you’re available, they can just click and start chatting. Chatback uses the web-based Google Talk Gadget so your visitors don’t need to download anything. It opens in a new window so they can keep chatting with you even if they browse to other pages.

Of course, chatback isn’t just for blogs. You can use it on any web page that you can add HTML content to. To get started, visit the chatback start page. (This is also linked from the Google Talk homepage.) Then just copy the provided HTML snippet to your web site. Visitors will then see a badge on your site indicating your availability, and can click to start a chat with you. If there’s a time when you don’t want to be distracted, just set your online status to “busy” and visitors won’t be able to chat with you until you change your status back to “available.”