My World & My feelings

Speakasia Gone

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:22:00 +0000

On 18th April 2011, I said that Speakasiaonline.com is not a genuine company and eventually they will run away. Though Speakasiaonline.com is gone due to Govt. pressure but it was because they were fraud. Have you ever saw anyone closing down there profitable business because they can't show legit documents to Govt? unless they are fraud why they don't have any documents.

Anyway, their domain is also seized by Godaddy due to invalid Registration information. Their operations have halted and all those who have paid in past one year are now waiting when the company will run back. God bless them.

Here is the post which I made back saying speak asia is fraud : Beware of Speakasiaonline.com

Merry Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:00:00 +0000

Sorry for my long absence, I was busy with the new online store and my second craft blog. I will soon be back with posts. Maybe in 2012 :)

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas. and don't forget to checkout at Imaginationsonline.com as for all the crafters we have a special coupon code valid for 24 hours only.

"SANTA"

Use the above code to get discount and also get free gift with every order :)

Online Personal Factory

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:06:00 +0000

Do you want to start your own personal factory?
Do you want to fabricate your own designs?

Do you want to create your own prototypes using high quality 3D Printers?

You do not want to invest a lot in getting all the above things.

If answers to all or any of the above question is YES then do not worry. There is an online solution, sad news is that it is cheaper for US but the shipping cost is very high for Indian Customers. But if your product is mission critical or if you compare the cost of purchasing your own 3D printer then it is nothing.

So Here is the website : Ponoko Online Personal Factory

Its easy and you can create great stuffs there. Even you can create your Metal Visiting Cards with die cut design.

So what are you waiting for head over to Ponoko.com and enjoy.

Online Store

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:01:00 +0000

Hi friends,

Past whole month was very busy time for me, first of all on 25th August 2011 I was blessed with a baby girl. So the whole week went off to care for the mother and daughter as well as my son.

Now I am working on setting up my online books and craft supply store. It is still not complete but most parts are finished, now the inventory is needed which I am creating slowly.

If you wish to have a look at my online store then you can access it from : Imaginations Online Book and Craft Store

I have decided the name Imaginations, I hope it sounds good.

A big week ahead

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:44:00 +0000

Sorry friends for not being able to post for past few days. I was busy in something really important in my life. I will update regarding it very soon. However I was able to get some time to do my craft work which I updated on my Craft Blog : Craft Zone.

Now the next few days are most important and I hope everything goes well.

Will post soon.

Have a nice time

Aditya

Free Post 2 Host VPS

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:54:00 +0000

Another cool site to get Free VPS. But this time it is Post 2 Host. The VPS are limited and are given to users having highest score (they have a score calculator), you will also need to have a minimum of 30 post and also need to keep 20 post per month to keep using the VPS.

The site is : Freevps.us

You can see all the requirements at : FAQs of Freevps.us

Free VPS

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:51:00 +0000

Yes a Free VPS. There is a very good offer at ChunkHost in which they are offering a free VPS (Spec. 512 MB RAM, 20 GB Space and 600 GB Bandwidth) for Free as Free Beta Testing. I am not sure how long this beta test will last as it is open for US Resident only.

So if you are US Resident then you can get a free VPS. Just head over to Chunkhost and enjoy the free VPS.

ATM Service by banks in small cities

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:24:00 +0000

RBI has given guidelines on ATM Service charges if you use other bank's ATM for your Debit Card. Here is the guideline:

Effective 1st July, 2011 RBI has mandated the following changes to:

1. USAGE OF OTHER BANK ATMs – FEES

SAVING ACCOUNT - The permitted 5 free transactions per month at other Bank ATMs will include Financial as well as Non-Financial transactions.

Charges for transactions over the free ones:

Rs. 20.00/- (including taxes) per Financial transaction – i.e. Cash Withdrawals

Rs. 8.50/- (excluding taxes) per Non-Financial transaction – i.e. Balance Inquiry, Pin Change & Mini Statement.

And all the transactions on your bank's ATM Machine will be free of cost.

But here is one question which RBI has not directed i.e. If a Bank's ATM is not working then what customer will do? OK, customer can go to other bank's ATM. But in small cities the ATMs of Banks remain down for more than 8-10 days every month. In such case, 5 free transaction with other bank ATM is not very less?

If a bank is charging Rs. 110 per Debit card as annual maintenance charge and is not able to maintain around 90% of ATM uptime then shouldn't they pay any penalty? If a customer is not able to maintain their QAB due to any reason than the Banks immediately charge Rs. 750 plus taxes every quarter but if they are not able to operate ATM Machines smoothly then they don't face any charges. When RBI will make Banking easy for customers?

The truth of my city, Shahjahanpur, is that many Bank ATMs remain out of service continuously for more than couple of days. How anyone is supposed to withdraw money if they want it urgently? Also there are times during festivals that ATM Machines don't have cash to dispense.

There should be some monitoring by RBI or some guidelines on responsibility of Banks in operation of ATM Machine as well.

Happy Friendship Day

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:34:00 +0000

Wish you all a very very Happy Friendship Day....

Another Indirank Update

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:13:00 +0000

Another small Indirank update for this blog. Now this blog has moved to 74 Rank Points. It has gained 6 points since last update.

Now I wish to move it to 100. :)

Godmode in Windows 7

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:26:00 +0000

Windows 7 is a little cool feature hidden. Its called as GodMode, this feature helps you in configuring all the setting related to Windows Customization in one place and hence its very useful. To activate it do the following:

1. Create a New Folder
2. Rename the Folder : GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
3. Then its icon will change

Now your GodMode icon is ready, you can double click on it to access the settings.

Have Fun

Social Memories: Create your own Facebook Book

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:13:00 +0000

Social Memories is a nice application on facebook which creates a book related to your facebook profile, photos and lots more information. It can provide you hard copy book or a Flash version of the book also.

Here are some screen shots:

Creation of Book

Some Images of my book

Link: Social Memories

Some 3D Wallpapers Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:51:00 +0000

Some more 3D Wallpapers

You can download a pdf file through which Create your Own 3D Glass

3D Cars Wallpapers

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Some wallpapers of Cars in 3D

You can download a pdf file through which Create your Own 3D Glass

Some Nature Pics

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:40:00 +0000

I have taken these pics using my Sony Digital Camera. I hope you all will like them.

Since Blogger can't upload high res pics so I can offer High Resolution pics to anyone who wants them. Just mail me or leave a comment with your email id.

Some 3D Wallpapers Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:40:00 +0000

Here are some 3D Wallpaper:

You can download a pdf file through which Create your Own 3D Glass

Movie - The Adjustment Bureau

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:23:00 +0000

Yesterday I watched one of the cool movie of 2001, The Adjustment Bureau, starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. This is one of the cool movie because of its story which is different from others. You can say that the story might raise questions about Free Will but overall it showed the concept of Options and choices.

The story is kind of straight forward, a person loves a girl and he is willing to sacrifice everything for her but a secret bureau "The Adjustment Bureau" is not allowing him to be with the girl. Reason? The Bureau's Chairman has decided a plan for the person in which the girl doesn't fit. So the bureau does everything to stop them. Now it seems easy story isn't it? But the key point here is that the Bureau person's have special powers and infact they are Angels while the Chairman is supposed to be the God. In one scene when Matt Damon asked Anthony Mackie that whether he is chairman then he replied that Chairman is known by many names and you might have met him/her as he/she meets people in disguise.

This movie is a kind of extension of my thought that there are methods by which we can let everyone think that they have been offered choices but we control what they will choose. This is the same with God, he gives us choices but if he wants then he control which choice we make. Then where is the "Free Will".

Do watch this movie if you want to see something new, fast and action paced. Though if you want movies for smashing fight scenes then there are not those kind of scenes in this movie but still its really fast paced movie.

Indirank Update

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:17:00 +0000

Today I received email from IndiRank about the new update where I received 68 for this blog. The Higher the better. Since this is my first update on Indirank so I am happy to get this rank.

My next target is to make it higher than 75 in next update. I hope I will get it.

Civil Services (P) Exam 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:33:00 +0000

Yesterday I was in Bareilly giving Civil Services (P) Examination and that was one of the reasons why I was not actively posting for past some time. This time the pattern of examination has changed, now instead of Subject Paper a paper of reasoning and Data Analysis has introduced. So I needed to give only exam of General Studies and Reasoning (Data Analysis). My General Studies paper didn't went very good but my Reasoning and Data Analysis paper went exceptionally great. And now I am waiting for the result. I am still in doubt of qualifying the exam but due to my Reasoning paper I do have some chance. Now lets see if I am good enough to qualify atleast the Civil Services (Pre).

In News Paper

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:51:00 +0000

Today I was featured in a news paper. Here is a scanned image of the paper:

Amar Ujala Bareilly Edition Page No. 7 Dated 03 June 2011

Deep web Searching for Files on Rapidhare or similar sites

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Sat, 21 May 2011 11:27:00 +0000

There are times when you might like to get any file from internet but you don't know from where to get it. When you search on google then you get a lot of results but many of them don't work properly, with properly I mean they have information on the file but no download link, and even there is download link then those links are old or deleted.

Even in Forums you find lots of download links on files hosted at Rapidshare, Megaupload, Hotfile or similar files sharing site but due to inactivity many of these files are deleted. So how to search for those files which are not deleted? Surely you don't want to waste time and bandwidth on searching files which when you try to download is deleted by the Downloading Site?

Here is a solution. In fact it is a website which does deep searching on Internet with the search string you provided for files hosted on Rapidshare, Megaupload, hotfile or similar hosting sites. It also provide you the link where these files were posted.

I was able to locate Windows Mobile Device Center with this website.

So here is the Link : Filecrop

Enjoy

Windows Mobile Device Center Download

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:27:00 +0000

If you have Windows mobile and you want to use it with Windows 7 then you will need Windows Mobile Device Center and downloading it from Microsoft can be painful experience. As not everyone likes to run the Windows Validator Tool, Its not related to piracy only but also why anyone has to run validator for free software? and many have found that even after running validator they are unable to download the Windows Device Center. Even I was unable to download the Windows Device Center as the validator was not working properly on my system (I had laptop with Windows 7 OEM). So I searched the web for Windows Mobile Device Center and finally got success. Someone has uploaded the file for everyone to download. So I am sharing the link with you.

Site Link where this file is available : Tci

Download Windows Mobile Device Center 32 Bit

Guest Blog Posts

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Tue, 17 May 2011 09:04:00 +0000

Recently I have found new blogs on craft and am amazed to see that so many Indians are also doing craft work and they are really nice to share their methods and techniques. I have been given chance to write for two blogs and here are links for my guest post over these blogs:

1. At Kalalayaa Artt Club

2. At Craft Supply Shopping Guide

Both blogs contain much more informative posts (more than mine) and do not forget to bookmark those blogs if you are craft lover.

Also for more information on Indian Craft scenario do visit my blog The Craft Zone

Enjoy

Update Manager for Joomla

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:27:00 +0000

Updating a Joomla Installation can be a nightmare, but there is a very small component which makes the update process so simple that any novice user can also update his Joomla Installation.

All you will need to do the following steps to update Joomla:

* Download Update Manager for Joomla from Here : Update Manager
* Install it on your Joomla usings Extensions->Install/Uninstall
* Run the Update Manager from Components->Update Manager
* Follow the onscreen instructions.
* Update of your Joomla Installation will complete within few seconds.

So enjoy updating your Joomla and stay ahead.

Beware of Speakasiaonline.com (aka Speakasia)

noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Gupta) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:42:00 +0000

I know that this title can raise many eyebrows, but I am sure that in a year or two people will thank me for this post.

I generally do not speak much about MLM as ultimately they all run away with people's money and by now everyone should have learned this, but in recent days I saw a rising trend of people speaking about speakasiaonline.com

Here are some points which I wanted to tell you then you can yourself verify whether Speak Asia is good for you or not?

1. Speakasiaonline.com is a Singapore company but it need to host its mail on rediffmail? Everyone knows that Rediff Mail is an Indian Company with global presence but the majority of Rediffmail pro users are Indians and if anyone from Singapore needs outsourced email then they can easily select gmail but not rediffmail pro.

Here is the DNS Record for Speakasiaonline.com :

SPEAKASIAONLINE.COM DNS RECORDS
Record Type TTL Priority Content
speakasiaonline.com A 30 minutes 113.197.34.110 ()
speakasiaonline.com MX 1 hour 10 mail.rediffmailpro.com
speakasiaonline.com NS 1 hour ns05.domaincontrol.com
speakasiaonline.com NS 1 hour ns06.domaincontrol.com
speakasiaonline.com SOA 1 hour ns05.domaincontrol.com. dns.jomax.net. 2011033100 28800 7200 604800 86400
speakasiaonline.com TXT 1 hour v=spf1 include:spf.qlc.co.in ~all
speakasiaonline.com SOA 1 day ns05.domaincontrol.com. dns.jomax.net. 2011033100 28800 7200 604800 86400
test.speakasiaonline.com A 1 hour 113.197.34.99 ()
www.speakasiaonline.com CNAME 1 hour speakasiaonline.com

2. It is very strange that a Singapore based company is giving its payout FAQ only for Indian Bank?
Check out The FAQ section under Rewards, you will find this line:

Q3) How do I redeem my reward points from the company?

A:The reward points can be redeemed for buying products , services and subscriptions . Un utilized reward points can also to transferred from your e wallet upon request to your bank account at the end of 30 days from the date of filling up the survey. Within 7-14 working days (depending upon the local bank in India) the amount gets credited to your bank account. Amounts are credited in your local currency by the bank. A bank transfer charge at the rate of 3% is applied subject to a minimum of USD7.5 .

3. Traffic source

Being a Singapore based company focusing all world, it is very strange that 80% of the traffic for the site is from India and the remaining 20% is from Bangladesh.

4. Enough of the above jargons as most people will not understand and those who understand above matter will not easily fall into prey of these sites. So here is one example which can raise the doubt:
According to one person who tried his best to convince me for Speak Asia, that they pay Rs. 1000 per survey. Which company on earth could pay such a large amount for one Survey? lets be genuine even if the amount is $1 USD i.e. Rs. 50 per survey then also its too much. I mean in present time you can get thousands of accurate survey done in much lesser amount.

That guy told me that a company pays Rs. 30 lac for advertisement then instead of that advertisement they can reach to clients much faster than survey. Then here is the answer I gave, when a company pays Rs. 30 lac for an advertisement then they reach a very large audience. For instance an Ad in World cup final would be viewed by atleast 50 million people. But if this amount is divided by 1000 then the target audience would be only 3000. So why would a company leave 30 million viewers to achieve only 3000 for the same amount? Will you do it?

4. Rs. 11000 for subscription to their website only. There is no commitment from them, i.e. any legal bounding for providing you any survey. So you can't do any case against them. Even if you do then whom you will file case against?

5. How long speak asia will stay?

Thats a question which is even uncertain for the owners of the Speakasiaonline. The simple answer is they will stay online as long as their income is more than their debts. That is as long as the number of new registrations on their site is giving them more money than what they need to pay to their existing users. The day when the income is equal or less than the debt, they slowly will disabling accounts and then reducing the number of surveys, then claiming surveys as fraud. This way they can squeeze maximum profit and sooner they will close down their site.

So as long as the site is online then you can make money but there is no certainty how long they will remain active. So take risk if you want.

And for those who want to comment that this site is reliable, they are making money, they can show proof I would like to say only this thing :

I don't care how much money you are making or you have purchased a brand new Honda Civic with the earnings. I don't want to join this or any kind of MLM. I am happy for your profits but I prefer the hard way of doing business rather than such fast methods of earning money.