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Best Deal for Mobile's under 10,000 - First Timers Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Ashish Yadav) — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:08:00 +0000

Mobile Phones.. Which one to buy! It is one of the most difficult question these days as we have many brands with so many models available in market for range as low as Rs. 3000 ( a decent, low specification android phone) to anything you can afford for.

Today i am covering best phone available worth buying under Rs. 10,000.

First thing First! Search for all the mobile phones available under 10,000. I would prefer going to Flipkart as all the recent and up coming models of mobile phones are listed on Flipkart. This step is just to find out which mobile to buy, i am not all recommending to buy from Flipkart without comparing to other websites.

Making it easy for you, just follow this link to get all the mobile phone under Rs. 10,000

Now if you have specific requirement say you need only android phone's then you can apply filter on left hand menu of flipkart.com or you can also click here to get all the android mobile phones under Rs. 10,000 or click here for list of all phone with Windows OS under Rs. 10,000

List of some specific features which you need to decide before buying phone

1. Single sim/Dual Sim
2. Screen Size
3. Camera
4. Internal/External Storage

After applying all required filters, then comes option of brand. Presently there are two types of phone available.

1. Branded Phones :- Sony, Samsung, Nokia, HTC, Apple, LG, Motorola, etc..
2. Non-Branded Phones :- Micromax, XOLO, Xiaomi, Videocon, Lava, intex, etc..

The above classification of branded and non branded is not that branded ones are good and non branded ones are bad, it's just that the same specification phone you will get at half price if its a Non-branded one when compared to a phone with similar or sometimes even lesser specification of Branded phone segment. So basically it's brand value, style quotient that which brand of cell phone do you carry.

Hope up till now you must have decided the OS, Specific Features and whether you wish to go for branded or non-branded segment of phones.

All set now comes the specification part, once you have applied specific filter you will have around 10-12 phones which will be there in the list, among those choose best in design, best in specification and then finalize one or two which suits all your requirements.

Now check for the reviews of the phone from various Tech Portals like Gadgets NDTV, Techradar, Phone Arena and ofcourse your best friend Google.

Also check the reviews on E-commerce portals like Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, etc. Also it doesn't assure you that since the phone is from branded section it will be a superb phone. Always check two or three reviews sites and then only decide upon going and finalizing the phone.

According to me best Android Phone under Rs. 10,000 is Asus Zenfone 5 (8GB) which is presently available at Rs. 9,999 @ Flipkart

The phone is available on Amazon and Snapdeal as well but it priced quite higher as compared to Flipkart. Still since price keeps on changing do cross check and it may happen that are some cash back offer going around. So do check it on Amazon and snapdeal before buying it from Flipkart

Although the above choice of phone is totally personal as it suits my requirement and specification are max what you can get at this price. If you are interested in some other phone/model you can visit here to buy it.

Don't forget to search for discount coupons online for respective e-commerce portal. Generally you won't find any discount coupons for Flipkart, but you can get very good discount copouns for Amazon & Snapdeal.

First time purchasing online?? Have any doubts on deciding which will be the right product for you with respect to your requirement and budget, any doubts clarification or help regarding deals or products feel free to reach me. I'll definitely try to help you get the best product with best deal.

Do comment below and also suggest best according to you?

Best deal to buy Portable Hard Disk Drive - First Timers Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Ashish Yadav) — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:48:00 +0000

Looking to buy Portable Harddisk? If yes then read on!

First thing decide which HDD you wish to buy and the storage?

Frankly speaking if i have to buy a HDD i'll always go for Segate, but apart from Segate you can also go for Western Digital. Both are market leaders in Storage devices all over the world.

Seagate has many service centers where you can walk to get you device replaced in case of faulty device also it provides door to door pick up & delivery of replaced devices.

Western Digital does not have any service centers to walk in, but it provides door to door pick up & delivery of replaced devices.

Now once you decide which HDD to purchase decide what amount of storage fits your budget? :P Generally if your purchasing portable HDD at this point of time, my advice will be to go for at least 1 TB, because the cost difference in 500 GB and 1 TB will be max of 400-500rs. So it would be better to go for 1TB and higher volumes depending upon the requirement.

Once you have decide above both thing, next challenge is to get best deals online. Now a days each and every e-commerce portal is competing with each other and thus some amount of R&D will definitely get you with best deals online.

DO NOT JUST BELIEVE ON ANY E-COMMERCE PORTAL CLAIMING THAT IT IS GIVING SOME X % DISCOUNT ON THE PRODUCT. DO VERIFY THE ORIGINAL PRICE FROM OTHER PORTALS.

* Also before purchasing check for any credit/debit card offers going available on any of the e-commerce portal. If your lucky you can get 10-15% as a cashback out on the purchase.

NOTE :- The below mentioned price keeps on changing depending upon the offers, sellers & availability. So please follow the link to find the real time price of the hard disk.

You can buy from the following option for 1TB HDD

- From Amazon

WD Elements portable 1TB model of Western Digital is available at Rs. 3947 from Amazon and Seagate Expansion model of 1TB Seagate is available at Rs. 3949

- From Snapdeal

Above Same model of 1TB Western Digital is available at Rs. 3929 from snapdeal and same model of 1TB Seagate is available at Rs. 4007

- From Flipkart

Above Same model of 1TB Western Digital is available at Rs. 4614 from Flipkart and same model of 1TB Seagate is available at Rs. 4956

From the above comparison you can easy find out that Flipkart being most famous is selling at very high price, so you should consider buying it from Amazon or Snapdeal.

Interested on higher volume of Portable drives, check the below links for best deals

Amazon

Snapdeal

Flipkart

Don't forget to search for discount coupons online for respective e-commerce portal. Generally you won't find any discount coupons for Flipkart, but you can get very good discount coupons for Amazon & Snapdeal.

First time purchasing online?? Have any doubts on deciding which will be the right product for you with respect to your requirement and budget, any doubts clarification or help regarding deals or products feel free to reach me. I'll definitely try to help you get the best product with best deal.

What is Splunk? | First Timers Guide on Splunk - A Big Data Platform for Machine Data

noreply@blogger.com (Ashish Yadav) — Wed, 14 May 2014 16:56:00 +0000

Splunk a known name in Big Data Industry specially for machine data. Splunk is the industry-leading platform for operational intelligence. It basically collects and indexes any machine data from virtually any source in real time.

Search, monitor, analyze and visualize your data to gain new insights and intelligence. Index everything for deep visibility, forensics and troubleshooting. Splunk also provides features to create ad hoc reports to identify trends or prove compliance controls.

Create interactive dashboards to monitor for security incidents, service levels and other key performance metrics. Analyze user transactions, customer behavior, machine behavior, security threats and fraudulent activity, all in real time.

To know more in detail about Splunk's capability you can visit here

Splunk deals with all the 4Vs of Big Data in an efficient and fruitful manner thus making sense out of data, insights and intelligence.

Splunk provides a web Interface with which you can creates dashboards, search queries, index the data and much more. Splunk software provides the engine for indexing the machine data

=> Collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data.

=> Data sources coming from the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business.

=> Enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data

=> More than 4,800 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in over 85 countries use Splunk Enterprise

=> They gain Operational Intelligence that deepens business and customer understanding, improves service and up-time, reduces cost and mitigates cyber-security risk.

Splunk can be used in any to builds many applications based on logs generated from machines. Machine data can be data from Firewalls, routers, switches, Cell Phone, Base stations (BSC), MSC, Sensors, etc.

There are many applications available on Splunk App Base for download for free which can be used for respective data analysis. Splunk also give 90 days trail which has some limitations but can be evaluated and then depending upon the requirement an efficient plan can be purchased from Splunk.

Splunk also provides facility of SDK and Splunk SDK is available for download for all most all the famous languages like Java, Python, C#, etc..

If you have large amount of machine data and you want to make some real time or near real time insight from it, do evaluate splunk. May be you could answer some questions from the insight of logs which you haven't even thought of!!!!

Coming Soon!!! - You can read here on how to use Splunk SDK

Best IDE for Python - Visual Studio

noreply@blogger.com (Ashish Yadav) — Sat, 10 May 2014 13:14:00 +0000

Are you a python developer? If Yes then are you comfortable with the present IDE which you are using to code and debug python? Are you easily able to debug your python applications?

If you are looking best options for python IDE, then you should read below how you can use Visual Studio to Code, Build, Debug any python application, Basically how you can use Visual Studio as an IDE for Python.

I am writing this post as i found it very difficult to start coding on Python as i was novice and had prior development using Visual Studio. So i making it easy for other developers like me to make use of Visual Studio to code on python.

What is Visual Studio?

Visual Studio is an IDE from Microsoft and is one of the most famous and best IDE for developer's developing application in C#, VB, .NET, ASP, J#, C++, etc.. It has loads of features which you can directly refer from here.

Prerequisites ?

1. Visual Studio 2010 or 2012

2. Python

3. Python Plug-in for Visual Studio

You can download the Prerequisites from the above respective download links and make sure that you download the version which are compatible with each other. Compatibility details are mentioned on their respective websites.

Once you have all the files downloaded, Install Visual Studio followed by Python and then the Plugin. Once all the applications are downloaded you are ready to go and develop any python application, code it, debug it using Microsoft's famous IDE - Visual Studio.

You can also refer to this link for more detail on Excel & Python tool

How to Configure Automatic Network Domain Authentication & Proxy in C#

noreply@blogger.com (Ashish Yadav) — Sat, 10 May 2014 12:42:00 +0000

In this Corporate world Mobility & Security is very important aspect and there comes to picture Authentication Systems, Logon's, Firewalls, etc.. So as to make centralized Authentication we have many solutions available in market, One of the most famous authentication system is Microsoft's Active Directory-LDAP

Mostly all the organizations use Firewall/Proxy and even to use internet User Authentication is required. This can be a very difficult problem when you are a developer and you need to use Internet which is behind some firewall/proxy and on top of it required authentication as well.

So If you are using a windows system which is using Active Directory Authentication & 99% organizations use the same authentication for Internet as well which is behind firewall/proxy. The below piece of code can help you to automatically handle user authentication for internet & proxy configuration whatever is configured in Internet Explorer by default. Thus developed application can be tested and deployed on any network/organization without any configuration change.

//This line of code automatically detects the system configured proxy. i.e the proxy setting configured in Internet explorer will be used when communicated with Internet.

IWebProxy proxy = WebRequest.GetSystemWebProxy();

//This line of code fetched and logs on to the system using Authentication Credentials from cache.

proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
request.Proxy = proxy;

Thus using the above code can help you to fix Proxy settings & Authentication Configuration handling when developing an application on C#

Complete Guide to Buy Cheapest Air Tickets

noreply@blogger.com (Ashish Yadav) — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:46:00 +0000

Travelling to different places for either attending some occasions, business trips, meeting family or whatever it may be. Usually there are only two option Train & Air-Plane.

As you people know that train tickets are booked through IRCTC, one of the most problematic issues is that ticket has to be booked in 2 months in advance. For me at least booking tickets via IRCTC is like appraisals, you only get either when you are too lucky :P

Coming to the topic, now since as we are devoid of options and some for comfort & luxury generally prefer Air travelling.

If you follow the below mentioned steps you can save some bugs and can help you with buying cheapest Air-Tickets which you would have ended up for purchasing for more!

What do you need?

Generally banks tie-up with airlines to offer discounts to their Account/Credit card holders. So it would be a good if you have many different bank accounts & Credit cards. Also it is not practical that you have all the banks account & credit card, but you can use yours or your family members in case you are getting a discount and then later settle the bill.

To know more in detail Click here for First Timers Guide on applying for a Credit Card

Patience & some R&D, Yes If you want to save money you will have to have some time, patience & that rest I will guide you that how do you save your hard earned money.

Research & Analysis

1. There are many service providers through which you can book your tickets and from time to time these service providers also offer discounts to lure their customers.

2. Most Important thing, if you are planning in advance & your dates are flexible then visit this link , which is Fare Calendar. This will give you overview of fares from specific location and dates you mention and depending upon your requirement you can choose the cheapest ticket which suits you.

3. Once date, Time is finalized the next step is to visit these links :-

a. GOIBIBO

b. YATRA

c. VIA

d. EASEMYTRIP

e. MAKEMYTRIP

4. After you have done analysis & review of above website, I think it is not required but still you can check the Air-Lines respective websites also. Many times there are deals which are specific to Airline, Like recently “SpiceJet was selling their tickets for just Rs. 1/-”. So you can airlines official website and check if you can get & redeem some offers.

NOTE: - Many times when special offers are run by airlines, like the one of “SpiceJet” mentioned above it is on first come first serve basis so when you search on the above website you may or may not find the low cost website listed in the search. So try with different website or preferably in that case visit official airline’s website to book your tickets.

5. There are even more websites, you can just Google them and check for the offers page. I have listed the popular ones also there are different deals for Domestic & International travels. Also once you can register on the above website which will keep on emailing you whenever there are offers running on their website.

6. Still Out of luck and you are not able / not eligible for any offers, Then search for Coupons code / Discount codes available at CoupounDunia and see if any discount code can get discount on your deals.

7. Once you have checked all the above links you can make out which website’s which offer is helping you to save more money. If you are eligible for any offers running on the website go for it and book you tickets which is cheapest of all.

Do comments below whether it helped you or not? Did you get some good deals! Enjoy and do share it with your friends.

First Timers Guide on Applying for Credit Card

noreply@blogger.com (Ashish Yadav) — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:09:00 +0000

Credit Card also known as Plastic money has its own advantages and disadvantages. It's advantages and disadvantages, Features, Processing fees may differ from Bank to Bank & Card to Card.

Below are the few ground rules you should take care of if you are applying for credit card and do not want it to get REJECTED & also few precautions which you should take if you already have credit card and wish to apply for other credit cards as well!

If you are applying for First Time

1. Choosing the right card

=> Generally there are two types of card. One is Life Time Free Credit Cards (Which does not have many offers) & Processing Fess Credit Cards (Which has somewhat more offers as compared to those frees ones)

=> You can visit Bank websites of Citibank, HDFC, Standard Chartered, ICICI, Axis Bank or any bank which you wish to apply the credit card, enter few details about your self and the website will let you the cards which you are eligible for.

=> Depending upon the eligibility and your requirement choose the credit cards which you can afford and which can be of your use in terms of offers and deals on the card.

2. How to apply for the Card?

=> Never, Mind YOU Never apply for Credit Card via Tele Callers, who call you and say that since you work in so and so company you are offered a free credit card with hell lot of features. Generally, In most cases more than 98% cases those telle callers commit any thing to you just as they have target to complete.

=> If you wish to apply for credit card, then always apply from Bank's Website or via Representative at your office premises or at any mall/public premises who hold respective banks ID card.

=> Wherever from you are applying for credit card, do read about its Joining Fees, Processing fees (if any) , duration of processing fees ( Annually, One time ) and also make sure that the same is mentioned on the application form which you sign and give to the representative.

3. Which Card to Apply First?

=> One of the most important thing and those who have already applied many times and have got their credit card application denied without giving any reason puzzled that why the application got rejected.

=> Banks generally check the CIBIL score before issuing credit card to customers. Now those who have never taken any loan or didn't had any credit card won't have CIBIL score available and thus for no reason your application gets rejected even thought you are fully eligible for the card.

=> Now Since you haven't take any loan you did not have any CIBIL score, to generate CIBIL score you should have a credit card so that CIBIL score gets generated. Confused what to do in such a deadlock condition?

=>Apply for Credit Card of Bank in which you have your salary account. Before applying make sure that atleast your salary account is 3-4 months old. If your salary is properly getting crediting in your salary account then there are very good chances of you getting a credit card from that bank.
You can also visit creditcards.com to help you find best credit card as per your need.

4. Do's & Don't

=> DO NOT APPLY for more than one credit card at a time. Applying for more than one credit card can let both or all the application being rejected.

=> If your credit card application gets rejected for whatsoever reason, DO NOT RE-APPLY before 3-4 Months. RE-APPLY only after 3-4 months, better will be if you apply after 6 Months then there will be strong chances of getting your application accepted.

=>Do Not default any payment, Because it adversely affects your CIBIL score which will haunt you whenever you apply for new credit card or apply for loan.

Some of the best advantages of having credit card is getting awsome discounts on Movie Tickets, Flight tickets, 10%-25% discounts on Electronics & various other products and appliances online & offline as well on SuperMarket & Retail Stores such as Chroma, Vijay Sales, Reliance Digital.

Having credit card helps you to get products on EMI, thus making it easier for you to buys your choice Mobile, TV, etc.. and paying them in easy installments of 3,6,9,12.

If you are food freak and frequently eat outside then many credit cards provide discounts on chains of hotels & restaurants

Some of Life Time Credit cards you wish to apply Platinum Rewards Card , HDFC Teachers Platinum Card

You can also apply for Citi Bank Rewards Card. It has a processing fees of 1000rs per years, but it gets waived off if you do total shopping of 30,000Rs per year.

If you have any issues share it with us, will definitely try to help!

How to Deploy or Host Service in IIS - First Timers Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Ashish Yadav) — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 16:21:00 +0000

Open IIS
a. Open the command prompt in administrator mode. To do click on Start button then type RUN in search and then in Run window type inetmgr to open IIS.

Now you will have IIS open like below

b. Right click on Sites and then click Add Web Site
c. Now a window will open.

Give any name of your choice as the site name. I am giving name here AadharInfo. You are free to give any name of your choice.
Now click on select and choose ASP.Net v4.0 from the drop down.

Now in the physical path section, we need to give physical path of the service. So to get the physical path of the service, right click on the WCF Service project in visual studio and click open project in windows explorer.

Open the project in windows explorer and from address bar copy the path and paste that below or you can browse also. Just click on browse button and navigate to project folder of the WCF Service.

Now at the Binding section select HTTP. User is free to give any port number. In our metro application we have given the path reference to service at port no 8080, so i am selecting the port as 8080.

In case you choose to use different port number then respectively use that same port number in Adding Service Reference

Do not give any name as host name. Leave it blank

Check the check box Start Web Site Immediately.

And now click OK on the window.

Now the service is hosted and can be used for the any application. Click here to see how this service can be used in Metro Application to even run unsupported features of metro applications.

If port no 8080 is used then there is no need to make any changes in the solution. In case there is a change then In solution explorer, on the solution right click and go to add service reference.

You get a Screen similar to below.

Just replace the port number used and click OK. Now you have successfully deployed the Aadhar Service on IIS.