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If you have enough balance in your main account for your Vodafone-Idea prepaid connection, you can use the amount to recharge your account to extend validity. This way you need not spend money recharging if you have enough balance in account which you may not be able to use otherwise. If you use *121# you will see a list of tariff and offers, but you cannot go ahead with recharging. To recharge your phone, you can use the USSD code *150*199# For the above mentioned code, at the time of writing this post, you will get 1.5GB data, unlimited calls and 100 sms for 28 days. The availability of the short code will depend on your connection, so you can try similar combinations like *150*149#, *150*245# etc. Enjoy! NOTE: If you dial this code, your main balance will immediately get deducted and the new pack will be activated.

There is a slowdown in the automobile sector and the sales did not boost up during the festival season 2019. Even with the government providing stimulus, the car sales didn't pick up. There is another news about "Amazon.in sells Rs 750 cr worth of premium smartphones; Flipkart sees 2X growth on day 1" ( source ). Well that is a whopping 750 crore just for the premium smartphone by one seller in one day. And the total sales would be very much higher this festive season. So, can we consider the slow down in automobile sector as a sign of an economic slowdown?

This is a A4 size printable world map for study purposes. It includes the complete Indian territory. Right-click on the image and download.

L.E.D bulbs are unquestionably a revolutionary product that can save electricity compared to the incandescent bulbs. The LED bulbs have long life compared to their incandescent counter parts and also consume less electricity. The LED bulbs that are available from stores have a life of approximately 5 years on 8 hours of daily use and the companies give 1 or 2 years replacement guarantee. Now comes the problem. The incandescent bulbs have zero percent plastic, but LEDs are almost completely made of plastic. When they expire they are also contributing to the landfill and will create big problems. They have electronic components that are also dangerous when damaged. So, when touting LEDs as a big saver, the companies should also have the responsibility to take back the expired ones and recycle properly instead of going to land fill. The big benefit is that most LEDs may have only one or two components damaged. So, they can replace the component on very low cost and sell the refurbishe...

The FASTag was introduced for electronic toll collection and thereby reducing the time for a single vehicle to complete the toll collection and move out in 3 seconds. Currently it is 30 seconds to 1 minute due to the human reasons. In many states there are dedicated FASTag lane so you can pass through without any queue.

Indian Government have taken a very bold step to demonetize the prevailing ₹1000 and ₹500 currency notes. This have created chaos and inconvenience for the public, sure this have made good impact on the economy with crores of rupees flooding the bank accounts. The sudden vanishing of Trillions of rupee from the economy added with the lack of availability of lower denomination notes have caused a sudden lose of purchasing power for the Indian people temporarily. The Government have assured to address the lack of currency in the next 50 days. But that means there will be more surprising steps in the coming days. Consider the new ₹2000 currency note. It is just a piece of paper with such a low quality that it cannot endure the day-to-day use. The common man does not need such a high denomination note for his day to day use. One day can be managed by below ₹1000. So what are the plans. The current lack of availability of ₹2000 currency notes means the RBI is considering this a...

The new version of Android, 7.0 – Nougat is released and will be available first to the Nexus devices and Android One devices. Features: Expanded emoji: 72 new emojis are added. Multi-locale support: Compatible apps will show information in the locale you choose. Our Pradakshinam app is supporting ml-In and en-us. Multi-window: Run two apps side-by-side. The performance will depend on the configuration of the phone. Direct Reply: Earlier available on iOS, now reply directly to notifications without having to open any app. Ref:  https://android.googleblog.com/2016/08/android-70-nougat-more-powerful-os-made.html

https://www.obidostech.com/malayalam-calendar/ Just send a mail from your Gmail account (synced in your Android device) with subject Calendar Subscription to obidostechnologies@gmail.com. The calendar will be activated on your default calendar app. No Download Necessary Hurry If you have an iPhone, see the instructions in this link to get the Malayalam Calendar in your device. iPhone Instructions If you like to do it yourself, please see the instructions in the link below: Android Instructions Send your comments and suggestions through the comments box. *** UPDATE - 20-June-2016 *** Samsung Phone users, the Calendar may not work properly with S Planner app that come pre-installed with certain Samsung models. Please download Google calendar app from Play store to use the Malayalam Calendar.

We have released the second version of our Android app "Pradakshinam". The app has the list of Gods and Temples in Kerala. We tried to make the app very lean and it is only 1.3 mB download size. The app has an extremely good offline data management facility and update new data from server automatically. As the app used offline data, you can use the app even if there is no connection to Internet. The app has information both in English and Malayalam which can be switched.

The two characters in the name of the bulk SMS sender denote the provider (1st character) and the region (2nd character) through which the SMS was sent. Below is the table to look up the provider and region.  Provider List Region List A Airtel A Andhra Pradesh B BSNL B Bihar C Datacom Solutions D Delhi D Aircel E UP-East E Reliance Telecom G Gujarat H HFCL Infotel H Haryana I Idea I Himachal Pradesh L Loop Telecom J Jammu & Kashmir M MTNL K Kolkata P Spice Telecom L Kerala R Reliance Communications M Mumbai S S Tel N North East T Tata Teleservices O Orissa U Uninor P Punjab V Vodafone R Rajasthan W Swan Telecom S Assam Y Shyam Telecom T Tamilnadu ...

Easily know your Bank account balance by giving a missed call to below numbers. The call will be immediately disconnected and you will receive the balance information as SMS to your mobile number. Your mobile number must be registered in your Bank for this purpose. Allahabad Bank 9224150150 Andhra Bank 9223011300 Axis Bank 9225892258 Bank of baroda 9223011311 Bank of india 2233598548 Bhartiya Mahila Bank 9212438888 Canara Bank 9289292892 Central Bank of india 9222250000 Dhanlaxmi Bank 8067747700 HDFC Bank 18002703333 ICICI Bank 2230256767 IDBI Bank 9212993399 Indian Bank 9289592895 Karnataka Bank 18004251445 Kotak Mahindra Bank 18002740110 Punjab national Bank 18001802222 Syndicate Bank 9664552255 UCO Bank 9278792787 Union Bank of india 9223009292 Vijaya Bank 18002665555 Yes Bank 9840909000

I think this post will benefit users who are thinking to get Internet in their mobile devices. If you are a light internet user and have multiple devices, one way you can choose is to tether your connection with your devices. This will drain battery on your device. Otherwise you will need to buy Internet packs on all the devices which will not be a cost-effective method. My plan is to have a single connection that can be shared with all the devices so that you need only one data plan and the devices will be connected with WiFi means less battery drain. The initial investment is a bit high though ;-) The devices you need are: GSM WiFi dongle that usually supports 5 - 10 devices to be connected at once. ( Sample ) USB power-bank. ( Sample ) BSNL GSM connection with Internet. I chose BSNL as this is the cheapest with Rs.155 for 1GB data as of now and will support both 3G and 2G on this pack. Setup is simple, slide in the SIM to the WiFi dongle and connect t...

***UPDATE*** I was informed by my cousin that it is a native of Kerala, but itz camouflage is too good that it seldom catches our eye. I happened to see a chameleon that I have seen only in TV, near my office. Didn't know this existed in Kerala.

I was really shocked to see that J&K was not included in the map of INDIA that Google show in Analytics. The state is not given to any other country, thank God. Some time before, a part of the state was shown as disputed territory. Now, they have totally cut-off them from INDIA. This is the screen shot of what I saw just now in "http://www.google.com/analytics/" site. I believe the Government should ask Google to stop showing these type of maps. Map of INDIA without J&K

This is from a mail forward I got from my friend. I'm not sure if this is real, but the idea is not fun. We are living in a world where you mostly judge people by their appearance and their behavior. I have seen many group of people wearing all sorts of modern fashion (let them believe it...) and creating noise in public places. But when you single out a person and ask, he might be from a not-so-high-funda family, but showing all this stuff just to be in the company of one or two of their millionaire friends... In their company they do all sorts of mischief, knowing that it is wrong. They race their cars in public roads, spend money unnecessarily, waste food and like. But, coming to the point, wasting resources, we also do this, knowingly or un-knowingly at some point. Try to limit your resource utilization, because there are many out there who are not able to get food at least once a day. now read on... Below is a note written by an Anonymous visitor to Germany.

Finally Indian Rupee  ( ` ) got a symbol. On July 15th 2010, the winner of the contest was announced and the new symbol of Indian Rupee was shown to the world.  The symbol is derived from a combination the Devanagari letter ‘र’ and English letter ‘R’. The font can be downloaded here . Installation instructions Unzip the zip file to C:\temp folder. Open Control Panel -> Fonts Select File->Install New Font...  In the new window, under Folders, select c:\temp The font will be listed in the 'List of fonts:' box. Click the font name and click 'OK', the font will be installed in your machine. Using the font In MS Word (or other word processing or similar applications), select the font 'Rupee Foradian' in the font list. To type the character, use the '~' key (top left key above 'Tab').

I saw an amazing maneuver of crystal balls at the show in Oberon Mall, Kochi. I had my digital camera with me and recorded some moments from the show. See them below.