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Purchase IPL 3 Tickets Online

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IPL 2010

The biggest and longest (running for 43 days) cricketing event Indian Premier League 2010 aka IPL 2010 or IPL 3 as it is called, has just started today promising the exciting cricketing action.

If you have a TV, well it’s almost easier for you to follow the live action no matter in which ever country you are (considering that IPL has deals with many broadcasters worldwide).

If you are missing live action on TV but have an active internet connection, you can still catch all the live action from YouTube.

How To Buy IPL 3 Tickets Online?

You can easily book or reserve tickets for any upcoming IPL game from the following genuine and trusted sites.Do not visit any other sites claiming to offer IPL 2010 tickets.

These are the authorised websites where you can buy IPL tickets

Link 1 – BookMyShow

Link 2 – Ticketgenie

Link 3 – Vodafone [Only if you are a Vodafone customer]

From mobile phone:

If you are a Vodafone India customer, you can buy DLF IPL 2010 tickets by accessing Vodafone M-Shop.To access M-Shop, Vodafone customers may dial Toll free number 53333 or can SMS MSHOP to 53333.

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Using Google Reader Play For Visual Web Browsing

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For all those lovers of Google’s online RSS feed reader ‘Google reader’, here’s an interesting new feature being added to reader.The new feature is being called ‘Reader Play’.

Google has announced in a blog post earlier announced the launch of ‘Google Reader Play’.Reader play offers you new way to see feeds in your browser, like a slideshow, the feed items will scroll one by one horizontally (you can use side arrows to move one by one or you can also start a slideshow).

By default, Reader play will show feed items that interests you (even if you haven’t subscribed to them), you can always tell the reader about the items you like just by clicking the like button (rectangle one) below your feed items.

However, if you only want to read the visual display of feeds from your subscriptions, just go your reader page, scroll down to the subscriptions folder, click on the ‘Top down’ menu as shown below:reader_folder_top_down

Select the last option “View in Reader Play” to start reading that particular subscriptions folder in Reader Play.

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And the beautiful visual reading experience will start (as in the below picture ):

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You always click on the 3 symbols below each item,

‘Star’ to mark items for later

‘Like’ items to tell the reader about what you like

‘Share’ to share the items with your followers

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Tip : Read How to use Google reader to track changes in any website that doesn’t offer feeds.

Google Apps Marketplace Officially Launched

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Google has launched new Google Apps Marketplace, that lets the Google Apps users to install third party  cloud apps that integrate directly with Google Apps.

This is a new new online store for integrated business applications that makes it easier for the Google Apps users and the software providers to do business in the cloud.

Acc to a blog post in Google official blog, there are more than 50 companies selling applications covering wide range of businesses.Google Apps customers can easily discover, deploy & manage cloud apps with this Google Apps Marketplace.

Visit Google Apps Marketplace page to install the apps that you may need for your company’s domain.

At present, most if the apps are coming with a subscription fee (most of them), but there are still some free and worthy apps available (also available are trail based apps, that provide you a free trail of their service for some period and later you pay to continue using their services),

refine by filters Google Apps

(free apps like Gbridge, offering Free instant VPN for everyone! in the organisation- Support Windows folder sharing and remote printing, as well as Windows Remote Desktop through RDP protocol).

While searching, using “Refine by features” will confine the results matched to only the feature that was selected

Add apps from Marketplace to your Google Apps

Watch Google App Marketplace Introduction/Overview Video:

Install Google Apps Marketplace tools for your Google Apps account and let’ us know the application that you liked most in Google Apps Marketplace through comments.

BSNL EVDO Card 3.1 Mbps Unlimited @ Rs 750 !! (Up To March 31)

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BSNL EVDO 3.1 Mbps Unlimited plan only @ 750 Rs, Hurry up (Till March 31, 2010 only):

BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.) has taken a very big step forward towards offering high speed internet at an affordable rate to the  internet users in India.BSNL today has announced 3.1 Mbps unlimited plan under its EVDO card at rupees 999 INR 750 INR.

This comes as a real good news for all those who are eagerly waiting for such an unlimited plan at affordable price (Rs. 750).BSNL EVDO is the best option if you want to get high speed wireless broadband in India, though there are private firms operating in this arena, their services level do not match up to the state owned BSNL.But the twist here is that this is a promotional offer and valid for post-paid activations till March 31, 2010.Existing prepaid would get the unlimited data usage plan at Rs 650.

BSNL has also launched another plan but this time in Pre-paid, data usage priced at 5 Paise per 100 KB i.e Rs. 1 for 1 MB of usage.

BSNL EVDO Banner

BSNL EVDO Post-Paid TARIFF [As seen in BSNL website]

Sl.No FMC* (in Rs.) Monthly free usage (in GB)
1 199 0.5
2 299 1
3 449 2
4 649 5
5 999 Unlimited

[*] FMC – Fixed Monthly Charge

Summary (Rs 750 unlimited EVDO card plan)

Plan Type: Postpaid

Price : Rs. 750

Data usage : Unlimited

Pros:

Affordable (at Rs. 750)

Free all India roaming

Cons:

High price if the EVDO router (Rs. 21,000, no rental option)

Unlimited plan only in Postpaid connection

Being a promotional offer [It’ll be Rs. 999 again after March 31, 2010]

BSNL EVDO Ad:[Click to see larger size image]

BSNL_EVDO_Card 750 plan

Google Adds Sidewiki Claim, Fetch As Googlebot Mobile in Webmaster Tools

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In an update to Webmaster Tools Labs, Google has added two new features to under labs features.

New features:

  • Fetch as Googlebot-Mobile
  • Create your Sidewiki page owner entry

Fetch as Googlebot-Mobile:

Fetch as Googlebot-Mobile as the name suggests, lets you fetch any page in your claimed website, as it’d appear to the mobile version of the Googlebot (XHTML/WML or CHTML Googlebot Mobile).

[Read how to Use Fetch as Googlebot to find malicious hacks in a website]

You can access this under Labs > Fetch as Googlebot section from your Google Webmaster Tools (GWT)

Fetch As Google Bot Mobile

Sidewiki Page Owner Entry:

This feature I guess is of no value to the webmasters right now, according to me.It is just last week that Google has announced about replacing Google Sidewiki with star bookmarks.Many users have already been migrated from Sidewiki to Star bookmarks, at present only Google Toolbar has Sidewiki option.Only Google should know the logic behind this new feature.Given that Sidewiki itself is a failure, this really doesn’t interest you much right now.

Sidewiki entry in Webmaster Tools

Never the less, good features, especially ‘Fetch as Googlebot mobile’ (may be bad timing for the Sidewiki entry, should have been launched earlier)

IPL 3rd Edition (IPL 2010) Schedule

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The IPL extravaganza is about to start in 3 more days.The 3rd edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2010) will start with the first day/night match between Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians at Mumbai(initially, the venue was Hyderabad, later shifted to Mumbai because of the ‘T’ allegations).There would be 60 matches in total this year starting from March 12, 2010.Most of them being Day/Night matches The final would be held at Mumbai on April 25, 2010.

We had already covered about how to watch IPL 3 matches online.And now for all your IPL fans out there, we are here with the official schedule of the IPL 3/ IPL 2010 version.

IPL 2010 Schedule / Fixtures:

Date Match Time (IST) Venue
March 12 DC x KKR 8 PM Mumbai
March 13 Mumbai x Rajasthan 3 PM Mumbai
Punjab x Delhi 8 PM Mohali
March 14 KKR  x Bangalore 4 PM Kolkata
Chennai x DC 8 PM Chennai
March 15 Rajasthan x Delhi 8 PM Ahmedabad
March 16 Bangalore x Punjab 4 PM Bangalore
KKR x Chennai 8 PM Kolkata
March 17 Delhi x Mumbai 8 PM Delhi
March 18 Bangalore x Rajasthan 8 PM Bangalore
March 19 Delhi x Chennai 4 PM Delhi
DC x Punjab 8 PM Cuttack
March 20 Rajasthan x KKR 4 PM Ahmedabad
Mumbai x Bangalore 8 PM Mumbai
March 21 DC x Delhi 4 PM Cuttack
Chennai x Punjab 8 PM Chennai
March 22 Mumbai x KKR 8 PM Mumbai
March 23 Bangalore x Chennai 8 PM Bangalore
March 24 Punjab x Rajasthan 8 PM Mohali
March 25 Mumbai x Chennai 8 PM Mumbai
March 26 Rajasthan x DC 8 PM Ahmedabad
March 27 Punjab x KKR 4 PM Mohali
Bangalore x Delhi 8 PM Bangalore
March 28 Rajasthan x Chennai 4 PM Ahmedabad
DC x Mumbai 8 PM Mumbai
March 29 Delhi x Kolkata 8 PM Delhi
March 30 Mumbai x Punjab 8 PM Mumbai
March 31 Chennai x Bangalore 4 PM Chennai
Delhi x Rajasthan 8 PM Delhi
April 1 KKR x DC 8 PM Kolkata
April 2 Punjab x Bangalore 8 PM Mohali
April 3 Chennai x Rajasthan 4 PM Chennai
Mumbai x DC 8 PM Mumbai
April 4 KKR x Punjab 4 PM Kolkata
Delhi x Bangalore 8 PM Delhi
April 5 DC x Rajasthan 8 PM Nagpur
April 6 Chennai x Mumbai 8 PM Chennai
April 7 Rajasthan x Punjab 4 PM Jaipur
KKR x Delhi 8 PM Kolkata
April 8 Bangalore x DC 8 PM Bangalore
April 9 Punjab x Mumbai 8 PM Mohali
April 10 DC x Chennai 4 PM Nagpur
Bangalore x Kolkata 8 PM Bangalore
April 11 Delhi x Punjab 4 PM Delhi
Rajasthan x Mumbai 8 PM Jaipur
April 12 DC x Bangalore 8 PM Nagpur
April 13 Mumbai x Delhi 4 PM Mumbai
Chennai x Kolkata 8 PM Chennai
April 14 Rajasthan x Bangalore 8 PM Jaipur
April 15 Chennai x Delhi 8 PM Chennai
April 16 Punjab x DC 8 PM Dharmasala, HP
April 17 Bangalore x Mumbai 4 PM Bangalore
KKR x Rajasthan 8 PM Kolkata
April 18 Punjab x Chennai 4 PM Dharmasala, HP
Delhi x DC 8 PM Delhi
April 19 KKR x Mumbai 8 PM Kolkata
April 21 Semi-Final 1 8 PM Bangalore
April 22 Semi-Final 2 8 PM Bangalore
April 24 3rd Place Play-off 8 PM Mumbai
April 25 Final 8 PM Mumbai

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Chennai – Chennai Super Kings

DC – Deccan Chargers

KKR – Kolkata Knight Riders

Bangalore – Royal Challengers Bangalore

Punjab – Kings XI Punjab

Rajasthan – Rajasthan Royals

Mumbai – Mumbai Indians

Delhi – Delhi Daredevils

We hope IPL 3rd season enthrals you !

Moderate and Reply to Comments on WordPress Blog From Your Desktop

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Moderating Comments in your Blog is also another workload for bloggers with the increase of spammers and spam comments everywhere. Yes you would have installed plugins to block spam comments. But some of the comments may slip in anytime. Or if the comment is offensive or is violating your policies you need to spam or remove those comments manually.

Another Important thing is that if you want to reply to a comment, then it will take no time and the commenter who needs a reply will be quite impressed if you reply as soon as it is commented.

The overhead of finding the comments one by one and moderating them is a big headache. Now in order to help you solve this problem, WordPress presents the Desktop Comment Notifies for Windows. Just install and configure your blog settings, the comments will be notified in your desktop as soon as it is posted.

Try this exciting Desktop Comment Notifier by WordPress and help yourself to regulate, all the comments live.

To start Download WordPress Comment Notifier from the link below:

Download WP Comment Notifier

Size: 3.30 MB

File: wp-comments-notifier-setup.0.11.exe

After downloading, Install it on your PC:

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Open wp-notifier and Update your Blog settings. Enter your blog URL, Username and Password. Do not forget to put http://

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After successful Configuration you can see the Comments on your Blog. you can approve or unapprove, delete, spam, reply, edit a comment. You can set the frequency which it updates the Comments list from your blog. The Frequency is 5mins by default.

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Now you can easily monitor all the comments you are getting live.

Watch Oscars 2010 Online Live Streaming- The 82nd Annual Academy Awards

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82nd Annual Academy Awards, March 7th, 2010

Here comes the biggest event of Hollywood (or may be the biggest event of world cinema), March 7, 2010 brings yet another evening filled with the most wonderful actors & actresses around the globe, and the lovely Oscar Red carpet.

The 82nd annual academy awards ceremony is going to start in few hours at 3PM ET (6PM PT) at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California..The most interesting battle in this years Oscars event would be in the best picture category where 10 films are competing for the best movie made in 2009 (Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air).

And another category of interest is Best direction category (nominees: Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Up in the Air, Precious) where Avtar director James Cameroon and his ex-wife , Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow are competing for the award.

Oscars 2010 awards

If you are way from home for some reasons, but don’t want to miss the live actions of Oscars 2010 and Oscars 2010 Red carpet online, here is the embedded player that broadcasts the event live (via livestreaming.com).

The live feeding will start from 6PM EST (3 PM PST) on March 7, 2010.You can also try the alternative links given below the player.

Watch LIVE Action- The Red Carpet Coverage:

Alternative Links:

Oscars official website Red Carpet live coverage (ABC) [Update: Link expired]

Livestream.com official Oscars live feed

Apart from these, AP is partnering with Facebook to bring live webcast to Facebook users.

MTV is doing their bit by spoofing the Oscars event.( I guess you may watch it during the breaks 🙂 )

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R.I.P Internet Explorer 6 !

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Funny :

A Denver based design group is conducting funeral for Internet Explorer 6, the 8 year old browser.

The design group is even conducting mass funeral for IE 6.IE 6 sustained major injuries from its rival browsers and is not in a position to compete with them, according to the design group.IE 6 was born on August 27, 2001 and died on March 1, 2010 🙁

[It’s also noteworthy that YouTube is going to stop IE 6 support from March 13, 2010].

Event organisers has started a new website http://ie6funeral.com/ and a brand new Twitter account http://twitter.com/ie6funeral to promote this mass funeral event.

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The most interesting part of this funeral is the flowers sent by Microsoft ( pic )

So on this historic occasion, let us recall the sweet memories of our grand ma IE6, comment your moments with IE6.

R.I.P IE6

BSNL 3G Launched In Hyderabad (& AP) : Tariff Plans

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BSNL 3G in Andhra Pradesh

BSNL has officially launched all new third generation (3G) mobile services in Hyderabad on March 3, 2010.

3G offers more bandwidth, hence better call quality, video calling facility and much faster data transfer speeds (data download speed up to 3.6 Mbps)

As you can see from the following tariff plans, the subscribers can make cheaper calls on the net (STD-on-net @ 50 paise/ min, local-on-net @ 30 paise/ min).Data usage charges are 1 paise/10 KB

These are the tariffs for the newly introduced 3G services in Hyderabad (and soon to be launched in 29 towns in Andhra Pradesh).

New users have to buy USIM(Universal Subscriber Identity Module) available at a price of Rs. 59.

Existing BSNL subscribers can send “M3G 120” to 53733 for free migration to general 120 plan (Prepaid), existing BSNL postpaid customers can send an SMS “M3G25” to 53733 for free migration.

Prepaid Tariff

3G Prepaid tariff AP

Postpaid Tariff

Post paid 3G tariff in Ap-Hyderabad

Looking at the tariffs, we can easily conclude that this isn’t quite useful for internet browsing, as there is no plan which offers unlimited data usage.

BSNL is offering a promotional offer of free talk time (50 mins both local and STD) and free data transfer( 25 MB).

Toll Free number for enquiries on 3G services is 1800 180 1503

for BSNL prepaid broadband plans in AP (launched sometime back), read BSNL Prepaid Broadband Plans