Information on UK Broadband Service Providers

My contract with Tiscali expired recently and was looking at an alternative. All the service providers were offering bundle offers with TV and Phone. In a confused state, I came across this forum www.ukbroadbandforum.co.uk.

In this forum, People discuss about their broadband services and feedback about their service providers. Actually I had made my mind not take a contract with BT as they have 18 month contract and the next alternative was Virgin Media (earlier known as NTL).

I went through a post where users have provided comments regarding the Quality of service of Virgin Media. Though it was not easy to make a decision even after reading the post, it gave me a bit of confident that it is not the worst service provider in terms of speed as well as Customer service. Right now, I am signed with Virgin and now a satisfied user in terms of speed and customer service.

This forum provides details about every available service provider in the UK. I doubt if any service provider is missing as they also provide information about the mobile broadband.

Following are the different broadband discussed on the forum:
 AOL broadband
 BT Broadband
 Tiscali Broadband
 Pipex Broadband
 UK Online Broadband
 Tesco Broadband
 Demon Broadband
 Be Broadband
 Talk Talk Broadband
 Toucan Broadband
 Virgin Media Broadband
 Sky Broadband
 Orange Broadband
 Madasafish Broadband
 Vodafone Broadband
 O2 Broadband

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Mitra Hands

A humble request to all my friends and Followers to spend two minutes of your time reading this post. This two minutes can change a life of a person who is in need of our help.

This is to introduce you to my friends organisation "Mitra Hands",which helps the poor students, aged and physically challenged people.

Mitra Hands is a private not-for-profit voluntary organization offering hands to help poor and physically challenged human needs.Please visit the site for more details:

www.mitrahands.org.

Please note that this is not a scam.The volunteers of this organisation are from Top IT companies in India and they ensure the donation reaches the needy at any cost. Donation is accepted in any kinds including School books, School uniforms, Wheel chairs,walking sticks etc.

Even if you are unable to help with any materials or cash, Please note that you can still help this organisation by participating in social service activities.

Please visit the site and try to help or atleast please pass this information to a wider audience and let them know about the organisation.

Recent Services provided by the organisation:(Currency: INR)

July '09
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Financial help for 1.9 year old's Cancer treatment (Cost: 10K)
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One of our Mitra Hands member's collegue was in need of money for his son's cancer treatment. We donated 10K for this.

Needed items for Ramanar Ashramam (Cost: 15K)
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We visited the orphan home (Ramanar Anbalayam) in Avinashi on 27th June.Nearly 30 childrens are living there. All are below 12 years. The man who runs this home is the member of Ramanasramam in Thiruvannamalai.They need many basic requirements. We gave a small drop in that. We hope, will do our best in future.


June '09
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Notebooks distribution to 1st-8th standard student (Cost: 10K)
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Ooratchi Onriya Nadu Nilai Palli (Govt. School), Sendrampalayam,Kinathukadavu.

Sendrampalayam is a village, located near Thamaraikulam which is on the pollachi-coimbatore main road. 25 kms from coimbatore and 15 kms from pollachi. The Govt school here teaches till 8th standard.

Initially we thought to select the students who are poor and provide them notebooks.
But in that area 80% of the students are poor. So there is no point in differentiating between the students. So, we got the list of notebooks needed for the students from the HM of the school. We approached the press which makes the notebooks for the students. He provided us with the discounted price.The cost worked out to be ~34k.

Since the amount was more, We took out the long size notes and few others from the list.(1 long size note is Rs. 20 and ~1000 were requested). Finally gave the order for the remaining notebooks. The cost worked out to be ~10K.

Note books were distributed to students.

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Kingston 256 GB USB stick??

"Where is the technology taking us?" is a very famous verse in our day to day life. Here is another instance which will probe this doubt. Kingston has launched a USB stick with capacity of 256GB. The features are as follows:

* Measures 70.68 x 22.37 x 16.45mm
* Read speed of 20 Mb/sec
* Write Speed of 10 Mb/Sec
* 5 year warranty
* Compatible with Windows 7,Windows 2000,XP,Vista,Mac OS and Linux.
* Password traveler software

Ah..Forgot to mention the name..it will be popular from now on as DT300. DT300 password traveler software also provides you the facility of creating a privacy zone blocking access to the data stored by way of password.

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Wii Sports Resort

Wii sports Resort is a sequel to Wii sports which contains a wide variety of games that can be used by anyone of all ages. Wii sports resort kit includes Wii motion plus,Wii remote controller and sensor bar which enables the player gain real life experience.

There are around 18 new sports featured in Wii sports Resort which includes water sports like canoeing,power cruising,wake boarding and ball games like table tennis and Golf.

The games can be played while enjoying the beautiful scenery of the Wuhu resort alone or with your friends and family. The Wii motion plus accessory included with Wii sports Resort helps to achieve your movements accurate to enhance the game play.

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Unlocking IPhone 2G with 3.0 OS!

Its time to explore the possibilities of unlocking IPhone with 3.0 OS. Like always, I managed to find an article in the net about unlocking the 2G phone with 3.0 OS. Please note not all the features advertised in the Apple site will work on IPhone 2G. Few of the features are exclusive to IPhone 3G and IPhone 3GS phones.

The minimum requirement for unlocking iPhone 2G are as follows:

* Itunes 8.2
* redsnow - Search for redsnow 0.7 Version in Google.
* BL 3.9 - Download from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1H0XAZWQ
* BL 4.6 - Download from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6OF2OR03
* ipsw - Download from http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-6580.20090617.XsP76/iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw

1) Store all the files under one Folder - IPhone3.0
2) Connect your IPhone to ITunes and hold down the shift key by selecting IPhone displayed on your left and then click restore button.
3) Be cautious to choose only Automatically sync when this phone is connected.
4) Now select the .ipsw file already downloaded from the Iphone3.0 folder.
5) After the firmware update in ITunes is completed, Launch the redsnow application from the Iphone3.0 Folder.
6) Click browse, then navigate to the .ipsw file which we used for restoring the iphone.
7) Make sure the message " IPSW successfully identified" is displayed on the window, then click next.
8) Select " Install cydia" and " Unlock" and press Next.
9) Then Browse for the 3.9 and 4.6 bootloader from the IPhone3.0 folder and press Next.
10) Now plug your Iphone into the computer and make sure it is OFF and then click Next. Don't worry if the IPhone is already connected during the process.
11) Please follow the instructions clearly and take great care to do the process as instructed on the screen.
12) The Iphone will reboot in between and will show "Done" on the window, then click Finish.
13) Now the iphone will run a few programs and hopefully your iphone will be unlocked and Jail broken.

Again, this information is gathered from different articles on the internet and please try this out at your own risk !

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Online IT Training Academy

Have you heard of online Computer training courses?May be that's a silly question:-)

Career academy is a concern offering computer training courses via multimedia on-demand video lectures. They also provide hands-on training using lab simulators and 24 hour live mentoring. For instance, Mentors can provide hands-on for CCNA training using lab simulations online. An individual professor is assigned for each online training and presented through full motion video and audio allowing the students to understand the steps involved and explanations given by professor clearly.

Career Academy helps an individual in providing training on Microsoft,Cisco and other IT certifications. Career Academy is based at US providing quality online training and guidance to the students.

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IPhone - Restoring Address Book

After using IPhone for more than an year, It was only yesterday I tried to restore the address book while upgrading the firmware to OS 3.0.

Using an application(Diskaid), I was able to connect to my IPhone from my laptop( Windows Vista). Then transferred the files from the address book directory -~/users/library/AddressBook to my Laptop under Root folder.

After upgrading my IPhone to 3.0 OS, I connected it to my laptop and using the same software,copied the backed up files into the address book and everything worked fine.

Basic requirements for this to work is the IPhone needs to be unlocked. The files that needs to be backed up are :

* AddressBook.sqlitedb
* AddressBookImages.sqlitedb

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SEO - Search Engine optimisation

SEO - A term, common among the bloggers like us. SEO is the acronym of search Engine optimisation. SEO(SEO glasgow) is a process which helps to improve each individual blogs and websites ranking assigned by the search engines like Google, yahoo and Bing( Microsoft Search engine).

For business people depending on the Internet for their primary source of income, SEO Rankings helps to bring the potential customer to your sites.

SEO companies like SEO Glasgow can help in creating a successful online business creating a presence and buzz. Though it is a slow process, the benefits are huge in the long run.

The site can be optimised in the following ways by SEO glasgow:

* Keyword research - Ensure Terms related to your business are pulling traffic to your site

* On Page Factors - To Help cleanup the HTML code which in turn improves the crawling of search engines easier by reducing the crawl errors.

* Off Page Factors - Link building to popularise the site in search engine as well as in Web.

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IPhone 3.0 OS Released - 17 June 2009 !

Iphone 3.0 OS was released yesterday and few of the useful features are listed for your reference:

* Send MMS ( supported only on 3G )
* Movie Downloading
* Voice memo recording
* cut/copy/paste
* Youtube Video Rating
* spotlight search
* Shake to undo and shake again to Redo
* Shuffle mode(When enabled, shake iPhone to skip current song and move to the next song)
* Sync Notes
* Internet Tethering
* Parental controls
* Bluetooth support(Finally few normal Bluetooth options supported)
* Forward messages.( option to select any number of individual messages in a conversation to Forward)

MMS is not supported currently by AT & T in US, not sure about UK. Internet tethering is a way of connecting to the internet on your PC using the 3G connection of Iphone either through Bluetooth or USB.

Please do leave comments if anyone has tried their hands on the OS 3.0 software.

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App sharing on IPhone!

Finally some good news for IPhone users. The apple developers and hackers have revealed a new feature on IPhone 3.0 OS. The feature was a secret until now,which allows App sharing between the IPhone users. The Initial comments from experts indicate this will allow one person to buy an application and share it with others.

Normally IPhone users download the new Apps depending on the reviews integrated with each App. What if those people who use the app which was shared by another user try to make a comment on the App? Will that increase sales or decrease sales? Well,Apple have another feature to overcome this issue by adding an verification process to identify if you are the owner of the App and allow only the owners to write a review on a particular App.

The transfer mode still remains a million dollar question with Bluetooth being the preferred mode.

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