Which file host to use as an online backup

          Lots of cyber locker services closed their programs & each day lots of new are coming into the market. Megaupload shut down; Filesonic, Fileserve, WUpload, FileJungle, Oron & many more gone. People trusted on them to store their personal & important data but at the end of the day, all are gone. So what to do now? You still need to backup your files so that if your system crashes or you need those files on a go. Is there no option left? Whom to trust? All of these are questions roaming around the internet these days. No one could ever imagine that MegaUpload will shut down & all of their files will vanish. And even now you never know that Mediafire will be shut down or not. So today we are giving you some of the good file hosts which are staying for a long time in their business & "may guarantee you that your data is safe enough"

Skydrive:

          We personally like Microsoft's cloud service Skydrive a lot. This service never faced any questions about its service or never faced any sues. With 25Gb of online space you can surely do your job. And most of all they never deletes your data (unless long time inactivity). It also provides some great options collaborating with Microsoft Office and other applicaiton.

Mediafire:

          Next is Mediafire. This cloud service is known to everyone so it need no introduction. With an unlimited could space & unlimited bandwidth this one is a charm. This service is mostly liked by the webmasters who offers free downloads to their users. But other than that, anyone can use this service for backing up his/her file.  Files are never deleted except they are illegal & long time account inactivity. Recently Mediafire faced an question for their service from Hollywood but we are sure that they will defend it quite nicely.

Google Services:

          Everyone knows about it & maybe many ones are already using it. Google offers you a storage capacity of 1GB each for each type of documents. For example in Picasa you will get a 1GB storage, in Google docs you will get an 1GB storage & in Google Sites you will also get the same. So in all you will be getting a 3GB storage. And also you will able to edit this documents & images online which is great facility.
          There are a lot more file hosting sites like Dropbox, Box.com, Amazon cloud drive, CX.com, SugarSync & more. But what I liked about these 3, is that they are free & most easy to use. All the other file hosting sites needs to be paid over a usage of 5GB. Or you have to invite a friend to increase your storage capacity. This are our own likes, but always do check about the current status & check the recent news about the file hosting services before taking the decision. And one caution, do not ever trust on any filehosting site that pays users for their files to be downloaded by others. Cause on this type of file hosting sites most of the webmasters gather to earn money. Everyone knows about MegaUpload & what happened to it recently. Cause now or the next day, file hosts that pays will be shut down.

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Consequence of Sharing a link

You found any article or blog postsor link interesting? Want to share it with friends? You must share it with friends cause everyone knows sharing is caring & everyone wants to care his/her friends. Sharing is the best way to increase & diversify knowledge. But WAIT!! Are you aware of what you're sharing? Your answer will be, "I am sharing the mp3 song download link. The song is very charming & I must inform my friends to download & listen it". Good answer, you must let your friends know that, but do you know that this sharing can lead you to imprisonment!!!
    Shocked? You must be, cause you never thought this & always shared every free download link you came across caring your friends. For your kind information it is illegal to share & linking to illegal or pirated download link & you can be thrashed to jail along with a fine you never imagined to earn in one year.
    "Are you nuts? What are you talking about? Why should I be penalized to share the link? I didn't uploaded it nor I pirated the link. Why don't you catch the original pirate who is spreading the link via his/her website? He/she is the offender not me. Why should I become victim of the piracy although I didn't do it?" And lots more @#%^@~*$%@#%! words... Never mind it is normal. Remeber one thing, the pirate who is spreading the link is only spreading the link in his/her website, but you, by sharing the link in your social network is spreading the pirated link 100 or 1000 or 100000 or more times than that. So now tell me who is helping the link to circulate more? You or the pirate? Who is helping piracy more, you or the pirate? It's YOU & ONLY YOU who can be held responsible for widespread piracy.
     You must know that even a 15years old boy from Sweden was sent to trial for downloading 24 movies, even a 58years old Granny was convicted for illegal downloading. Now what do you say? Still there is no example of penalization for sharing illegal links but who knows you may be the next victim who will be used as the example.
      My main topic is that before sharing any link please please please notice what you are going to share. Always remember the quote "Look before you leap". In India we all know that DoT and several agencies are monitoring social network profiles. And who knows if your profile is also being monitored & someone there is planning to make you the offender. be careful. You may see on the sites that the owners are saying "Share to win prizes or premium membership, share to care, share this awesome link with your friends" just ignore them. Cause they'll not gonna be your saviour when you face a conviction. Cause for making an example anyone can be held, even YOU ALSO!!

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A review of Tata Docomo online recharge

Tata Docomo is currently offering the cheapest tariff without any special packs. So I took a Tata Docomo as some of my co workers insisted, rather say compelled me to take one. I took it just a month ago & service of it is quite impressive be it the network connectivity, customer care, sms delivery, network clearance almost every aspect of a mobile operator.
Going every time to a local retailer to recharge the number is not possible for everyone specially when you are working or have some problems to go outside to recharge. Here Tata Docomo offers a online recharge from their website. If you have a stable internet connectivity then you may proceed to do so. Tata Docomo does not charge any extra amount for online recharge. Its the same thing as you go to retailer a buy a paper recharge or do an easy recharge. I recently completed an online recharge on Tata Docomo. And I'm sharing my experience with you all.
Tata Docomo's online recharge interface is good and neatly designed. Best of all there is no third party ads on their page which can track your activity or place some activity logging cookies. Here are the steps.

1. Just go to their homepage  & select Online Recharge from the drop down menu of Account Services placed at the right hand top. You will be taken to this page http://www.tatadocomo.com/online-recharge.aspx where you have top enter your mobile number. Enter your mobile number and hit enter or click submit.
2. Now you have to choose you recharge type. It means what type of recharge you want. Is it a Top Up Recharge for main account balance or Special Recharge like SMS vouchers or special call rate discount pack. Click on whatever recharge you want to do.
3. Now you will be taken to a page where you have to enter your email id and select the recharge amount which are listed below. Do these & click submit. After submitting click pay now.
4. Now you will be taken to a pop up page of Payment. This page is the payment gateway by Billdesk.com, a popular payment processing site. It is secure & safe. You will see the available payment types present at the page like Credit Card, Debit Card, net Banking & Cash Card. Choose whatever way you like to pay.
5. As soon as you click your preferred payment you will be given extra categories under it. E.G. for paying via Credit cards you will be given the category of credit cards like American Express, Mastercard/Visa & Diners. Choose your option.
6. Then you will be taken to the main payment page. Here you have to fill up the details (as always you do while making an online payment). This step is important. Fill up carefully.
7. Now pay & you will see a page confirming that your recharge has been successful & you will be given a Transaction Id such as MSPDxxxxxxxxx45. You can note it down or not cause as soon as you payment completes you will get a message on your mobile as you always use to have while recharging. And you're done :)

But now some main parts I want to share,

• Tata Docomo says "While selecting recharge amount you will be given the applicable recharges available for your number." But I saw that there is no Rs. 35 recharge amount on the website for my mumber, whereas I could easily recharge it from a local retailer. What is this ? If the recharge amount was not applicable for my number then how could I recharge with it from the local retailer. (Rs. 35 sms pack works for any number)
• Many of the special offer recharges are not enlisted on the recharge amount list. This is no a good repute. We need it to be on the page. :(
• As previously said Tata Docomo wants you email id to proceed to recharge. But what do they do with it? Cause when recharge is done we get no information in our email id provided for recharging. They should send a confirmation email with the recharge details.

What I liked is the good & clean interface with an excellent quickness of the process. But if Tata Docomo cares about the shortcomings quoted above then it would have been better.

Ok it was my personal experience, if anyone of you have any of this type of experience then you may mail me nabajitsaha@email.com.

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Things to remember before you go to repair your SMPS

This was the story of me with my SMPS problem. Sumit an co-author & a friend of mine has written this article in our blog TopKolkata.Com. Read it,
                                 Our blog founder Nabajit Saha was having a problem with his SMPS (or CPS as you say) since 7th February 2012. The problem was that whenever he was turning on his PC, after the boot & appearance of the windows log on screen a strange sound (like DRRRRRRRRRR or FHRRRRRRRRRRR) was coming out from the SMPS. He then shut down the PC and started again. This time the same happened again. After repeated 3rd time a strange thing happened. The PC powered on, all was ok till log on screen then as usual the sound started coming out but this time the sound automatically stopped after 2 minutes :-O. He was totally clueless what is happening & only guessed that it was the Fan of the SMPS which is making problem. After that he opened the SMPS and just cleaned the fan from outside (he didn't open the SMPS 7 break the warranty seal). Nothing changed! Then he decided to open the SMPS and see what happened inside.
He opened the SMPS, saw everything was fine inside except one thing that struck his mind which later became the real reason. He guessed that it was the grease or lubricating oil which dried inside the bearings of the fan. But he didn't applied any type of oil or grease by himself. He is using a Zebronics 450W SATA (20+4 pin) SMPS and hence called the service center to inform the problem. Someone from the service center told him to come down to their office along with the SMPS & the bill. He took me with him & we went there. Now from here read with a bit attention. We reached the office & described his problem to a service person sitting in front of a computer. He told us to give his (Nabajit's) SMPS, registered the same for entry purpose, put on a sticker on the SMPS & told us to sit on a chair. We sat there & saw that a lot of SMPS's are there, may be all came for repair we don't know why they are here for. Suddenly within 5 minutes another man asked him to come along with him & showed him to confirm that a SMPS(other than his one's) is working fine. He told us to take that SMPS with him & leave the crashed one we brought with us. After a bit inspection we found that the SMPS he was giving to us was a repaired one & had a lots of shock proof tapes (black tapes, yellow tapes) are stuck with the SMPS board. We quickly asked that what is this? Why he is giving this old repaired one instead of the new one we brought with us. He softly told us that this will not make a problem & to take this with us back home. We denied to do so & he told us to wait for 30minutes for repairing our SMPS. We were waiting & within 5 minutes someone (a serviceman) asked us "why is this warranty seal broken? Who broke it?" Nabajit said that "I broke to clean the fan only by blowing a mouthful of wind & did nothing else." Then the serviceman told us that we have to pay Rs.150 as service charge as we broke the warranty seal. He was right at his point. We pleaded him that "please just see it once, we did nothing except blowing a mouthful wind only after the fan was making problem. We did not broke the seal before the problem arise. Please believe us". But the serviceman said it is against their rule & we have to pay it. We then cam back home & applied our home remedy. We just applied some lubricating oil (very little) & guess what the sound gone . Everything is now working absolutely fine as before.
# Now the main reason of saying these all. We want to aware everyone of Kolkata (& globally also) thing to do & not to do when you face a problem like him.

To Do:

1. Carefully take out the SMPS from the cabinet by unplugging all the ports from HDD, MotherBoard, DVD drive etc. & release all the screw from cabinet (store them carefully cause if you loss one there is no replacement).
2. If you are not that much able to do these then please please please take assistant of a experienced person. Cause if you cause any harm to the hardware or the wires you will not be favored with a replacement or free service.
3. Carefully repack your SMPS in a packet & keep it aside to take it with you to the service center.
4. Remember to take the purchase bill with you.
5. Take special care of the WARRANTY SEAL. It is the only one that can fetch you a free service (within the tenure of service period)

Not to DO:

1. NEVER OPEN the SMPS box of your own if you are in the warranty period. If you open & break the warranty seal your warranty contract goes invalid the moment you break it. It is their contract & can not be avoided or broken.
2. Never forget to take the bill with you in the service center.
3. DON'T BE CARELESS when the service center is doing something with your SMPS. Take full attention of what they are doing with it.
4. We thought that we should discuss this experience with public. Hope it benefits you.

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