Archive for January, 2008

GEO is back on cable

Author: Riz

Jan 21

geoAfter 77 days of being off air, the transmission of the Geo News - was restored Monday at 6:00 pm. All four of the network’s channels were put off air hours before Marshal Law ( named emergency ) was declared in the country on November 3, 2007.
Although other channels were also closed at the same time but they allowed to go back on air soon afterwords except for channel of Geo Network and Geo Super.
The transmissions of Geo News and Geo Super back to on air today at 6:00 pm.

On January 20th, President Pervez Musharraf issued orders to immediately restore the broadcast of the news and sports channels of the network. He issued this order just a day before leaving for Europe tour.

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    • Find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests

    Author: Riz

    Jan 2

    I’m a HUGE stumble fan. This is how StumbleUpon Team describes it. “Surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like and makes better recommendations. Connect with friends and share your discoveries, meet people that have similar interests, and check out what other people are discovering.”

    StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows you to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and any thing on the web. These webpages are shown when you — known as a Stumbler — click the “Stumble!” button on the toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which new webpage to display based on the your ratings of previous pages, ratings by your friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. i.e. it is a recommendation system which uses social networking principles. You can rate, or choose not to rate, any webpage with a thumbs up or thumbs down. Toolbar is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer.

    You must give it a try, I am sure you will not think about un-installing it.

    StumbleUpon can be used to effectively increase traffic if you only knew how to use it. Here are few useful links.

    How To Convert StumbleUpon Users To Regular Visitors
    How to Effectively Increase Traffic Through Stumbleupon
    Stumbleupon - for Market Research???

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    • Free SMS to any Mobile Number in Pakistan

    Author: Riz

    Jan 2

    SMS has become a popular way ( it will not be wrong if I say Most Popular way ) in Pakistan to communicate with your friends and relatives. Keeping this in view, different mobile service providers including Warid, Telenor and Ufone launched different packages for sending tons of SMS at a low price. Most Internet users, including me, used smspk.com and similar sites till recent past for Web2SMS. This is still popular but
    - Warid is providing this Web2SMS service only to Warid connection holders.
    - Other Mobile operators in Pakistan require a reply SMS from mobile user to initiate the Web2SMS.
    - Delivery of SMS has been an issue in recent past.

    Few days ago I discovered a nice web-site monis.pk for such Pakistanis who use Web2SMS. This site is based on invitations. To get an invitation, post a comment with your mobile number or enter email address.

    positives

    - There is no need for java support in your browser.
    - The thing I liked the most is this that you can send SMS to any number of any connection in Pakistan from one page without the need of navigating to other pages.
    - SMS delivery has not been a problem so far.
    - Your contacts are added in your friend’s list .. and you can choose their numbers easily.

    negatives

    - Very few SMS support. Only 4 credits are given to you on registration. And 3 more credits are given when any invitation is accepted and your contact registers. And you can send 1 SMS per credit. To overcome this, one must invite hundreds of friends and make them register.

    The site is in alpha stage .. hopefully they will soon upgrade it and will give more credits to site members.

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