Working from a cafe´might sound to be interesting, but only when you have a seamless connectivity. Yes, I have a fetish for cafe´s with free WiFi.

However, that’s not always possible. In the past several years, I have tried using Reliance NetConnect+ and Tata Photon+ on my windows machine. Both worked pretty decent – depending on areas where I used them. For those who keep asking me which is a better connection, none of them is an excellent service to trust, when it comes to mobility. To each, his own.

That was on Microsoft Windows. However, more than an year ago I switched to mac and realized that these services aren’t great when it comes to support drivers for the devices on mac. I did manage to get drivers from somewhere on the internet, but always had issues with speeds and connectivity.

Recently, I upgraded my Macbook to Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 and realized that the ZTE modem for Reliance Broadband+ doesn’t work on it, anymore. I spent an entire night looking for a work-around along with a dear friend in Bombay. I failed!

Today, I went on and discovered the problem and hence the solution for everyone who has the latest version of Mac OS and a ZTE modem. Note that this driver update would possibly work with any service provider – Reliance & Tata, for example.

The problem was the lack of compatibility with the existing drivers to support a 64 bit machine upgraded to Mac Lion OS X on a ZTE modem. Either it would fail to detect or force eject it the moment one would fire the dialer app.

The Reliance support page has a link to download the ZTE driver, but it doesn’t work. The ZTE website is a difficult terrain to play in. However, I did manage to get a direct link to half a dozen driver files. After several rounds of installing and trying out the options, I could get one solution that works flawlessly. Sharing it with everyone else.

How do I install and use the ZTE modem?

1. Uninstall all previous ZTE drivers on your mac.
2. Make sure you’re device is unplugged from the machine.
3. Download the updated driver (comes with a dialer) and install it afresh.
4. Plug in your usb modem and fire the dialer app which shall now be on your desktop.
5. Go to settings and enter your username and password (leave black for tata photon+ and enter the phone number for reliance as username & password)
6. Connect and go!

Here’s what I saw after I got thru!

Life is much more easy!

Chrome Remote Desktop from Google is one of the technical advancements. It helps in remotely controlling the computer from browser. It uses a technology chromed name ‘Chromoting’. If you have a chrome book then it is especially useful for same. It is a cross platform and it can be easily connected between two computers. The two computers must have chrome browsers. This must include windows, Linux and Mac as well as chrome books. You may find the download hefty but it is well worth.

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The Chrome Remote Desktop from Google grants access to get in to Google email services. All chat messages and others can be viewed from remote desktop computers. The complete technology is also called as chromoting. This service has the potential to get the Google chrome in to business environment. Business people would understand the real benefit of this as the application makes the application more appealing. The chrome book has the efficiency to go beyond internet now. First of all Chrome must be installed on the system immediately. Once you install and download it, you would be asked for the permission to access Google chrome. Click on the icon and you get the access. Google Chrome app is amazing and easy to use.

This way you can access your Google Chrome Remote Desktop. It helps in viewing email addresses, remote desktop computers as well as view and send chat messages too. The performance of the Google chrome is amazing. One needs to be very careful with the speed of internet connection. If the speed is better than Google chrome is just helpful with amazing features. Using Chrome Remote Desktop from Google is very easy and effective. It helps business as well as non business people to get done with the work quickly.

Many ways you can do to get money from the internet. One thing you can do is to follow some of the “micro-worker” programs that are widely available on the internet. Micro worker will give you chance and  offers a simple job, which does not require special skills to join with this program. One of micro worker site that is a trend  is Fivver. Why name of this program is Fivver? This is because all prices for each job are $ 5.

Some jobs you can do such as make a funny video, create caricature, create simple animations, uploading music, and a few unique jobs and does not make sense. All jobs are offered for those looking for uniqueness, both for sellers and buyers. For the system of payment using by paypal. As to withdraw if the balance that you have already reached $ 40. If you have expertise in a particular field, then it would not hurt for you to try this micro worker site.

How much income can you earn from this program? If you have a lot of expertise that is quite unique and many who liked the uniqueness of these, then chances are many are interested in your services. And this is of course very interesting for you to try. Fivver already proven to be one worker micro site, which is easy to try.

Google Voice is one of Google’s most useful creations. It assigns you a phone number which you can then use to call and text people in North America for free. International calls cost a low 2 cents per minute so it can be a cheap alternative to using your allocated minutes.

There are many features in Google Voice that people don’t know about, so here are some of the best ways to get the most out of your Google Voice account:

Send text messages through Google Voice for free

Using Google Voice you can send text messages to other phones using your smartphone, computer and through your Gmail account. Using the Google Voice Desktop you simply press ‘text’ in order to send texts. You can do this using the Google Voice app for smartphones also. In Gmail you can keep your messages in the same place however, in order to do this:

• Click Settings then Voice Settings
• Click the Voicemail and Text option
• Check the box that says ‘Forward text messages to my email’

Screen calls from unknown callers

If an unknown caller rings your Google Voice number you can get Google Voice to ask the caller to declare their name before you have to talk to them. So if and unknown caller calls you and you click answer, Google will ask the caller what their name is. Google Voice will then say ‘Incoming call from [unknown callers name].’ You will then be given the choice to accept the call or send them to voice mail.

If you send them to vice mail you will also be able to listen to them leaving the message without them hearing you, if you recognise the caller you can then press * to talk to them.

This is an incredibly useful feature for business people who may get calls from lots of people in one day.

To turn this feature on:

• In the Google Voice desktop press the gear shaped icon to go to settings.
• Go to Settings >> Voice Settings >> Calls
• Turn Call Screening on and then check the ‘Ask unknown callers to say their name’ box.
• Then save your changes.

Record calls using Google Voice

Google Voice allows you to record phone calls that you have received, however the ability to record phone calls made by you is currently not supported. In order to record the call simply press 4 during the call. You will then hear a voice saying ‘This call is now being recorded’. The recording will then be saved and you will be able to access it using the Google Voice app or desktop. You will also be given the ability to email, download or embed the conversation on your own website.

Image from blog.laptopmag.com

These are just some of the many tools and features available on Google Voice, a remarkably powerful tool.

In the latest Facebook update they have partnered up with a variety of media companies in an effort to bring multimedia – videos and music, to Facebook. However here comes the slightly unusual, bad news (for some), theese features will only be rolled out to Latin America and Canada, for the time being anyway.

Possibly the most popular partner, Spotify, will be available all over the world including the US and UK. This announcement was expected and allows Facebook users to see what their friends are listening to and also allows them to play songs via Sportify using a Play button on Facebook.

Using the new Music Dashboard you can see which songs are most popular amongst your friends, an idea that is now thought of as ‘trending’. This data will also be available on a ticker bar on the right hand side of Facebook pages.

Spotify users will also be able to comment about songs they’re listening to and add pictures if they want to. This new deal will definitely bring more Spotify users from Facebook and expand on the music social networking scene.

Daniel Ek, CEO and and founder of Spotify tweeted:

“Today is a big day for music!”

Spotify are not the only music company to partner up with Facebook, with the likes of MOG, Rdio and Rhapsody also integrating with Facebook. It is thought that this deal will change the way we listen and buy music.

In addition to these music apps, Vevo, Hulu and Netflix have partnered with Facebook to bring their video content to Facebook. Netflix will only be open to Canada and Latin America to start with, however.

Along with these multimedia apps, news apps will be released and so will TV apps. These new apps will be in communication with the new Facebook ticker bar on the right hand side of the page, allowing your friends to see what you actually watch and listen to! However Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, did say that he doesn’t want to clog up people’s time lines and only artists/songs that are popular amongst your friends will be on your time line.

It will be interesting to see how these new media tools fare on Facebook and whether the uptake will be as high as thought!

Google+ is set to open up to the anyone and everyone. Google’s latest attempt to break into the massive social network market has been under closed testing in the last two months.

The closed testing was opened up to journalists and those in the technology fields. These initial members were, however, allowed to invite their friends and the user base grew by millions. After two weeks of launch, Google releases a statement saying that Google+ had 10 million members. Not bad considering very few were given initial access.

Some say that Google+ has been popular because it allows people to group their friends using circles and group hangouts. Group hangouts allow you to web chat with up to 9 friends at one time. You can also share YouTube videos from your phone using Google Hangouts.

Google has not released any official member numbers since the 10 million figure but Comscore, a web analytic company, estimated that there were 25 million members after one month of closed testing.

The rapid membership growth has not been unnoticed by other social networks and Facebook has recently announced ideas similar to that of Google+. Facebook, however, say that these ideas have been in the pipeline for some time and are not a response to Google+.

For once Google is actually one of the least powerful players in a field, lacking behind Twitter’s 200 million users and Facebook’s 750 million users.

Along with the full release of Google+, Google is also adding some other additions to its’ service. The ability to video hangout using an Android smartphone is something new to mobile phones. It is currently very hard to have multiple video chats with people at the same time on smartphones.

It will be interesting to see how ell Google+ fairs as many have reported that the user membership growth has slowed in the last few weeks. It will be one to watch, will it be able to really pose a threat to the likes of Facebook and Twitter?

What is Overflowing News

An info that you can find on every common blogs/news portal is often called as overflowing news. This happens when A+ brands like (Google, Apple, Facebook) launches any product and have any breakthrough update

If you look back, Flash has risen to a great success. It has been able to provide the real platform where programmers found a way to bridge browser and Operating System incompatibilities. This is the fact that universally Adobe Flash is installed on all computers. With Windows 8 coming, is flash going to lose its fame or it will flourish?

Arrival of new internet explorer 10: Recently Microsoft has declared that browser plug INS best days are behind them. Adobe is working hard to disprove them with this notion. One of the most widely used browsers Plug in; Flash would be now barred from any new ‘Metro’ version of the internet. What is Metro? Metro is the new version of internet explorer 10 and it will be shipped with Windows 8. In response to all such news reports, Adobe still cleared that the flash would be working on the more traditional ‘desktop’ interface. To stay more relevant the company has much more interesting plans.

Adobe holds its own importance: If news sources are to be believed, the general manager of Adobe’s platform also cleared out that the differences would remain if you see what is done in HTML versus what is done by Adobe. These differences can never be cleared out. Windows desktop is surely going to be very important part of Windows and this also clears that Flash would also be the most important part of the web experiences that are about to come. There is no question that Windows 8 will hamper the work of Adobe Flash. Despite of everything, it will have its own importance.

Technical details: The windows 8 would be able to run IE 10 on desktop mode. When any Metro IE10 browser experiences flash, it will switch over to desktop IE10 and proceed. Adobe is already working on its flash version for Windows 8, which is further running on ARM processors.

Adobe Flash is going to be a very important factor. But will it flourish despite any Windows 8 coming up with IE10? Time will certainly prove the fact.

Blogging and Social Media is rising everyday with a impressive rate and sooner many of you taking it as a profession. Already, there are many gurus and agencies offering these services and may of us like me making  a living from it. This infographic clearly shows that 61% use social media to identify & attract new customers, 70% use social media to monitor their brand online, 26% tweet, 77% engage in email marketing, 93% is the success rate of social rate of using message boards and YouTube.

After seeing this infographic do you think that, there will be any saturation point in blogging and social media? If yes, then what would be that?

ClickDesk, a social live chat service integrates social communications and voice support, to have the fastest live chat service. It is now available for public beta. It has a built-in browser phone and easily integrates with other IM applications like Google Talk and Skype. It provides social media integration, faster Live-Chat, localization of languages, uptime guarantee-SLA, and a 1-agent free plan for lifetime.

ClickDesk promises to be a unified live chat service that integrates all forms of communication including social media options like Twitter and Facebook and other forms of communication like email, text, voice, video, and so on.

It functions in a fully cloud-based live chat system that is one of its kind and has never been done before. This means that as a user you do not need to waste time with dealing with installation and configuration. It also provides extensive service by ensuring 24-hour support for users that log in to their IM client (Google Talk and Skype) through their computers or mobile devices.

It has been reported that Manohar Chapalamadugu, CEO of ClickDesk, has said that

we are providing more options like live call, live chat and social widgets so businesses can engage with web visitors to boost customer satisfaction and increase sales conversions.

Overall the company hopes for the most effective outcome as there was a lot of positive feedback during its closed beta.

Social Media one of the fastest rising industry and many of you already using it promote your business or brand. Recently, I came across this beautiful infographic, which clearly depicts how social media agency works. Meanwhile let us know what social media strategy or system you follow?

I’m a big fan or you can say addicted to coffee and people from Hoemowner’s Insurance come up with a cool info-graphic that prefectly represents 15 things that you need to know about caffeine.

Security one of the first and important thing you have to take care while working online. If I’m not wrong then first thing you do is take care of your password. This infographic clearly shows you how to choose strong password and avoid most common & dangerous passwords.

Social Media Marketing has taken over all types of business and this infographic clearly shows how real estate industry using social media. Real estate owners using social media to provide online property tours, schedule showings and showcase local expertise.

Let us know in comment section how your company uses social media?

[Via] Mashable

Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. It is a day to inspire awareness and appreciation for Earth’s natural environment. In this post I’m sharing a nice infographic which clearly mention entire world will be online till 2017, a single SPAM message produces 0.3 grams of CO2.

YouTube one of the most popular and right place to find videos and that too in all categories. Already, there are many tools which help you to convert videos into MP3 format and in this post I’m sharing a new tool which help you to convert video into MP3 format. Mobile Media Converter – free online service which offer you to convert YouTube video into MP3 format and you can easily sent download link on email ID.

By using this service, you can convert YouTube video into MP3, OGG Vorbis, AAC and WMA format. One of the best thing I like about this service is that it does not require any installation and second thing is that you can easily set the quality of audio file (like worst, medium and best quality).

If you believe in me, it is one of the easiest way to convert video into audio format in no time with download link.

Mobile Media Converter