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I'm starting afresh with this post on BHIM UPI app recently launched by PM Modi. I tried my hands on with this app. If you haven't got it, download the app from here Like anyother UPI app it provides you with a virtual address ending with @upi, usually prefixed by your mobile number. You can optionally add alphabetical characters also. So I reserved my own address rajarajan@upi Since my mobile number is already registered with my bank it showed my bank account. Also I have an UPI pin already registered with my bank. If you don't have a MPIN, contact your branch or dial *99# from your registered mobile to get one. I tried sending money to my other virtual addresses created with Empower(Canara Bank UPI app) and Axis Pay(Axis Bank UPI app), but it's not recognizing them. Right now it only supports vpa ending with @upi. I'm curious to tinker with this app. If anyone is interested try transacting with me at rajarajan@upi I can foresee a great future for BHIM app ...

Let me make it short. Open the Google Cardboard app from your Lenovo Vibe K4 Note. Go to Switch Viewer option and scan the following QR code. This makes Google Cardboard app to work perfectly with Ant VR Headset. Thanks to this Quora thread . Note : Dont use the inbuilt VR mode and Google Cardboard together. VR mode tries to make the whole android experience viewable through VR headset whereas Google Cardboard only produces VR experience for selective apps with Cardboard compatibility. So they dont work at the same time. Nothing goes wrong even if you activate them together, you only see VRception. Dont use default Ant VR app As mentioned in the Quora thread, dont use Ant VR app. It looks fishy and amateurish. May be its even a spying venture of PLA. who knows. Difference between 360 and 3D videos? If you open 360 videos from Google Cardboard you can watch selected 360 videos (like this one ), where you can rotate your head and look everywhere within t...

Kanchipuram is well known as a temple city for its endless list of ancient temples located everywhere in the town. So this time we wanted to visit a place outside Kanchi which is non-religious, hasn’t been explored much and less frequented by tourists. My search zeroed in on Sadras Fort, a 17th century fort built by Dutch Coramandel. The fort was partially destroyed during a war with British East India Company in 1818. The Britsih captured the fort after that. Sadras is located at 70Km from Kanchipuram. We started by noon from Kanchi and reached there by 2.00PM. The sun was scorching overhead, indicative of retreating winter. As per the law of Places of Attraction, the amount of street vendors nearby a tourist spot is directly proportional to its popularity. So going by the couple of shops outside, the surrounding looked like that of some mediocre tourist spot. But when we entered the fort I had to reconsider the rule. It’s a beauty of a kind which many people fail to appreciate. F...

The recent circular from Reserve of India warning about risks of Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, BBQCoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, etc. has only rekindled the interests among tech savvy Indians. Everyday news articles about cryptocurrencies are becoming a norm in business section of newspapers. One quick thought strikes everyone's mind – ‘Can I become rich with Cryptocurrency?'. I’d like to answer your questions in this post. Whom this post is for? Those who want to make a part time income from Cryptocurrencies rather than totally depending on it. Those who are ready to make a one-time investment of Rs.40,000 to Rs.50,000 in mining hardware. Please note, even in the worst case scenario if your mining adventure flops you still get a high end PC, which you can use for graphics designing or gaming.) Those who are patient enough to get their return from one-time investment in 1 Year. My experience Before writing this post I tested my mining hardware for 12 days with short ...

Many of you State Bank of India (SBI) customers would have come across a peculiar problem with your old SBI Maestro Debit Card when it comes to online shopping. The usual requirement of the payment section of any online store is Card Number Expiry Date CVV Number Name as on the Card. But old SBI Maestro Debit cards have only these Card Number Valid from Date So How to get Expiry Date and CVV Number for my SBI Card? Your CVV Number will be the Last Three Digit of your ATM Pin. To get Date of Expiry, Add 5 years and 8 months to Valid From Date. For example if my Valid from Date is September 2010, My expiry date will be May 2015. Sometimes even after adding 5 Years and 8 Months if your expiry date is earlier than current date, add another 5 Years and 8 Months. It works :) For example if my Valid from Date is June 2005, My expiry date will be October 2015. Share this useful info with your tribe.

There are a multitude of articles out there guiding you enough to help you build a cryptocurrency mining rig. But in this post I want to cover how a beginner in India can get his/her hands readily on a mining rig hardware in a matter of few clicks. I have just provided Flipkart links for each hardware needed for this project. I want to be fair that this setup is good to begin with mining of Litecoin or any other Scrypt based coins, but for Bitcoin its not enough considering the present difficulty level and extreme ASIC miners. But don’t be discouraged!! You can always mine other alternative coins and trade them profitably for Bitcoins in virtual currency exchanges like Bter or Cryptsy . You can find out out the difficulty level and profitability of various alternative coins here http://dustcoin.com/mining After you go through this guide you can read this post to know how to setup your mining software. So whats our budget? Configuration Cost (Maximum) Processing P...

Pool Mining BBQCoin is similar to coins like Litecoin which use Scrypt algorithm. When newcomers to mining find no tutorials of BBQCoin mining they are disheartened. So I thought of coming up with this post. Why should I mine BBQCoin? There are still a lot of people who missed the Bitcoin boom and its already too late for them to mine with their GPU because Bitcoin miners have come up with specific hardware like ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Chip) and Bitcoin Erupters which gives them a cutting edge over GPU in terms of processing / hashing power. What makes BBQCoin different from Bitcoin is it uses Scrypt algorithm, which is different from SHA-256 algorithm of Bitcoin. That’s another reason why Litecoin raised to fame. So it means you can basically mine with your high end graphics card and make reasonable profit without investing much in ASICs which are of no use other than mining. At present level of difficulty (1.97 for BBQCoin compared to 609482679 of Bitcoin while...

The usage of refrigerants is governed by two International agreements. Montreal Protocol (MP) - Aims to prevent ozone depletion by reducing ozone depleting gases emission. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - Aims to control global warming by reducing green house gas emissions. As per UNFCCC developed nations are mandated to reduce their carbon foot print significantly in a phased manner and also required to fund the cost of transition of poor nations to technologies that have less impact on global warming. The carbon emission savings of individual industrialized nations are measured in percentage reduction. As a part of this design the carbon emission savings of poor nations achieved with the help of a individual industrialized nation can be accounted in the percentage reduction of that nation. As per Montreal Protocol(MP) all member nations are required to reduce the emission of ozone depleting gases in a phased manner. Unlike UNFCCC, MP doesn’t...

For Pros : The solution is to reset the Data of ‘Media Storage’ under App Settings. For Others : Please tolerate the pain of reading through my post. I installed CyanogenMod custom ROM in my Sony Ericsson WT19i a couple months ago. Rest of my experience with my phone after that has been simply a honeymoon. Until I messed up with this option called ‘Media Provider’ under ‘Dev Tools’ in CyanogenMod. Media Provider is used to simulate music tracks in your music player. After tapping the ‘Insert 20 Albums’ it created some 20 tracks (as expected) with satanic Latin names. At that time I had two music players – Apollo and Google Music, both of which reflected these ghostly tracks and often irritated by interrupting the playlist. Every time I had to skip the tracks manually. After a deep web search I found the solution to remove the tracks. You may not find the audio files anywhere in your SD Card (But some people have removed it by deleting files inside a folder called ‘Media’. But le...

Just a thought for the day on how different people perceive their goals. Understanding the way people make their progress towards goals determines whether they will achieve it or not. Based on type of focus they make people can be classified under two categories. People focusing on ultimate goals These are the people that focus much on their goals. They can be inspired by often reminding of their ultimate goals. They get satisfied by sheer percentage of progress they make. There will always be procrastination in achieving goals. So they can be kindled by setting a little bit higher benchmark than actual goal. Most of the society thinks all the people are of this kind. People focusing on the stepping stones to ultimate goals These type of people in the first place had chose their goals for the love of work they do on the way to goals. They sometimes even forget about their goals but they simply focus on everyday tasks, accomplishment of which gives them satisfaction. Sometimes they...

  By the time I pen down this post the deadline for submitting TNEA 2013 applications is over. The deadline was on May 20th, 2013. Anyway I’d like to mention a few points which would be handy for those applying for TNEA 2014 next year. I was in a situation to apply for TNEA for my cousin exactly on the last date so I had learnt various methods of applying, which I would like to share now. 1. Applying by getting application from Sale Centres and Sending through mail TNEA websites published the list of Sale Centres, from where you can directly buy the application by paying the entire application fee. (Hopefully there wont be much change in the centers list for TNEA 2014. Anyway its better to check later once again). You will be provided with envelope of A4 size containing Application form in OMR format, information brochure and an acknowledgement card. Candidates from places away from and outside Guindy, Chennai can get the application from nearest centers by directly paying th...