Telenors service is going from bad to worse. Literally. I have been
trying to call their service center to activate my GPRS connection for 3 days to no avail - I call from my Telenor sim and get disconnected each time. Instead of paying pop stars millions to feature in their TV ads, Telenor should be doing something to fix their -basic -customer experience and network problems. Ali Zafar, find another commercial contract before people hate you for making them buy lousy cell phone service…!
Apparently, I’m not alone. TechLahore has had terrible problems with his/her subscription to Telenor’s Mobile TV service. My two cents on MobileTV : Its too expensive and I havent seen it the darn thing work on -ANYONE’s- mobile yet.
To be fair, I have 3 sims : Warid, Telenor and Mobilink,and all of them have their quirks and problems, there is no single perfect phone service, but , darn it, Telenors making me jump through too many hoops for basic GPRS service 
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Now that Microsoft has finally realized that pushing your new OS onto people and
organizations who don’t want it yet does not earn you any brownie points, they have decided to offer a downgrade (I think this is a first time btw) from Vista back to XP Pro. Read on to see how you can get a legal version of XP back onto your brand new laptops/PCs. Read the rest of this entry »
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Earlier published a post about getting iPhones from Beliscity. Well, I just found a better (and a more solid warranty) deal thanks to Qurats comment on that post. Mediacenter, an Apple reseller is taking preorders for iPhones, their price is 50,000 PKR (still yikes but less than Beliscity’s 60,000 PKR) . If you want to order normally when its in stock, it will cost you between 38,000-49,000 PKR.
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Yup, thats right. I dont know if these are locked or unlocked, or what the deal is right now. I just know they are selling for 60,000 a pop at beliscity.com (thats $1000 USD sheeesh!! double price really)
Check it out , and if you do buy one, please do share your experience here by posting comments,
http://beliscity.com/ProductDetail.aspx?did=6&bid=28&cid=76&sid=612&pid=6962&Desc=1
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..but for just 3 months before the 2 GB/month limit kicks in. Details of all their plans are here:
http://www.ptcl.com.pk/contentp.php?NID=47
Also, PTCL has relaunched its website as it revamps its branding across the board, and it looks great! Good job you semi-state-run monopoly owned by another state run monopoly you!
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The Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Lego set designed by a company called “PodBrix” was announced august 27th on the net. With only a one time run of 300 examples to be sold on August 29th , 9pm eastern time, they were sold out by 9:03pm. And thanks to Umair’s lighting fast typing speed and flash memory (that lets him store all his logins ids, credit card numbers and names of all his ex-girlfriends’ cats’ kittens) we were able to get our hands on one!
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For the last 3 weeks, I have run the following three services in parallel at the office:
- Cybernet DSL 256k (I got a max 28-32kb/sec down) - 14,000 PKR/month
- PTCL DSL 1 Mbit/sec (I got a max 68-72 kb/sec down) - 5,000 PKR/month
- Maxcom DSL 512 K/sec (I got a max 51-53kb/sec down)- 7,500 PKR/month
After several download tests, usage testing, and measurement of bandwidth, (I dont have the upload bandwidth numbers with me yet..sorry!) I’ve come up with the following conclusion: Read the rest of this entry »
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If it isnt official, it will be soon. The Pakistani online flock seems to be migrating en masse to Facebook from orkut. Scraps have become less, friends are being added less and the facebook invitations are growing. Social Apps, especially in reserved cultures like ours become very popular very fast as much needed outlets for, well, alot of things. Reminds me of the time when everyone slowly but surely moved away from ICQ to MSN. Read the rest of this entry »
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I came across this several months ago then it just hit me again so I thought i’d do a post on it, this is one of the more comprehensive Urdu portals, and unlike some site, which use images of handwritten urdu on the web, this is the real thing.when you type, you get urdu, so if you dont have an arabic/urdu keyboard it might be a bit tough. phonetics are similar though, so “baat” is b, a and then t, etc. Kudos to the author(s). Now if they made this into a framework for a blog site wouldnt that be cool?
Go here to visit the site : http://sirfurdu.com/
check it out, you might end up bookmarking it 
PS the site was down for maintenance today, so it may not be up till later tonight…
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Joining the fray of computer/tech shops that have build an online presence, one of the oldest and most well known of Karachi’s computer shops , ie Clifton Computers has built an online website, linked below:
http://cliftoncomputers.com/
You dont get much on it right now., but it does have a list of the in-stock laptops and gadgets.
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