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If you have bought that awesome HTC wildfire handset and looking for GPRS settings then I suppose this post should be of some help.

The normal way should be to call up Airtel Customer Care and ask them to provide you a manual walkthrough to set the GPRS settings. But we all know how crappy is the experience there. So here is the settings help for all those who want it.

go to settings > wireless & Networks >Mobile networks
there is one Mobile Network as well…sont confuse with that.
Then Click Access Point Names.

I see three option on my New HTC WildFire.
1. Airtel Live

2.Mobile Office

3.Airtel MMS

Choose Mobile Office

Make these Settings

Name – Mobile Office (MO or what ever)
APN – airtelgprs.com
Proxy – Not Set
Port – <Not set>
Username – <Not set>
Password – <Not set>
Server – <Not set>
MMSC – <Not set>
MMSC Proxy – <Not set>
MMS Port – <Not set>
MMS Protocol – wap 2.0
MCC – 404
MNC- 10
Auth type – notset
API Type – Default

Thats all Save and you are ready to roll. Welcome to Airtel GPRS/EDGE

For all you link building professionals, website owners mystified by SEO, Newbie SEOs and others I am taking time to review another link building service. Generatebacklinks.com

I was on facebook and their ad banner caught my attention. I know almost all cheap SEO packages available are total crap. But it helps you to know what people in your industry are doing to lure more clients – so that you might find the loopholes and improve upon them.

So I follow the banner to their website and take a look the packages which are no doubt very attractive. Then I notice the Live chat option and give it a try. Someone named Jeany comes up to assist me. I make it from the language that she/he is an Indian compatriot even though the site is Western (or so they claim). Halfway through the chat I confirm that too.

I ask them how many different domains will the links be from and what kind of links. To which the agent answers 2000 links from 2000 different domains and all of them forum signatures. That sounds very generous to me for an investment of 10$.

Now I ask them about samples and the agent promptly sends me a link.
http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~csc313/bb/profile.php?id=90670
I see the link and jump – wow .edu links. Could I have asked for anything more? So Happily I say – ” I am bookmarking the site and I will come back to close the deal latter”.

But but Butt …..

My enthusiasm dies out as I go into my second phase of link analysis. I open that link and its a bloody profile page. With almost zero content which I am sure will be duplicated over 2000 similar pages.

I check the page for an index on Google and behold nothing there as well.
So I go back to the chat and the same agent comes up. Upon my enquiry if there will be any real forum posts or just profile links she/he says just those profile links. I explain how they are shitty for SEO as they are not indexed and she says many of their clients are benefiting from the service so I should also be benefiting. Thats a mugged up answer almost every bull shit SEO company gives in response to your arguments.

The agent even tell me about 5% of the links will be indexed. Pooh .. thats only 100 links out of 2000. Now by this time I am suppressing that demon inside me from getting inside the screen and strangling her/him by throat. Further the agent tells me I can get more benefit by making RSS feeds of those shitty links and bookmarking them as well.

Blah… you make me 2000 crapy links in 5 days and I spent months trying to get them indexed? How smart.

So there you go friends .. I have shared my thought and experience with you. I hope it will help you in deciding before you opt for an SEO package.

Cheers
Rooturaj

PS : By the way I tired to send myself a chat transcript and they have disabled the sumit button. But I copied it and you can see that below.

Gosh Its confirmed. It was a quake after all.

I was coding my brains out and then the glass started chattering. Then the chairs and tables shook. I felt the keyboard below my fingers shaking too. Never felt an Tremmor before. So I thought I am going nuts.

I put up the question on twitter and behold..its abuzz.

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23earthquake

http://twitter.com/#!/search/delhi%20quake

But looks like things are massive. Gods knows where the epicenter is. But people felt the shocks in Pakistan and Dubai.

If I happen to survive the night – given the main shock is not yet over. I will update you tomorrow.

I Did survive the quake then..lol.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954004576090331100675282.html

Here is more info

God Bless us .

I have been a fan of Einstein. But I never knew he had left us a puzzle that was so interesting. I am not sure if this is a real Einstein creation but it definitely got a touch of a genius. I enjoyed each moment of solving the problem.

People claim only 2% of world’s population is capable of solving this puzzle.
So I took that as a challenge. You see being a Aries you simply cant bear to be outside the elite.

Here is the riddle.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

I dare you - Albert Einstein

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Solving the puzzle will give you a feeling of victory like never before. LOL
Initially it looked like I would blow up my mind. Then I took a mathematical approach. You cant simple solve the damn thing just by staring at the clues. Get your pencil and notepad.
Use a tabular layout like cross words puzzles and fill in empty cells with clues one by one.

give it your best shot…if you need help I have a step by step approach how to do it.
It took me 1 hour and 10 minutes to do this. Including creating that chart in photoshop and putting up this blog post. Cheers.

1. 1,1 is Norwegian (ref9)
2. 2,2 is Blue (ref14)
3. 3,4 is milk (ref
4. 4,2 and 5,2 and green and white (ref4)
5. 4,4 is coffee (ref5)
6. 1,2  is yellow and 3,1 is Brit and 3,2 is red (ref1)
7. 1,5 is Dunhill (ref7)
8. 2,3 is horses (ref 11)
9. 2,5 is Blends and 1,4 is water (ref15)
10. 5,4 is beer and 5,5 is blue master (ref 12 ) and no available combinations
11. Either 4,1 or 5,1 is sweede then either of 1,3 or 3,3 is cats then either of 4,3 or 5,3 is dogs(ref 10,2)
12. Either of 2,1 or 5,1 is dane (ref 3)
13. So 2,1 is Dane (ref 3)
14. 4,1 is German and 5,1 is Swede (ref 13)
15. 3,5 is Pall Mall as no other choice remains
16. 3,3 is birds (ref 6)
17. 5,3 is Dogs (previous analysis and Ref 2)
18. 1,3 is cats (from previous analysis and ref 10)
19. Leaves us with Fish for the German – I should have guessed that ..given their affinity for Submarines lol. Took me 1 hours and 10 mins

Final Table with Einstein’s Puzzle Solved