Wednesday, 1 November 2017

How to unsend WhatsApp messages | Revert back message sent by you | Delete your message in your friends chat

There were many people who were always downloading skinned version of WhatsApp like GB WhatsApp, etc even after Lot of cautions about privacy

Most people were downloading GB WhatsApp only because they could revert back the messages they have sent

Now you don't have to download these skinned versions because WhatsApp Inc has given this feature in there new update

Now send any message in group are one-one chat, select it and press delete. Now you'll have 3 options delete for me, cancel and delete for everyone.

Wednesday, 27 September 2017

How are Vehicle Price is Fixed | Vehicle Charges Breakup On-road, Ex-Showroom, etc

First of all, Dealers are separate bodies who are just registered with the manufacturers to sell there products on dealers showrooms. Dealers buy from the factory and sell the vehicle to there customers adding there expenses and profits

Now Lets breakup vehicle prices

Ex-Showroom Price :

Dealers buy vehicles from factory at Ex-Factory price, when the trucks reaches the showroom, the price including Ex-Factory price, Transportation, Dealers margin, etc is called Ex-showroom price.

Handling/Logistics/Parking charges :

These charges are not included in every showroom but mostly on Metro cities & few Major cities these charges are also added. Now the price of vehicle is Ex-Showroom + Handling/Logistics/Parking charges.

Insurance :

In India, we have a rule that when a vehicle rolls out of the showroom it should be covered by Insurance. So add Insurance price to the above price.

But it is not mandatory to take Insurance policy in the showroom, you can take the policy from whichever place you like but vehicle should be covered with Insurance before leaving showroom and it should be of 1 year at least.

TCS (Tax Collection at Source) :

You need to pay TCS of 1%, if the vehicle's Ex-Showroom price is more than 10 Lakh Rupees. But it is refundable if you file IT returns.

RTO/Registration Charges :

Like Insurance it is mandatory for a vehicle to be registered before it leaves the showroom. Basically there are two types of registration

i) Temporary  Registration : It is registration for one month & after this period, registration expires. If you are not registered within this period you are liable for fine on monthly basis.

This is used mainly when you need a special number and it is yet to come and you want to register that number when it comes or You have bought vehicle from a non-local showroom and you want to register your vehicle in your local RTO.

ii) Permanent Registration : This is Permanent registration number for the vehicle and is valid for life time.

Permanent registration charges varies from vehicle to vehicle and in few states from fuel types also.


Accessories/RSA/Extended Warranty :

These are completely non-mandatory, you can take your vehicle even without these

i) Accessories : These are add-ons to your vehicle which you can completely deny or negotiate or even get them for free.

ii) RSA(Road Side Assistance) : By the name itself you can understand what it is. But make sure your Insurance company is offering RSA or not because insurance companies offer RSA at much cheaper rates than the vehicle dealer and few times RSA is given for free for some period of time by the manufacturer itself.


I prefer to take this service if ytou are not familiar with any of the minor repair works and you travel solo especially cars.

iii) Extended Warranty : This is something the sales person insist you to take by telling false stories and illogical facts, Indians take there vehicles seriously hence they fall prey to the words of sales executive. This can also can be denied

So Your OnRoad Prices includes ExShowroom price, Handling/Parking price, Insurance price, TCS, RTO Charges and Accessories/RSA/Extended Warranty.

Tuesday, 19 September 2017

How to Send Scheduled WhatsApp message

If you are someone like me, who often forgets important dates and wants to wish people on there special days. It's preferred to schedule your message on WhatsApp.

Download the Android app(play store)

Open the app, sign in to app. Select scheduling services you need like E-mail, WhatsApp message, FB post, etc.

To send scheduled massage

1. Open the app

2. Click on WhatsApp to schedule WhatsApp messages

3. Click on To, select required WhatsApp contact

4. Then type the content of your message

5. Schedule date and time to send the message

6. You can also add attachments like image, video, document, etc.

7. You can also set repeatation frequency

8. If you don't use screen lock like PIN, pattern, etc turn off  ' notify me before sending '. If you use screen lock, give reminder note and notifies you on specified time.

The same procedure can be used to schedule calls, SMS, e-mails, Facebook post and WhatsApp messages

Friday, 8 September 2017

Google drive is Shutting down!!?

Soon on your drive dashboard you'll be getting a pop-up saying "we are closing.........."

Actually, if you are some one who use drive a lot this is a nightmare come true.

Because the first thing that strikes your mind is what about my stored datas? Will it be gone?? What can/should do??

Relax, Logically Google drive is not shutting down , you can say it's Evlolving😉

The Google drive will soon be known as Backup & Sync.

Frankly I'm one of them who thought that Google drive is a bit sluggish in operation. So, in this iteration of Google drive, Backup & Sync it aims to provide seamless operation like it's biggest compitator DropBox.

Like DropBox, on Backup & Sync you'll be able to upload by using check boxes instead of old annoying alert boxes which makes it feel like it's sluggish..

Google has taken it's compitation seriously and brings you a killer plan with this make over that is unlimited Images, Audios and Videos Backup. Which was Free 15GB storage after 15GB it would be paid.

Coming to the already stored data it is literally untouched.

The offer of unlimited storage as a catch, the images are compressed if image size is more than 16MB like wise Videos are compressed if resolution of Video is more than 1080p to 1080p(Full HD), it may cause some discomfort with professional photographers and videographers who shoot in 4K but for a normal, plain, ordinary mobile photographers and videographers it's still a killer plan.

Another update with Backup & Sync is another service called File stream which is for those who used Google drive for sharing files and File stream is not a free service it comes for fair price(latest official update)

Sunday, 20 August 2017

Send High Quality Images on WhatsApp without Loosing Image Quality

We use WhatsApp everyday and we often prefer sharing using WhatsApp itself. But sending Images always results in considerable quality depletion by WhatsApp to save data and make transferring faster.

What if, you need to share High Quality Images, the only option is to use E-mail service. By using this trick you can share High Quality image without loosing quality in WhatsApp itself. Just follow these steps

1. Open the WhatsApp chat/contact you want to share images with.

2. Click on attachments, instead of selecting gallery, select document, browse and send the image.

The images are sent in its original quality but aren't preview as a Image which is sent in normal procedure

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Wednesday, 16 August 2017

How to Compress Large Files without Losing Quality

If you are someone like me who like to store lot of movies, then files sizes are your biggest concern.. Here is a truck I use to save lot of my movies by compressing them without compromising on the quality of that video.
Firstly download this free software (depending on your PC platform)
Once downloaded install the software.
How to use this software:
Actually, it's pretty simple
1. Open the software, click on source and select your file from the dialog box appeared.
2. Select the destination location.
3. Select output type as MP4.
4. Check mark Web Optimized (it's very important). It's the unique feature of this software.
5. Go to Video tab, select '20' on video quality (best for compromising without losing quality) you can vary according to your quality requirement.
6. Go to Audio tab, set bit rate of your wish (128 is good)
7. Preview, if you like the quality. Click on Start
It takes 3-5 mins depending on the quality.. Once finished open the file and compare the quality

Monday, 14 August 2017

How to Hide your files and folders without any Third Party App

Using third party app was always & is thread to security of your system. Yes, there are lot of third party app which are trust worthy but it's your files, trusting third party app is risky.

In fact it's so simple, you don't need to waste memory of your phone on such apps.

Steps for hiding files are:-

1. Open file manager, select folder of files which you want to hide.
2. Rename the folder with ' . '(full stop) at the beginning.

The files will be hidden and won't be visible in Galary

Steps for unhiding files are:-

1. Select the folder (if not found, find show hidden files option).
2. Rename & remove full stop at the beginning.

In third party apps if you turn on phone in safe mode then these apps don't work and files will be seen but folders hidden by this method won't be visible even in safe mode. In case, you delete the app by mistake, files will be gone. So, it's better to use this method to hide the files.

You can try to retrieve the files that were hidden by those app by using the unhide procedure

Saturday, 5 August 2017

Income Tax Calculation and Tax Savings

Everyone wants to and needs to file taxes. The problem is there is lack of proper knowledge on how taxes are calculated

Basically, there are 4 slabs in Income tax. In a financial year, if your Taxable Income is
Up to Rs. 2.5 lakhs -- No tax
Rs. 2.5 lakhs - Rs. 5 lakhs -- 10%
Rs. 5 lakhs - Rs. 10 lakhs -- 20%
Above Rs. 10 lakhs -- 30%

You all know this very well, but there is a misconception

For example: If your yearly Income is Rs. 15 lakhs, then we assume that it is more than Rs. 10 lakhs so, 30% of Rs. 15 lakhs (Rs. 4.5 lakhs) is the tax payable. But, tax deduction doesn't work like that

Government takes
10% of 2.5 lakhs = 25,000
20% of 5 lakhs    = 1 lakh
30% of 5 lakhs    = 1.5 lakhs

So you have to pay 2.75 lakhs not 4.5 lakhs so you still have 12.25 lakhs to enjoy;)

But who want to give there hard earned money to the government. So, people prefer to do tax savings..

To do proper tax savings first you have to know about Taxable Income

Taxable Income=Total Income-Tax Deduction

The more Tax Deduction , less the Taxable Income. Tax Deduction can be done by investing in Tax Saving Investments like Insurance, PPF, Mutual funds,etc and make tax savings up to 1.5 lakhs (if your income is above 10 lakhs you save around 45,000 and if your income is below 10 lakhs you save about 30,000.. It may not seem as much but it's very good savings)

The Best and Common Tax Saving Investments are:

Public Provident Fund(PPF)
Mutual Funds/ELSS

PPF is risk free but returns are less
MF/ELSS has high returns and also highly risky

Thursday, 3 August 2017

Different types of Number Plates Permitted by RTO in India

You know that recently, The Police Department gave a notice on number plates design and gave nominal fonts and design for number plates and few examples of defective number plates

So, I thought of telling you about different Patterns of number plates permitted by RTO in India

Basically there are 6 Patterns of Number plates

1. Black over White background : Private Vehicles

2. Black over Yellow background : Commercial Vehicles

3. Yellow over Black background : Commercial Self Drive Vehicles

4. White over Black background : Military Vehicles

5. White over Blue background : Foreign Diplomat's Vehicles

6  White over Red background : Demo/Test drive Vehicles

And we have one car in India which is not tagged with any of these Pattern or Numbers i.e The Car of President of India it only has Indian Emblem (Four Lions) on it

Thursday, 5 January 2017

CAPTCHA | What?.. Where?.. Why?

I am sure you have encountered CAPTCHAs while filling forms, signing up, etc.. Ever wondered why is it for? If yes, i hope you have got the answer!

If you have not got the answer, here you go!!

CAPTCHA is the acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, which means a test which seperates Humans and Computers automatically.

CAPTCHA is security measure against Bot attacks. It avoids scripts which performs automatic Sign-ups and form fill ups, which can overload Servers and Data Centers and make them vulnerable.
Imagine a hacker(script kiddler) or spammer who wants to open 1 Lakh Gmail accounts, without CAPTCHA he can do it in One hour( since computers are faster). With CAPTCHA his code cannot work because computer cannot think independently.

Turing Test is a process in which you Identify, if the user is a Human or a Computer. It includes test like Entering Text given in the box, Performing simple Calculation or Selecting pictures from grid which matches the question given. The basic Idea behind this test is the ability to think independently, which computer lacks.

Ideally, Turing test for Humans Should be easy i.e you can easily clear in one go.. But few times it is hard to perform it properly and we sometimes find it difficult so the average success rate for Humans is above 80% but success rate for Computers is less than 0.01%

Since, we humans fail to Complete the test successfully few times 'reCAPTCHA' - A Google Company, which gives free API for CAPTCHA for your site and Biggest CAPTCHA provider is all set to launch its Latest Version of CAPTCHA - Invisible reCAPTCHA

The new reCAPTCHA looks promising, lets hope for the best :)

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Sunday, 1 January 2017

BHIM | How to Send and Receive Money using BHIM app | Happy New Year!!

Wishing You A Happy and Prosperous New Year 2017!!

PM Narendra Modi has Launched a rebranded version of Unified Payment Interface (UPI) app at Digi Dhan Mela camp in Delhi, Which is Small in Size and Easier than Wallet. The new app is called Bharat Interface for Money(BHIM), this app is developed by National Payment Corporation of India(NPCI) and is available for Android Smartphones via Google Play Store. BHIM app for iPhones and Windows Phones will be coming soon.


How to Setup BHIM app on your Android phone

When you Install BHIM app on your device, you will be asked to enter your Mobile number to create an account (Make sure the number is the same number that is linked to your bank account for ease of use). The app only sends an SMS from your phone to verify your number. No sensitive data is shared. Currently only two languages (English and Hindi) are available.



Unlike other UPI app there is no need to enable Mobile Banking to use BHIM

If the phone number you have entered is linked to your Bank account, the BHIM app will automatically fetch details of your bank account(s). if not you can even add your account Manually 

Unlike other UPI apps where you have messy interface, BHIM app's interface is neat and simple. On top of the screen, you have option to Send Money, Request Money or Scan and Pay using QR code. By default, Your registered Mobile number is your UPI address (example: If your Mobile number is 9876543210, Your default UPI address willl be 9876543210@upi). you can also customize your UPI address.

If you have two or more bank accounts of different banks, you can easily switch between banks in just a few clicks

Features


  • SImple, Secure an dFast transfers
  • Send, Recieve & Request money conveniently
  • Single app for all Banks
  • Scan QR code to pay instantly
  • Check Bank Balance INstantly


How to Send money with BHIM app


  1. Click Send on Main Screen
  2. Enter Mobile/Payment address and Verify
  3. Enter the Amount
  4. Click on Pay button
  5. Enter your UPI PIN
You can also Send Money by scaning QR code

  1. On top od main screen click on 'Scan & Pay'
  2. camera opens and sends the amount.

How to Request money using BHIM app

  1. Click Request an Main Screen
  2. Enter Mobile/Payment address and Verify
  3. Enter the amount
  4. Click Reuest
In the reciever's phone, a notification about the request pops up.

You can also request by sharing your QR code. For this,
  1. In main screen, Select Profile
  2. Choose amount and remarks
  3. Click on generate.
you can download the QR code or Share via Social netwok

Talking about limits, You can transfer as low as Re. 1 to maximum of Rs. 20,000 per day. However, in single transaction you can transfer maximum of Rs. 10,000

Apart from BHIM government has introduced Aadhar Payment app for Merchants, which allows you to pay using Aadhar and Fingerprint.


List of banks which support BHIM

All the Bank which as support for UPI, can be used in BHIM

  • South Indian Bank
  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • State Bank of India
  • Allahabad Bank
  • Andhra Bank
  • Axis Bank
  • Bank of Baroda
  • Indian Bank
  • Indian Overseas Bank
  • IndusInd Bank
  • Karnataka Bank
  • Karur Vysya Bank
  • Kotak Mahindra Bank
  • Oriental Bank of Commerce
  • Punjab National Bank
  • Bank of India
  • Bank of Maharastra
  • Canara Bank
  • Catholic Syrian Bank
  • Central Bank of India
  • DCB Bank 
  • Dena Bank 
  • Federal Bank
  • HDFC Bank
  • ICICI Bank
  • IDBI Bank
  • IDFC Bank
  • Syndicate Bank
  • Union Bank of India
  • United Bank of India
  • Vijaya Bank
  • RBL Bank
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