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POP3 email services in India

As far as POP3 service is concerned, many email providers provide it as a premium service or provide POP3 accounts with very little space and other limitations. POP stands for Post Office Protocol and it enables the access to your email account through a POP3 client like Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail. There many email providers which email service in India, this includes:

  • Yahoo Mail — Yahoo India does not provide POP3 access in their free Email account. If you want POP3 access than you have to Yahoo Mail Plus for a fixed monthly or annual fees.
  • Hotmail — Hotmail or Live mail service is provided by Microsoft  and it also does not provide POP3 access with a general (Free) account
  • Rediff — This email provider is popular among Indians. It also provides POP3 access for a fixed monthly fees
  • IN.COM — They don’t have POP3 facility at all.
  • India.com — They also don’t have POP3 access
  • Gmail — Email service from Google that is Gmail provides free and complete access to your Email account via POP and also it does not cut any features for a free account and provides ample space of 10 GB for your Inbox. This is definitely the best Email provider out there.
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What is MCU in BSNL?

You must have seen this abbreviation many a times on BSNL website where they are mentioning their broadband tariff. Most of the their combo plans comes with free calls and is usually given in a numerical format like 250 or 300. These number basically refers to the MCU which stands for Metered Call Unit. A MCU is basically a pulse which is pre defined by BSNL. For e.g. most of the combo plans are based on One India landline by BSNL and in this particular plan:

  • 180 Seconds Pulse duration for a landline to landline call.
  • 120 Seconds Pulse duration for a landline to local mobile call.
  • 60 Seconds Pulse duration for a landline to outside local mobile call.

There is one more fact here which is quite ambiguous and even BSNL employees don’t know much about this. So as per the above pulse duration, for 400 MCU we can call for:

  • 37.5 Hours from our landline to a local landline.
  • 33.3 Hours from our landline to a local mobile.
  • 16.6 Hours from our landline to a outside local mobile.

But as per my latest telephonic conversation with a BSNL CC, they told me than in case you dial a local landline number from your landline than only first 3 minutes that is 180 seconds will be free and after that it will be charged as per the One India plan. Well this completely negates out the benefit of having free calls with combo plans but as you know it is still ambiguous for me.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 up for pre order at Samsung India E Store

Quad core based and much awaited next generation Galaxy S3 is now up for pre order in India. Galaxy S3 was initially announced by Samsung at an event in London. It was one of the much awaited smartphone and it’s rumoured pictures and specifications occupiers the internet for nearly one month before the announcement.

One can visit this link { Click here to pre order Galaxy S3 } and can book Galaxy S3 for Rs. 2,000. Every customer who had pre ordered Galaxy S3 from Samsung E Store will get Bluetooth headset worth Rs. 2,299 ( as claimed by Samsung ). But there is loop hole in this entire deal, there is no mentioning of expected price or any sort of expected MRP for this phone. So in case you are booking this phone today and on actual launch if it gets a price tag of Rs. 42,000 (rumoured) than you are stuck. Either purchase at such high MRP or your pre booking amount gets wasted.

I would really suggest not to pre order Galaxy S3 as the price is not confirmed and Samsung on their E Store usually sell mobiles only at MRP prices and gives no discount as local retailers or Flipkart. As for an example yet to be launched dual core smart phone Galaxy S Advance is listed at Samsung E Store for Rs. 26,790 but most of the local retailers and Flipkart is selling at Rs. 23,999.

As far as specs are concerned Galaxy S3 is a quad core based smart phone and beats every other smart phone in that price range.

Specifications

Screen / Display Super AMOLED capacitive screen with resolution of 720 X 1280
User Interface (UI) TouchWiz 4.0
Display Size 4.8 Inches
Display features Corning Gorilla Glass
Primary Camera 8 MP
Secondary Camera 1.9MP
Video Recording 1080P Full HD at 30 FPS
OS Android ICS 4.0.4
CPU Quad Core 1.4 GHz Cortex A9
Chipset Exynos 4212 Quad
GPU Mali 400MP
RAM 1 GB
Internal Memory Multiple models based on storage that is 16/32/64 GB
Colours Pebble Blue Marble White

 

Gallery

Galaxy S3 1

 

Galaxy S3 2

 

Galaxy S3 3

 

Galaxy S3 4

 

Galaxy S3 5

 

Galaxy S3 6

 

Galaxy S3 7

 

Galaxy S3 8

 

Galaxy S3 9

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Unexpected $end in PHP while using Heredoc syntax

Hello all of you.

You might be getting this error in case if you are using Heredoc syntax in your PHP program. First of all you need to know the fact that Heredoc syntax is very strict about it’s use. Always follow the syntax rule while programming in PHP.

The error “Unexpected $end on line xx” is mainly cause if you have white space after the closing Heredoc tag. As a reference please see the image below, in this image the green portion represents whitespace after closing EOD.

heredoc $end error

Delete this whitespace and error will be removed. Smile

Written by Neon, UB7 community member

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How to check your IP address?

Well checking the IP address assigned to you by your ISP is not a very big thing. There are many websites and portals available on the web which can tell your IP address. You can also check the IP address through Command Prompt in case if you are using windows. Methods for checking web address are listed below:

Via a web portal

  • Please visit this site http://who.is
  • After visiting this site, on the front page you will see a sentence running like this Your IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. This xxx thingy will be your IP address
  • If your ISP is providing you with static IP than this address will always remain constant but if your ISP is providing you a dynamic IP than this address will definitely change.

Via Command Prompt

  • Open Command Prompt in Windows by following All Programs –> Accessories –> Command Prompt
  • Open it and you will see a black screen.
  • Write in this black screen the following line ipconfig
  • After this you will get some data on the black screen. Locate in this data the following info IPv4 Address . . . . . . . . . . . .xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  • This xxx thingy again will be your IP address.