How to Hide Your Friends List on Facebook – New Privacy Options 2013

September 17, 2013 by Satish Kumar 1 Comment

Many people are confused with the new Facebook settings to hide their personal information from strangers. It’s really hard to find the advance options yourself, as the default privacy settings only allow to filter the basic privacy issues. Usually Facebook allows everyone to see your wall, pictures, personal information, friends and etc, which can be personally fixed for your account safety and privacy. All you have to do is to set the right privacy settings to filter your account from Facebook spammers and jobless stalkers. Today we will check out the most commonly searched option in Facebook. Yes, we are talking about hiding your friends list in Facebook, so that your Facebook friends or unknown strangers stalk your other friends in the list.

How to Hide Your Friends List on Facebook

Follow these simple steps to hide your friends list on Facebook.

Step 1: Login to your Facebook Account and click on Privacy Settings at the top left menu.

Step 2: You will be redirected to Privacy Settings and Tools page, where you need to click on the Use Activity to enter the advance settings.

Step 3: Now check the Activity Log and Click on More to open the Friends log.

Step 4: Click on Friends tab, and click on Who can see your friends list? on top.

Step 5: Click on “Only me” Option as seen in the above screenshot. This sets a privacy lock to your friends list, where no one else in Facebook could ever see your friends list.

Hope this simple tip will help you to hide your friends list in Facebook. Please let us know if you have any queries via below comments.

How to Activate Do Not Disturb (DND) India Registration – All Networks

May 26, 2013 by Satish Kumar 31 Comments

Many people suffer from the unwanted marketing messages and calls made by the mobile network operators. These messages and calls are extremely annoying, and there is no way proper information on how to activate this service. This service was formerly called DND (Do Not Disturb), which now transformed to NCPR (National Consumer Preference Register) by the TRAI (The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India). Previously, people who subscribed to DND had chances to receive the unsolicited promotions calls from their mobile network operators. With NCPR, the chances of receiving these unwanted messages is almost zero.

According to NCPR, a mobile customer in India can stop all the unwanted marketing calls and messages whenever he/she wants. This service can give you the option of selecting various options according to your requirement.

All the service providers will have the same set of instructions to register for the do not disturb service. You can activate DND from your mobile by just calling 1909 and selecting the options, or by sending a simple SMS to 1909. This message is similar to all the mobile network operators in India, and check out the various companies and their registration process to start your DND service.

And if you are already registered, and then check your NCPR (old DND) Subscription status here.

How to Activate Do Not Disturb India Registration

This process of activating do not disturb service is all same for Aircel, Airtel, BSNL, Tata DoCoMo, Idea Cellular, Loop Mobile, MTNL, Reliance Communications, MTS India, Tata Indicom, Uninor, Vodafone and etc.

Fully Blocked Category

Send SMS at START 0 to 1909 or Call at 1909

Partial Blocked Category

Send SMS at START 1 to 1909 to block Banking – Insurance – Financial Products – Credit Cards
Send SMS at START 2 to 1909 to block Real Estate
Send SMS at START 3 to 1909 to block Education
Send SMS at START 4 to 1909 to block Health
Send SMS at START 5 to 1909 to block Consumer Goods & Automobiles
Send SMS at START 6 to 1909 to block Communication – Broadcasting – Entertainment – IT
Send SMS at START 7 to 1909 to block Tourism

You can also De-Register the DND service to receive the marketing calls and messages in future. To do that, just send an SMS STOP and send it to 1909. You can also call 1909 to cancel the service.

Key points to remember with DND registration:

DND (NCPR) cannot block your bank SMS alerts, bank communications, online bookings, third party personal calling, and etc.
It takes minimum 7 days to process your request to stop the unwanted messages.
You should have atcleast 3 months of time before applying to new DND request after the previous one.
Calls and messages to 1909 is completely toll free, and you don’t have to pay anything.

I hope this information will help you to cut down the unwanted messages and calls automatically before reaching you. Please leave your queries on this issue in the below comments section.

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How to Get Rid of Spam Posts in Facebook Groups – Simple Way

May 19, 2013 by Satish Kumar 8 Comments

Facebook has evolved massively from the last couple of years. They have been very strict about the application spams, link spams and manual spams. They took over as many spam links as possible in very less time. But one thing which Facebook is unable to control is the manual spam links, which are later generated by bots to take control on. So if you click on these spam links, the links will automatically generate a spam loop by posting a status in all your Facebook groups. This is really annoying to the admin who is taking care of that group.

Steps to Stop Spam Links in Facebook Groups:

There are many group admins in Facebook, who literally ban you from their groups after seeing your spam post. This is really annoying for admins, as well as the normal Facebook users. If you are an admin of any Facebook group, try following the simple steps to avoid Facebook spam messages in future. This simple method will save your time on deleting all those spammy links posted by your group members.

Step 1: Log into your Facebook account and open the group you wanted to moderate.

Step 2: Click on the Edit Group Settings option to open the settings page.

Step 3: Check the Post Approval option, which says All group posts must be approved by admin.

Step 4: Click on Save button to accept the changes you made in the settings page.

Step 5: Now look for any spam posts made by your members to moderate them personally. Facebook will show you a notification of pending posts, which can be approved or deleted as per your choice.

Step 6: Click on the 2 posts require approval which you are seeing in the above screenshot to moderate the posts.

Step 7: Delete the unwanted and spam posts which were bothering you from much longer period of time.

This way you can moderate all the spam posts, promotional posts, manual link posts, automated links and application spam posts happily. Also you can remove and ban the user, then and there itself. I hope this article has helped you in moderating your group safely and smartly. Please leave your comments if you have any.

How to Fix the Low Volume Issues in Razer Tiamat 2.2 Gaming Headset

May 18, 2013 by Satish Kumar 2 Comments

The Razer Tiamat 2.2 gaming headset has an epic sound and bass control system. This amazing headphones cost you around Rs 7,300 in India, and are extremely powerful to handle with full volume. These headphones roar fabulously on beats audio enabled laptops and phones, where as the normal PC sound drivers doesn’t sound that great. You will love the music with Razer Tiamat 2.2, as the dual bass drivers add extra thumping bass to your ears for much longer.

These powerful headphones add optimized positional audio for immersive gameplay on PC (with good sound card installed), where as the normal PC’s doesn’t give you that extra bass like beats audio or added sound card system. Razer Tiamat comes with a precise and noise filtering unidirectional mic, which records amazing sound clips. The soft touch ear cushions are easily replaceable, and are extremely comfortable.

How to Fix the Low Volume Issues in Razer Tiamat 2.2 Gaming Headset

This low volume problem has been found in many gaming headsets so far. According to my experience, the gaming headset will not sound much clear as regularly, when you put the headset after a system hibernate or wake up. I bought a Razer Tiamat headset 2.2 couple of months ago, and it sounds amazing with my HP DV6 (Beats enabled) laptop. Usually the headset roars fabulously when I play the music on high volume, where as my PC doesn’t give me that amazing experience as my HP laptop. This is not observed in many other laptops or PC’s, which are not beats audio enabled. Well, may be I was lucky enough to get beats audio with my HP DV6.

Issue 1:

Coming to the low volume issue, I found that the headset will sound much lesser when I insert the jack after a system wake up. This means, when ever I put my PC or laptop on sleep, the headset will not be able to recognize the device properly after a wake up. I observed this issue many times, and the only solution to this is your restarting your PC.

Issue 2:

Whenever you are inserting the headset jack pin, make sure to insert the mic jack pin along with it. This makes the headset to realize that the mic is functioning properly, and will be actively cautions about the volume recordings in future. Whenever I insert the audio pin, I make sure to insert the mic pin, which improves the sound quality up to one extent. May be this is not true in your case, but works for me all the times.

Issue 3:

Gently remove your ear cushions from Razer Tiamat 2.2, and clean the surface with a dry cloth. Also blow some air with your mouth in the headset to remove the dust and waste materials gently.

Issue 4:

Check whether the volume button is high up to maximum, else you will be kicking yourself to waste all the time searching for the low volume issue.

Troubleshooting your Razer Tiamat 2.2 headset with the above mentioned steps can improve the over all performance of sound and bass. All these above troubleshooting methods are my personal experiences, and this might not work for all the other headsets apart from Razer Tiamat 2.2. Please leave your comments if you face any issues with this headphone. I have used it enough to answer your query within 24 hours.

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HP Authorized Service Center at Khairatabad – Hyderabad

May 17, 2013 by Satish Kumar 2 Comments

Though there are many HP service centers in Hyderabad, I always prefer going to HP Authorized Service Center for good customer support and value. Recently my HP DV6 was facing an over heat issue with dust inside the fan. I had to go through different websites to get an authorized HP service center at Hyderabad. Unfortunately many websites were displaying the Somajiguda authorized HP service center, which was shifted to Khairatabad Circle recently. Without finding much information about the place, I began to shuttle between Somajiguda, Khairatabad and Saifabad HP service centers to repair my laptop.

Finally I got the address from Just Dial, which provided the correct address of HP service center. This center is run by Maha Electronics Private limited, who are the authorized dealers of HP from past 16 years. They have been providing support to all HP products more than a decade, and have recently moved from Dega Towers, Somajiguda (Panjagutta), Hyderabad to Khairatabad, Hyderabad. For additional info, check out for address and contact numbers at the end of the article.

How much does HP Authorized Service Center Charge?

If any of your HP product has a repair or damage, the service center guys will first check with the product and make a quote. They will call you to let you know the additional quote (damaged parts or accessories) which they might charge you for fixing the HP product. If your product is fixed within this general service, you have to pay Rs 1405 for general servicing. Sometime you have to pay Rs 1405 + additional charge for the damaged part.

Example:

General Servicing + New Keypad will be Rs. 1405 + Rs. 2000 (with a new part)

And if you ask them to return back your HP product without solving the issue, they will charge you Rs 300 for service charges. At this time, they wont fix your product, but will just check the problem and tell you how it can be fixed.

Standard Charges:

General Servicing = Rs. 1405
Service Charges = Rs. 300

I had a very good customer support from Khairatabad HP service center, and they have fixed my over heating problem within 2 days. Always remember to visit only authorized service centers for good service and support. You can contact the floor in-charge for additional support and help for solving your issue. These guys are friendly and can provide a great value to your product.

HP Service Center: Khairatabad Address

Maha Electronics Private Limited
Door No 6-3-639/640,
Room No 201 A & B,
2 Floor Golden Edifrce,
Opposite ICICI Bank,
Khairatabad,
Hyderabad – 500004

Contact Nos.:

+91-(40)-23388511, (Temporarily Unavailable)
+91-(40)- 23388512, (Temporarily Unavailable)
+91-(40)- 39351301, (Temporarily Unavailable)
+91-(40)- 39351300 (Working Fine)

Website: www.mahaelectronics.com

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