Ankur Gupta Online

Integrate Yourself With The Latest Happenings….

Archive for the ‘Tips 'n' Tutorials’ Category

How To Create VCC Using HDFC Netsafe  

HDFC Bank is one of the better private sector banks that we have in India. My experience with them has been good till now. Now what got me interested in this bank was the Netsafe facility that the bank offers. The Netsafe facility allows you to create Virtual Credit Cards online which can be used like normal credit cards for shopping on the net.You can also verify your Paypal account using HDFC Netsafe service, instructions at bottom.

With this facility you do not need to expose your actual credit/debit card number online and hence be assured of piece of mind. To get started you need to have a HDFC Bank account and a HDFC Debit Card or a HDFC Bank Credit card.

Step 1: Open Netsafe service website

Go to the Netsafe service by visiting this link on the HDFC website and then click Login to Netsafe

Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 2% [?]

The article has

9 responses

Written by Ankur Gupta

April 5th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Posted in Tips 'n' Tutorials

Memory card:Most wanted element of Digital Cameras  

Digital cameras are essential for capturing unforgettable moments of your life. In the past, films were used, but later on trend has changed and digital cameras have started to arrive in the markets. To store all the images in the camera, it is necessary to have good memory. This memory requirement has been fulfilled by using memory cards. All the digital cameras has the ability to hold memory cards in it. The user has to pick a right memory card and it is not a tough job, provided you have to know about memory cards.The response speed of the camera is always determined by the usage of the memory cards. Digital cameras have 2 types of memory called buffer and main memory. Buffer is a temporary memory in which data will be stored faster. Hereafter the data will be stored in a permanent memory called “flash memory and it is the main memory of the device. Some high end models permits you to take the second picture, when the first picture is being transmitted to the flash memory.

House cleaning is considered as an issue among the users. It is nothing but reconfiguration of the flash memory. While you erase an unwanted image from the memory card, the flash memory card will be reconfigured automatically. But the memory capacity is high, you have to wait for 2 or 3 minutes. The small memory cards will take less time for this house cleaning. Therefore it is advisable not to erase an image when you capture images.

Read about latest Digital Camera Reviews and Digital Camera Buying guides.

Popularity: 1% [?]

The article has

no responses yet

Written by Ankur Gupta

May 16th, 2007 at 2:03 am

Posted in Tips 'n' Tutorials

Automatic Blog backup service  

While browsing the net I came across this article which talks about this BlogBackupOnline service which automatically backups your blog posts sans the images and video and stores them in your account so that you can use it if you lose your blog data somehow.

This service is a boon for lazy users like me who donot like to take regular backups..

Here is a quote from the article which describes the utility of this service perfectly.

Registering your blog (or anyone else’s for that matter) is easy, just give it the URL, and if the site is on a popular blogging platform like Blogger, TypePad, or WordPress, it will start backing up posts right away. You don’t actually need to give it your login or password to get things going, BlogBackupOnline will simply go through and scrape posts. Once blogs have been registered with the service, backup is automated, so you don’t have to worry about it.

Users get 50MB of storage, which might not sound like a lot, but keep in mind the tool is only grabbing text and HTML formatting code, not pictures, videos, or any other related files. If you do run out of space, (for now) the service is offering users extra room for people who hit the storage ceiling.

All posts are stored in a reader that lets you see a quick preview of what they look like, along with the option to send single or multiple posts back to your blog in the event your data is lost or corrupted. BlogBackupOnline also grabs user comments, so if there’s a particularly interesting discussion thread, you can recover that too.

So now no more hasseles when you lose your blog data if you had been using this service :)

Popularity: 1% [?]

The article has

one response

Written by Ankur Gupta

May 9th, 2007 at 7:51 am

Posted in Tips 'n' Tutorials

Making Money Online  

In today’s world where everyone is becoming net savvy,making money while browsing does make some sense,hence making use of one’s time along with doing some creative work and also enjoying along with it is what I am going to talk about in this post of mine.

While browsing some of the sites related to this topic I came across Robert’s site which shares the same convictions as I do.He too was a simple guy who got interested in making online.He started with 0$ in his pocket and now earns around 1000$ per month.Seems like a fairytale but you better believe it.

He started earning from ebay by buying and selling stuff and earning some profits from that.Getting a head-start he headed into the domain selling business and managed to sell domains and making good profits from there.He managed to get hold a good site for only 40$ and then auctioned it for 125$ on another site…Thats pretty good thinking..

As you can already see,one doesn’t require the skills or a programmer to earn big bucks but just some research and you are on your way.

But this wasn’t the end of his success story…He started a website and soon it became popular and it still earning around 500$ per month from Google Adsense and also by doing other jobs.

Hence it is not a difficult task to make money but the magnitude of your earnings reflect the amount of hard work you are willing to put into it.

Popularity: 1% [?]

The article has

no responses yet

Written by Ankur Gupta

April 22nd, 2007 at 8:18 am

Increase your site’s traffic & Google PageRank  

SEO: The word that thrills everyone when one starts his website! But Alas not many know how to implement SEO tips and tricks to help make their site popular and get some traffic to your sit.

Information Web Directory does exactly that, without you having to crack your head over it.It is a Search Engine Friendly Directory which provides you with the option of listing your website under one of the numerous subcategories that suits your site perfectly.It helps boost your sites traffic as well as improve its ranking in various search engines.

Some of the categories that you can submit your site to include:

Health Web Directory: All the sites related to health go in her.For eg. sites related to Dentistry,Pharmaceutical,Diseases etc.

Travel Directory:If your site has information regarding Airline Tickets,Travel Guides,Theme Parks then this is what you should be looking at.Also you can submit your site related to Photography in this section!

Celebrity Directory:Add your site in here if it has contains scoops of celebs personal lives,and other interesting stuff relating to them…

and many more….

If you are ready to shell out some money then you can get your site reviewed and get it listed under regular or featured listing in the most relevant category.Hence it integrates a lot of services and makes the task a lot easier!

Popularity: 1% [?]

The article has

no responses yet

Written by Ankur Gupta

April 22nd, 2007 at 1:21 am