Tips: Prevention and Checks Before Booking Any Hotel

Today we are living in internet era and most of the things are possible online whether buying phone or travel ticket or booking hotel. Here I would like to share some tips related to the precautions before booking any hotel online. This is a thing which in reality makes much convenience before going any place for travel, business or official purpose. But as cons a bad hospitality or hotel service could also spoil our trip and money both.

Here I have some good and bad experiences with online hotel bookings and would like to share some tips before booking any hotel online. I will not say by following all these tips you could get definitely a best trip, but I could assure you that there are very less chances to be scammed and get a bad deal.

•If you can get any review from your any real life colleague or friend, for any known hotel by him, then get it first before any kind of online booking. Ask him about the services, quality of services and also the price , they had been charged during their visit. This will help you in deciding for the booking.

•If you are going to book any hotel online, check on google about the hotel reviews using its name. You can also go to expedia.com or agoda.com or like these websites for getting the original reviews by the genuine guests stayed there. This will help you a lot for decision making.

•If you are not getting any review online for any hotel. There is a risk of bad service also, but this is not sure, they can also provide good value for money. Only risk is high for you there.

•Do not trust on testimonials or reviews on hotel websites for taking your decisions. They are managed by hotel staffs. Only trusted third party’s reviews must be considered.

•Compare prices also with other hotels on well known websites for your selected hotel and if you get a good deal only then book this for you. 
•Initially you can book for lesser days if you are suspicious and then could extend that later.

•You can call also hotel staff for the quality of services and their response will also indicate your many things and the quality of services they could provide you.

I hope these tips could help you somewhat while you are making any travelling plan. Some initial prevention can make your journey full of joy. Happy Journey.

Why Cows are worshiped in India?

India is a country of diversity and different kind of customs. Those customs and ways of living are seen usual by people living here but some foreigners see this with different perspective and sometime this is ridiculous for them. This is very natural and psychological, when we don’t know the depth of anything we could behave like this even we laugh on some foreign customs too.
Though I have initiated a very small topic here but it could clear the confusion of many people. It has big meaning in life of people here in India. Question is again left here, why cows are worshiped in India. 

India is a country of different religions and it is very surprising that they have become so much compatible with each other except some exceptional case. Those exceptions are obvious for the country with population of more than 1.2 billion. In India the Hinduism is the largest religion and more than 75% people here are Hindu. And in Hindu mythology the cow is considered an animal to be worshiped. And even some other animals also, all those have different reasons but there is a hidden positive agenda behind this.

Today there are laws implemented to prevent the hunting of tigers but even after that this is not hundred percent successful, but that is a way of prevention. The same kind of things is here with cows also. In early life when man was in habit of hunting and eating, there are multi options and he did not used to think that what would be the effect of this in future. If we take the example of cow, it could provide meat once but milk for its life time and some other usage also. Hindu scholars did notice this and modified the books accordingly to prevent these animals from unnecessary hunting and put this in religious law, which used to be followed strictly by the followers. This was a good way to control and if we see the example, even today the cow meat in prohibited in Hindus. 

This is a smaller example, beside this there are many good things, like worshipping trees, food, animals, nature and all. This will teach people to value those things which are given to us by nature and to care and not waste them. This is a very pure and good way to control and teach people about the value of the nature. I think if we go in depth of this, we would never laugh and salute the ideas of those scholars. 

How to Prevent from Online Scams

World is connected now in better way than ever before by the medium of internet. There are number of different applications we are using today and even very much dependant on internet. Being online is the daily activity of most of the people. But like any place this is like a world also where people like us exist virtually and many corporations and business entities are using this opportunities to grow their businesses. On the other hand , there are also some culprits, who wants to take the advantage of this. These are some kind of online goons who are involved in the category of bad people who just make people fool and try to run their illegal business.

I would like to share some simple tips with people who are not much aware about these kinds of frauds.
• There is a famous fraud these days named as Nigerian frauds sometime. In this kind of scam, you will receive a mail or even SMS on your phone indicating that you have won any kind of lottery of million dollars and you will need to provide some details related to you. If you respond, they will ask your account details and will ask for money as a tax payable. The mail is sent in thousands and some of them become victims. So do not respond these kind of mails or sms and if possible then inform to local authority.
• There are many website who claims to provide you opportunity to earn online, and for this they charge registration fee. You must not consider these kind of websites at all.
• There are many website who ask you to click on ads and claims to provide you a good amount like readbud, but in reality there is no payment even if you reach to the minimum payouts.
• Do not trust on the testimonials of these kind of websites, most of them are written by their own people and could mislead people.

There are number of newer ways these goons are getting to scam and we need to be cautious more here online than our real life. Hope these tips could help you somewhat.

Why Religion?

Yes there are many religions around the world being followed by millions of people blindly without any thinking whether they should follow or not or in what way they must follow them. I know that I am too tiny to ask this huge question but question is a question, no matter who asks.

First why religions were made, or why first religion was made? In my view or according to my eyes religions are nothing more than like a huge community of people who need to follow the rules and regulation of that community to be the successful part or member of that community. There is nothing wrong if they follow the rules of the community. 

I am not at all against any religion and I am also a believer of god and also scared of god. But there are some questions in my mind. Is there any medium needed for me to reach god, in my view there is no medium needed if I want to pray but people in the form of religious contractors are getting huge money in this business and I am sure god will never like to be part of this business.

But still the question, why religions were made? Again according to my view, when there was no community or group of people, a community like religion was made and people need to join that, some rules were made to be followed if someone wants to be part of that religion. And all these things were done in good faith. And this has done a good job, people became more civilized, and they knew that bad things should not be done else god will punish. 

But today the community like religions is losing their aim as people who claim to be the medium to reach to the god are living a lavish life and they have made religions a business and obviously most of them due to this life style do not have good character also. God always want that the follower must live a simple and true life and help others. But these religious contractors are doing their business well and these kinds of things are putting far people from their religions. We are also somewhat responsible, as we follow only those things which seem to be good to us and not those which are to be followed truly even if they are truth and must be followed.

In my view, there is an objective of religion to show the correct path to the people and even after being a religious person, if we don’t follow the path, there is not mean to be a part of that religion. I think if a person is true and honest and always try to choose the correct path, there is no need to follow any religion for him and god will always help him.
 

How to Prevent from any Job Scam

Today in the world of opportunities, there is numerous kinds of jobs available for youth and skilled persons. If a person is educated and skilled enough there is no scarcity of jobs for that person. But there is still a force of people who are not well educated or their education does not match with the demand. In this case they are in the state of compromise and they have to work on lower wages sometime. There are many scammers who want to take the advantage of this situation. There are number of ways the scammers attract these unemployed or underemployed people to cheat.

I would like to share some tips and by following them a normal person at least could avoid the chanced of being cheated by these scammers.

• If you get an email, where you are being provided a huge salary even over the market level be cautious, that can be a scam. See the “from” address of the mail body, where from the mail has come and analyze if this is really from the source company genuine email id.
• If you get any email of job and you are asked for money for your travel or air ticket expenses. Never believe on them, if it happens ever, any good company will never ask for money to you and if you go for interview, this will be reimbursed.
• If you asked for a deposit initially before joining in any organization, then this could be an alarm for you. Either you will be paid earlier by your deposit or maybe they could run away using multiple deposits of people like you.
• Avoid those job offers, where your skill or education is not suited, that could become a scam later.
• Do not pay money for any kind of job opportunity, unless you are sure about the provider.
• Always visit the place and ask employees and surrounding people about any company who is going to offer you any job, this will prevent you to be scammed.
• Ask for offer letter and appointment letter. This will assure your formal joining and you could not be scammed easily.

There are also other kinds of job scams but they can be avoided only by open eyes and ears. Hope these tips could help people somewhat.

How to Get the Maximum Possible Backup Time from Your Laptop Battery

When you buy your new laptop, you definitely see the total backup time of the battery attached with your laptop but most of the time , you get disappointed with the performance of your laptop battery, because you don’t get the backup time you expected or claimed to get. But there is nothing bad with the provider company, this is actually measured on standard conditions and told and claimed with the purpose of marketing. But what you can do, you can do something to get the maximum backup time of the battery.

I would like to share some tips which would definitely increase the backup time of your laptop battery and also this will help in increase the lifespan of the battery if used properly with care.

• If you use your laptop on power most of the time and not on battery, you can de-attach your battery if there is no power interruption. But if there is power interruption , it is not recommended rather you must keep at least your battery on charging level of 40%. This will not only maintain your battery but also increase the life of your battery.
• Always try to charge full battery, if you started charging and if discharging, let it be discharged below 30%.
• While playing games, do not use your laptop on your battery power as this will consume your battery power very fast and also it will gradually decrease the performance of your laptop battery.
• If you are using window7 pc or some other Good latest operating system, you will find different modes of using laptop. On Window7, you will find the modes like using System on battery Power, normal Power, gaming etc, here some default configuration are done according to the processor and batter usage, you can use that according to your need. You can also configure this.
• While using your battery power, use low contrast and brightness and screen off low time. This will increase the battery backup time of your laptop.

These are some tips you can follow to increase the backup time of your laptop. Hope this will help you.
  

How to Increase the Life of Your Laptop Battery

Laptop is a very convenient way of using computer and the good thing about this is that whenever there is no electricity supply like in bus or car or even in a ground you can use this. But for this battery is required and this is already attached with the laptop when it is bought. But there is a problem with the laptop battery that it gradually loses its backup time as it gets older. There are number of reasons which could decrease the backup time of battery.

I am an IT engineer and I would like to share some tips with you. If you follow them you will definitely able to increase the life and back up time of your laptop battery. 

• Generally the batteries are made for getting fully discharged and charged. So use your laptop in a way that battery gets discharged if you use this on battery power and then charge the battery. Means simply you need to follow the battery charging discharging cycle and minimum number of cycles in a maximum time would increase the battery life.
• If you use your laptop on direct power supply and there is no power cut or alteration where you use your laptop, you must remove your battery and then use the laptop. 
• If you use your laptop mostly on power supply but there are power cuts during the usage of laptop, do not de-attach your battery, and rather keep the charging level on 40%. This is ideal for battery life. But if you charge this, charge this full and then let it discharged, before getting charged again. There are some provisions in battery monitor software installed on your laptop, where you can disable charging battery.
• Do not let the battery discharged fully ever. If ever it is discharged, charge this at least up to 40% of charging level.

All the above tips seem to be cumbersome process for you, but they will not if you understand them and follow them. They will increase the throughput and lifetime of your battery.

Must Software Applications If You Use Internet

Internet is like a boon for people like us and if you are reading this article you must be using internet. But if we are more aware about internet and related applications we can use it in better way. I would like to share some of the software applications you must install on your computer if you use internet for better usage.

Antivirus: There are number of antivirus available in the market and this is must software you should have on your computer. This will prevent your computer from outside internet threats and viruses moving online in different forms. Some good free antiviruses are AVG, Awast.
Internet Browser: If you have a window machine, you must be having internet explorer already installed on your computer, but it is recommended to installed also some other browsers. Internet explorer is good but Google chrome is the fastest one and for your general browsing purposes, installs this and you will see the difference. Opera is also a very good browser. You must also install Mozilla Firefox, there are plug-in available for this and you can enjoy using them. Internet explorer must be updated and good for website where you are looking for any money related transactions due to its security features. The good thing is that all the good browsers are free.
Flash Player: You must also install flash player. This is freely available on adobe website and you can google this. Flash player is needed to watch YouTube videos, and also some rich media experience website. There are many games which could be played using flash player. This is much needed software.
Silverlight: This is a Microsoft product and free to install. You can download by google this. Like flash this is also used on many websites.
Skype and other messengers: There are many messenger programs available online for free like Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Rediff Messenger, Google chat. All these programs are free and can be use for online text chatting and video calls and these things are free. You can also make phone calls and sms to actual phone numbers but you will need to buy credits for this.
Downloaders: There are many downloader applications, which you could use to download the content faster and there are some other facilities available like pause and resume, scheduling etc.

If you have the above software installed on your computer, you will not feel anything missing on your computer for using internet. You will have a good usage online experience of internet. Hope this article would help you in improving your internet experience.

Things you can do online

We are using internet for years but we did not ever imagined the potential of internet 5 years ago. The speed we used to get 10 years ago is now the speed which we even don’t want to browse. Things have got changed a lot and so did internet.

I would like to just share some application you can use online or the usage of internet for you.

• Today one of the best applications is Facebook. Yes this is not merely the social networking website; this has become an application for businesses also for promotion and getting revenue. Bigger organizations are using this to connect their customers and employees. Even there are virtual unions and some sort of revolution arises from facebook like happened in India as India Against Corruption which pressurized the government to work on. Here you can find your old school friends and new office also. 
• You can use online shopping portals to buy stuffs for you. There is no need to buy if you enter and you dint like anything. It saves a lot of time of yours and on your chair you can travel in the market and see different things and even can get a better deal than the real market.
• You can handle your bank’s transactions and also control your expenses, get statements, buy shares and much other monetary stuff.
• If you want to travel, and you need to know the status and buy ticket if available, its too easy like using your finger. Go to any website, get the ticket, book your hotel and enjoy. You can compare many to get the good deal also.
• If you are fond of gaming, you can play games with gamers thousand kilometers far from you. Is not this a very amazing?
• You can make new friends. You can get jobs even here; you can be aware about new and good universities and also get the chance of being selected in any talent hunt.
• You can watch TV, download songs and movies also.
• You can rent or buy , sell properties. 

There are numerous applications we can imagine, but there is not much space here to share even. I think we will see newer things later, we can do. Though I am again not able to imagine today. If you can think or imagine anything, you must share.
  

Tips to Get a Rail Ticket for Peak Seasons

In India Railway is a lifeline of people, for most of the journeys, it is a preferred medium of travelling and if journey is safe, planned and mannered, this is also very enjoyable as trains generally for long distances traverse via very beautiful natural places also. People of different location and cultures could be seen easily in any train of long distance. But for this there is proper planning is needed as train is the most preferred medium of travelling here and also cheap.

But due to these things, it is very hard to get your reservation for long distances some time and mostly it is like to win the Everest in peak seasons. People who are working far from their home prefer to go their home in festive seasons and this is a very big problem here to get reservation during this period and air tickets become so costly due to this, even 5, 6 times higher than the normal rates. So this becomes impossible some time to travel as trains are full of people and with out reservation a journey is like a hell. And when you have reservation it is like having a lottery ticket with winning number. There are many agents around you, who will ask you to get you a reservation against a high charge (some time even multiple times of the ticket value), but mostly in festive season you will have to be disappointed.

I am also a victim of this but I try to improve the state of my problems and would like to share some tips here. If you follow them, you will not be in trouble or at least you can avoid them.

• ·         In Indian railways you can get your reservation 120 days earlier and keep this in mind , this is the key. If you need to go home or somewhere in festive season you must get your reservation either by online or offline mode. For this note the time earlier and on the same day get the reservation. This slight inconvenience will help you a lot during the real time.
• ·         Get multiple reservation and when the actual date arrives, you can get them cancelled if you are not hundred percent sure about your journey. You can cancel them later and a small amount will be deducted while refund. This is really very small if you compare this with your travel agent fee with no guarantee at peak time and also the uncertainty you bear.
• ·         If you missed to get the reservation during the start. Get the reservation for odd days in lower waiting; there are chances of confirmation of that reservation.
• ·         You can trust on your travel agent for reservation, but trust more on you, if you have time, plan this for you and get it. This will save a lot of time of yours later. You will see that every agent will tell you that he will get you a reservation by any quota, but think quotas are limited and every agent is trying to get this. So in peak days, whoever agent gets this, earns money and rest says only sorry to their clients.
• ·         If you are looking for Tatkal ticket. Get up early and note down everything on paper, what you want and type it fast exactly at 10 o clock or whatever the current Tatkal reservation start time. Be sure that for longer distances, you will not get second chance to get a reservation. If you are looking for a offline ticket you need to go and join a queue before the Tatkal ticket time. In the morning it is like a race of horse. Lol.

By following the above tips there are definitely chances that you will not be in trouble, but exceptions are there. You need to follow the best you think could be.

Goodluck for your reservation.

Real Estate Brokers are the Main Source of Black Money

I am living in Mumbai for two years and a normal banker with technical end. Here I have seen that real estate’s prices are so high and seem to be managed by virtual pricing some time. Simply there is no demand some time but prices do not get decreased. For buy or getting any property a person needs to approach a broker and there is no doubt it is a much needed service when you don’t want to get involved in a lot of paper work or not aware enough of these kind of things.

But the question is: Why I have said the brokers are the main source of black money and how can I assume these things.

Lets share one of my experiences. I was looking for a flat on rent and I was thinking to get this by brokers because when I searched multiple website of real estate I have found they have been filled by brokers mostly, so there was no option left for me. When I approached them, they showed me different properties, according to my capacity. And I was happy with the service a man has provided, though he was not even a graduate. When I asked for the service charge, I was asked to pay 2 months’ rent to the broker as a service charges and also all the documentation fees which was already more than the real cost of documentation. They had also charged one month rent from the flat owner for the service. In short for an eleven month agreement he charged 3 months agreement as his fee. And insisted to get only in cash, in short he does not want to show this as his income and save tax. Story starts here, after eleven months; tenant needs to pay one month rent again to the same broker for the renewal of the agreement and also the documentation charges and in cash. In short you can assume if a broker only sells his product in form of rent, how much black money he generates and there is no worth for those services, the amount they charged, and for next year without any service.

For selling properties, they charge two percent or more in form of black money. The black money is also invested in properties and converted into white money by this way. So they are also not helping out the country at all and becoming the agents of bad only.

 I feel very bad, when I see that government is imposing too many taxes on common man, whose income is not enough to survive now, and he is paying taxes regularly. Government is not doing or regulating these kinds of practices, because many politicians money is also involve here. In my view there must also be a regulating authority for this, so that property rates could not be managed by money makers only and needy people could get what they deserve on their white money.
I have made a page on facebook as ‘No Broker Flats Mumbai’ as an initiative to provide a platform to people who wants to directly interact with each other. I think people must get come out from their sleep and start fighting for their rights.

Titanic: A Must Watch Movie

Titanic, a movie which has created a new milestone was directed flawlessly by the director James Cameron. I was not much fond of Hollywood movies, but this movie has changed my mindset towards them. Though I used to see only the action movies by Hollywood, though this is the Hollywood movie I have seen most of the time. Many times in theatre and some time on TV also.

What I felt when I saw, as I am in year 1912 and the things around them were so realistic. Even I know that this is the movie but they convinced me to accept what they wanted to show. The actress Kate Winslet was looking so beautiful and the Lead Actor Leonordo Decaprio has done a tremendous job in this movie. Almost everyone has played a Oskar winning role.

The ship was so real and everything seems to be so lavish in that. Think they have spent more money than the real ship in today’s value. I think that is the dedication towards the job, and they have proved this that if someone really wants to do something by heart, a heart loving product will come out as a result.

In short this is a complete and a must watch movie, one must watch. At the end of the movie the hero shows his true love and got die and when Rose (the actress) push him into water, it is so touching and definitely will dampen your eyes. And the next phase when the actress gets old and throw her locket into the water, you could imagine the feelings of a woman who never married due to being in love with someone who is no more.

Awesome story, awesome direction that cannot be expressed in words. You must definitely watch this. And if you have watched this, share your experiences here.

Will 2012 Really Have Any Doomsday?

Yes this is a question if there is any dooms day in 2012. From my childhood I have grown up listened too many times that in 2012 there would be a day named as doomsday and everything will be vanished on that day, whether humans, animals or any live things. But after that, there would be also a new world where better life would take place. The story seems to be very filmy and we used to listen that with a lot of interest if someone talked about.

Today even there is no reason to believe on this face if there is any dooms day but being humans and a nature of adventure and to like unusual things we like to talk about that. Even some movies in Hollywood are also made on this topic and those were a big hit. It tells that it is not only a matter of childish talk, even mature people also somewhat believe on this.

But could it be really true, have you ever thought. In my view, yes this could be true, but doomsday would be a way of cleaning by nature and obviously it could not be cleaned in one shot. So doomsday is not going to be like the day, we used to image in our childhood. But it could be brought in our life by humans. Yes we humans would be responsible only for this kind of day. Today we have mass destruction weapons and if they are used, then nobody can save the earth. But the good thing happened after the Second World War, that there was only cold war and not war like earlier. Yes countries are more united and world is more secure though we live on a layer of atomic weapons also. But those are also used for power balance.

Ultimately if any terrorist organization did or get this power they can really bring this kind of day, so we and also the people must think not to support this kind of any organization in any way. 

I just want to say that nature will never commit suicide, but humans can do a murder. So there is only a need to make a better world and have an optimistic thinking towards our next generation.