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Jio Play Android App: First Impression

This is the second in the series of post related to Jio Apps. The first one covered about Jio Mags app, which is an Android App for reading magazines on the go.

Jio Play is the app offering from Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited for watching Live TV. With high speed Internet offering via 4G, watching TV on the Go is a breeze. And to complement the high speed Internet service Jio has launched many entertainment app to take advantage of 4G network. Recent entry of Netflix in India has intensified the competition of streaming service. But if we talk about competition, Jio Play remains at the top in terms of content and quality. So lets have a look at what is in store for us.

Download and Installation

Jio Play is not yet launched for Public (available as limited beta via Play Store) so can not be directly downloaded via Play store. However you can install it by getting the .apk file from someone else and installation will continue without any hassle. Like all other Jio Apps, Jio Play needs a Jio ID and password to be usable.

Channel List

Jio Play has the highest number of channel availability. Currently there are 301 channel available in Jio Play and Hotstar too is available inside Jio Play. Out of the 301 channels , 27 are HD channels but only 24 HD channels as mentioned below are operational in Jio Play.

 

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Quality and User Experience

Jio Play is having a very clean and intuitive user Interface and offers a very immersive TV watching experience. During our usage most of the time the default video quality appeared in HD and channels played without any lag. But if the bandwidth availability is low the player automatically switch the video quality to offer a non stop viewing experience. The sound quality is also quite good.

The most beneficial aspect of Jio Play is you can use it to stream the Live TV to your capable HD TV set and watch all your favorite channels on the TV. (For this to work you need to have wireless display capability on your phone and Wi-fi on the TV. )

Another nice feature of Jio Play is Catch Up TV function. So if you have missed your favorite TV program from yesterday or from last week, you can watch those by dragging the slider to that particular date and time. And yes, you can even pause the Live TV if you have an important call to attend or finish your cooking in the evening.

Jio Play Screens

As of now with trial offers, all the Jio apps subscription are free and in future we expect either a very economical tariff plan or free offer with certain recharge plans for Jio Play. So this will be the best choice to watch TV on the go while using your mobile to stream live TV on your TV when you are at home. With as much as 25 HD TV channels in the offering it is quite good option to have a HD TV viewing experience.

Jio Play offers a blissful TV viewing experience and you can watch your favorite program at your own comfort and schedule.

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Hands-on review of Host1Plus

If you want to take your business online or you want to come up with a personal website, whatever is the case you need to have a solid web hosting provider, as web hosting is the foundation for the success of your website. There are a plethora of web hosting providers in the market and every day a number of new providers are coming up. It is quite difficult to select your web hosting provider. We recently came across Host1Plus while searching for our next web host and we decided to try out their services, after 3 months of using their services we can proudly say they are the best. Since we are satisfied with their services we are writing this review so that our readers will be benefited and can easily select their next web host without wandering here and there.

A brief introduction of Host1Plus

Host1Plus was started in the year 2008 with their first data center in London, UK and since then they have been adding new data centers and have been on a continuous growth path. They have their data centers spread across the globe via London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Chicago and Los Angeles. After some time they started adding new services like cloud hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated hosting.

Currently Host1Plus offer shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, cloud hosting and dedicated hosting. Apart from that you can register a domain via them as well as purchase SSL certificates.

Plans and Pricing

Shared Hosting:

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Host1 Plus offers 4 types of Shared hosting e.g. Starter, Personal, Business and Business Pro. The plans are customized in such a way that any kind of requirement will be easily fitted into one of these. The cheapest Shared hosting plan starts at just USD 0.83 per month if you sign up for a year. But this plan is as good as nothing. It has bare minimum specs and can host only a static website as it does not offer any database.

However if you are looking for a decent hosting experience and have an important site you can either opt for their Business or Business Pro plan. The Business Pro plan at $14.99 per month is though at a higher side for a shared hosting plan you will get value for every penny spent and you will pat yourself for the right decision. You will get dedicated physical memory of 512MB and dedicated IP as well as unlimited domains can be hosted.

VPS Hosting:

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If you are an agency or a developer, sometimes your requirements are high and that is when you need to go for a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Me, being a developer, I have to host websites of my clients which helps me with easier maintenance, so I signed up for a VPS plan with them. Their Bronze VPS plan at USD 2.5 per month is priced lower than a normal shared hosting plan though the specs are too bad at just 0.5 CPU cores and 256 MB RAM. I would suggest signing up for a shared hosting rather than this Bronze VPS, if you do not know how to control your server. If you want a server entirely for yourself then go for VPS Bronze plan.

On the other hand, the rest VPS plans like Silver, Gold and Platinum are quite competitively priced. As I run many WordPress based sites and WordPress Multisite is quite resource hogging, I decided to go with Platinum plan. In Platinum plan just for $40 you will get 4 CPU cores, 4 Gigs of RAM and 70GB Storage. All the specs offered in this plan meet my requirements fully and trust me this is a value for money plan.

You have loads of option to customize any VPS plan you select in the checkout process via a very intuitive interface. You can select server location, add/reduce permissible hardware, add application and server module etc. I have never seen such an offering with any other VPS provider and I give a plus 1 to Host1Plus for that.

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Once you are done with the Payment, your VPS will be ready in no time and you will get the login details. They accept Paypal, Skrill, Web money as well as CC payment.

IMPORTANT:

If you are going for a VPS with Host1Plus and you are quite not sure about how a server works and not a webmaster yourself, always go for Cpanel and Extra Care support which are chargeable. At least it will let you concentrate on your business and let you do what you are good at while the support team will take care of the server.

Pros and Cons of Host1Plus:

pros

1. 24X7 Live chat support

2. Competitive pricing for an amazing specs

3. Various payment option

4. Very friendly staff

5. Globally located Data center

Cons

They charge slightly higher price if you add cPanel and Extra Care support.

I am quite happy at my decision to choose Host1Plus as my hosting partner and recommend them if you want to be tension free and have a sound sleep without worrying about your server.

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Highlights of the 2013 Consumer Electronic Show

An important message of the Las Vegas Consumer Electronic Show (CES) of 2013 is that gaming is going mobile. With the absence of anything new in terms gaming consoles such as the Xbox and Play Station (although it is rumoured that the next generation of games consoles is being developed by both Sony and Microsoft) mobile gaming was in the forefront.

What is apparent is that the boundaries between mobile gaming such as playing games at a mobile luckynugget online casino and playing console type games while on the go are merging. Today’s smartphones are becoming as powerful as yesterdays game consoles, and there is no shortage of developers who are seeking to exploit all that power in for using immersive games. Who would have thought that the gaming platform of tomorrow is likely to be Android?

The approach is to take a smartphone or a tablet, add a few handles and controllers, and there you have it; a powerful games console with a quad core processor. Play mobile casino games or call of Duty, and switch seamlessly between the two.

While it was games consoles that at one time were the inspiration behind the development of new computer technologies, today smartphones are tablets are performing a similar role, with big semiconductor companies such as Intel, AMD, ARM and Nvidia doing battle to develop the fastest, most powerful and least power hungry chips. And it seems that they are getting there very quickly. Already we are seeing smartphones with quad core processors and eight core processors are on the drawing board.

Another area where these devices are also improving is in their display technologies. Displays are not only getting larger, five inch displays seem to be just standard nowadays, they are also improving in definition and using less power.

What are really needed though are better batteries. Although there are mobile batteries in the lab which can be charged in just a minute, they are still some way from being commercialized  Long battery lives of several days or even weeks would be a great advance for mobile gaming.

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Benefits of Video Conferencing for your business

Businesses of all sizes looking to drive down their communication costs might be forgiven for thinking it would be impossible to hold meetings without forking out hundreds for a business trip that could have no positive conclusion at the end. However, thanks to Powwow now Video Conferencing, it’s possible to arrange a meeting with a client from the other side of the world without having to spend a small fortune on getting to their office, but how can it benefit your business?


In terms of saving money, Web Conferencing from companies can reduce the need to spend money on travelling long distances to and from an office of a potential client or investor. Also, it’s far cheaper to use than making a hugely expensive phone call, which is something a lot of business owners are concerned about. In many ways, relying on video conferencing could reduce the need to use phones, therefore reducing phone bills considerably.
Video conferencing can also save businesses plenty of time. One way in which that works is that travelling to meetings can take upwards of a couple of hours, and that time could be saved by arranging a video conference call instead, leaving your business extra time to do something more valuable than sit on a train waiting to get to your venue. It will also save remote employees time, as they won’t have to wait for a bus or drive to the office, and can start work at home on time if they need to talk to you.
Another benefit that video conferencing can bring to your company is the fact that it’s easy to use. In a few minutes, you can start a video conference call with whoever you invite to get involved and can get down to business. Also, it makes collaboration easy, as you can invite a number of people to the same conference call if you need to arrange a staff meeting promptly.

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Review of Sell Cell: A site to sell your old mobiles

Mobile phones are now an indispensable part of our lives. Studies suggest that an average mobile phone user uses his mobile phone for around 20% time of the day. The wear and tear caused by this high usage is the primary reason why people change their mobile phones very frequently. The worst part about buying a new mobile phone is to think what to do with the old one.

The answer to this question is Sell Cell. SellCell.com is a website which provides you option to sell your old mobile phones online at the highest prices possible. It guarantees to provide you deals for selling your old mobile phone at highest price online. It is ranked USA’s No. 1 cell phone recycling price comparison site.

What’s Good:

• Provides an eco-friendly way to dispose or recycle your old cell phone. Moreover, you get paid for it.

• The procedure to sell mobile phones is very simple.

• Searching for your mobile phone is also very easy.

What’s Not Good:

• If your phone is not in the list you may find it tougher to sell

• Shipping is not always free.

• Works only in the US.

There are a lot of websites on the internet which allow people to sell their old mobile phone. These websites, in turn, sell these phones to mobile recycling companies or the mobile phone manufacturers who dispose or recycle these old mobile phones. SellCell doesn’t buy the mobile phone itself but instead it searches these (vendor) sites for the mobile model specified and then provides you with the maximum price at which that model can be sold.

These comparison websites include Totem, Simple Sellular, Bikair, BuyBack, CellTrade, Recellular and lots of other websites. After providing you with a deal, it redirects you to the sites where you can actually sell your cell phone.

Selling your mobile through SellCell is a four step procedure. Firstly you have to search for you mobile model on the website and then it will present you deals to sell your phone. Secondly, you have to select the best deal for selling your phone. After selecting the deal, you just have to fill a few details and you will be provided the instruction on how to parcel them your old mobile phone (shipping will be free in most cases). Once the cell phone reaches the company and they have checked it, you will receive your payment via cash or vouchers.

Conclusion:

SellCell provides a very easy and a simple method to get rid of your old phone for some cash in exchange. So I guess it’s a win-win situation for the user. Head on to SellCell and get rid of your old mobile phone now.

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Sell your Old Mobile Phones through SellMyMobile

Things whose charm never goes off are the mobile phones. It’s true that we buy one and the other model glitters in the advertisement. Quiet often it is the case that the cell phones that we trusted for years run out and then there is a need to recycle them. All you have to do is you just need to be sure you pick the right recycling centre. You just need to remove your SIM card and as long as data is cleared completely including any saved files you had on the computer or mobile phone, it will be totally ok to recycle it.

It is in fact preferred if the device does not work whenever it goes to the recycling center, but if you really want to get your value out of the old electronic, it is better to sell a working electronic device.

What is SellMyMobile?

Sell My Mobile is the official UK’s no. 1 mobile phone price comparison website for recycling purpose. Established years ago, they are a highly trusted brand. You can sell your mobile at a cost that you find is appropriate and much greater than the cost provided by the owners. What SellMyMobile really do is take your old cell phone recycles it and then resells it.

The process behind recycling is: – They take out the memory or hard disk that stored everything and then set your phone for factory settings that remove all your stored passwords and codes created by you. Factory settings bring the phone back to the form
which it was when you bought it.

Advantages :

1. They compare more phone buyers than any other website and that too in seconds reducing your tedious task. Hence, it becomes a lot easier to use SellMyMobile to sell your cell phone at the rate you want.

2. There is a minimum quality standard required by each buyer to fulfil it. If the buyer is unable to maintain such standards then he/she is removed from the site.

3. The prices that are offered to the buyers are unbiased and you have a guaranteed best price offer from the website.

4. The recycling of your cell phones requires the recycling company agree to take it.

Most of the recycling partners are exclusive to the type of comparison browsed on.

Type of Phone it Accepts :

Below are the mentioned criteria which must be fulfilled by your phone to get accepted as a working phone: –

● Be able to turn on and off otherwise it really is considered as non-working.

● There are no problems if your phone contain scratches, it is normal as in every phone tends to have it due to everyday use.

● The cell phone must have a battery as well as the screen should be in the working mode.

● You shouldn’t send the SIM card and the memory cards along with your phones as it would be thrown out anyway.

● The phone should never be crushed nor had a dip in water.

The prices available for the working as well as non-working cell phones differ and the comparisons are done under different categories. The prices quoted will be valid only for 14 days.

The Payment Method :

Different payment options are available. The most common are cheque, bank transfer, PayPal, Pay Offline, Postal Order, same day payment and shopping vouchers. Any of the suggested methods that suit you can be opted. To see which methods each phone buyer offers enter the make and model of your phone into the search box at www.SellMyMobile.com and then click GO.

Ways to Send your Phones :

You can send as many phones as you want. If you are sending more than 10 some of the phone buyers offer a free courier service. Click through to their websites and see their sites for more details. Though one company won’t always offer the best price for every single
phone: it is advisable to use the mobile phone price comparison service and check who is offering the best price for each separate phone in your collection: that way you won’t miss out any excellent offer from one company for a specific phone.