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Uber, the US based technology company that allows users to hire luxury cars via its mobile app, has rolled out in India UberX, the cheaper and affordable version of its service, Uber launched in India last September 2013 and its services are currently available in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai and Pune.

Uber doesn't own any cars fleet, it just acts like a middleman between the customer and the cab driver, it has made the task of booking a cab easy.

Here is a comparison between Uberx and UberBlack...

UberX

Base fare for cab rentals is Rs 50, while the cost per kilometer is Rs 15, with the charge per minute of waiting at Rs 2. The minimum fare under UberX is Rs 150.

As per the company UberX had these facilities, car with seats up to 4, Vehicles: Maruti Swift Dzire, Toyota Etios, Nissan Sunny.

UberBlack

Base fare for car rental is Rs. 90, while the cost per kilometer is Rs 25, with the charge per minute of waiting is same Rs 2. The minimum fare under UberBlack is Rs. 200.

As per the company UberBlack had these cars in fleet, seats up to 4, Vehicles: Toyota Altis, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, Honda Accord

Saket - India Gate in Just Rs 291 in Uber Car with UberX

Users can choose between the two services through a slider on the app home screen, The service is expected to launch soon in Kolkata.

Sundar Pichai, who was leading as head Google's Android division from last year, Sundar Pichai looks like quickly risen to promising leader at Google after CEO Larry Page. Many at Google see him as future CEO for Larry Page's likely replacement.  Here is a quick look at what you need to know about Pichai,

Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, he is an Indian businessman and a senior vice president at Google, where he worked to lead Android, Chrome and Google Apps. He received his Bachelors in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur(IIT K) and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar. Pichai has an educational background in business administration, he joined Google from 2004. He started as a product manager for Google Toolbar, an extension that Internet Explorer users could install for making quick Google searches.

He managed to grow Toolbar's user base to about one in four web users by 2006. After this success Marissa Mayer  made him the director of product management and afterwards Larry Page immediately increased Pichai responsibility to a senior vice president position in 2011.

Pichai is good at negotiations as he joined Larry Page when he met with WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to convince him not to sell his messaging startup to Facebook, and he helped Page convince Nest's Tony Fadell to join his company with the Google team. Twitter also tried to poach him to be a head of product in 2011.

Emphatic leader

He's also known for being an emphatic leader. When he reported to Marissa Mayer, he used to wait for hours outside her office to make sure that she gave his team solid work-performance scores. He wanted to make sure they were always treated fairly.

On 20 May 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google, and introduced the new video format WebM.

Most of us this time watching news of Demolition of Campa Cola Compound -  a compound with 6 Apartment Buildings. The current being that the Residents have appealed to the Supreme Court against the Demolition but their plea was rejected by Honorable Supreme Court.

Facts of this Case

 Year 1962

The plot was leased by Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) to Pure Drinks Pvt Ltd., that constructed Campa Cola compound there.

Year 1981

The plot was converted to Residential and permission was given by Planning Authority to construct only 6 Buildings, Ground and 5 Floors  and one basement.

Year 1983

Revised plans were submitted by constructors to build more floors (24 floors in case of one of the buildings), which was rejected by the Planning Authority. The Builders continued to construct, ignoring plan rejection.

Year 1984

A "Stop Work Notice" was issued by Bombay Municipal Corporation. Mentioning that if the needful (aligning with the sanctioned plan only) is not done, the construction will be forcibly removed.

Year 1985

A new Architect was engaged who submitted revised plans and requested withdrawal of Stop Work notice. The Request was latter rejected.

Year 1999

Occupation Certificate was not granted by Municipal corporation, but the buyers started occupying the illegally constructed building around 1999.

There was no water supply to the campa cola compound. Upon writ petition to the High Court by the Housing Societies the Water Supply was provided. Latter in 2005 the Notice from BMC for demolition was sent to the Residents.

Year 2014

And after a long legal battle, court ordered to demolish the compound.

Lessons for you

1 . Check the credentials of the developer and the track record of earlier projects.

2. Always remember that approvals are different at different stages of the project. In the beginning,the project must have an approved plan and commencement certificate (CC), and at the end,the project needs an Occupation Certificate (OC). You must visit the construction site to be sure that the work is actually being carried out timely.

3. The buyer can ask for the copies of the relevant papers from the developer’s sales team.

Here is why freelancer.com is a big Fraud

  Project Fees

Freelancer.com charge 10 % of project fees from employee and 3% from employer, that is the highest in the freelance industry, till the fees are highest it is fine but lets see how they scam the user.

Advance Project Fees deduction

No matter that you received the final project money or not , the freelance.com will deduct the money from your account, no matter the project goes to cancelled or not, goes to dispute, or cancelled by employer, they will deduct 10% from your balance,

Once you will accept any project they will deduct 10% of the project fees,

E.G

For example some employer invited you for $1000 project as soon as you will accept the project a 10% i.e $100 will be deducted from your account. at this stage you did not received even a single penny from the employer. So now if the employer cancels the project within next few minutes, freelancer makes a big $130, i.e 13%(10% from employee and 3% from client) money of project without accomplished any work.

Now the next step you will take is mail freelancer support staff, they will suggest you to contact the client directly "we cant help you in that". This situation is worse for the fresher freelancer, since his account balance is already NILL and more he got a deduction of $100 , which takes his account balance in Negative i.e (- $100)

, so the next time you will receive  money for some of your project they will deduct $100 from your balance first.

  Additional Monthly Charges

Freelance do not provide good options with their FREE plan , the FREE plan is just like useless, so if you opt for paid plan they will charge addition fees monthly, weather you earn or not. In addition to 13% deduction they will charge you a monthly fees. which is recurring each month.

Worst for Low Budget Fixed price projects

Say if you got a project of $10, be prepared for a deduction of $5 or 10% whichever is higher. here you are deducted about 50% of project fees and 3% from client. So no space for lower budget projects.

Charges on Withdraw funds

Finally from all these situations if you will earn something and decided to withdraw get ready to additional charges of money withdrawn, if you NEFT your money or wire transfer your money additional charges involved.

Do not maintain money more than $500 in your account

Its better to withdraw your funds frequently, there are reports by some freelancers that they maintained some large money in their account, so freelance.com suspended their account and taken all their money.

  And more charges are on projects are as follows

Featured $29.00 USD Urgent $9.00 USD Private $19.00 USD Full Time $199.00 USD Assisted $20.00 USD Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) $20.00 USD Sealed $9.00 USD Priority $5.00 USD Extend $9.00 USD Delete

$5.00 USD

      Here are some of the reviews I got from some Freelancers

1.

"Yes, they took my money too! But my story is a little bit different. I was working on a project and I was paid. Then I withdraw the money. Then worked on another project and I have been paid too. But I can not withdraw the money because they have some issues with my first employer. weird!!! then they can say “we have issues with your employer with whom you worked two years ago – his account is blocked and we will withdraw the funds from your balance just to cover our loss” 2. "It seems they have excuses to limit accounts for different tastes. They took my money since I was an Iranian and they declared that it’s because of sanctions against my country. They provided me a link to some .gov Australian website with some trade rules against Iran and Iranian parties. I read it carefully and found nothing that give freelancer the right to take my money and freeze my account. It was clearly stated in that site that transactions of $20000 or more are prohibited and they should be somehow related to petroleum, nuclear or some similar industries. (Not web or logo designing industries!) I told them that you are abusing these laws and taking our hard earned money for the sake of yourselves and obviously are disobeying your clear own laws stated clearly by your foreign ministry. They never again answered my tickets and this is a problem all the Iranians have by now. Lately I Logged into my account again and saw all of it is gone with the wind.. Even those sanctions was not something new. The day I registered with them those sanctions were in place but they didn’t tell anything! They waited for me to do some jobs for them and suddenly out of nowhere informed me of some sanctions.." 3. "

Have you been victim of freelancer.com?

Me too :( I have the case opened …. with not respond from freelancer.com

Do you know that: “Freelancer founder earns $235 million – while customers of the site are ripped off “

Freelancer, an Australian registered Internet company makes millions while abusing Australian consumer laws. Caution – use this site at your own risk as Freelancer takes no responsibility."

4 .

"Hello,

I have faced some similar situations on Freelancer.com in the past few months. Firstly for 800 USD and now for 700 USD. These guys are really shady.

Their policy states that if the funds paid to the freelancer originate from a account that is suspected then the employer gets the funds back.

Google has wooed its customers with its new flagship Nexus series with Nexus 6, the last launch of Google the Nexus 5 has become a major milestone of success in Nexus series. So this time the expectations are much higher from Nexus 6.

After the launch of LG Nexus 5, everyone is buzzing about the next big release of Google Nexus 6, it is expected to be launched in the third quarter of 2014. If reports are to believed, Google might ditch working with LG and may line up with third party manufacturers, which could be Motorola this time. Some Tech geeks predicted Nexus series might retire wholly and the next launch will come up with the Android Silver project that was set to launch for February. The company yet did not made any official announcement about the Nexus 6 Some of the rumored features that Google Nexus 6 might 

 1. A 5.2-inch full-HD

2. Curved LCD display protected with Corning Gorilla Glass

3. 64-bit version of its Snapdragon 810-series chipset

4. 13 MP camera and a 5 MP front-facing camera

5. Bluetooth, NFC

6. Micro-USB

7. Wi-Fi and 4G.

Are you getting too many Candy Crush Requests, "Yes Man" is this your answer, here is how you can get rid of them.

Candy crush is a beautiful game of millions colorful and sweet candies , candy crush is the sweetest game to play as well as a addictive game you cant give up the game once you are addicted to it. Candy crush is developed by King company. The King company has many hit games in its portfolio some of the hits are Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga, Papa Pear Saga, Pet Rescue Saga and Bubble Witch Saga. It has more than 180 games over 200 countries over the globe. It is obvious to get request from friends to play the game, but sometime its annoying to get the same request gain and again , and moreover sometime a important request can be missed because of these useless requests.....

So here is how we can get rid of the... Step 1. Go to "HOME" of your Facebook account.

Step 2. Look on the "Apps" tab on the left side of the page.

Step 3. Click on the "Apps".

Step 4. Click on the "Edit" on the "Candy Crush saga" app

Step 5. Now click on "Edit Settings"

Second Method

Go to : Settings > Blocking

and block the apps, persons to block invitation from,

Have you heard news of a CNG Car catching fire recently in Delhi and 1 man burnt alive inside the car because of high heat waves.

As i heard "25 cars burnt live, 5 dead in cars in Delhi", So i thought to write a article on this...

I thought to write an article on this, please read the article thoroughly to avoid this disaster

Reasons Behind car catching fire

1. High Heat

The main reason of fire in the car is the rising mercury level, which provide the favorable condition to heat, and the fire spreads easily. the seats and plastics become hot and supports the fire to spread.

2. Unauthorized CNG Kit

The second reason of cars getting burnt is not using Authorized CNG Kit, we generally make our car CNG compatible to save some bucks because CNG vehicles give a higher average, But for this we need to take service from a Authorized CNG dealer.

3. No Maintenance, Regular service, Coolant important,

The cars also need regular service as like humans, improper maintenance of the car and continuously checking the coolant level in the car. A low coolant level again favors these type of situations.

4. Bad Quality Electronic Accessories.

We purchases Chinese chargers and charge them in our car, these electronics items generally not approved by the government and even not satisfy the government standards, thus a small short circuit in these electronic items can cause a fire in the car.

5. Smoking in Car

This is a major reason for car catching fire.

6. Central lock Jam

Central lock of the car gets melted as the temperature in the car rises.

  Precautions in case of car catches fire

1. Always have a small hammer within the car.

As soon the car catches fire the persons its best to exit from the car but unfortunately he was unable to brake the car's window, and within seconds car gets filled with smoke latter cause suffocation and death.

 2. Fire Extinguisher 

The Information Technology Act 2000 also known as ITA-2000, or the IT Act, is an act of Indian Parliament notified on October 17, 2000. Information technology Act 2000 consisted of 94 sections segregated into 13 chapters.

 Information Technology Act 2000 was introduced for the following issues:

Legal recognition of electronic documents

Legal Recognition of digital signatures

Offenses and contraventions

Justice dispensation systems for Cyber Crimes

The Offenses under Indian IT Act are

Offense under SECTION 65 :

Tampering with computer source documents - Intentional concealment, destruction or alteration of source code when the computer source code is required to be kept or maintained by law for the time being in force.

Punishment

Imprisonment up to three years, or/and with fine up to 2 lakh rupees

Offense under SECTION 66 :

Hacking of someone system

Punishment

Imprisonment up to three years, or/and with fine up to 5 lakh rupees

Offense under SECTION 66-A :

Sending offensive message through electronic means - Sending any information through an electronic message that is grossly offensive or has menacing character and might cause insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, or ill will, etc. or sending such mail intended to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages

Punishment

1. Implementation of CCAvenue gateway is very simple.

2. First you need to register with CCAvenue, they will provide you a merchant id and working key, we need that Merchant ID in working to implement the payment gateway.

3. Basically CCAvenue use a redirect method to implement gateway, means they will redirect you to their site for the payment and thereafter they will return some values from their, these values contains status of your payment weather payment is successful or not.

4. So before sending the details to the CCAvenue we need to save the details so that latter we can compare and verify the payment.

5. We need to generate a signature(checksum) that is it contain some details like amount, orderid, working key, merchantid and rediecturl.

6. So on the buy page we need to validate the details at the server side, and after validation we need to STORE the details to our DB.

7. After saving all the details we need to redirect to another page it contains a form  and the CCAvenue  form variables in HIDDEN form  and we need to auto submit after loading the page.

  ----------------------Page content--------------------------------------

<?php

$Merchant_Id = "your_merchantid";//

$Amount = "amount";

$Order_Id ="orderid";//unique ORDER ID that should be passed to payment gateway

$WorkingKey = "working_key";//Given to merchant by CCAavenue

$Redirect_Url ="sucessurl";

$Checksum = getCheckSum($Merchant_Id,$Amount,$Order_Id ,$Redirect_Url,$WorkingKey);  // Validate All value

    //******************************creating a signature using the given details for security reasons

function getchecksum($MerchantId,$Amount,$OrderId ,$URL,$WorkingKey)

{

$str ="$MerchantId|$OrderId|$Amount|$URL|$WorkingKey";

$adler = 1;

$adler = adler32($adler,$str);

return $adler;

}

//functions

function adler32($adler , $str)

{

$BASE = 65521 ;

$s1 = $adler & 0xffff ;

$s2 = ($adler >> 16) & 0xffff;

for($i = 0 ; $i < strlen($str) ; $i++)

{

$s1 = ($s1 + Ord($str[$i])) % $BASE ;

$s2 = ($s2 + $s1) % $BASE ;

}

return leftshift($s2 , 16) + $s1;

}

  //************************************************************leftshift function

function leftshift($str , $num)

{

$str = DecBin($str);

for( $i = 0 ; $i < (64 - strlen($str)) ; $i++)

$str = "0".$str ;

for($i = 0 ; $i < $num ; $i++)

{

$str = $str."0";

$str = substr($str , 1 ) ;

}

return cdec($str) ;

}

//cdec function

function cdec($num)

{

for ($n = 0 ; $n < strlen($num) ; $n++)

{

$temp = $num[$n] ;

$dec = $dec + $temp*pow(2 , strlen($num) - $n - 1);

}

return $dec;

}

?>

    <form id="ccavenue" method="post" action="https://www.ccavenue.com/shopzone/cc_details.jsp">

<input type=hidden name="Merchant_Id" value="Merchant_Id">

<input type="hidden" name="Amount" value="Amount">

<input type="hidden" name="Order_Id" value="Order_Id">

<input type="hidden" name="Redirect_Url" value="success url">

<input type="hidden" name="TxnType" value="A">

<input type="hidden" name="ActionID" value="TXN">

<input type="hidden" name="Checksum" value="<?php echo $Checksum; ?>">

<input type="hidden" name="billing_cust_name" value="name of user">

<input type="hidden" name="billing_cust_address" value="address of user">

<input type="hidden" name="billing_cust_country" value="user country">

<input type="hidden" name="billing_cust_state" value="state of user">

<input type="hidden" name="billing_cust_city" value="city">

<input type="hidden" name="billing_zip" value="zip/pin code">

<input type="hidden" name="billing_cust_tel" value="telphone no">

<input type="hidden" name="billing_cust_email" value="emailid">

<input type="hidden" name="delivery_cust_name" value="user name">

<input type="hidden" name="delivery_cust_address" value="delivering address">

<input type="hidden" name="delivery_cust_country" value="delivering country">

<input type="hidden" name="delivery_cust_state" value="delivering state">

<input type="hidden" name="delivery_cust_tel" value="telphone no">

<input type="hidden" name="delivery_cust_notes" value="this is a test">

<input type="hidden" name="Merchant_Param" value="">

<input type="hidden" name="billing_zip_code" value="zip/pin">

<input type="hidden" name="delivery_cust_city" value="city">

  <input type="submit" value="Buy Now" />

</form>

  ------------------End of page content--------------------------------------

      8. After submitting these values the gateway will return some values like post url/get url

  9. There are mainly 3 auth_status  they are

        a) Y successfully authorised by gateway

    b) N Unsuccessful transaction

    c) B not authenicated at this pont of time

  10. Now we need to verify the payment gateway details send by CCavenue, as tampered or not for that we have to use the Verify checksum function.

        --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

//Verify the the checksum

function verifychecksum($MerchantId,$OrderId,$Amount,$AuthDesc,$CheckSum,$WorkingKey)

{

$str = "$MerchantId|$OrderId|$Amount|$AuthDesc|$WorkingKey";

$adler = 1;

$adler = adler32($adler,$str);

  if($adler == $CheckSum)

return "true" ;

else

return "false" ;

}

  //functions

function adler32($adler , $str)

{

$BASE = 65521 ;

$s1 = $adler & 0xffff ;

$s2 = ($adler >> 16) & 0xffff;

for($i = 0 ; $i < strlen($str) ; $i++)

{

$s1 = ($s1 + Ord($str[$i])) % $BASE ;

$s2 = ($s2 + $s1) % $BASE ;

}

return leftshift($s2 , 16) + $s1;

}

//leftshift function

function leftshift($str , $num)

{

$str = DecBin($str);

for( $i = 0 ; $i < (64 - strlen($str)) ; $i++)

$str = "0".$str ;

for($i = 0 ; $i < $num ; $i++)

{

$str = $str."0";

$str = substr($str , 1 ) ;

}

return cdec($str) ;

}

//cdec function

function cdec($num)

{

for ($n = 0 ; $n < strlen($num) ; $n++)

{

$temp = $num[$n] ;

$dec = $dec + $temp*pow(2 , strlen($num) - $n - 1);

}

return $dec;

}

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  11. We need to pass the details into it, if it returns true than the details are ok and payment was successfull redirect to success page