Unfortunately, on the 6th September thief broke the door of my rented flat and took away my laptop, money, modem and gold ornaments. As a result I bought new Grameenphone modem, Grameenphone Internet SIM from Uttoron Computer, Shailakupa, Jhenidah on 8th September. After I bought the postpaid Internet SIM they informed me that within 72 hours my SIM will be activated. In the meantime they also told me they will send my information tomorrow morning and so I expect my SIM activated by tomorrow. Well, tomorrow arrived and it was afternoon. I keep trying to connect to Internet but SIM registration failed. I thought they said 72 hours, so let me see after 72 hours. After 72 hours I again tried to connect to Internet, still SIM registration failed. Then I contacted them through mobile phone. They said it should not be. They told me to go to their center with modem and SIM. I went to them and saw their center is closed.
After it is 6 days passed and EID is finished I again contacted them through mobile phone. This time to the owner of the shop. He feels hesitate and ringed to the customer manager indicating that the paper of badly filled and my SIM will not be activated. He felt sorry to me and told me to wait till tomorrow. In the meantime, I have to come back in Dhaka but still did not see any good response. I contacted to grammeenphone online help through calling 121 but they informed me the SIM is not registered yet and until it is registered they have nothing to do. Rather the customer manager told me to contact the shop from where I bought the SIM. Anyhow, this time I contacted to my agent and they told me by tomorrow my SIM will be registered. Hopefully the next day at night I am succeed to connect to Internet. So it took my 9 took to activate my SIM package!
Well, I have recharged 1000 taka and activated P2 unlimited package from Grameenphone. Note that, I always read that package P2 is unlimited that means you can download and upload as much as you can. Though Grameenphone Internet speed is not good but still they have introduced fair usage policy which is funny really. Anyway according to P2 unlimited package fair usage policy any subscriber whose monthly usage is over 5G they will be implied to fair usage policy. BOGUS AND BULLSHIT GRAMEENPHONE. But there is more pathetic news coming.
According to them,
Grameenphone's Unlimited Plans are designed for subscribers who do not want to receive a bill beyond a certain amount and for those who wish to enjoy unlimited access to their internet. However, in the event that usage exceeds the regular acceptable levels in accordance with the Fair Usage Policy, subscribers shall not be charged for their excess usage. Instead, a restriction shall be placed on their data transfer rates beyond their regular usage in order to ensure the quality of service for all regular customers.
Unlimited Plan subscribers who regularly exceed the accepted level of usage will be affected by this Fair Usage Policy. Under the terms of GP's unlimited internet plan, no charge will be applied for excess usage, however upon exceeding the stipulated volume limit, the subscriber’s speed shall be restricted for the remaining period within their current bill cycle or validity period or that particular day depending on the package they are using. Normal service speed shall be restored from the first day of the next bill cycle or subscription renewal.
Now I have activated P2 package at 17th September. As I bought a new laptop so for it I downloaded different software like xampp, filezilla, antivirus and tried to download windows operating system. But in the middle I see everything stuck. It was happened at 3rd October. After I have connecting to GP internet, I see I am not able to connect any chat system like yahoo messenger, gtalk or skype. Even I can't browse any website. After 10 hours of trying at last I have logged in to online GP customer care and no one of them able to give me right answer. Well, the pathetic scenario is after I connect to Internet, GP automatically disconnects me after 1/2/3 minutes. It sounds in a hour I get disconnect 30 times. IMAGINE!! Once again I call them to 121 and at last I have heard their ridiculous fair usage policy. According to them after you exceed 5G limit your Internet connection will be limited to 3KBS and hardly I get around 1KBPS after connecting to their system, though my connection spans at best 3 minutes.
Ok, I agree to them that I have exceed 5G limit and hence I have imposed a limit, but whenever I ask them why I am getting frequent disconnection they did not able to tell me any good answer. As GP charges daily basis on P2 package so I decided to cancel the P2 package and wish to activate P5 package. They told me to type "cancel" and send it to 5000. So I did it but I did not get any confirmation of cancellation. So I again asked them and they told me, to activate P5 package you need to recharge 450 taka more. As I have already around 400 taka in my account, so recharge 450 more and it will be 850 taka and P5 package including vat is 805 taka. As I know I am postpaid user and I have 50 taka credit limit but still I recharged said amount.
Ok, after I recharged said amount Saikat (who is one of the grameenphone online customer helper) informed me that my account has been credited and he has activated my P5 package. So now I will be able to use my Internet without any problem. After I came back from my shop whenever I try to connect to my Internet, after it connects GP automatically disconnects my connection. Now more problem comes, even I could not connect to Internet. After so much trying I saw connection exists only for few seconds. So, I contacted them and they told me as I explicitly typed "cancel" so my P2 package status becomes pending. Now they will not be able to do anything. I need to wait till 12 am in order to reset P2 and activate P5.
Well, I waited till 12 am and whenever I tried to connect the same news. It automatically disconnects. At morning I explicitly sent message to 5000 for P5 package and it said to me my P5 package has been successfully activated. Now I tried to connect but still I get horrible speed and my connection spans for 2 minutes only. After 2 minutes, it does not allow me to connect anymore. I contacted to their support after calling 121. They told me I don't have sufficient balance and I need to recharge 50 taka more to use Internet. IMAGINE!!! I ALREADY ACTIVATED P5 PACKAGE AND NOW THEY TOLD ME 50 TAKA MORE. Anyway, I went to shop and recharged 50 taka. Now I came back but same scenario I get disconnects immediately after connection established. Again I call them 121 , they told me the problem might be in my modem, so they suggest me to go to Mirpur-1 customer care. (The real thing is due to GP system Technical bug whenever I connected using P5 package it did not connect to P5 rather it connects to P1 ridiculous package and so within minutes it charged me 30 taka and I dont have any modem problem.)
Anyway, as they have suggested me I went to Mirpur-1 Grameenphone customer care. The customer manager inserted my modem to his laptop and he is getting disconnection just after connection established. He told me to go to Grameenphone service center. Note that in Dhaka there is 2 Grameenphone service center exists.
1. Agent Name: Discovery
Address: Suite 13/A, Chandrshilla Suvastu Tower, 69/1 Panthapath, Dhaka-1205.
There Samasung service center is Grameenphone modem service center.
2. Agent Name: Mobile Care
Address: 5th Floor, price plaza, 4/2 Sobhanbag, Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1207
The customer manager told me to go to Sobhanbag service center. I went to Sobhanbag but unfortunately at Tuesday price plaza is closed and so customer service center is closed too. So, I went to pantha path and in 13th floor. I saw several customers came with GP modem problem and unfortunately it seemed to me all are same problem like me and GP provided them false information about modem problem. Anyway, when my serial came, I told my problem then the customer service manager told me it is common problem for Grameenphone Internet modem model E1550. So she flushed my firmware and put a new updated version software. I did not bring my laptop. When I came back home I put the modem into my laptop. Now problem has changed and in fact it brought more problem. Now whenever I insert my modem into laptop it even can't recognize my SIM!!!
I am totally frustrated with GP as well as with their customer service at this point. At last I remember Kaosar vai about my frustration who is a member of GP employee and work in the customer service department. He informed me that it is totally GP problem and he will take care of it tomorrow because he was ill. Ok, I wait for tomorrow but till afternoon I see no good news. So I again go to grameenphone customer care and now instead of trying in their laptop they told me to go to there with my laptop! What would happen if the problem was in my desktop computer. I would go to there with my desktop pc!
Anyway, while I am in grammenphone center Kaosar vai informed me that my problem resolved and he wants me to try. I came back home and it worked really but not using this new modem driver. Alhamdulillah, I had old driver in my another laptop.
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How to disable or remove blogger navigation bar
Before discussing about disable or removing tips let's have some idea about blogger navigation bar. Whenever you open any blog of blogspot by default you will see on the top of the post there is one bar by which you can search other blog, follow blog, share blog post, report abuse about objectionable content to the blogger, navigate to random next blog as well as from the right side of the bar you have sign in feature, create blog feature. If you login as blogger then on the right side of the bar you will see your email address, New Post, Customize, Dashboard, Sign Out menu there.
From following image it will be cleared what we meant by blogger navigation bar or navbar.
Many ones want to remove that bar. There are many reasons behind it. May be they want to get rid of Report abuse / Flag blog feature. Whatever the reasons there is, in this post step by step I will show how we can remove or disable the navigation bar from your blog.
Step 01: Login to your blogger account from blogger.com and then click Layout on the blog that you want to disable the navigation bar.
If you already login to that blog you can simply click customize from the navigation bar.
Step 02: Under Layout menu there is Edit HTML. Click on it. You will get Edit Template box. It will look like,
Step 03: Add navbar css ID and make its height 0, visibility hidden, display none. That is adding following css codes inside your Edit HTML.
Step 04: Save the template and view the blog.
You are done.
Tips: Now from the blog you no longer will be able to see navigation bar and thus you will not find New post, Customize, Sign Out link. In order to see those you have to login to blogger.com and you need to maintain from there.
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From following image it will be cleared what we meant by blogger navigation bar or navbar.
Many ones want to remove that bar. There are many reasons behind it. May be they want to get rid of Report abuse / Flag blog feature. Whatever the reasons there is, in this post step by step I will show how we can remove or disable the navigation bar from your blog.
Step 01: Login to your blogger account from blogger.com and then click Layout on the blog that you want to disable the navigation bar.
If you already login to that blog you can simply click customize from the navigation bar.
Step 02: Under Layout menu there is Edit HTML. Click on it. You will get Edit Template box. It will look like,
Step 03: Add navbar css ID and make its height 0, visibility hidden, display none. That is adding following css codes inside your Edit HTML.
#navbar {After adding it will look like following,
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}
body {Alternatively you can add simply following code.
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
background:$bgcolor;
color:$textcolor;
font-size: small;
}
#navbar {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}
#outer-wrapper {
font:$bodyfont;
}
#navbar-iframe {which will look like,
display: none ! important ;
}
body {Either of the above code will work.
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
background:$bgcolor;
color:$textcolor;
font-size: small;
}
#navbar-iframe {
display: none ! important ;
}
#outer-wrapper {
font:$bodyfont;
}
Step 04: Save the template and view the blog.
You are done.
Tips: Now from the blog you no longer will be able to see navigation bar and thus you will not find New post, Customize, Sign Out link. In order to see those you have to login to blogger.com and you need to maintain from there.
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How to add different meta tags to different blogger blog posts
Well, sometimes you may think about your site meta tags, particularly you may want to add certain meta tags for different page for your websites. Whenever it comes to blog particually, blog posts of your blogger account you may wonder how to add metatags for different blog posts . As blogger blog engine is not open source so customization sometimes may be difficult and thus adding meta tags are difficult too.
Before looking into how to add meta tags there are some misconception presents regarding meta tags which need clarification. One of them is,
- "Does Google ever use the "keywords" meta tag in its search engine ranking"?
The answer is a big NO. Google never uses keywords meta tag for its search engine ranking. There are millions of websites containing meta tags with LEYWORDS. Google simply visit the site and ignore the meta tags. So simply "keywords" meta tags has no effect in google search engine ranking.
Another misconception present is,
- "Does Google completely ignores all metatags"?
The answer is NO. Though Google completely ignores "keywords" meta tag but it does not completely ignore the description meta tag. Google sometimes use the "description" meta tag as the text for the search results snippets which means it displays description part text while displaying the search results. It is like after we search for a word the page description text is displayed in the search results snippets. So it may attract user to click your link based on your attractive description meta tag.
Note that google do it sometimes but always remember that description meta tag has no effect in google search engine ranking.
Despite there is no search engine ranking effect by Google, still many ones like to add keywords and description meta tags for their site as well as for the blogger blog.
For the webpage the system is easy.
Within the <head> section you need to add META information like below.
<head>
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Add metatgs blogger blog tips" >
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Blogger tips about adding metatag Information to a blog post.>
</head>
But for blogger post there is no shortcut ways. You need to follow following steps in order to add different meta tags to your different blogger blog posts.
Step 01: Sign in to Blogger dashboard » Layout » Edit html
and find out the following line within html.
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
Step 02: Add following codes just below above line
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://arjudba.blogspot.com/"'>
<meta content='Arju's blog discussion with many IT stuffs. Oracle database, Php programming, shell script,
css+html, unix administration, Internet Marketing, Search engine optimization.' name='description'/>
<meta content='SEO Blogging Tips Oracle Mysql' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
In this stage your template will look like below.
and description meta tags for your blog post.
For example if we also like to enter meta tags for post
http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/11/affordable-search-engine-optimization.html
then our blog html will look like following.
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Before looking into how to add meta tags there are some misconception presents regarding meta tags which need clarification. One of them is,
- "Does Google ever use the "keywords" meta tag in its search engine ranking"?
The answer is a big NO. Google never uses keywords meta tag for its search engine ranking. There are millions of websites containing meta tags with LEYWORDS. Google simply visit the site and ignore the meta tags. So simply "keywords" meta tags has no effect in google search engine ranking.
Another misconception present is,
- "Does Google completely ignores all metatags"?
The answer is NO. Though Google completely ignores "keywords" meta tag but it does not completely ignore the description meta tag. Google sometimes use the "description" meta tag as the text for the search results snippets which means it displays description part text while displaying the search results. It is like after we search for a word the page description text is displayed in the search results snippets. So it may attract user to click your link based on your attractive description meta tag.
Note that google do it sometimes but always remember that description meta tag has no effect in google search engine ranking.
Despite there is no search engine ranking effect by Google, still many ones like to add keywords and description meta tags for their site as well as for the blogger blog.
For the webpage the system is easy.
Within the <head> section you need to add META information like below.
<head>
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Add metatgs blogger blog tips" >
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Blogger tips about adding metatag Information to a blog post.>
</head>
But for blogger post there is no shortcut ways. You need to follow following steps in order to add different meta tags to your different blogger blog posts.
Step 01: Sign in to Blogger dashboard » Layout » Edit html
and find out the following line within html.
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
Step 02: Add following codes just below above line
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://arjudba.blogspot.com/"'>
<meta content='Arju's blog discussion with many IT stuffs. Oracle database, Php programming, shell script,
css+html, unix administration, Internet Marketing, Search engine optimization.' name='description'/>
<meta content='SEO Blogging Tips Oracle Mysql' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
In this stage your template will look like below.
<head>Next Step: So now you have added meta tags for your homepage in this stage. In the same way you can add as many as keywords
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://arjudba.blogspot.com/"'>
<meta content='Arju's blog discussion with many IT stuffs. Oracle database, Php programming, shell script,
css+html, unix administration, Internet Marketing, Search engine optimization.' name='description'/>
<meta content='SEO Blogging Tips Oracle Mysql' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
<b:skin><
4) Provide good,unique and interesting contents inside your blog
If you write good and unique contents inside your blog people will find them useful and interesting and the most possibility that people will add your blog to their favourites. You can also want to add topics of hot keywords.
5)Participate in Question & Answer Sessions
Ask question in other blogs. Question with OPENID usually prompt a website name of you optionally. So people will be aware of your site whenever you participates questions and answers inside the blog. You can subscribe my blog comments (on the left side) and you can participate in discussion.
6)Favourite other Technorati users post.
If you favourite other technorati blog users post, your blog will get the attention of other Technorati users. So, many will visit your blog and link back. This can be an effective strategy if you have time to visit a lot of Technorati users.
7. Do Link Exchanges
This is an old method but very effective one. Contact several blog owers and ask them for exchanging links. From 100 contacted bloggers you can expect to get approximately 25 technorati backlinks.
8. Become a Top Commentator
Top blogs don't list hundreds of comments in one page. May be they post like 30/40 in first page. So, to get attention try to #1 commenter inside a blog. You will be famous within few days.
9. Ping Technorati When You Publish a New Post
For Technorati to be aware of your new posts, it needs to be pinged every time you publish a new article. For WordPress blog, ping is done automatically. You can also use services like Pingomatic to alert Technorati whenever you have a new post.
10. Frequent Posting
The more frequent you write good contents, the more frequently you will get attention. So try to update your blog regularly.
11. Add a Technorati Favourite Button
Certainly your readers would like to favorite your blog but they don't want to go through the hassle of finding your blog on Technorati. So just place your technorati "Favourite" button inside your blog which will help to increase the number of fans you blogs and thuse will help to increase your Technorati ranking and authority.
Lastly add me on your technorati favourites and place a comment of your one.
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What is Technorati Rank
Understand about technorati authority or rank is important. Note that to appear a blog into technorati rank you need to register technorati.com and then you need to claim you blog indicating that you are the owner of the blog. It may seem very painful work as the site has lots of bug regarding claim and others, may be it is temporary glitch.
About your blog is claimed you can now see your technorati rank. Note that the rank depends on mainly how many other blogs in Technorati actually link back to your blog. It is not how many blogs link back to you, but how many blogs Technorati knows about that link back to yours.
However, it's rank also based upon the number of fans they have, the blog posting frequency, and other secret factors.
After you claim your blog, other users of Technorati will have the ability to add your blog to their favorites and adding tags to your blog which in turns will increase your rank. But now due to bugs this main feature seems not working. :-)
Why Technorati Authority or Rank is Important
Many bloggers and webmasters don't understand about the importance of technorati rank. But most of the advertisers in fact 95% of the review site look for techorati rank before advertising on your blog. They mark the star of a blog based on Alexa rank, backlinks and technorati ranks. So if you want to earn money by reviewing sites inside your blog technorati rank is important for you. However, If you don’t care about selling ads or links on your blog, then the Technorati rank is probably worthless to you. The high(good) technorati rank you have, the higher possibility of the amount you're paid for links or sponsored reviews.
Advertisers look for alexa rank, technorati rank and backlinks into account and assign a total rank of your site. So, if you have good backlinks and alexa rank you still may far behind because you don't have good technorati rank.
In this blog I will present several criteria by which you can increase your technorati rank.
1) Add the Related Tags to Your Blog
After you claim your blog, you will see several tags. You should fill those tags with the keywords that best suit for your blog. Also you can add several hot keywords so the the possibility of finding your blog because so easy by others. Always remember to add tags that most suitable to describe your blog. If your blog is about search engine optimization then you can choose tag like "SEO", "GOOGLE", "ADSENSE", "ADWORDS" etc.
From your http://technorati.com/account/claims/ page you can edit your claimed blog tags as well.
2) Give Your Blog a Clear and Creative Description
In addition to adding a few tags to your blog, also add a clear and creative description of your blog so that anybody that reads the description will immediately click on your blog's link and thus add to his favourites. This step will also help you to increase your blog traffic as well.
3) I will add your blog as my favourite one if you do mine
This is very good technique for the blogger who has good amount of traffic just like me :). Add my blog to your favourites and fan list , I will add your one too. Thus both you and me will be benefited.
To add to your favourites just click on this link,

4) Provide good,unique and interesting contents inside your blog
If you write good and unique contents inside your blog people will find them useful and interesting and the most possibility that people will add your blog to their favourites. You can also want to add topics of hot keywords.
5)Participate in Question & Answer Sessions
Ask question in other blogs. Question with OPENID usually prompt a website name of you optionally. So people will be aware of your site whenever you participates questions and answers inside the blog. You can subscribe my blog comments (on the left side) and you can participate in discussion.
6)Favourite other Technorati users post.
If you favourite other technorati blog users post, your blog will get the attention of other Technorati users. So, many will visit your blog and link back. This can be an effective strategy if you have time to visit a lot of Technorati users.
7. Do Link Exchanges
This is an old method but very effective one. Contact several blog owers and ask them for exchanging links. From 100 contacted bloggers you can expect to get approximately 25 technorati backlinks.
8. Become a Top Commentator
Top blogs don't list hundreds of comments in one page. May be they post like 30/40 in first page. So, to get attention try to #1 commenter inside a blog. You will be famous within few days.
9. Ping Technorati When You Publish a New Post
For Technorati to be aware of your new posts, it needs to be pinged every time you publish a new article. For WordPress blog, ping is done automatically. You can also use services like Pingomatic to alert Technorati whenever you have a new post.
10. Frequent Posting
The more frequent you write good contents, the more frequently you will get attention. So try to update your blog regularly.
11. Add a Technorati Favourite Button
Certainly your readers would like to favorite your blog but they don't want to go through the hassle of finding your blog on Technorati. So just place your technorati "Favourite" button inside your blog which will help to increase the number of fans you blogs and thuse will help to increase your Technorati ranking and authority.
Lastly add me on your technorati favourites and place a comment of your one.
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