Zomato Order - Food Tech Innovation - Free Zomato Coupon

After years of providing services to the customers about the nearby restaurants by giving various information like Menu, Ratings and Reviews of various customers who have visited the place, Finally Zomato decided to start its own Food Ordering Network among these restaurants.

Despite having various established competitors on the Food Tech, It didn't take much time for Zomato to pick up the pace of online food ordering business as Zomato was a well known name or Brand for foodies.

With a lot of marketing efforts from competitors like Foodpanda (Exact same model as of Zomato) and diversified competitors like Swiggy, and Tinyowl who take cares of food ordering as well as delivery, Zomato is still the go to portal for food ordering and restaurant information for most of us.

As recently Zomato has started the food ordering portal, it has taken various initiatives to reach out to customers like TV ads as well as the referral system where the customer who have used zomato would be able to provide his/her Zomato referral code to the new user and the new user would receive Rs 100 off on their first order (Min order value is Rs 300).

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Uber & Ola Promo Codes

Looking for Free Ride on Uber Cabs - Sign Up using the coupon "UBER-NP" or "UBER-250-FREE" and you will get 1 ride free worth up to INR 250 (i.e, You can travel upto 17 km once without paying a penny on UberX)

For Free Ride on Ola Cabs - Sign up using code "HYB47X" and you will get 1 free ride worth upto INR 300.

To Sign up in Uber for First Free ride, Go to https://www.uber.com/invite/uber-250-Free  or https://www.uber.com/invite/uber-NP or use the Promo code during App Sign Up

You can download the Ola App from the play store and Enter the above code on the referral text box in order to get the free ride worth INR 300.

Note: No free ride awarded for web sign up on OLA.

Frustrated with virus on your PC & Laptops? Here's the solution for you :)

I have been seeing a lot of frustrated friends in my circle who keeps complaining about how virus has screwed their PCs, & Laptops and which in-turn screwed their lives as well. No wonder, as Laptops and PCs has become the integral part of our life. With internet connection (hi-speed that is!), these gadgets will even surpass our basic needs like Food, Shelter and Clothes.

So, with Laptops and PCs being exposed to the outside world via internet, there are a lot of people whose basic needs is fulfilled by injecting various malicious programs like Virus, Trojans and Malware in your PCs. Wondering how it will fulfil their basic needs? Here is why -

1. These malicious programs will manipulate your PCs in such a way that, without your consent, your data will be sent to the servers hosted by these spammers. These data can be anything from your photos, browsing history, saved passwords to your document files as well which can be very well sold to either marketing agency or used for frauds.
2. Hackers and Spammers can also inject some unwanted codes like ad-wares which keeps showing Ads in each and every browsers and every website you visit (Sometime even changes the homepage as well) - another source of income for these spammers
3. And many more.... No time to mention all here ;)

Now, what can you do to be safe from these type of attacks in your laptops & desktops? Below are the solutions:-

1. Don't use internet on your laptops and desktops - which is highly unlikely
2. Use expensive antivirus software subscription and be safe - not viable for all as we can't keep paying for it
3. Use the free antivirus given by Microsoft - helps to some extent, but not 100% protection
4. Don't install any programmes from untrusted websites
5. The most important point - Don't install .exe files from web which says it will help download the software you are looking for - these downloader.exe files will download the malicious software
6. Read all the installation steps carefully and decline the request to install unnecessary software

In case you are looking for the good antivirus solution for free - Download Avast Antivirus using the link - http://www.avast.com/get/wCj9fUok (Yeah, it's a referral).

What you get?

Once you download the free version of antivirus from the given link, you can send me an email on request4software@outlook.com and I will send you the 1 Year Avast Premier License for Free.(Now that's what you were looking for, isn't it?) The email should be same as the one you used to sign up on Avast, else I won't send the code.

Xperia Z1 - A Hands On Experience !!!

It was a great feeling when I got my hands on Sony Xperia Z1 phone on 24th March 2014.

Sony Xperia Z1 Box

Sony Xperia Z1-Purple

The phone was slim, looked nice and, was powerful and waterproof!! What more do you need when you have such phone with 6 months accidental warranty provided by Sony itself. I was happy that I bought this phone even though I was being persuaded to by LG G2 instead of Xperia Z1. The happiness was even more when I got Sony Original Portable Battery. The smartphone case that came with the phone was a disappointment though as it had to be stuck using the glue to the phone and the phone was bulky with the case as well.

Now that I had my smartphone, I was eager to unlock the boot loader and root the phone, I just did a search on Google and Whoa!!!!! With a great surprise, I came to know Sony itself provides the instructions and necessary files to unlock the boot loader. You can find the instructions here. Usually, unlocking boot loader violates the warranty of the device and the brands like Samsung, LG, Nexus doesn't provide the instructions to do so, but Sony did!!! though you get some warnings that you are violating the warranty terms of the device.

I did unlocked the boot loader, now I had to go for rooting the phone, its the time I once regretted purchasing this phone, but with great patience and research, I was able to root the phone after almost 7 days of purchase. That's pretty long wait, but once I figured the way out, It was just like the toss of coin, download the file, flash it and its done :D

There are a lot of issues with firmware versions once you decide to root your phone. Because once you root your phone, you can't do perform any OTA updates (especially on Xperia and Nexus Phones, I have no idea about others!!), But you can flash the firmware to upgrade to latest version, and to a great surprise, you can create your own firmware from the updates downloaded via Sony PC Companion.

It was all the experience part which I will explain in more details one by one in my future posts, but as of now, lets get into the pros and cons of the phone and the main question which buzzes everyone's head - Is it worth spending 30k+ (price varies depending on stores) for Xperia Z1?

Before going to pros and cons, you can find the complete specifications of the phone here.

Pros:

1. Waterproof & Dust-proof Phone - Travel without worries of your phone
2. Ideally I have seen many reviews saying the design of Sony is Bad, But I love it!!
3. The LED Notification - Indicates new messages, Charging Indicator
4. Camera - perfect to shoot at any light conditions
5. Large Battery - Last a day long with few hours of heavy usage - Awesome stamina mode is included
6. Intelligent Sony Keyboard App
7. Good Noise Cancellation and Sound Quality

Cons:

1. Bad Screen Quality - No IPS screen
2. Most powerful CPU in market is used - But still lags (Might be because I use loads of apps in parallel but didn't expect it to be that bad)
3. Says 2 GB RAM, Has only 1697 MB (Even Nexus have 1850 MB), only 300 MB free just after restart, something Sony neglected but is a serious problem for multitasking
4. Phone overheats like crazy, difficult to hold in hands with that much heating
5. WiFi is a disappointment, can't connect to the signal outside 20m range
6. Phone overheats while using camera and eventually camera app crashes, can't launch it again until the device is cooled down.

The phone has few negatives as well as few positives. It can't be compared with Nexus 5 on same horizon. Nexus 5 boasts a lot of software supports from Android Developers as well as is always the first to taste the latest Android Software. Whereas Sony provides premium build waterproof smartphone with camera way better than what Nexus 5 offers. CPU, RAM, Screen Resolution are all same. Nexus 5 offers Gorilla Glass which is a plus point.