Computers & Tech
Intel Core i7 arrives in Pakistan
Just received an e-mail from Pakistan Office Products (POP). They have imported their first batch of Intel Core i7 processors and motherboards.
Price of Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHZ Processor is Rs.24,500/- while the Motherboard available is Intel® Desktop Board DX58SO for Rs.21,500/-. They also have Kingston DDR3 RAM 1GB PC1333 modules to go with it for Rs.4,700/- each.
POP has presence in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar. They allow dealing with retail customers directly in Peshawar only. In other cities you can ask Intel Reseller to get the processor and motherboard for you OR you can wait till Galaxy Computers gets some too.
You can contact POP @ 111-767-767 in the cities I mentioned above.
HP Magic Giveaway Begins
Starting from today, three of the fifty participating blogs will be accepting entries for the jaw-dropping HP and Microsoft $6000 Magic Giveaway contest. This is not your average mousepad and a sticker giveaway, the prizepool includes a multi-touch PC, two laptops, a netbook, a printer, a media server and software. Suffice to say if you win this, it will make your Christmas and hopefully others around you too.
For the best chances of winning, make sure you visit each of the fifty blogs during their 7-day contest period. To make it easy for you to follow along, here are dates of all the blogs in fancy Google Calendar form and downloadable ICS format.
For Google Calender visit istartedsomething.com
HP $6000 Magic Giveaway; yet again!
Some of you might remember that HP had a big giveaway arranged through different blogs of a very expensive desktop replacement laptop and some softwares with it. It was a joint initiative of Microsoft, HP & BuzzCorp.
I am not sure if it’s being handled through BuzzCorp again but Microsoft & HP are surely together in this one too. I participated in almost every blog the last time, lol, and I hope I can do the same again. Everyone can join in this time too I think, it’s not just a US only competition :D which is excellent.
So what does $6000 get you?
* HP TouchSmart IQ816 PC (infamously used in Windows 7 multi-touch demoes)
* HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC
* HP MediaSmart Connect digital media receiver
* HP Pavilion dv4 series Entertainment Notebook PC
* HP Mini 1000
* HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless AIO multifunction
* HP 564 Photo Value Pak
* Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate and Home Premium preinstalled
* Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition
* Corel VideoStudio X2
* Kung Fu Panda (DVD & Blu-ray)The competition starts soon and more details on how you can enter at this site will follow, but I just want to say for today I have the utmost respect for HP and Microsoft, who under less than ideal economic situations is going to make this holiday season a memorable one for at least 50 people, their friends and family.
Make sure you participate!
Get 3 months subscription of NOD32 Antivirus & Smart Security for free
ESET’s NOD32 used to be my favorite antivirus due to the tiny resource requirements. I’ve switched to ESET Smart Security now and got no complaints about it.
You can get ESET NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security free of cost now. ESET has given away free subscriptions in the past too; which have been spotted by the folks over at My Digital Life.
It’s coming from My Digital Life yet again.
Now there is one more way to grab a legit and valid username and password for ESET NOD32 AntiVirus (EAV) and ESET Smart Security (ESS) with 3 months subscription license, giving away by NotebookPlatformu.com. Security products from ESET have been famed with low resource consumption which doesn’t slow down the computer. In fact, it may conserves resources and improves computer speed.
They have got detailed guide with screenshots about how to get the free subscription of NOD32 and Smart Security. You better hurry check their Guide here and grab a few keys (yes, you can get multiple keys, their subscription time begins when you first use them so they will be good for a later date as well) because ESET and the forum will notice this sooner or later and it will be removed.
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A tip for UBL Wallet online usage
If you happen to have UBL Wallet and have used it online then you might have had a problem where your transaction was declined. Same might go for UBL Wiz – the prepaid debit card of UBL.
I was trying to do a transaction recently and it was declined several times then I remembered what I did with first few transactions I had completed. I then tried that i.e. I entered my address exact same as it was on my Account Statement. The address was same of course but the difference being me entering House.No.XYZ while it was written as H No XYZ on my account statement, same goes for street details.
So make sure when you do an online transaction, enter the exact address as it appears on your account statement. If you use UBL e-Banking, just login to your account and copy the address given there.
