SocialMedia #Lumia apps connecting @MicrosoftSA

Hi Guys,

The most popular social networking sites sure have changed over the years and as time goes by they are expected to change even further. Old social media trends will die and new ones will surface and you never know what will come soon and take the market by storm. Since the introduction of social networks there has been a significant shift toward mobile-based social media consumption. A recent Mobile Africa 2015 study conducted by the mobile surveying company GeoPoll and World Wide Worx on mobile phone usage in five African countries has delivered startling findings on the rise of Internet access via phones. The most significant finding was that internet browsing via phones now stands at 40 per cent across these markets, with 51% of respondents in Ghana and 47% in Nigeria reporting that they use their phones to access the internet. South Africa lags behind at 40%, and Kenya (34%) and Uganda (29%) are slowest on the uptake.

Here are some of the most popular Lumia social media apps:

2Go

2go is a mobile social network that allows you to chat, share with friends, and meet new people. Users can create their profiles and upload profile pictures. The app allows you to message friends instantly, receive notifications of new messages, share photos and files as well as invite friends using their phone number or username.

Viber
Viber is an app that allows everyone in the world to connect, freely. More than 500 million Viber users text, call, and send photo and video messages worldwide over Wifi or 3G - for free. Viber Out can be used to make calls to non-Viber mobile and landline numbers at low rates. This app is available for many mobile and desktop platforms. On Viber, your phone number is your ID. The app syncs with your mobile contact list, automatically detecting which of your contacts have Viber.

Instagram BETA

It's a simple, fast and fun way to capture and share life with your family and friends on your Windows Phone. The app allows you to transform everyday moments into works of art you'll want to share with friends and family and gives you access to a world of inspiration as you view photos from near and far.

Facebook
Facebook is a social platform that connects people with current and old friends, people they went to school or work with, acquaintances and besties alike. It allows you to keep up with friends, share photos, videos, news, thoughts and commentary. Facebook for Windows Phone v5 has been completely overhauled, with faster performance, a new user interface, improved navigation, support for multiple resolutions and tile sizes, and more. Keeping up with friends is now faster than ever before.

Whatsapp

WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. This app allows you to send and receive messages, pictures, voice messages, and video messages. This one doesn't need any introduction and also now comes with the latest voice calling facility which will soon be enabled for Windows phones too. 

 

Staying connected is the life we are all following at the moment but it's also a necessity to stay personal and close with people in our own houses and locality by meeting and greeting offline too. Think about it!

 

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An Android App a day - 31. Snapknock

Hi Guys, 

It's been a while I have blogged about the android apps. My HTC One went through a bad battery phase and has been replaced by a new one by the company. Thanks to HTC! I love HTC as this is my third mobile from their company. 

Snapknock is a upcoming app with facebook collaboration for buying and selling used books, movies and video games and whatever you want to sell. People can bid for your items and you can sell them asap. 

The app is available at -

https://snapknockweb.appspot.com/
 

The company and the app has recently got the back up from Venture Capitalists in Canberra, Australia under GRIFFIN Accelerator program. Check the article at http://www.startupsmart.com.au/financing-a-business/venture-capital/canberra-based-accelerator-program-announces-2014-program-participants/2014063012620.html

As they say, early followers makes better leaders and so I am backing this app completely. This app has been developed by a Software Engineer with work experience in Google and Quora, California, USA.

Cheers!!!

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Product Review - Royal Dansk Oat & Cranberry Cookies

Hi Guys,

Being the final packet of cookies I received from Royal Dansk from the Kelsen Group, I wanted to eat them as later as possible. Finally a day arrived when I was in full mood to enjoy the awesome taste of these cookies. I really love cranberrry and have bought a lot of dried cranberries from various stores here in Johannesburg. Cookies containing cranberries really provide the taste and nutritious values. 

 All these cookies are so light and fresh in taste that you will definitely fall in love with them. I saw them at the airport in cans and really wanted to buy them. I am a fan of all Royal Dansk products I have tasted, despite don't liking chocolate cookies in general. Try one for yourself and you will cherish the taste.

I thank Royal Dansk team once again for sending me these awesome products from Denmark. Looking forward to receive more of them in future. Also, they have a running contest on their facebook page for the rest of the year where you will not only win their cookie tins but also the tea mug, notepad, pen etc along with a chance to win some holidays in the luxurious hotels around your city in South Africa.

Goodbye Royal Dansk Cookies, till we meet again...

Cheers!!!

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Indiblogger & 5 Star Contest - Condition Serious hai

Condition serious hai for those people who have forgot the fun of enjoying life and running around the vicious circle of 99. This may be for the second house, second car or something or the other and not concentrating on what they already have. I myself sometimes feel a part of this condition as I keep focusing on winning the next contest and not enjoying the gifts received from the previous contests. I keep running after Silk where as I have 5 star in the fridge. So whenever something like this struck me, I do relax and think as to even Ambani’s might have 21 floor house but they must be sleeping in a single room at night and that too on the same side of the bed, so there is nothing to run after if you have to die one day. This doesn’t mean that I wait to die but to start living more purposefully and in the present. My future should be secure enough to take care of myself and my family and I want to stay active to live joyfully with my family, friends and relatives.

Condition serious hai for those people who are joining IT companies after doing MBA from not so rated colleges thinking that they will be welcomed like a marketing guru or something. The reality is totally different where you are not given any choice as to what you will do as it all depends on the managers you will be assigned to. They will start their talk with oh! MBA, why did you joined this company? This is not a good company to join after MBA? Then they will ask if you know any technical stuff because it will become handy, if you know it as developers can’t make you fool? You keep thinking inside your mind that what the hell? I didn’t did MBA to know some coding just not to look myself cool in front of a developer or not to be made fool of, I can judge people via my soft skills and networking skills? So this whole game keeps running between managers turned from Developer background and MBA recruited post graduates from various institutes in so called big IT companies.During MBA we are given so much of case studies that we start to feel that we are the one only saviors of the company and with our strategic thinking we are gonna rule the world etc etc. Whereas in reality you are kept much lower than developers because you are just doing some analysis and whole responsibilty lies with the developer only and he only gets the appreciation. So again it's a vicious circle of 99 for all the MBA graduates who wants to make big fortunes by joining all the great IT companies.

Condition serious hai for those people who are joining AAP and thinking that it’s an easy route to become something of power in Delhi and other states. There must be some good candidates but most of the people I think are joining for all the wrong reasons. Once they are in power they will too have a say over something and other things. They will rule out on all the work various national leaders have been doing all their lives from all other parties and hold important cabinet members positions. They just by tagging themselves as non-corrupt politicians will run the whole administration easily and effectively. Though it is necessary but please we all know who doesn’t want to run in this vicious circle of 99 and they will too find out thousand of loopholes in the government to run for money. It requires a lot of courage and selflessness to say NO to a million of rupees in person. It will give you thousands of sleepless nights after you have said NO. You could have had a house in Rohini rather than having it in Indirapuram with that extra money.

Condition serious hai for all those marketers in social media channels working as admins of various twitter handles who falls into the followers count of people. They think if you have 5000+ followers you are something of a brand or so. Whereas they don't know or know that there a thousand of websites which offer free followers everyday and after a while you all reach that level. They never check which type of followers you have, are they some Philippines who doesn't know english also or are they genuine ones? They just want their product to be retweeted thousands times so that they are trending on twitter. Tweeters do makes fool of admins like that as they market themselves promoting that i have 5k followers here and 15k on facebook and that number in instagram. They keep falling for this trap and give good prizes to those people only. In the end all they get is BABA JI KA THULLU! neither all those fake followers know what brand are they, which product they are marketing? and they don't even retweet. It's again a vicious circle of 99 for the admins of twitter and facebook pages.  

So the condition is really serious all over and need to take a look at all the funny stuff Ramesh and Suresh does in 5 Star advts and keep looking at the the Cadbury 5 Star Facebook page also. May be sooner or later you will give it a thought and chill out with yourself and your life!

Cheers!!!

Product Review - Sennheiser PX80 On ear Headphones

Hi Guys,

Sennheiser PX-80 On the ear headphones are small in size and weight but big in audio output. The frequency response of the headphones is from 15 – 27000 Hz with Impedance of 32 ohm. They produce a nice audio output which really gives you a great listening pleasure. The sound is natural and bass is just OK for listening to most of the songs. The headphones are comfortable to wear over a longer period of time. It has a metallic headband which strongly held itself against your head. The same can be adjusted to fit your head size.

The earphones are covered with foam which gives soft feeling around the ears. The main highlight is the design of the plastic carry case and how the headphones are designed to be fitting inside the small compartment of the plastic case. They get folded quiet easily into the carry box and can be carried around safely in your bag pack or even pocket of jeans.

Sennheiser PX80 is priced around Rs 1200/- it really serves the purpose of portability and do offers some kind of noise isolation in terms of its design. While listening at higher volumes the sound does comes out for others discomfort. The headphones are worth a try if you are looking for the cheapest, lightest and value for money product for your day to day listening pleasure. It doesn’t have any Mic built in so can’t be used for call purposes. The model has been replaced by another several new models but it’s still available in Indian markets at Flipkart and Amazon.in.

I won them from a contest on facebook by Sennheiser India sometime back and being my second Sennheiser loved them a lot. But my pursuit for perfect sound is going to end when I have MOMENTUM on my ears. Sennheiser is going to make that dream come true sooner or later but till that time, I will keep falling in love with all the other products the company has to offer.

Cheers!!!

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Facebook Goodies - CarWale Diary 2013

Hi Guys,

It's been a while I have written about my contests win and goodies received thereafter. Carwale is one brand with which I have been associated for years as I have always tried to participate in all their contests since 2009. Some months back they organized a very big contests with prizes like Apple iPhone, iPads etc and I was only able to win this Diary for the year 2013. Anyway, a win is a win and I appreciate www.CARWALE.com for sending it through to me. Have a look at this colorful diary with vintage cars. 

The Carwale Diary has awesome pictures at some random intervals. 

It's a sure thing that I will cherish for some time to come.

Thanks a lot!

Facebook Goodies - Schneider Electric Pen Drive

Hi Guys,

I won this special edition pendrive from Schneider Electric in one of their latest facebook contest. I always wanted to win this once from the time they organized their green environment contest last year. It's a 4gb pen drive with built in LED which glows as we insert the same into our laptop. It's really a innovative design. Thanks to Schneider Electric for the same.

Cheers!!!

Facebook Goodies - Mountain Dew

Hi Guys,

After winning in the Facebook page on 15 Jan and following up thousands of times, I finally received this tshirt as the prize for #neonify contest held on facebook. I don't remember what was the original prize but I think it was the laptop bagpack. Anyways, if you can wait for so much of time, do participate else stay away from their fb pages and twitter handles.

Cheers!!!

Product Review - Sennheiser CX-310 Earphones

Hi Guys,

I was trying a lot of earphones/headphones and spend a lot of money on many of them in search of perfect sound quality but nothing came close to Sennheiser. I won these amazing headphones in the last week of my stay in London on the last day of the contest held by Sennheiser UK on their facebook page. I got the news of winning from my cousin in India. The earphones was delivered to me at the fastest speed possible and as soon as I opened the package, I was in the middle of a rock solid music performance on the songs I loved. 

 

I really liked the dual color of the earphones and felt amazingly great to receive them. 

At that moment they were trading at £35 on Amazon.UK and each penny was worth paying for these amazing piece of technology. 

It's been 2 years, I am using these earphones and I never felt need to buy something else. I lost some opportunities in India to win other several models of Sennheiser headphones including MOMENTUM & their HD series. 

Sennheiser CX-310 series is a special edition ADIDAS branded earphones based on the CX-300 series earphones. They have great bass and fits your ears completely to isolate external noise. This helps to bring all the tones of music right into your ears. This also helps you to travel without listening to others talking in metro or trains or buses as you can be totally immersed in your own musical world. Be aware to remove them while crossing roads or any other place where listening to external noise is of utmost important.

I feel very happy whenever I listen to music via my Sennheiser earphones. Now I am looking forward to have any of the model of HD series headphones to test them out and what more in Music quality is unknown to my ears? Let Universe listen to my wish and come with something soon....

till that time...enjoy all of your favourite music whatever way you like it best! 

Cheers!!!

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TATA NANO Pendrives 2GB

Hi Guys,

Last year TATA NANO held many contests on facebook page and gave away these awesome TATA NANO pen drives in the shape of the car. These look cool and I was really happy to receive them.

However, some of my goodies won never reached me  (Beat the traffic 2 game)  and I asked TATA Nano admin but got no response so stopped participating in their webpage completely. You can go ahead and participate in their amazing contests.

Cheers!!!

CarWale Pendrive 4GB

Hi Guys,

CarWale is one of the best websites which regularly holds contests and I always try to participate in them. I have been lucky with them many times and keeps getting goodies from them. The very first time I won with them on facebook, I received these paper coasters from them way back in 2010. Again that year, I received a 2GB pen drive in the form of Car from them, which I still use. The quality of their goodies is awesome. Last year I won this 4gb Pen drive from them. Loved the shape of this pendrive. Thanks a lot Carwale!

In their recent very big contest, I was unable to win anything....may be my choices didn't match up with the winning Cars in their awards night.


Cheers!!!

HDFC LIFE Goodies

Hi Guys,

Received a DVD from HDFC Life for one of their facebook contest. The DVD has three movies - Fashion, Turning 30 & Life in a Metro!

thanks a lot!

Philips Digital Photo Frames - Hyundai Motors India Limited

Hi Guys,

Won this Philips Digital Photo Frame in the Moments of Happiness contest on facebook page of Hyundai Motors India Limited.This is a nice 7" photo frame with built in memory. It can play your snaps from SD card also along with a calendar on display. MRP at Rs. 3990/- is available in the online stores at around Rs.3000. This DFF can be hanged on the wall to display your best pics displaying togetherness of life with friends, family & relatives! Thanks to HMIL for this great gift ever!

@araijain

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HP Connected Music Event at Ambience Mall 13-14 Apr 2013

Hi Guys,

HP Connected Music organized a musical antakshri at Ambience  mall and one of my tweets won from Delhi NCR region.

I received Taylor Swift - RED as a gift from them via courier. Really thankful to the HP Connected Music!

Cheers!

Maruti Ritz - Moments of Joy Goodies

Hi Guys,

Maruti Ritz organized a Facebook contest last year and the goodies received from them are goods worth Rs. 1000/- in the form of a laptop backpack, a keyring & pen set and a sipper.

Cheers!

Knowledge Magazine India - Goodies

Hi Guys,

These are the goodies I received from Knowledge Magazine India from BBC UK in their Great Barrier Reef Contest on facebook. Thought the time taken by the magazine was more but when I received the goodies I felt very very happy. It contained a 4gb Pendrive, Original DVD packaging with a notepad and a pen. Always wanted to win the goodies from BBC, UK. Tried very hard in London but could not win other than a BBC Blast pen. India is surely lucky for those who are active on facebook and twitter playing various contests. follow me on twitter @araijain. Thanks a lot!

Hello Magazine - Canvas Art by Raseel Gujral #FacebookContest

Hi Guys,

As already told you that winning is a part of life and when you get great goodies you feel awesome and on top of the world. Recently I won Hello Magazine - contest on Facebook. This is what I received from them. This is an original Canvas Art from Raseel Gujral. She is the daughter of the renowned painter - Shri Satish Gujral. It's their new collection on Canvas Art. The price starts at around Rs. 15000/- for New Illustratti Project.

 Thanks a lot, Hello Magazine. This Canvas Art will definitely be an asset for my life! 

Cheers!!!

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