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Djuice Revamped, with ‘Khamoshi ka Boycott’
Mobile World Congress 2011 [Roundup]
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Djuice Revamped, with ‘Khamoshi ka Boycott’

Posted: 19 Feb 2011 03:21 AM PST

Djuice Revamped, with ‘Khamoshi ka Boycott’ is a post from: ProPakistani

djuice Khamoshi ka Boycott Djuice Revamped, with Khamoshi ka Boycott Telenor Pakistan has revamped its youth brand djuice, with an approach of involving youth to speak up against bad things in our society.

Their new tagline is "Khamoshi ka Boycott"

Djuice, which was previously known for rocking the youth is going to change the look and feel of the brand by bringing in fun to the lives with a meaning, with a purpose to change those little things around us which ultimately turn heavy for the society.

Djuice says It's about coming together to make things happen for the positive, for you, for the youth. And having absolute fun, masti, maza'a, pleasure, thrill, excitement (whatever you wanna call it) – while doing all the right things!

For the purpose, djuice held an event in PC Karachi today, where the youth discussed things that can change our future. Various other issues such as “Booti Culture” and “Poondi” were discussed too, though not all of them knew what exactly the “Poondi” is.

Event was attended by Shahzad Roy, a renowned singer and Mr. Amir Ibrahim, Telenor's Chief Marketing Officer.

Shahzad Roy and Mahira Khan were named as djuice Brand Ambassadors.

Event was hosted by Nadeem Chohan, who did well with his job.

Djuice has revamped its website already to blow a new look. Website is pretty catchy, however, very badly structured in terms of styling and object/image sizes.

By the way, there’s no tariff change or a new plan introduced by djuice with this re-branding – probably a disappointment for the youth.

Following is the official PR on this:

djuice triggers 'Khamoshi Ka Boycott'

KARACHI, February 19, 2011: Telenor Pakistan has announced its new philosophy towards its youth brand 'djuice' to reaffirm its commitment to the young people of Pakistan. The company announced the brand's new philosophy through an unveiling event in Karachi today. Shahzad Roy represented djuice as Brand Ambassador. The event was attended by university students and representatives of the Youth Parliament.

The new philosophy, which empowers young people to speak out and take action against social injustices, comes with the tagline 'Khamoshi ka Boycott'. The event comprised the unveiling of the new identity of the brand and a discussion among the audience on speaking out about the social problems they see in their everyday lives.

Speaking on the occasion Chief Marketing Officer Telenor Pakistan Aamir Ibrahim said: "More than half of Pakistan's population consists of youth, who are talented, intelligent and aware of their surroundings. Now all the youth need is direction, a means to speak out and raise their voice against social injustices. Through djuice's 'Khamoshi Ka Boycott', we aim to do just that."

Shahzad Roy and Mahira Khan have been named as djuice Brand Ambassadors.

Speaking about his association with djuice, Shahzad Roy said: "Silence against wrong only increases frustration among nations. As the country's youth, we are responsible for pointing out the wrongs that are prevalent in our society. We must realize that we cannot remain silent. We must speak up. I have done this through my music and my efforts towards education in the country. Now I want this to be taken up by all of you. Djuice can become a means for you to speak out."

In a video message to the event's audience, Mahira said: "What excites me about the project is that it's a pro-social campaign. I like the people I am working with and they have assured me that it's not just a commercial it's going to be much more than this. Which is why I want to be a part of it. I like Khamoshi Ka Boycott. It's something we need to do."

Djuice is the world's largest youth mobile brand and is spread across six countries. In Pakistan it was launched in 2006. Being the premier youth mobile brand in Pakistan, it is the choice of millions of young people across the country.

Mobile World Congress 2011 [Roundup]

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 09:00 PM PST

Mobile World Congress 2011 [Roundup] is a post from: ProPakistani

Mobile world congress 2011 in Barcelona went on from 14^th to 17^th February and it provided plenty of stuff to munch on for the tech savvy.

The conference itself included high profile speakers, the CEO's of Google, Intel, Microsoft and Nokia to name a few. However the real deal was the exhibition put on by nearly 1,400 companies who unveiled new phones, tablets, technologies and applications etc. to provide the attendees with a glimpse into what the future holds.

MWC 2011 also showcased an app exhibition by nearly 10,000 app developers from various platforms as well as App Developers conferences hosted by nearly all major companies except Apple, who famously boycott all events like these.

So without further ado, let's dig into what was hot in this years' MWC.

Nokia-Microsoft Partnership:

In a move that has everybody talking, Nokia announced that it is partnering with Microsoft. Nokia phones will replace Symbian and MeeGo (the next gen OS ) with Windows 7 as their primary operating system. The exciting bit was the announcement that the first phone running windows 7 will launch in 2011.

This leaked photo, courtesy of Engadget, that was alleged to be the concept design for Nokia Windows 7 phones, is indeed genuine according to her.

Quad Core Processors for Tables and Phones:

In other news, Nvidia announced Project Kal-El, which means we'll have quad core processors in our tablets and phones by the end of the year.

Nvidia weren't the only ones though; quad core processors were also announced by Texas Instruments and QualComm.

Telenor and PTA failed to Bring Awards to Pakistan:

Here's some news regarding Pakistan. Telenor and PTA, the nominees in different categories this year failed to win any awards.

It was widely expected that Telenor would win since it has laid a foundation stone of mobile-banking in Pakistan and secured tremendous achievement and popularity not among the customers but also at different platforms and globally viewed news channels.

Unfortunately, Easypaisa failed to clinch any title in world cup of telecom, Mobile Global Award despite it was shortlisted for two categories.

The awards for Best Mobile Money Product or Solution has been given to MasterCard Worldwide and Standard Chartered Bank for Airtel Card. Best Mobile Money for the Unbanked Service has been awarded to Vodafone Group, Safaricom, Vodacom, Vodafone Essar Limited and Roshan Ltd for M-PESA. But nonetheless, their nominations are an honor.

With the credentials to drive a one of the most competitive cellular sector amid highest retaining the status of highest tele-density country, PTA was easily shortlisted for contest on the category of Best GSMA Chairman's Award and Government Leadership Award.

GSMA Chairman’s Award has been awarded to Dr. Wang Jianzhou, Chairman, China Mobile. Government Leadership Award has been presented to Government of Afghanistan. Amirzai Sangin, Minister of Communications & IT of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, The award recognizes the immense achievements made by the Afghan government in its commitment to the widespread expansion of mobile communications. In just ten years the Afghan government has taken a country with no mobile infrastructure to a point where 80 per cent of the population is now covered by telecommunications networks.

Apple usually doesn't participate in industry-wide shows like the Consumer Electronics Show or indeed the MWC, but that didn't stop the judging panel from giving the iPhone 4 the Best Mobile Device award.

The major winners at the MWC 2011 were, HTC who received the Best Mobile Manufacturer. HTC also received the best mobile device award last year for HTC Hero. The HTC Desire was also well praised by the judges. App of the Year on the Apple Platform went to Angry Birds, which was predictable really, since it sold over 50 million copies. Google won App of the year on Android for Google Maps. Lastly, Zum Zum won the App of the Year on the Nokia Platform.

For a comprehensive list of all the winners at the MWC 2011 visit:

Link: http://www.globalmobileawards.com/awards/winners_2011.htm

Onto the phones!

MWC 2011 really belonged to Android. A majority of the phones ran on either 2.2 Froyo or 2.3 Gingerbread. Here are the noteworthy smartphones announced which you can get in the coming months:

Samsung Galaxy S II:

It's the successor to the Galaxy S, which sold over ten million units last year. It has a bigger screen at 4.3 inches, a 1GHz dual core processor, and has the ability to shoot video at 1080p. Widely billed as the best smartphone to be unveiled at MWC 2011.

LG Optimus 3D:

Another Android phone, it sports 3D. Best thing is you don't need special glasses for it. And reviewers say that's it pulls off the 3D effect with great results. It has dual core processor and dual channel memory to provide maximum performance.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play:

Possibly the most hyped and anticipated phone, it's dubbed the "Playstation phone" since it can run PS1 quality games. Its hardware is capable of 60 frames per second for all your gaming needs. It has special buttons to play all those games when the lower body slides out.

The Facebook Phones:

If you believe Facebook is taking over the world, you may be right. HTC has revealed the ChaCha and Salsa smartphones with dedicated Facebook buttons. The facebook button will glow slightly whenever there's something that can be shared on Facebook. So basically you'll have one touch access to update your status, share what you're listening to and uploading photos. Both phones are well designed and will be affordable. Expect them to be huge sellers.

Among other note worthy phones that were announced include the ZTE Skate, Amigo and Blade. From HTC, the Incredible S, Wildfire S and Desire S. And finally , the Sony Xperia Neo and Xperia Pro and the Xperia Arc.

MWC 2011 also showed us that the tablets are going to keep up their increase in popularity. Major manufacturers showed us their latest creations.

HP TouchPad:

The HTC TouchPad packs powerful hardware, a good display resolution and a great OS all in one. It runs on Palms webOS which wasn't popular because of restrictions on carrier and manufacturer, but now on the TouchPad, it has received wide spread praise from everyone for its fluid response. Did I mention a dual core 1.2 GHz processor?

HTC Flyer:

With a 7 inch display, it has a pressure sensitive stylus for use on the tablet. It has the fastest processor yet seen on a tablet at 1.5 Ghz. It will feature an amalgamation of the Gingerbread android flavor and HTC's own excellent Sense UI. The design is similar to HTC's high end smartphones and looks great.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1:

Samsungs' offering boasts a 10.1 inch display, the resolution being higher than the iPad. It runs on the Android Honeycomb and offers 8 MP camera, 720p recording, gyroscope, accelerometer, and a proximity sensor among other things. Multi-tasking is really catered to in this tablet.

Noteworthy mentions that I couldn't include here are Blackberry's Playbook, Motorola Xoom and LG Optimus 3D and Viewsonic Viewpad 10 Pro which can dual boot windows 7 and android 2.2.

The MWC 2011 always gives tech enthusiasts plenty to chew on and this year was no exception. I'm pretty sure the blogosphere will be abuzz with excitement and reviews and comparisons of the launched products and what not for days to come.

How to Transfer Big WordPress Blogs to New Host in 20 Minutes

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 08:59 PM PST

How to Transfer Big WordPress Blogs to New Host in 20 Minutes is a post from: ProPakistani

Note:

This tutorial is aimed at bigger wordpress blogs and for those hosted on VPS or dedicated servers.
This tutorial should not be tried if you are not familiar with basic Linux and MySQL commands on SSH.
This tutorial is just about transferring WordPress files and Databases only. Please be informed that server configuration and other things are not discussed in it.

There are various methods available for transferring hosted wordpress blogs from one host to another, with ease. But when it comes to bigger blogs with thousands of files, over hundred even thousands of MBs MySQL database – the process can become never ending and hectic, especially if you are on a slow internet connection.

I am going to tell you a way to shift your wordpress blog with ease, in just 20 minutes (we did it practically when we moved ProPakistani from VPS.net to Wiredtree.com)

Prerequisites

First of all make sure that your new VPS or dedicated server, with root access, has following applications installed:

PHP
MySQL
Apache or any other web server

Once you have these applications installed, make sure you have added your domain on this new web server. Adding a domain through cPanel is easy, if cPanel is not available – you might need to add a domain via SSH through this tutorial.

If you don't know what SSH is then you shouldn't be reading this tutorial, and ask someone to make this wordpress transfer work for you.

We are assuming that you have added your domain and at this point of time you are done with server configuration and all.

Time to shift your wordpress files and databases now.

Making a Backup of MySQL database with SSH

Before we transfer files, we need to take backup of MySQL database used for wordpress.

We are making backup file now because, we will shift this backup file to new host with all other files.

Command:

mysqldump -u username -p database_name > /home/propakistani/public_html/dumpfile.sql

Command explanation:

mysqldum: command name
username: your username for MySQL database
database_name: Database name used for this particular wordpress installation
/home/propakistani/public_html/: this is public directory or domain root on old host.

This command will make a backup file for your MySQL database and will place it in public directory.

Caution: This is a public directory on a webserver, so leaving this database backup file here for long can be risky.

Transferring Files:

login to your new host's server, with SSH, go to your domain's public directory,
In our case, ProPakistani's public directory or domain root was: /home/propakistani/public_html
Now, you are all set to transfer files from old wordpress hosting to this current folder
Use following command.

scp -r user@oldhost:/home/username/public_html/ /

Command Explanation: In this example, command will transfer all files from your old host (/var/www/html) to local working directory, i.e. /home/propakistani/public_html

parameters used in command are:

user: this is the user name on old host, it can be root for instance
oldhost: you need to replace holdhost with the IP address of old host

After asking for password, this command will start copying all the files from old host to this new host. It can take time, depending on your files' size.

We had 600 MBs of files with over 100 MBs of database, and it took us 15 minutes to transfer all files to new host.

File Transfer Done, now what?

Now, when all your files are transferred from old host to this current host, its time to import your database backup file. (which is also transferred to new host – remember, we took a back and had placed it in public directory). Now its time to use this file.

Importing MySQL Database using SSH

We are assuming that your working directory is public_html, type following command in SSH

mysql -u username -p database_name < dumpfile.sql

Command Explanation:

username: MySQL Database username
database_name: MySQL database name
dumpfile.sql: Backup file for MySQL dump

And you are done!

Making sure everything is good:

At this point of time, you are done with transferring of WordPress files and databases to new host.

Let's do the testing to make sure you have done it right. For this, we will access our wordpress blog from new host by adding IP address in windows Hosts file.

For the purpose, make a slight change in theme on new host, for instance, in the footer.php before </body> add this line "hosted on new Host" and save the file. This will help you identify if the files are served from new host or not.

Open notepad with administrative rights (you can do this with right clicking on notepad icon and selecting "run as administrator")

Open this file: "C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"
Type following in host file

your_new_host's_IP Address yourdomain.com

your_new_host's_IP Address www.yourdomain.com

in our case, it was like following:

173.199.131.188 propakistani.pk

173.199.131.188 www.propakistani.pk

Save this file and close it.

Now go to run, and type: ipconfig /flushdns

Now, open wordpress blog's address in any browser, and bingo – check the footer, if it has "hosted on new Host" written, then you are being served from new host.

Possible Bugs:

You may need to CHMOD 777 to wp-content/uploads/ and other necessary files, for instance, cache folder created by wp-super-cache
You may need to change Database info in wp-config.php if username/passwords are not same on previous and new hosts
Your wp-super-cache will not work on new host, as the working directories will change. It is advised to completely un-install it and then re-install wp-super-cache to avoid any conflict.