Municipal Council Introduces New Features on Website

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The Udaipur Municipal Council updated its website (www.udaipurmc.org) yesterday with some very welcome additions including downloading of important forms.

The newly added features include applying for tenders, downloading application forms that include marriage registration, birth and death registration, BPL registration etc.

Users can now also check the BPL list, Hoarding allotments and various other information. Another useful addition on the website is the provision of all the Help Line telephone numbers of Udaipur. [Read more...]




Wikipedia blackouts on Wednesday

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Wikipedia, the sixth most visited web-site in the world will be blacked out on Wednesday for 24hrs starting from MIDNIGHT EST, which is approximately 10:30 hrs (IST) in order to oppose the two bills which are going before the US Congress to stop the illegal copying and sharing of movies and music on the Internet. [Read more...]




UT Co-Founder to Speak at WordCamp 2011

Puneet Sahalot, the technology head of UT (UdaipurTimes.com) is selected as one of the speakers in an upcoming WordCamp at Jabalpur on 15-16th October 2011. In the camp, Puneet will discuss on usability and optimization of WordPress, the largest open source blogging platform of the world.

WordCamp is a yearly event held in many parts of the world as a formal or casual meet-up between wordpress enthusiasts, developers, entrepreneurs and bloggers.

The camp attracts many people every year as the popularity of WordPress being one of the most powerful and functional platform is growing day by day.

“I am amazed by the splendor of WordPress, though I started blogging on another free platform but since I have been introduced to WordPress, it became an important part of my profession”, says Puneet, an engineering student from CTAE, Udaipur.

Selected as one of the orator between several notable speakers who are going to participate in WordCamp, Puneet is also the first Udaipurite to do this and also the first and only WordPress customizing expert in Udaipur who is specialized in Thesis Customization, a framework built for WordPress platform.

UdaipurTimes.com is designed on WordPress platform which is the best example of Puneet’s work on tweaking and customizing it to any possible or even impossible level.

Puneet started his blogging journey in the beginning of year 2010 as the co-author of once popular blog orkutheroes.com, then co-founded FlockPost.com and later in the same year in May he co-founded UdaipurTimes.com.

While handling all techie affairs on UT, Puneet is also working on his latest venture iCustomizeThesis.com and often writes on puneetsahalot.com.

WordCamp in Jabalpur is a two day event which is divided into 2 main sessions, one for WordPress professionals and the other for those who are relatively new to wordpress.

Puneet is expected to hold different talk sessions and will share his knowledge and experience with fellow speakers and audience.




Facebooking: 10 New Words of FB world

Enrich your Facebook Lexicon- In this golden era of social networking wesbite, Facebook (fb) doesn’t need introduction to netizens. From a kid to a grown up (and even the aged populace of country), from a student to a CEO regardless of any religion Facebook fever is gaining momentum. [Read more...]




How to Activate 3G on Your Airtel Mobile

3rd Generation of mobile communication which is better known as 3G has stepped in Lake city-Udaipur. It is based on High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) technology. This super speeded 3G service has given wings to all streaming tasks on internet. The most beneficial and value for money part of it is the facility of video calling, through which the distances would never make you feel so far.  Here we are throwing light on “How to use 3G on Airtel?” [Read more...]




Linkedin Rolled Out Its New Service- Linkedin Today

Guest Post by: Chetna Purohit

LinkedIn- a business-oriented social networking site has launched a news aggregation service LinkedIn Today which went live on Thursday March10th; it aggregates the top news headlines and stories being shared by members of the site. [Read more...]




Do NOT Buy Petrol on Feb 14, 2011: First Online Campaign of Udaipur

Spending my time on facebook is not merely a time pass for me. I use it more like a book than some entertainment site. Going through some community page I came across this event “Do Not Buy Petrol On Monday, 14 Feb 2011“. It requested people to not to buy petrol on Monday so as to show their anger against inflation and corruption. I found it interesting and clicked to know more about it. [Read more...]




Social Networking Affairs: Story of Udaipur’s Teenagers

Old black-n-white romantic flicks perfectly exemplify who and how’s of love and relationship in early 70’s and 80’s. Besides its basic emotional phenomenon, almost everything has been extensively changed. Meaning of Love redefined from generation to generation.

It’s an age of social networking where a huge crowd of people connect virtually with each other and just by few clicks a new friendship starts. Sharing photos, chatting, commenting and liking are some most commonly used activities on Facebook- the world’s largest social networking website.

Many operate social networking commercially or for social cause but still majority of its users are teenagers. Considerably, it is a Golden Phase of life and undoubtedly attraction to opposite gender is a natural occurrence in this age. [Read more...]




2011 : The Year of Social Media Revolution In Udaipur

It never happened before late 90s when internet had just started spreading in the city of lakes. The tourism and marble hub, Udaipur, was blessed with World Wide Web and many business opportunities started flourishing online for handicrafts, tourism and marble industry.

Still, unfortunately the web address remained more sweetly settled in business cards than actively participating online. However many early portals like udaipurplus.com still dominates top key words. [Read more...]




Outdated Websites Part 2 : mlsu.ac.in

In my series, A beautiful city with outdated websites, today I am writing about the official website of Mohan Lal Sukhadia University (MLSU), mlsu.ac.in.

Established in 1962, as Agriculture University it turned into a multi-faculty university in 1964 and was named as University of Udaipur. Later, in 1984 it was named as Mohan Lal Sukhadia University as a mark of respect in the memory of Late Mr. Mohan Lal Sukhadia.

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