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10 Underestimated Ways of Making Money Online

Making money online and earning your livings via your laptop is becoming one of the most popular earning methods. Statistics have shown that there has been a significant increase in the number of people who are cashing their talent by utilizing the online platform, which for sure is a good replacement of any other real world job. It is interesting to find that when you question people about all the possible online earning strategies available, all you come across is either blogging or freelancing. There are no doubts about the significance of the two; yet, it is to be remembered now that with the spreading awareness among the potential entrepreneurs, the two stated fields are becoming saturated and complicated. If you look forward to build your blog, you need reasons; pretty good to attract your potential readers, as it is, there are more than a billion sites that are running on the same niche as yours. Similarly, now that freelancing is turning into a giant monster, every ne...

Top 10 Most Popular Google Searches In 2014

The year 2014 is almost at an end and new year is right around the corner now. A lot of good and bad things happened this year, but as you will soon find out, people tend to focus more on depressing things. Google releases a list of the most popular searches every year, which reflects the most searched topics in the past 12 months. Here are some top 10 most searched topics lists; Top 10 global Google searches Robin Williams World Cup Ebola Malaysia Airlines ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Flappy Bird Conchita Wurst ISIS Frozen Sochi Olympics Top 10 US Google searches Robin Williams World Cup Ebola Malaysia Airlines Flappy Bird ALS Ice Bucket Challenge ISIS Ferguson Frozen Ukraine Top 10 India Google searches Elections 2014 FIFA 2014 iPhone 6 GATE 2015 Narendra Modi IPL 2014 Ragini MMS 2 Kick Jai Ho Happy New Year It is interesting to see how the Global and the US lists are strikingly similar to each other. Also note how different the search patte...

Interior Ministry Wants to Re-Verify 140 Million Subscribers Through Biometric Verification in 28 Days

Interior Ministry has urged mobile phone companies to re-verify each and every mobile subscriber (somewhere around 140 million subscriptions) through newly installed biometric verification system (BVS) with-in 28 days and block all un-verified connections after the given deadline, according to our sources. This was communicated to all five telecom operators in a meeting held yesterday at PTA headquarters. PTA, as a body that facilitates communication between telcos and government, told mobile phone companies of the wishes of Interior Ministry to which telcos said that the deadline of 28 days is simply impossible to meet. One telco is even reported to have said in the meeting that shutting down their businesses in Pakistan is lot easier than re-verifying its entire customer base in 28 days. Telcos have told PTA that verification of their user-bases in 28 days is an impossible task As we  told you yesterday , the issue of un-registered SIMs has...

How to Activate 4G/LTE on Your Smartphone

At a time when  Warid has been equipping a lot of its customers with 4G LTE SIMs , ProPakistani is here with a complete procedure for activating 4G LTE services on your smartphone for Warid network. It merits mentioning here that Warid is offering free 4G Trials for its prepaid and postpaid users in following six cities: Karachi Lahore Islamabad Gujranwala PeshawarSo if you are in 4G network covered area, then you can go to Warid Business Centre to get your 4G enabled SIM. Please note that usually 4G settings on handsets are automatically configured, but if for some reason, your 4G isn’t working then here is the manual way of configuring 4G LTE on your handset. Considering that you have 4G enabled SIM, a 4G compatible handset and you live in 4G covered area, here’s how you can activate your Warid 4G on your handset: Configuring 4G LTE on Android  Enable LTE Option: Go to Menu –> Wireless & Network –> Mobile Networks -> Network ModeSelect ...

Pakistanis Among Top 5 Highest Earners On Elance-oDesk

Back in December 2013, two of the most well-known online employment industry giants, Elance and oDesk announced that they were going to merge. This partnership was regarded as a major step in establishing a lead in the freelance industry, which is expected to touch $46 billion worth by 2020. A huge part of this market,  Pakistani freelancers  have been showcasing their talent on Elance and Odesk for years now. Recently, Elance-oDesk released its Annual Impact Report for 2014. The report depicts some great facts about Pakistani freelancers’ contribution in the giant online workspace, which shows the potential of the country in an online, collaborative and competitive environment.According to the report, out of 180 countries, Pakistan is 5 th  in terms of freelancers with highest earnings index. Overall, there are around 9.3 million freelancers registered on Elance-oDesk. Gross freelancer earnings are approximately $900 million, which sho...

Can 3G and 4G do Wonders with Data?

Pakistan’s telecom industry can easily be regarded as one of the most competitive market in the region, where world’s top telecom operators with ultra deep pockets contend to get their share by leaving no stone unturned. Backgrounder Data has never been marketed and sold like data, instead customers’ number has always remained the core focus for telecom operators. Unfortunately — in the past — the monopoly behaviour by PTCL has always pushed other operators to indulge into this number game and in doing so they could never actually promote the data and make it a part of our daily lives. This game is still on and it is still the number of customers that matter. What “Data” is being used for is not the concern of data sellers. Once again PTCL is in competition with 3G operators and resultantly we are seeing similar ads from 3G operators in which they are using terms such as “Unlimited” and “MBs”. Betting on 3G We know that Pakistan had only  3.35 millio...

Apple two Years Behind Android?

  Everyone just has to have the latest and  greatest iPhone , right? Wrong! It seems that with Apple's "new" iPhone, released in just September of 2014, is already TWO years behind Android's Nexus 4. Why is this, and what exactly are the specs of these two phones? Let's take a look, Apple's iPhone 6 (9/2014) - Screen Size comes in at 4.7" - 750p resolution - Payments over NFC - Notification Actions - 3rd party keyboards - Widgets - Typing suggestions - Cross-app communication - Cloud photo backup - Battery Stats Android's Nexus 4 (11/2012) - 4.7" screen size - 750p resolution - Payments over NFC - Notification actions - 3rd party keyboards - Widgets - Typing suggestions - Cross-app communications - Cloud photo backup - Battery stats We've seen the specs, what's the real difference? We've taken a look at the  specifications of both phones , and there really aren't any diiferences that meet th...