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What is PayPal – FAQ
- What is PayPal?
- Is PayPal safe??
- How to add a Credit Card to my PayPal Account??
- Can I add a debit card to my PayPal account?
- What if I don’t have a credit card?
- Can I add any credit card to my PayPal account?
- How long does it take to activate my PayPal account?
- What about commission and other hidden charges?
- Can I open a PayPal account from Sri Lanka?
- Can I receive money via PayPal, if I’m a Sri Lankan PayPal user?
There are several instances where you need to make online transactions. Mostly you need to make some online payment to buy a good or service. In this situation the medium you can use is credit card. But how much you can rely on the seller?? What if the seller gets the Credit Card number and misusing it later on??
PayPal is coming into action in this situation. If you’re buying using PayPal then you don’t have to show the credit card number to the seller.
Hell yeah! Don’t worry about it. PayPal is the owner of Ebay.com. So you don’t have to worry they’ll not cheat on you.
When you sign-up for a PayPal account, by default PayPal will ask for your credit card number.
If you missed to add your credit card when you sign-up later you can log into your account and add a credit card.
Yes you can add a debit card to PayPal but make sure your debit card is international debit card. Most of the debit cards given by Sri Lankan banks are local debit cards you can’t use them for internet transaction.
You can go for Sampath Bank’s Web card. When I was studying in school I used Sampath web card as my primary card to make transactions online. Read more about Sampath Web Card.
As long as it’s a valid credit card you can add it to your PayPal account. It can be a HSBC Visa card, Commercial Bank Visa card, Master card or even American Express.
It’ll be activated instantly. You can use it just after creating the PayPal account.
As a buyer you don’t have to pay any commission to PayPal, but those who receive money via PayPal will have to pay commission to PayPal.
Yes
No, you can’t receive money. You can read my work around to check how to receive money via PayPal and get it down to your local bank.
Still have questions?? Feel free to ask me in the comments section.
Hassle free Rapidshare for Dialog Mobile Broadband
One of the main problems I had with Dialog Mobile broadband is the static IP given to all the users across the mobile broadband. As I remember there were only two IP addresses used. As the result we had enough with sites which block users based on IP.
For example, one dialog mobile broadband user did some automation stuff on Google Blogger and Google sensed it and started to block the IP address. In this case the blogger will be blocked to all the Dialog mobile broadband users as we all share the same IP address.
Another typical example I can think of is Rapidshare. Rapidshare limits the user downloads using IP address. When one users downloads a file from Rapidshare, all other users will be given a error message saying “you’re already downloading a file”.
Fortunately, now dialog mobile broadband is coming with dynamic IP. Every time you connect you’ll have different IP. I believe each broadband users is getting dynamic IP.
Good move from Dialog Mobile Broadband. I’m wondering whether Airtal is giving static or dynamic IP for their users.
You can check your IP at http://whatismyipaddress.com/
Vark.com – Q&A community (With 100 Invitations)
You Got a Question
When we have questions, we usually go ask from friends, online forums, Yahoo answers. But what about asking your question on IM (Yahoo / Gtalk) and some person who knows the answer replies you via IM again. The person who replied you may be or may be not a friend of yours.
Vark.com (Branded as Aardvark) is network of IM friends who is willing to help others. I’ll give you a typical example.
How Aardvark works
You’ve a question about movie tickets in Colombo, so you tell your question to Aardvark.
- You: How to find movie tickets in Colombo?
- Now Aardvark will look for someone who knows about Colombo
- Once Aardvark found someone who knows about Colombo, It’ll pass the question to the user.
- User answers: http://www.ticketslk.com/
- Aardvark will now show you the answer http://www.ticketslk.com/
Pretty cool huh?
Pros and Cons
I usually try questions regarding books, especially about comics. I’ll get good number of responses. Usually you’ll get good number of responses for IT, Tech related stuffs but you’ll get less number of responses for localized questions.
For an example if you ask a question about English or Google you’ll get good number answers but if you ask a question about Tamil or Sinhala then you’ll hardly get a question.
If you take Yahoo Answers, it’s one of the biggest communities available online. Compare to Yahoo Answers, Aardvark community is small.
But it’s very easy and convenient to ask a question in Gtalk / MSN window and getting the answer instantly. Believe me, Yahoo or Google can’t answer all your questions but Aardvark can answer most of the questions.
Whenever you ask questions, they were archived with the answers. So later you can go to their history page and refer the questions and answers. Also you can re-submit a question to the Aardvark community if you’re not happy with the answer.
Spirit of the Community
If you’re in a community you make use of it while helping it. What I mean is you can help the Aardvark community by answering others questions. In your profile page you can add tags. These tags will be used to identify your field of expertise.
If you tag “Google” then when someone got a question about Google, it’ll be shown to you. I have been using Aardvark network for about six months but they’ve never started to spam me. So don’t worry they won’t start to spam your IM client 
Invitation (100 only)
They’re still running on Beta and allowing limited amount of users inside. If you wanna check it out now itself, you may try the invitation link.
Once you join the network you’ll also be given invitation links, so you can also invite your friends to the world of Aardvark.
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