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Book Indane LPG gas refill from facebook with one click

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Technology in India growing exponentially year by year, and the Govt. of India trying to adopt as much as technology to make things faster and easier.

As we all know, now a days almost everything we can do in facebook [like knowing about friends, creating new friends, watching videos, getting to know news faster and learning new things]

Indian oil corp. and facebook collaborate each other and introduced an option where you can book to refill Indane LPG gas cylinder in just a click away.

Steps to follow

Login to your facebook account [From desktop browser or mobile app] and

  • You will be navigated to Indane.co.in site
  • Connect and continue with your facebook account [One time registration]

Disclaimer from IndianOil

  • Enter your 16 digit LPG ID and click on Continue [One time registration]

Note :

Your name and email will be taken from facebook public profile

Login to https://indane.co.in to get your 16 digit LPG ID [from home page]

  • Your name and distributor details will be auto populated and click on Book Now

Next time when you will click “Book Now” from facebook, you will be directly redirected to the booking screen as shown above screenshot.

Hope this above steps helps you to register successfully.

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Mobile data usage tips on android devices

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When we are on mobile data (4G / LTE / VOLTE), we can manage data usage or can efficiently use mobile data.

Data usage is how much data your device uploads or downloads in a period using mobile data.

Here we will discuss certain options we can use to reduce data usage in your android handset

  • Restrict background data

Some apps transfer data in the background. This means that an app may download data when you’re not using it. To reduce your data usage, you can restrict background data usage.

Android provides an option to restrict background data for all apps or selectively

Navigate to Image result for setting icon  > Data usage > More > Restrict background data

Individually, you can tap any app [see the data usage] on the screen and toggle Restrict background data ON

NOTE: if you restrict background data, you will not get any updates or notifications for the apps that is not foreground on screen [i.e background apps]

 

  • Turn auto-sync Off

By default most of the accounts [Facebook, google, Twitter, Whatsapp etc] have auto-sync ON, which draws more data

When auto-sync is on, apps automatically refresh data, and your device gets notifications about updates.

Navigate to Image result for setting icon > Accounts > tap on any account and auto-sync off

You can use less data by turning off auto-sync. If you do this, you’ll need to sync your apps manually.

 

  • Turn Auto-update apps Off

You can either update the apps manually or automatically, better to turn off auto update when you are on mobile data

Navigate to Related image > Menu > Settings > Auto-update apps > Auto-update apps over wifi only

You can even manually update the apps anytime by Related image > Menu > My apps & games

Note: Turn app update notification ON, to know which apps got latest version to update

Related image > Menu > Settings > App update available ON

 

  • Turn ON chrome browser’s Data Saver

Most android users prefer to use chrome browser as it comes default and is quite faster.

When you use Data Saver, most of your web traffic goes through Google servers before being downloaded to your device. Less data gets downloaded to your device, because Google servers will compress it.

Navigate to Image result for chrome browser > More> Settings > Data Saver

Data Saver won’t work if you’re on secure pages (addresses that start with https://) or private with Incognito mode.

 

  • Facebook auto play video Off

Facebook’s new feature to play videos as you scroll and pass through the videos on news feed, which draws most of your mobile data

Navigate to Image result for facebook > Menu > Settings > App settings > Auto-play [on wi-fi only] ON

 

  • Whatsapp media auto-download Off

Navigate to Image result for whatsapp icon > More > Settings > Data usage > Media auto-download, turn all options to “No media”

Manually you can download or play media from chat screen.

How to keep gmail account secure

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Most of the internet users use gmail as their personal email account.

Users use gmail account on more than one device like laptop, mobile, tablets etc… even connect to difference apps while sending data or even playing games on mobile, even use gmail login credentials to login to other sites as well

but did we ever wanted to see how many devices our gmail is logged in, what apps are connected etc

Google provides a one stop link to access all the things that we discussed above

Navigate or login to gmail security, here you can

Sign-in & security

  • Find your phone if forgotten

Here follow simple steps, to take few actions while you lost or forgotten your phone somewhere.

  • 2-step verification

Turn ON to make your gmail more secure

  • Recovery options

Keep the available options updated to recovery your credentials in case you forget

Through email / phone / by using security question

  • Recently used devices

Review all the devices where your gmail is logged in,

you can review and remove wherever not required [very handy feature]

  • Connected apps

Remove the apps to disconnect your account which you no longer needed

  • Saved passwords

Review and remove any unnecessary saved passwords

Personal info & privacy

Edit your personal information like email, phone number, blocked users etc…

you can even control or review your activity like

  • locations you visited [Under review activity]
  • You tube search activity / history [under Activity controls]
  • What kind of ads you prefer [Under Ads settings]

Account preferences

Delete your account or services