Whenever you get a new SIM card, it takes time for you to by heart your own mobile number.
Sometimes,you might even forget your own mobile number due to several confusions and you always give a call to your friends or relatives mobile so that you can have a look at your number,its a long process,isn’t it? Well, now on, you can just use the codes in this tutorial to Check your own mobile number for major network providers such as the below given ones, we will actually use some codes that’ll show up your mobile number without wasting much time.

You just have to open up your phone’s Dialer, type these codes and finally you need to hit the call button or sometimes you just need to type it. You’ll see that a small window pop up giving you the required details (Some carriers ask you to confirm it, just hit “OK” to proceed) . And the best part is that it works even with zero balance as it is completely free, even better than calling others to check your mobile number because even that requires currency!

Gaming is a passion for some. Madness for many. There are a million gaming freaks around the world exploring and experimenting various game titles that are being released every year. In this huge segment of computing, there are various giants emerging as well as collapsing with many of their latest releases. From adventures to racing and sports there are hundreds of games taking birth each month. Selecting the best games out of these is indeed a tiring job. Here are the three all-time popular games. And you shouldn't miss playing these !

3. Half-Life 2 
2. The Orange Box
Games included in The Orange Box compilation: The original Half-Life 2 - The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people - people he cares about - are counting on him. Half-Life 2: Episode One - The player reprises his role of Dr. Freeman, who must immediately face the repercussions of his actions in City 17 and the Citadel. Freeman reconnects with Alyx Vance and her robot, Dog, as they continue their support of the resistance's battle against the Combine forces. Half-Life 2: Episode Two -- the second installment in Valve's episodic trilogy advances the award-winning story, leading the player to new locations outside of City 17. Portal - a pioneering type of single player action game that rewrites the rules for how players approach and manipulate their environment – much like how Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun reinvented the way gamers interact with objects in the game. Team Fortress 2 - an all-new version of the legendary title that spawned team based multiplayer action games. The game's daring new art style features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date. [Valve Software]
1. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 liter (33 oz) ice cream (any flavor).
• Crushed cereal, such as corn flakes, frosted flakes, cinnamon squares, or puffed rice (it is also possible to use finely crushed sweet hard cookies/crackers or plain breadcrumbs).
• Flour (a small bowl of it, approx 1/2 cup).
• Oil (use an unflavoured oil that has a high heat point).
• 2 eggs (beaten in a bowl large enough for dipping).
• Cinnamon and/or sugar (optional).

1. Prepare two baking sheets by lining with a silicon liner or parchment paper. Then place the sheets in the freezer for half an hour prior to making the ice cream balls.

2. Scoop symmetrical balls of ice cream. Try to make each scoop about as large as your fist. Make as many scoops as will fit on the baking sheets.
5. Coat the ice cream. Remove the balls from the freezer, then:

• Roll each ice cream ball first in the flour bowl. A little flour over each ball provides increased strength.
• Roll each ice cream ball in the beaten egg.
• Lastly, roll each ball around in the crushed cereal. (For a tastier treat, you can add cinnamon and sugar to the crushed cereal. Just make sure you still have enough cereal bits on the ice cream to coat the surface of the scoop.)
• Alternatively, you may dip the ice cream balls in cake batter to make a thin, donut-like coating. Then either fry the balls directly or sprinkle / roll them in crushed cookie or biscuit crumbs to give a crisp shell. This method can be done immediately before frying, or like the method above may be re-frozen as follows.

6. Place the ice cream balls back on the baking sheets, then back in the freezer.Freeze for at least two hours before frying. At this point, you can actually keep the ice cream balls frozen for up to two months if needed.
7. Fry the coated ice cream balls. Heat up the oil until it shimmers - approx 185C or 364F. Fry the ice cream balls in batches two at a time to avoid reducing the temperature of the oil. A low temperature won't fry them crisply. Fry until each ball turns a light/golden brown all over. Remove as soon as it's done.

8. Serve the ice cream balls. Serve immediately after frying, with chocolate or caramel sauce or other favorite sauce. If you'd like the dessert to be colder, place it back into the freezer for a few more minutes after it's fried, then pull out and serve a little colder. This is a personal preference and isn't essential.

Hosting contests or organizing a give away is one of the best strategies that you can use to drive traffic into your website/ blog. This is an age old idea that is used by almost all the webmasters around the web. But hosting a contest or a give away can be a tedious job to a few at least. Finding out a sponsor or a gift to be given is the only tough job behind the scene. The prizes need not be really expensive to drive attention, gifting an ear phone or a domain name can also be equally competent. Today we will give you a few ideas that can be used to host a contest without much your pocket money being drained. If you have a blog that isn't really new in the blogosphere, these tips can help you a lot to boost your online presence.

Finding out a sponsor.

1. Find Out a Third Party Sponsor
Finding out a sponsor for your give away should be the first step in organizing a contest. Sponsors can be of different types depending upon your site's popularity and traffic. If your blog belongs to newbie category, it is always preferable to approach some software firms or cloud storage sites. These firms do not need any capital to give away their products such as a software license or a premium cloud storage account, and therefore there are higher chances of these groups cooperating with you. An antivirus, internet security or any other popularly used software can be offered as a prize, and these software are indeed a benefit to the winners.
If you have a site that has comparatively higher amount of traffic and popularity, then try to find out materialistic prizes such as gadgets or accessories, as these gifts can obviously drive higher attention, but you need to prove yourself to the sponsor that you are worth the sponsorship.

2. Sponsor Yourself
If you are a very beginner and you website is really new, it is hard to find sponsors for your contests. That does not mean that you cannot host a contest. Sponsor it yourself. Keep aside some of your pocket money for this. It doesn't matter how small the prize is, it is just the give away that matters. Drive maximum traffic with the efforts you make. Bring up your site. Establish your presence. And later on, you will have sponsors waiting for you.

How to count on the Entries and Manage your contests. 
The next step is organizing the contest. Promoting your contest. Managing the entries. Choosing the winners. And there goes it. Managing the contest can be done easily using some contest managers that are available free with limited features and paid with premium features. Rafflecopter is one such service that can be used to manage your contests or give away-s. Rafflecopter can be clubbed with almost all the social networking sites, email clients and most of the web platforms. You can choose from the wide range of options to count on the entries and Rafflecopter can easily manage the entries based on their actions which can be counted or rejected. You can ask your readers to share a post, post a tweet, comment on your blog or anything else and Rafflecopter can easily track them, hence you do not have the head aches of organizing or verifying the entries. This site also offers a free service with limited features which can be used to host your initial contests.

Promoting your contests, sharing the word.
The best way to promote your contest is asking the contestants to share the word through social networking sites, and counting on entries based on their number of posts or re-tweets. This is really effective and might reach millions from mouth to mouth. Share about the contest through your Fan pages, emails and let your friends know while you talk. If you have a better budget and would like to reach a higher amount of audience, then start advertising too.

Everywhere in the web you can see posts about Xiaomi Mi3 Releasing in India. Flipkart being the sole dealer of the brand in India, the site crashed as soon as the phone's sales started. The phone was sold out in 40 Minutes. The phone is priced pocket friendly and has mind blowing specifications. Everything about this smart and cost efficient phone is convincing. But there are certain things to consider before you jump into buying one. Here are our 5 Reasons for this post.

1. Lack of Service Stores.
Xiaomi has only now made its first foray into the highly lucrative Indian market, and therefore they do not have a wide network of service stores. The after sales services associated with this brand is yet to be reviewed. Once you encounter an issue with the device, there is hardly anyone you can approach. Flipkart being the dealer, might offer services through courier companies, and this would be time consuming as well as a tedious job. Therefore before you get one in your hands, make sure you have a service station near you or at place that you can reach conveniently. Here is a list of service centers as of now. You can hardly find one near you.

Have you ever wondered about the pros and cons of buying a less popular smartphone brand? Why do the
leasing brands price their devices higher than the less popular ones that offer better specifications? It is not just the brand name that decides the price tag. There are various factors that influence the price of a smartphone. Know it right, before you open your wallet.

In the recent years we have a lot of emerging smartphone brands in our market. Some of them being Micromax, Karbonn, Xolo, Gionee, etc. Most of these brands offer up to the mark specifications as well as amazing designs, but are priced much lower than their competing popular counterparts. Most probably you can get half the specification at double the price while you go for a popular brand like Samsung, Nokia, Sony or HTC.

In both rich countries and poor ones, cheaper smartphone brands are making inroads. Demand for pricey phones, mainly in developed economies, is slowing, but that for less expensive devices is booming. People buying their first smartphones today, perhaps to replace a basic handset, care less about the brand and more about price than the richer, keener types of a few years ago. The brands that get affected due to this washout is the richer ones like Apple or Samsung. Apple may still seem to struggle for existence due to the unique OS they have and apparently impregnable brand. But the most vulnerable would be the brands dealing with Google's Android OS. Samsung and Sony would definitely have a hit back in the coming years.

The weekend is here again, and are you confused over your plan for the weekend? TalkandSpeak is also back with its handpicked weekend destination. Let us keep away the restaurants and shopping malls. There are no much awaited releases at the cinemas either. So we are going for a different experience this time. We suggest you to 'Go Kart' this weekend. Kochi has one of the newest 'Go Karting' track opened at the Info Park, Kaloor. Before you ask, we answer you the basic questions.

What is 'Karting'?
Kart racing or karting is a variant of open-wheel motor-sport with small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits. Karting is commonly perceived as the stepping stone to the higher ranks of motor-sports. Art Ingels is generally accepted to be the father of karting. A veteran hot rodder and a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, he built the first kart in Southern California in 1956. Karting has rapidly spread to other countries, and currently has a large following in Europe.
Bookings can be done by calling Speedway Kochi’s contact number – 9645962434.