Killer Review of the Day: Gstek.Info – A Telecom News Forum

October 24th, 2009 by Mani Viswanathan Leave a reply »

If you are a mobile freak then surely you must have visited many famous Mobile forums which give lots of tweaks/mods & softwares for different different brands of mobile phones. But Gstek gives a hell lot of tweaks relating to the network providers. For Eg. Airtel GPRS Hacks , Airtel NOP Hacks ,etc.

Why Choose Gstek ?

There are many points by which this Question will automatically get answered. First of all its a site where you get detailed information about all the hacks & tweaks in network settings , which generally make it a FREEBIE (i.e. any thing which is available for free). Also you get feedback / replies from the users of Gstek regarding a particular topic. So you can ensure whether the hack will work or not without even trying it yourself. So ultimately your job is reduced.

Detailed Review

The forum is built using SMF (Simple Machines Forum) which is an open source forum script. So its pretty good to use a free script rather than going for paid scripts as they are costly & are not that user friendly. But as the URL’s in SMF by default are not SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly i.e. they are not clean url’s , but can be rewritten either by modifying .Htaccess OR by using a mod from the SMF site named Pretty URL’s. The usage of the mod will be much simpler than configuring the .htaccess file. Also the template/theme is the default template of SMF having few modifications here & there. But I would suggest to modify the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) of the default SMF template a bit to give the forum a more attractive look than the same default look. The site loading is quite fast as compared to other sites. Also they have a separate WAP site for mobile users. They have other categories too with Mobiles hacks. As talking only about mobile will be quite boring. But there is an hour by hour update to the posts if at all the hack gets changed or the service provider like Airel , Vodafone ,etc block them. So overall the site’s pretty good. They also have a blog of their own ; as it has become a trend to have blogs with main sites. But the Number of Threads as compared to the members registered is quite less. its only 2,410 Threads/Topics : 11,322 Members. This ratio can be improved whereas the topic : post ratio is awesome. Its 2,410 Threads/Topics : 56,317 Posts. The posts are high due to the reply a particular thread gets after that particular hack has been tried. A feedback kinda thing.

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Site Snapshot

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Gstek.Info – Snapshot.

Some Useful Links

Gstek Blog

Gstek WAP

Gstek for iPhone users

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15 comments

  1. Gourav sharma gstek.info says:

    First of all i heartily want to thank http://www.talkonsomething.com for posting a true
    review about http://gstek.info , Well i accept that
    Currently Gstek needs lots of improvements in terms
    of looks and Features but the only problem we are facing is FUNDS, As gstek is 101% free site, we doesn’t charge any penny even for VIP section.

    Still we are looking to get some support over funds so that our users can get Great experience from Gstek :)

    I also want to clarify your point of Less no of topics as compared to Members and posts, From the start of Gstek its my thinking that excess crowd of any information can make information unaccessible, We believes in QUALITY not QUANTITY and we are following this thing.

    Our current no. of topics is something near 6,500 according to database but we deleted most of they topics as they were old, was having useless information, could be merged into others etc. so actual topics are ~ 2,500 only…

    One again thanks for letting this world know about Gstek :)

  2. raahi says:

    ohh my god… what a great forum..I found everything there which is needed by every mobile addict or user… I can’t explain what gstek gave me now days….I love this forum…thanks talkonsomething

  3. ram_mundhra says:

    GSTEK.info is really a great site. it’s not only a site. it’s like a family. all the members are really helpfull. if you have any question or any problem realated to computer, internet, health, life anything just log on to gstek.info. if you want anything related to hack, software, games, latest tricks, any discussion. you will find all of this in one and only site ” gstek.info “.

  4. Mani V talkonsomething.com says:

    @Gourav – Tnx for letting us know why the topics are less & its good to do what you guys did…Well If you can tell me whats the problems your facing then I can help you when I ‘am free. Just hit me up @ gtalk.

    @raahi – same here , I too got loads of things when I was using Airtel.

    @ram_mundhra – True , if you get involved in anything then that becomes almost your second home , I too agree with that point.

    :-)

  5. Rashmi says:

    WOW what a rocking forum… lots of information.. and lots of things to learn…. and what a great people there… “I m Loving it”

  6. SaurabhStar freetechjournal.com says:

    Gstek.info is really a great forum hunted by inexperienced as well as experienced pro in computing and networking expertise. A true forum which knows to give appropriate credits wherever due and a forum which cultivates the smartest and intelligent you in you.
    THe negative point that I see in Gstek is that its less professional from many aspects and that is what inhibits its proper monetization. So Gourav should actually focus on making things more professional and of authority kind coz quality with authority is considered superiority and would earn more and more for him as well as the community.

  7. admin talkonsomething.com says:

    @ Saurabh – true , but I ‘am sure he will implement new & featured things with time..!!

  8. Ricky techgenuine.com says:

    Well I have been the fan of gstek for a quite long. I am not that active now a days. But gstek is surely the hang out place for mobile lovers. Are you on gstek? What is ur name in gstek? My name id is “apbkdh7″ in gstek forum

  9. Mani Viswanathan talkonsomething.com says:

    well I was on Gstek actively till the time I had Airtel card :-) , Now I don’t need tricks.. But still I visit Gstek Once a day to know the news in there.

  10. Gourav sharma gstek.info says:

    Well there been huge changes in Gstek within
    this 1 month, Now Gstek Page rank is ” 3 ” and Alexa rank is improved more than 1 lack As current
    Alexa rank is ” 172,314 ”

  11. Mani Viswanathan talkonsomething.com says:

    thats good..with PR a good alexa rank would do well..maintain it :)

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