Gift Voucher from Indiatimes shopping

Been to a new destination recently?
Stayed at a good hotel?
Clicked some photos at a travel destination or recorded a video?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, here's your chance to win yourself a Rs.250/- gift voucher from Indiatimes shopping.


Tripadvisor is offering you the indiatimes shopping voucher for
-> writing a review on a hotel you've stayed
-> writing a review on an attraction/restaurant/destination you've been to
-> for adding a photo or video you've taken on one of your trips.

Just click here to go to the offer page. Select what you want to do - "Write a Review" , "Add Photos" or "Add videos". Upload the data and click Submit.

You must express your interest to receive the Indiatimes gift voucher. Unless you select the option, you will not receive the voucher. If you are a new user, you will be required to register. Once you have completed the process, they will send you the voucher to the e-mail address with which you register.
Note:
For the voucher usage details, read the Terms & Conditions.
Please read their Review/Photo/Video submission guidelines before posting anything. Read more...

Photofunia - cool photo effects online

There are number of online tools, allowing you to have fun with images. Photofunia is one such tool.

It allows you to apply funny effects on your images with couple of clicks, with no need to know any basic of the image editing. No downloads or registration is needed. Just upload your picture, select the desired effect from the list, and it is done.

Photofunia identifies the face in the picture and applies the effect nicely. Now, you can simply download the resulting funny image to your Hard Drive. There are more than 50 very different effects to choose from.

An additional use for the free service is making a nice striking avatar for your forums or social sites profiles. You can also get a photo of your loved one, apply the effect and gift it to them. This will definitely be a memorable gift. The list of effects includes Superman, Street exhibition, Portrait, Wanted Wizard, Paris Hilton holding your photo, Your photo on Angelina Jolie's t-shirt, Dollar note and many more lovely effects.The images should be not more than 500 KB in size and should be in jpeg, png or gif format.

Note: To get good effects, upload a picture which shows your face prominently. The more clear the face in the photo, the better the look of the effect. Read more...

Guruji - songs, movie timings, services - all in one

Guruji, a pioneer among Indian search technologies, has launched a new site where one can look for songs across the gamut of Indian recorded music, covering almost all languages and dating from 1923 to the present.

Harnessing the same web crawler technologies, which made their flagship search so popular, the makers have created a starkly simple portal which allows one to enter a search term: the name of the song or the singer, the film, even the actor or actress. Guruji looks for the songs you search from various websites and presents to you a list of the songs that matched your criteria. The songs can be filtered by year, language, movie, singers etc.

The results include different versions of the song from the original (often unobtainable on CDs or DVDs today) to recent remixes or instrumental versions.

Guruji also features a full-fledged web search. The City section helps you find services in your own city. Just enter WHAT you want and WHERE. You can select your City or enter the City in the WHERE box and search. For some cities, the localities are also shown. Just type a the first few characters of your locality and the various matching options are shown.

Another wonderfully useful section is the 'Movie Timings' section. Just like the City section, you can search for Movies and the show timings for a movie in your city. Select your City and type the Movie name you are looking for. The search comes up with the cinema houses where the movie is currently showing along with the show timings and the contact number of the cinema house.

One hint: most sites come with their own music players; but some require the latest versions of RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. It is worth while to download and keep both of them on your desktop to save time. Read more...