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.
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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...

Give Away Of The Day

Giveawayoftheday - Every day they offer for FREE licensed software you'd have to buy otherwise!

The idea behind this initiative is that many sites and publishers offer trial downloads; but only this website offer giveaway downloads. What does that mean?

Basically, every day they nominate one software title that will be a Giveaway title of that day. The software will be available for download for 24 hours (or more, if agreed by software publisher) and that software will be absolutely free. That means - not a trial, not a limited version - but a registered and legal version of the software will be free.

The software product will be presented in its full functionality, without any limitations save for those mentioned in Terms and Conditions.

The download link will remain on the web-site for the agreed period of time, together with the review of the software product and the information about other products from the software publisher presenting the giveaway title.

Both reviews and the information on the product line will remain active even when the Giveaway period is over.

No registrations! No Logins! Just direct download...

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A penny saved!

Planning to put your money in Fixed Deposit? Planning for a loan - personal, car, home or education? Want the best deal for these - Rupeetimes has the answers!

This website has updated details about the finances. Be it bank-specific announcements or any changes to the regulation, you can find all finance related news here.

In their 'News & Advice' section you can find articles related to Credit Cards, Auto Loans, Home Loans, FDs, Savings Accounts and Education Loans. List of banks providing each of these products is also listed. 'Ask an expert' on each of these pages allows you to put forward your queries and they shall get back to you by e-mail.

You can compare offerings from different banks in the 'Compare' section of this site. Loads of calculators in the 'Calculator' section to calculate your Car Loan EMI, Home Loan EMI, Fixed Deposit Interest Income and what not.

In these turbulent financial times, a penny saved is an extra penny earned. Happy saving!!

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Widgetmate - your friend if you have a website

Have a website and looking for content on different topics? Head for widgetmate

Widgetmate provides news widgets on various topics for your website for freee. These widgets come in various sizes and can be customized. You can choose the colors, border, topics, size. Once you are done with your customizations, click to get the code. Use this code on your website at the place where you want the content to be displayed.

Widgetmate offers these widgets in numerous sizes and layouts - Scrolling Sidebar layout, Wide scrolling layout with images, Sidebar layout with images, Wide layout without images, Scrolling News Ticker and many others.

The News Widget delivers fresh, breaking news from around the world for the topics of your choice to your blog, webpage, website, or homepage.

These widgets are compatible with Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, HTML, PHP and JavaScript.

So, for your website-content needs, widgetmate is the place to be.

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Wobzip - Excellent utility to unzip your compressed files online

How many times you are faced with a situation like this - You download a compressed file only to find out that the PC you are using doesn't have WinRar installed on it.

The above is just one case. There are so many other formats of compressed files which require specific applications to be installed.

There is a simple solution to such problems - Wobzip. It supports 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS formats.

Logon to www.wobzip.org. Click on Choose File. Locate your file on the disk and click the wobzip! button. You can also uncompress a file from an URL.

The file is uploaded to their server for uncompression. Each file is encoded with a hash, which they say will assure that they don't open, view or distribute your files.

After the uncompression, the list of files is displayed and you can save the files by click on the filenames.

There is a limit on the filesize. The maximum filesize for a file is 100MB.

So, the next time you want to uncompress a file and the required software is not installed/available, you know where to go!

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My first post

Voila! This is my first post. 

Finally, the blogging bug has biten me. Welcome to my blog. 

I wish to post anything interesting i come across going around. Be it finding any tools on the internet, bargains, deals, cheap travel options, second hand goods and what not.

Come here regularly and am sure u'll find something that interests you every post, every day.

Enjoy your visit here...

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