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Entrecard 60k Giveaway Contest

2009-05-04T20:40:00.003+06:00

Faith and Facts; a very interesting blog and popular blog is holding a very very huge contest and guess what? The prize money for this really exiciting contest is 60K EntreCredites!! That's enough credits to replace a work load of two months!

Entry the contest is very simple; here are a few rule that will place you in this contest as well.

Prizes - 50,000 ec + sponsorships

1. 30,000 ec + 100 RSS via email subscriptions
2. 10,000 ec + 50 RSS via email subscriptions
3. 5,000 ec + 25 RSS via email subscriptions
4. 3,000 ec + 10 RSS via email subscriptions
5. 2,000 ec + 10 RSS via email subscriptions

So, what are you waiting for?! I just entered the contest by writing this post. Have you? Check out the contest here.

Callisto - Three Column, Glossy looking, Web 2.0 Wordpress Theme + Give Away!

2009-04-27T22:14:00.003+06:00

Skidzopedia's Theme Review - Upto 500 EC Give Away!

Skidzopedia.com has recently launched it Glossy blue Wordpress theme; named Callisto. The great part about this is that skidzopedia.com is offering 300 and up to 500 EntreCredits to all those who write a review about his latest Wordpress theme. I have applied for it and you can too (I will later update how much I got, it all depends how good you write). Once you have published contact @ www.skidzopedia.com/contact

After talking to him; here are a few rules that you need to follow before writing.

Include Screen-shot as shown below,
Include One Download link and One DemoLink,
Don't forget to mention about the give away (as I did),
Write unique post mentioning all the features as below;

Here is a glimpse of what you can write;

Callisto - Three Column, Glossy looking, Web 2.0 Wordpress Theme

Callisto contains Two Widget Ready Left and Right sidebars, with a shining glossy look. The theme is available in 4 unique flavors; Red, Blue, Green and Gray. Users have the leverage to choose their own favorite color.

Highly Search Engine and Adsense Optimized with easy to use interface. Social bookmarking buttons have also been added for readers to share content with the rest of the world. It is fully Wordpress 2.7 ready and well designed by every aspect such as social bookmarking buttons, comment area and quote style etc.

Features:

* 3 Columns,
* Widgetized Sidebar,
* Wordpress 2.7 Support,
* Dynamic background,
* Four unique colors (Red, Green, Blue, Gray),
* Social bookmarking button,

This theme is released under GPL.

Download Callisto Live Demo

Update: I just received 500 EC + 200 bonus EC for ellaborating it to my readers. Thanks Skidzopedia!

Winners of Lets Win This Contest Season 2 from shankerbakshi.com

2008-12-02T22:22:00.000+05:00

HERE ARE THE WINNERS
Themes Logo/Banner/Design (Total 8 Prizes worth $533)

1. Two Custom Banner Design from Buy Templates worth $99 winner Chie
2. One Custom Logo Design from Logo Angel worth $99 winner Phoenix2life
3. Premium WordPress Theme plus Bonus Make Money Online Theme from Neil Duckett dot Com worth $75 Winner Yen
4. Two WordPress Template Design from Buy Templates worth $60 Winner Eljon
5. One logo Design from Mr Javo worth $50 Winner Topen
6. One Professional Header Design from worth Graphics Design by Nilo $50 Winner David
7. One professional Header Design from Mohit Aneja worth $50 Winner Pinnaymama
8. One professional Logo Design from Photoshop World worth $50 Winner wiehanne

Some More Prizes (Total 8 Prizes worth $189.99)

1. One copy of WP Auctions Gold V.2.0 from Sponsorview worth $24.99 Winner Sherry
2. One Free Review from WebTrafficROI worth $25 Winner gengen
3. One Free Review from NSpeaks worth $25 Winner Chie
4. One Free Review from Inspiritblog worth $50 Winner Paco
5. Cash $20 via PayPal. From JoeTech Winner Yen
6. One 468×60 banner for one month from Submityourcontest worth $10 Winner blogywalkie.com
7. One 468×60 banner for one month from NSpeaks worth $20 Winner Marlene
8. One Free featured listing of winner’s contest on Submityourcontest worth $15 Winner David

125 x 125 Square Ads (Total 13 prizes worth $ 173)

1. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Abhinav Sonkar’s Blog worth $30 Winner Lankapo
2. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Mr. Javo Worth $25 Winner Kris
3. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from WebTrafficROI worth $20 Winner Eljon
4. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from NSpeak Worth $15 Winner Luis Torres
5. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Eyespi20 Worth $15 Winner gengen
6. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from JoeTech Worth $10 Winner Rosh
7. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Name Sherry Worth $10 Winner Sherry
8. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Shopping ad space Worth $10 Winner Indocontest
9. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Submit Your Contest Worth $10 Winner Phoenix2life
10. 125×125 Square ad for Two months from My Life’s Adventure Worth $10 Winner Suwari
11. 125×125 Square Ad for two months from Wonderful Things In Life Worth10 Winner Paco
12. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Tech By PC Worth $8 Winner Bintage
13. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Slightly Mordant Worth $5 Winner Yen

Link Ads (Total 5 prizes worth $91)

1. One Featured link for One Year in PR3 Directory Dawsoneng from Abhishek Deshpande worth $36 Winner Hussein
2. Two featured links for One month from WebTrafficROI worth $20 Winner Khristen Jane
3. One featured link for One month from Medan Daily worth $20 Winner wiehanne
4. One featured link for One month from NSpeaks.com - worth $10 Winner Karun
5. One featured link for One month from Ragnarok Guide worth $5 Winner Marlene

Entrecard Ad Spot Sponsors (Total 33 Prizes of 65000 Credits worth $390)

1. 5000 EC Credits from Techbypc winner John doro
2. 5000 EC Credits from slamblogger winner BBx
3. 5000 EC Credits from nukeit Winner wiehanne
4. 5000 EC Credits from snapshotcap Winner Guru
5. 3000 EC Credits from semuaorank Winner ThemeLib.com
6. 3000 EC Credits from abhinavsonkar Winner Topen
7. 3000 EC Credits from gewgawwritings Winner wiehanne
8. 3000 EC Credits from JoeTech Winner Dhadha
9. 2000 EC Credits from babyerika Winner gengen
10. 2000 EC Credits from sofhaljamil Winner Indocontest
11. 2000 EC Credits from wpbeginners Winner Chie
12. 2000 EC Credits from realmofprosperity Winner Sweetytots
13. 2000 EC Credits from jdoqocy Winner Pinnaymama
14. 2000 EC Credits from suki-desu Winner Sherry
15. 2000 EC Credits from days of my Life winner The Fitness Diva
16. 2000 EC Credits from impnerd winner Navjot Singh
17. 1000 EC Credits from Kisahberuang Winner Aiza
18. 1000 EC Credits from Random Detox winner John doro
19. 1000 EC Credits from Google Stalking Winner Sherry
20. 1000 EC Credits from Moneyne.ws Winner gengen
21. 1000 EC Credits from communicatebetter Winner MOJ
22. 1000 EC Credits from work-at-home-wealth Winner Hobo.he
23. 1000 EC Credits from Getting Personal Winner Yen
24. 1000 EC Credits from theonlydevice Winner Icon
25. 1000 EC Credits from tenforty Winner Lankapo
26. 1000 EC Credits from skidzopedia Winner wiehanne
27. 1000 EC Credits from eleanormordenoaguilar Winner Pinnaymama
28. 1000 EC Credits from sofhaljamil Winner Karun
29. 1000 EC Credits from seo-tuneup Winner Sherry
30. 1000 EC Credits from medandaily Winner David
31. 1000 EC Credits from lolcelebs Winner Sherry
32. 1000 EC Credits from bestjoanne Winner wiehanne
33. 1000 EC Credits from ajabgajab Winner Kris

Other Entrecard Credits Sponsored (Total 10 Prizes of 11000 Credits worth $66)

1. 2,000 EC Credits from Wonderful Things In Life Winner Khristen Jane
2. 1,000 EC Credits from Make Money Online Winner ThemeLib.com
3. 1,000 EC Credits from My Life’s Adventure Winner gengen
4. 1,000 EC Credits from SimplyWP Winner MOJ
5. 1,000 EC Credits from Wiehanne Lounge Winner The Fitness Diva
6. 1000 EC Credit from Michael Aulia Winner wiehanne
7. 1000 EC Credit from Contest Whiz Winner Kris
8. 1000EC Credits from Heart Random Winner Hussein
9. 1000 EC Credits from Fantasy Baseball Advice Winner Dhyarga
10. 1000 EC Credits from Amorfrancis Winner Luis Torres

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Vulnerability

2008-07-31T15:14:00.000+06:00

Code execution vulnerability found in latest Firefox 3.0 could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, permitting the attacker to completely take over the vulnerable process, potentially allowing the machine running the process to be completely controlled by the attacker. The flaw found in Firefox 3.0 is considered a high-severity risk and affects earlier versions of Firefox 2, including the latest 2.0.0.14.

The vulnerability does not come exclusively in Firefox 3.0 rather it has also been diagnosed in early versions of Firefox 2.0.x. This exploit was discovered within 5 hours of the official release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17th.

While Mozilla is working on a fix, we wont be divulging anything else until a patch is available, adhering to our vulnerability disclosure policy.

Unlock Password Protected PDF Files

2008-07-30T16:59:00.002+06:00

Some PDF documents prevent the user from copying and pasting or printing it's contents. This sometimes presents a problem since the author of the PDF might have used a font that is not available in the sytem trying to read it. This page contains a free online utility that allows you to upload a PDF, once uploaded, a version of the PDF without printing or copying/pasting restrictions is displayed in a new browser window.

One solution, recommended by Ghacks, is to use PDF Unlocker which is a free PDF unlocking utility that will remove all restrictions.

You just need to upload the file and the unlocked version of the PDF without printing or copying/pasting restrictions will be displayed in a new browser window in your default PDF application

X908 - DualSIM 8MP Camera Phone

2008-07-29T22:14:00.003+06:00

The megapixel battle isn’t just heating up in Europe, but Asia too, it would seem. The manufacturer isn’t known, but the model number is – X908. Though the phone sports an 8MP sensor, it’s possible that the megapixels are interpolated, ala the Xcute DV2, and the iMobile 902.

Its main features are listed here:

3 inch TFT touchscreen
240 x 320 pixels and 16 million colors
115 x 55 x 20 mm
140 grams
8 megapixels camera with 3x optical lens
2 megapixels front camera (but no 3G?)
dual SIM support (seems like both for GSM)
dual microSD slots
mobile TV capabilities
music and video players
FM radio
MMS
stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
pre-installed NES simulator to play Nintendo Games

Google Knol Now Open

2008-07-28T15:52:00.000+06:00

Google Knol, the Wikipedia-like service that was released in its first alpha phase in December last year is now available to everyone.

The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge.

At its heart, Google says Knol is just a web page where authors can create topics, and link to articles and content but layered onto the Knol page are various community tools so readers will be able to submit comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on.

The screenshot below shows a sample page from Knol.

Overall, suspicions about Google favoring its own results and once again stepping outside the bounds of its famous "don't be evil" mantra are understandable. We'll be keeping an eye on Google's search results and the development of Knol now that it's open to the public.

MobileMe Status

2008-07-27T15:42:00.001+06:00

Steve Jobs has asked me to write a posting every other day or so to let everyone know what’s happening with MobileMe, and I’m working directly with the MobileMe group to ensure that we keep you really up to date. In the 14 days since we launched, it’s been a rocky road and we know the pain some people have been suffering. Be assured people here are working 24-7 to improve matters, and we’re going to favor getting you new info hot off the presses even if we have to post corrections or further updates later.

One issue we encountered was a mail outage affecting 1% of our members. Last Friday a serious problem with one of our mail servers blocked those members’ access to their MobileMe mail accounts. As of today a team was able to restore limited web access to those accounts so the affected members can use their browsers to read mail that has arrived since last Friday (though not before) as well as send and receive new mail. The team has already begun rolling out restoration of full access for all the accounts and expect to finish by the end of next week. We particularly regret to report the loss in the affected accounts of approximately 10% of the messages received between July 16 and July 18.

The day we launched MobileMe, we had a lot more traffic to our servers than we anticipated, with the result that access to the web versions of the MobileMe applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, iDisk — was temporarily unavailable. We’ve since added server capacity and tuned our software to scale better — i.e. behave more gracefully when traffic spikes. The team has also fixed over 70 bugs including one that was preventing MobileMe IMAP mail folders from syncing correctly between the web app and Mac OS X Mail or Outlook, plus others correcting display issues in Calendar and in general enhancing the performance of our web apps.

We’ll post another update later this weekend to report on status and hopefully further progress.

Creating Panorama With Photoshop, The Easiest Way

2008-07-20T16:26:00.007+06:00

Do you know you can create panorama with Adobe Photoshop? Adobe Bridge and Photoshop lets you create a panoramic version of your photos and it take just a few seconds to do that. All you need to do is select your photos to be stitch and let Photoshop do the rest. I hope you'll find it useful.

Step 1
In Adobe Bridge, select the photos you want to combine. Hold Control to select multiple photos.

Step 2
In Adobe Bridge, with the photos in selection, goto Tools -> Photoshop -> Photomerge.

Step 3
Photomerge dialog box will appear. Select the layout of your panorama. Click OK and Photoshop will start copying images one by one and will do the necessary stitching, automatically.

Step 4
Finally, use "Crop tool" to remove the unwanted parts on the image.

Hardest Super Mario Level Ever

2008-07-21T12:11:00.004+06:00

Want to see the Hardest Super Mario Level? It almost gave me a Heart Attack.

iriver Lplayer PMP

2008-07-19T15:32:00.011+06:00

The manufacturer of digital audio players, iriver has launched its sleek and stylish PMP, named as Lplayer, in the US market. Basically, this PMP is one of the smallest and most compact that iriver has to offer.

It includes the following features:

A 2-inch QVGA display,
4GB and/or 8GB of internal memory,
Built-in FM tuner,
Integrated voice recorder,
Unique D-click control system,
Supports a number of audio/video formats, including MPEG, WMV9, and XVID,
Available only in black, pink, and white.
Costs around $110~$160, depending on the memory size.

This is what Sean Oh, head of U.S. operations for iriver has to say:

"Consumers have come to expect extreme style and innovation from iriver, and the new Lplayer delivers on all counts. The Lplayer is a perfect example of how iriver manages to mesh sophistication with endless capabilities, and offer it all at a price that will surprise."

It will be made available by the 24th of this month.

Record Video Chats With ooVoo

2008-07-18T15:50:00.000+06:00

ooVoo helps you connect with your friends, family, and business associates like you’ve never done before with high-quality video and sound. Using ooVoo is easy and fun, all consumers need is a computer, a broadband connection and a Web camera.

It can handle as many as six people in one video conference as well as a dozen in the integrated voice chat conference.

Skype video can be recorded through third-party programmes. The new 1.5 version of ooVoo also adds features found in other chat programmes: visual effects and the ability to call US phones. The first two hours of calls are free.

Download Adobe Reader 9.0

2008-07-17T15:43:00.000+06:00

Adobe Acrobat Reader is free, and freely distributable software that lets you view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Acrobat Reader also lets you fill in and submit PDF forms online. Recently, Adobe has released a new version of its famous PDF reading software i.e. Adobe Reader 9.

Included features in Adobe Reader 9 are:

Security and Accessibility Enhancements
PDF Standards Pane
PDF Portfolios
Improved launch speeds

It works well on all Windows versions and is also available for other operating systems too.

Download Adobe Reader 9

iTunes Remote: Control iTunes using iPhone

2008-07-16T09:00:00.000+06:00

There it is, new from Apple which turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a remote control. It works with Apple TV and iTunes over the WiFi network to play, pause, skip and shuffle your songs stored in your iTunes library.

The applications show you the art, your personal play lists (including the smart ones), all in real time.

Some other features of this app are:

Simple and secure setup
Controls AirTunes
Controls Apple TV
Intuitive Controls
Search

You can Downloaded it from iTunes App Store.

Google Talk on the iPhone

2008-07-15T18:37:00.000+06:00

Google has officially released a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers. In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you're on the move, too!

It even includes the option for multi-user chat, a feature still absent from the desktop and Gmail client. Apple may of forgot iChat on the iPhone, but IM is alive and well with Google Talk.

In your iPhone browser, just go to www.google.com/talk, sign in and start chatting. This is a web app so you don’t need to download or install anything.

From now on you will never miss any latest gossip or updates from friends just because you're away from a computer.

Softmaker Office 2006 Free Full Version Download

2008-07-14T14:55:00.003+06:00

Softmaker Office is commercial office productivity suite developed by software company in Nuremberg, Germany, and is flagship application product of the company.

In an ideal world, you could create a Word or Excel document on your desktop PC, put it on your Windows CE PDA, edit and format it on the road, and then send it back to the office as a .DOC or .XLS file, with content and all formatting still intact.

Unfortunately, it does not work that way. Microsoft's Office Mobile is, after all these years, still not able to reliably open Microsoft Office files without massive data loss – all functions and formatting that it does not know, are silently stripped and thrown away.

Pocket Excel doesn't fare much better: It supports just a quarter of the mathematical functions of Microsoft Excel and silently drops the rest when opening an Excel file. Carefully designed charts are reduced to pre-school drawings or thrown away completely. It does not support any drawing functions, AutoShapes or cell comments!

Download Software Office 2006 freeware: ofw06freefull.exe

360desktop: Create 3D Panoramic Workspace

2008-07-13T18:21:00.000+06:00

Ever wondering why you don’t have a bigger desktop workspace? Limitation on the resolution of LCD display? Not anymore. Now there is a new desktop enhancement software called 360desktop.

360desktop is an amazing application that allows one to create a 3D Desktop Panoramic Workspace in a 360° view. Plus one can create and share 360° interactive wallpapers and spice up the workspace with web widgets.

The widgets can displayed anywhere on 360desktop, and best of all, can be created from web contents, web pages, RSS feeds, web gadgets, games, videos and etc. Once the 360desktop panorama is displayed, you can scroll 360 degrees horizontally through the content; your main desktop application windows can be fixed or can move with you as you scroll.

The software comes preinstalled with two 360° interactive wallpapers but more can be added and one can even create and share custom 360° wallpapers.

Download 360desktop

iPhone Timeline

2008-07-12T18:14:00.000+06:00

The iPhone buzz started at MacWorld 07 where Steve Jobs announced that Apple will soon be releasing a touchscreen phone i.e. the iPhone.

The first public signs of the iPhone were way back in 1999, when Apple registered iPhone.org. Silver from iPhoneGold has put together a great timeline showing the history of the legendary iPhone, including domain registrations, trademarks.

The following visual iPhone timeline can explain it no better.

Back in 1999 when Apple registers the domain iPhone.org and makes it redirect to Apple.com. More interesting facts can be seen on the timeline.

Google Unveils A 'Lively' Virtual World

2008-07-11T17:57:00.005+06:00

Being a market leader in providing technological services, Google now brings to users a brand new platform, “Lively” virtual 3D world, for chatting and communication.

Google likes to call a "virtual experience," allows you to create an avatar, decorate your own virtual room, invite friends to your room and do things you've always dreamed of, like blow up oil barrels on a deserted island.

Even in beta form, a quick tour shows a surprisingly robust and flexible virtual world. However, it's only available on Windows XP and Vista for now.

Some of the most interesting features of Lively are:

* A Lively room can be embedded to any webpage/blog using an iFrame.
* No registration required. Just use Google account.
* There are multiple worlds e.g. super heroes, islands, fantasy etc.
* Runs right inside from the browser.
* Users can watch YouTube videos on Televisions inside rooms.
* Users can hug, shake hands, play games, chat and much more!

Note: Make sure you have the latest version of flash and enough patience to get used to bugs as the service is in Beta.

Download Lively

iTunes 7.7 Now Available For Download

2008-07-11T11:54:00.004+06:00

Apple has made available for download iTunes 7.7 ahead of the release of the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 2.0/iPod touch 2.9 software update, expected tomorrow. So what’s new here?

According to Apple, a whole lot of 500 applications have been pushed to App Store in which 25% of the apps are free while 90% of the rest cost no more than $9.99.

Here in the What’s new in iTunes 7.7 section Apple says:

Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch with software version 2.0 or later. Also use the new Remote application for iPhone or iPod touch to control iTunes playback from anywhere in your home — a free download from the App Store.

Download iTunes 7.7

Wordle : Create Fancy “Word Clouds” from Text

2008-07-10T12:23:00.006+06:00

Wordle is a simple and lovely art tool for generating “Word Clouds” from text. If you have no idea what word clouds are, look at the sample screenshot below. To create a word cloud, Wordle asks you to enter some source text. There are two options here, you can either generate a cloud from the text you provided it with or tell Worlde to use your del.icio.us tags instead. Pretty simple han?Just like a tag cloud, it picks all of the high-frequency words in your Blog feed and arranges them in a stylish manner in order of their occurrence. The only difference is that unlike a tag cloud, words are not linked to tags on your blog.

It includes the following features:

* Quickly create cool word clouds from any text (or use your del.icio.us tags).
* Create and save as many clouds as you like.
* Customize Word Clouds using different fonts, layouts and color schemes.
* Save pictures on Wordle Gallery for everyone to see.
* Print out Word Clouds you like.
* No sign-up or registration required.

Moreover, Wordle has a wonderful gallery of word clouds where you can see the word clouds generated by other users.

Check out Wordle @ www.wordle.net