myntra, should we call it cafepress, zazzle of india?

At Myntra, there is something for everyone, whether you just want to create a customized gift of yourself or your friend or you want to make some quick bucks by creating your own designs. don't worry if you are not creative enough to design something you can make some quick money by just referring your friends to buy from Myntra. There are a variety of products to choose from, you will find everything, starting from t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, key chains, posters, coasters and many more gift products.

Starting from just a few products with not much of customization options, http://www.myntra.com has grown to a full fledged customizable merchandise gift service of India.

Check it yourself and explore all that www.myntra.com has to offer, I am sure you will find more that expected.

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create your own animated clips on gizmoz

Express Yourself with Gizmoz Video Clips

This is the outcome of playing with http://www.gizmoz.com/ for a few minutes, if you have a little patience and a better portrait pic and are a little creative you can create wonderful clips like this, give it a try go to www.gizmoz.com

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Print your pics and designs on t-shirt, mugs, photos, online in India

The giant in printing solution is finally here with its online photo printing and customized t-shirts, mugs and other merchandise printing solution. With the entry of HP with its popular service called Snapfish all Indian online consumers have a great choice now to get their digital designs or photos printed on t-shirts, mugs and other merchandise. The version of Snapfish can be found at www.snapfish.co.inThere are a few small players in this domain who have been trying to come up with something solid for a few years now but after the entry of HP's www.snapfish.co.in, all these small players will have to sure give up and look for some other venture because when it comes to quality and service it will be impossible to match up with the standard of such a huge player as HP.

One such venture that will get affected is www.itasveer.com, iTasveer is a very new local entrant and was really coming up with a lot of great features, similar to www.zazzle.com, but with this they will have to go into re-thinking over their future strategy.


As the introductry offer HP's www.snagfish.com is giving 20 free photo prints to everyone who signups to www.snagfish.in.
If you were really looking for such reliable and quality service so that you could get your photos or designs printed either for your own use or or for gifting purpose it's the right time to give it a try.

I personally, always wanted and was waiting for this service to be available. There are few other players in this domain like www.cafepress.com, www.zazzle.com to name a few that would make a great difference if they start offering their services to Indian consumers.

Other online printing solutions in India that will be adversely affected are:
www.PicSquare.com
www.MeraSnap.com
www.eYaadein.com
www.RangeelaPhotos.com
www.PhotoMasti.com
www.123Shots.com
www.iTasveer.com

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Pics from Lonavala and Matheran trip

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Matheran n Lonavala

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Affordable Hi-Tech digital photo frame, buy online in India

Gone are the days when you had to ask your NRI cousin or onsite friend to bring back a digital photo frame for you ;). You can buy hi-tech, feature packed digital photo frames right here in India. The one I saw is available online for just Rs. 3999, though the original price as shown on the site is Rs. 10000 you get a huge discount of 60% on this digital photo frame and that brings the price down to Rs. 3999. It packs all the features that you might expect in a hi end digital photo frame and even features that you wont expect, like alarm clock....


Here is the list of things that you can do with this:
--You can view slide show of the photos while MP3 songs are being played in the background.
--You can play movies.
--You can set the view on Calendar and Clock mode and use it as a desk clock cum calendar.
--You can play only songs and use it as your MP3 player with built in speakers
--You can set an alarm in the clock.

List of features:
--High quality matrix 7# TFT LCD
--Supports many digital Photo/ Audio/ Video formats, such as JPEG, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 etc.
--Supports music/picture multimedia display.
--Compatible with many memory cards: SD/MMC/MS/XD/CF etc. and can browse multimedia files from them directly.
--Simple to use: insert memory card from digital camera into digital photo frame to browse photos directly.
--Built-in stereo speaker 2*2W.
--Two Operating Interfaces: 8 keys on the side of machine, infrared remote control.


Thant's not all, when you buy this digital photo frame you also get a "Adata 512 MB Pen Drive" absolutely free.

I would have sure placed my order for this digital photo frame right now if I already dint have one.

The product is available on Future Bazaar and here is the link where you can see more details and order the product.


Buy digital photo frame link



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Record streaming audio, voicechat audio, audio form video and everything else

Mp3mymp3 is a small, free and very powerful software that can record audio from any source. It can record streaming audio, voice chat or any audio for that matter that is playing on your computer. It records audio directly from your sound card and saves these recordings as MP3 or WAV file. There are many possibilities with this software, you can . .

record audio from video clips that you see, record streaming songs, news or podcasts from websites or just record the voicecalls chat while using gtalk, yahoo messenger, msn messenger, skype etc.. If you can hear it, you can record it.

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Directly from DishTV to computer

The ad goes like this "DishTV on Computer, double up your computer as a TV. The pioneer and the leader of DTH in India, dishtv, brings yet another revolutionary product, at least thats what they call it. A product that offers live tv on computer, digitally. It makes the computer doubleup as a television. Company says that it offers a dual advantage as it can bot be connected to your tv as well as your pc and you can enjoy your tv wherever you are :). Is that such a big deal?? I am not sure, I used to get my TV signal on my PC even before through a TV tuner card :). It wasn't digital though :(. This dual benefit comes for a price though..

You need to shell out about Rs. 1000 extra for the set that support this feature. If you ever dreamed of getting digital signal directly on your comp without the hassle of a tv tuner card, this is the rite time to give it a try. I will wait till it comes bundled with Internet and HDTV signals on it :)

if you are looking for more information : http://www.dishtvindia.in/static/vga.htm

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Set Video as wallpaper. . .

Using versatile VLC video player, you can easily set any video to play as your background wallpaper. Going a step further from the Active Desktop, VLC player has this hidden gem. AP art from being a great free and lightweight video player with most formats supported, VLC can set a video to run as your desktop wallpaper. All your desktop icons will still be visible and operable and the coolness factor is immense!!.

First you need to download the latest version of VLC from www.videolan.org. since VLC already includes CODECS for almost every popular video formats out there, you don't need to worry about CODECS.

After installing VLC player on your machine, just open the video file in VLC and right click it while its playing. You will see the wallpaper option in the right-click menu. Click it and your video will start playing as your wallpaper, you can also enable the sound to play as the movies continues.

If it is a very small video, you might want to loop the video so that it continues playing.


This article also answers these following questions:
How to set video as wallpaper on windows machine ?
Can I listen to sound while video is playing as the wallpaper?
How to set video wallpaper using VLC media player?

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Tips for strong. sturdy password

Online security is a big deal and keeping your password safe, strong and sturdy is the mantra for survival in this online age. You can not afford to be careless about password anymore. Whether its the password of your email account, your social networking site account or your bank account, you have to be very wise while setting you r password. Any ignorance here can have a very disastrous outcome.

Here are a few tips that will help you to choose your password wisely :)

The most secure types of passwords have three specific qualities:
1)They are at least 8 characters long.
2)They must have a mix of lowercase and uppercase alphabets. (like KuMaRdEePaM).
3)They must include numbers and special characters (like @$^!23423)

Three thumb rule to follow in order to keep

your password secure are
1)Don't keep your password as something that can be easily guessed (like words that can be found in a dictionary, dates, names etc.)
2)Don't keep the passwords and usernames for sensitive information (like bank accounts and email ids) and for non-sensitive information (like online greeting sites, online forums etc.)
3)Make sure that your password is safe against hacking by including special characters and change it at least once every month.

Mostly all the advanced applications like gmail offers password's strength checker to help you select a strong password.
You can visit this link to check strength of a password www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx

This article also answers these following questions:
How to set a strong, sturdy password ?
What is the tool for checking the strength of a password ?

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