Archive for the ‘Links’ tag
Webscape Tidbits – Part 1
Google Reader: Inspired from Ashwin’s posts on Google Reader, I had started using the RSS reader sometime ago, and I’m lovin’ it more n more day by day. It gives me lot inspiration to read n write and become active in this blogging world. So many blog posts created each day spanning several topics that the innovative idea of the RSS reader to share their favourites is highly appreciated. I don’t have much shared items but found that we can broadcast the marked items in our website as shown in the sidebar of my blog. Or you can share it using the direct link. I invite my readers to share their shared items/bookmarks etc.
Publicize: After reading so many posts on making money from blogging and adsense and publicizing, I am now randomly submitting my blog to most sites like Feed Burner, India Counts, Technorati etc. (By the way, wanna add my blog to Technorati favourites? 
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Wordpress plugins: I am planning to add the “Related Posts” plugin and some sidebar modifications. Thinking whether to add the Post rating plugin also. But too lazy to install n edit the themes… More over, I guess all my posts are related already, and coming to track popular or top rated ones, how do I know whether any posts can be popular or top rated, unless you, the readers, provide any feedback! 
So please provide me any feedback on plugins to be installed or for that matter any feedback is welcome. Meanwhile, lot of post topics pending, personal thoughts and meme’s..Hmm.. 
Songs/Lyrics Download: Last weekend when I was at home, I was searching lot sites which provides free download of songs and found some here n here.
WebSites: Came across some Indian sites while surfing for submitting my blog to them. Indian pad, India Counts and Best of Indya are among them.
The blog title inspired from Webscape of Click Online program aired in BBC World.
Iris – KlueLess
Another captivating game like the crimson room….Can you cross the 30 levels??
KlueLess – 2 – Another one from the same IIM people…
Escapa
http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html
Addicting game…useful for short breaks… 
Flash sites
A cool site using flash….
More links from Techenclave.com
http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
http://imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage
http://artpad.art.com/
http://www.supergamesfree.com/view/11/IK-Puppet.html#
EDIT:
Another cool one from Mercedes: http://www.a-to-s.co.uk/home.php
Wikimap
This wikimap site is inspired by google maps and wikipedia.
I have found already my places at trivandrum(near Chengalloor temple) and also the apartments(Kgeyes Ishwarya Aptmts) i reside in chennai.
Mobile goodies
Last week enabled the gprs service (airtel mobile office) and also the mms and airtel live. From then, i have been installing themes, wallpapers, games and software for my sony ericsson w810i. Below are some of them: Hope you find them useful.
Links/Wap sites:
Neave.com
Neave.com …includes monkey-back guarentee
An amazing flash site with such a cool interface that i love it and is my all time favourite flash site up-to-date..
Tutorial: Animated glow to your signature
Update:
The initial version of this post was very crude and was more like a scribble. Earlier versions of Photoshop did not had the animation feature and hence the animation had to be created in ImageReady. But now, since Adobe Photoshop CS2 contains the Animation feature, you need not export it to ImageReady for this animations.
The steps and sample images have not been rewritten, instead just edited to make it more readable.
Adding the animated glow part alone is described in this tutorial. The image blending, and the fonts, and the text effects are not shown in this tutorial. The glow effect can be used not only to the text but also to other objects also. It just depends on your creative imagination.
I have taken the example of adding the glow to the text, since it becomes easy to explain.