The road is not so smooth for Shashi Tharoor

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Former UN Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor is contesting in the current Lok Sabha Elections from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency as a candidate of the Indian National Congress. Unlike many other constituencies in the state where the contest is primarily between the Left Front (lead by the CPI-M) and the United Democratic Front (lead by the Congress) candidates, he faces tough challenge from BJP candidate P K Krishnadas and BSP candidate A Neelalohithadasan Nadar apart from the Left Front candidate Ramachandran Nair.

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Create your own handwriting font

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YourFonts is a free online font generator that lets you create fonts from your own handwriting.All you need to do is to download a template page, print it , write all the letters and upload it back. You font is ready within seconds! Don’t worry if you don’t have a printer or scanner because still you can do that as I did that. All you need is to download the template page, edit using any editors like Photoshop or even MS Paint and upload. Cool :)

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Election campaigns goes online in India

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The US elections and the Obama campaign was closely followed here in India also and the way Obama reached the youth and common people inspired many. Now it seems that the political parties are experimenting with similar campaigning tactics here also in the coming Assembly elections. The youth forms 2/3rd of the total population and the political parties are trying to reach them through the new age media’s including  the internet and mobile phones. While the Indian National Congress has produced some promotional videos (link) that are widely promoted over the internet the BJP goes much beyond that through official websites and forums. Through this BJP hopes to reach individual voters. Continue reading →

Orkut get sms notification for new scraps for free

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Orkut has introduced Orkut SMS in India also so you can receive new scrap notification and sen scraps via your mobile. But this is a premium feature and you are charged by your operator (Rs 2/-) per sms. But here is how you can get SMS notifications for new scraps absolutely free. This is similar to my post about getting email notification via sms but this one doesn’t use  FreeMyFeed service.

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Get email as sms for free

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Here is how you can get your Gmail emails as SMS for Free in India. This uses the Google SMS Channel that has been recently introduced and FreeMyFeed service

About FreeMyFeed

Free my feed is a service that allows you to bypass password protected feeds. They say passwords are “never stored on the server,” and discarded immediately after parsing your feed. This is featured in Lifehacker and Google systems. So you might try this risk free. Continue reading →

Save images from orkut albums

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You must have noticed that Orkut has disabled right click on images in orkut albums. This means you can’t save images from an orkut album. There are a couple of tricks throug which you can still save images.  These tricks can be used to save images from many other sites with right click disabled.

The  simplest way is to drag the image to the address bar. You can also drag it to a new tab or to the new tab area to open in a separate tab.

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