Tuesday, September 30, 2014
View of the Jungle
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Jungle view: elephant ride
Friday, September 26, 2014
Useful e-mail addresses for your address book
I have already shared the top five helpful
e-mail addresses that you should always keep in your address book. Today I will
like to share a few more.
- A very useful e-mail address is smartphones@mailchimp.com which makes possible for you to enhance the look of your screenshot. All you have to do is to send the screenshot of your mobile to the above address and your device will automatically get detected with the help of the EXIF date and the file will be e-mailed back to you after adding the enhanced device frame. Your screenshot will look even more beautiful.
- If your phone lacks a dictionary and you are in desperate need of it, just sending a blank mail to wsmith@wordsmith.org with “define myword” as the subject.
- If you are in use of Pocket as a Read Later Service the e-mail address add@getpocket.com will be very helpful for you. Save video, weblink and any URL you need by just sending it to the e-mail. The only problem is that one link is allowed per mail. The link has to be given as the body of the letter and not in the subject line.
- Having problem to manage your tweets from your not so sophisticated mobile? Just use trigger@ifttt.com where you can send your Tweets through e-mail. But you have to connect your IFTTT account to your Twitter account. Use #twitter in the subject line to post your e-mail body as a Twitter update. Attached pictures can also be posted I your Twitter account. So no need has expensive mobiles with Twitter apps any more.
- For uploading your files to Dropbox, Google Drive, or Sky Drive through email, you have secret@emailitin.com. Again, you will need IFTTT as it can be done only through IFTTT recipes. For using your cloud storage device you have EmailItIn.com where you can send any files through e-mail to your cloud drive. This is a paid option, though the free version allows file up to 5mb.
- You may not know that your Kindle Reader has a unique e-mail address which only accepts documents and not any web links. But through secret@readability.com you can send web links and read it at your convenient time.
Hope this information will be helpful and
you will have these email addresses on your phone’s address book. You never
know when they will come handy even if you already have a high end smart phone.
Visit The Top 5 Most helpful Email Addresses foryour Address Book for more such useful email addresses for your address book.Monday, September 22, 2014
Ramganga river bank from Dhikala forest rest house
Saturday, September 20, 2014
The Top 5 Most helpful Email Addresses for your Address Book
There are many email addresses which can be very useful to
have in your address book. You can use them to publish content or upload
anything to your favorite websites even if you possess only a basic phone i.e.
a phone without any apps or even a web browser. All you need to have is the
basic e-mail program. So writing tweets, converting documents, uploading to
dropbox, posting videos, using the dictionary, making a Google search and many
more tasks can be performed using some e-mail addresses. So these addresses
should be stored in your address book. Even if you have a modern phone, these
addresses come handy in certain places where social media are restricted and
you cannot use them directly.
- If you have a blogger blog (blogspot) then to publish a new post, all you have to do is to send a e-mail to secret@blogger.com. The e-mail will get published as a new post to your blog. It supports maximum 10mb of post at a time. The address is located in your Blogger Blog under mobile and e-mail settings panel.
- As usual this facility is also available for Wordpress users through secret@post.wordpress.com. Here also the subject line acts as the title of your post while the body and attachment will be the post content. Additionally, by using short codes you can schedule your post and add tags to your post. You can find the e-mail address in My Blogs part of your account dashboard.
- Uploading video to YouTube is also possible through e-mail program secret@m.youtube.com and the address can be located in the account settings section. All you have to do is to e-mail the video after attaching it to your mail and a confirmation sms or e-mail will reach you shortly. So your phone will no longer be a hindrance in uploading your favourite videos to YouTube.
- Similar to Blogger your Flickr account gives you similar feasibility by providing an e-mail address secret@photos.flickr.com. Photos and videos posted in this e-mail address will show up in your Flickr account immediately. The address can be easily located in the settings section of your Flickr account. Moreover the subject given to the e-mail will become the title of your photo or video and it also offers privacy settings option for your content.
- Now you can even manage your notes and protect them from losing by sending them via e-mail to secret@m.evernote.com and they will be placed into Evernote. The subject of the mail as always, becomes the title and you can use @ and # to organize them according to your wish.
These e-mails are extremely useful in certain situations as
are quite evident from the descriptions. So keep them handy in your address
book for use in time of need. We will be back with further list of mail
addresses for you.
You can also go through Useful e-mail addresses for your addressbook for more such useful and helpful emails.
You can also go through Useful e-mail addresses for your addressbook for more such useful and helpful emails.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Elephant Ride: Jim Corbett National Park
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Termite mound in Jim Corbett National Park
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Another view of the Ramganga river in Jim Corbett National Park
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
A view of the Ramganga river in Jim Corbett National Park
Saturday, September 6, 2014
How to create an attractive and modern graphic design
Graphic designing is an interesting aspect and one may think of doing his/her own graphic designs. But to start with it, one must keep in mind few basic ideas so that things do not fall apart at the beginning. I will like to share few simple tips to help you out to start producing your very own graphic designs. I am sure you will start making beautiful graphic designs in the near future by simply following the below mentioned guidelines. So lets start.
Choosing the right color scheme
Choosing the color scheme that matches with the best concept you have in mind is very important. A good concept always needs the right color as that will be the first thing that will attract your customer. There are few common themes that you can use across every design at the beginning.
Selecting the right font palette for your design
Picking the right font for your project is definitely one of the most important criteria for a successful design. Titles, headings, subheadings and body text, all must be in proper fonts matching with the theme of your project. Once you achieve this, the half of the job is done. Try to choose simpler fonts for your body text and something which stands out for headings.
Use of framing and grids in images
Images play an important role in your design and it is always a bright idea to keep the images in proper frames or grids, instead of keeping them exposed. Of course it is not always possible to use a frame, but try to use as far as possible. This will give your design a more professional outlook.
To make your designs stand out, always try to use a contrast
It is very essential to use proper contrast to make your design stand out. This can easily be done by using contrasting colors for the background and the fonts and for any other graphics you are using. A light background should have dark fonts and vice versa. It is simple as that.
Simplicity always wins
There is always a tendency to punch in as much of great graphics, fonts and images in a single design as options are plenty and it sometimes gets extremely difficult to choose from a wide range of ideas. This puzzle often makes us using unnecessary items in a single design making it cumbersome. So try to use as bare necessary items for a single design. Using everything must have a reason. The use of bare minimum types of graphics, fonts and images will ultimately produce a simple yet elegant design. Simplicity always wins.
The Ramganga river: Jim Corbett National Park
Monday, September 1, 2014
Book Review: Private India: Ashwin Sanghi and James Patterson
I must first thank Blogadda for providing me the opportunity
to review this book. I am an Ashwin Sanghi fan and when I saw the opportunity I
readily applied for it and got overjoyed once I was selected. But I must admit
that Private India to some extent disappointed me. The book is no way can be
called a trash, and quite a page turner indeed. If this book has been written
by an amature I would have given 5 out of 5. But this is written by Ashwin
Sanghi and James Patterson and I do have extremely high expectations from them
which they surprisingly unable to keep. So in this case I will give only 3 out of 5.
The plot of the book is quite ordinary and at times devoid
of logic. Of-course it is a fiction, but still the lack of reasoning in a few
instances baffles me, especially when you consider it is an Ashwin Sanghi
creation who is the master of creating a logic in fiction. His earlier classics
(I have read all of them) are so well researched. The plot is based on a series
of murder performed by strangulation using a yellow scarf and solving the
mystery by “Private India”, an International private detective agency.
The Indian Police readily agree to let Private India handle
the case. Never heard of this type of attitude in any country. Private
detectives only investigate a case either along with the police or separately, (in
fiction also including all the famous fictional private detectives around the
world) but never do police stops their own investigation just because a private
detective agency is handling the case just because of long backlogs of cases
(that too for a series of murder investigation).
The book has pace, no doubt, but the storyline lacks enough
spice to make the final punch. The book is too one dimensional (again, unlike
Ashwin Sanghi) with lack of depth in the characters. The perception of India is
also not very well portrayed (may be contributed by James Patterson as I could
not think of Ashwin Sanghi making them). The book is just like a fast bowler
having pace, but no swing or an action packed, fast paced movie without much of
a story and logic.
Having said this I must agree that it is by no means
unbearable (as I have already mentioned that it is not trash). Private India is
a good fast paced action thriller, but I cannot rate it as a top notch action
thriller. May be the extreme high expectation that I have on Ashwin Sanghi
played a part. The Classic Sanghi is truly missing. I sincerely hope things will
fall back to normal in his next creation and I will be able to enjoy it with
full satisfaction as I have done with his previous classics.
Overall, it is a good read (not exceptional) and many may
enjoy the book if they ignore the loopholes a bit. But all the Ashwin Sanghi
fans will get somewhat disappointed. Eagerly waiting for other classics from
Ashwin Sanghi.
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