Create your own animations on GoAnimate

GoAnimate.com

Creating animation was always a professional job, you should be master in many tools to create one. But Go Animate, an online tool which makes easy to create animation without any expert/professional knowledge. At Go Animate you can create, share animations & watch animations created by others.

Go Animate provides you with simple interface using which you can drag & drop characters, give transition effects, background music, talk bubbles…etc. To start with, you can use available templates & modify it according to your taste. For ex: I used a template & changed the characters faces with my friends faces! Check out that animation below:

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A quick update: I was shocked to see iPhone ad by Vodafone on TOI yesterday. Now Vodafone has started bookings for iPhone. If you are a Vodafone subscriber, you can send an SMS as IPHONE to 56789 to book an iPhone! You can also book your iPhone online at Vodafone website. But there is no announcement of 3G service by Vodafone. Vodafone website also says “Currently compatible only with 2G networks. Only select features and services are currently available in India”. Vodafone has not yet made any announcement on price, plans & features. I also tried calling Vodafone customer care, but they know just as much as I know. So, we will have to wait until Vodafone makes any further announcement. i will post here as soon as I get any info

Probably this is the most asked question in Tech Bangalore comment section, “Is there any trick for free GPRS?”. I had no answer before, but got one now. My fellow blogger Rahul Bansal, who recently became full time blogger has revealed this trick on his blog Devil’s Workshop. The trick works fine for Airtel, just install Tea Shark browser on your phone & done! You need have Airtel Live Free GPRS active on your phone. You can get details here to activate that. Actually Airtel Live free GPRS allows you to browse only Airtel Live wap site & other few affiliate wap sites like Yahoo! mobile. But it was not possible to access other sites like m.gmail.com.

Airtel might be fixing this issue soon, so enjoy free gprs until then!! More details about this is posted on Devil’s Workshop. You can get the Tea Shark browser at www.teashark.com

I am the big time fan of Apple iPhone. But these days I started hating Apple, arrey how many days I have to wait to get this cool gadget? I really felt bad about Apple for delaying release of iPhone to India. From past few days I am hearing lot of buzz about Airtel & Vodafone releasing iPhone in India. After Apple’s announcement about it’s upgraded 3G version of iphone, Airtel & Vodafone both said they are going to release iPhone to India soon!

A popular tech news website Techtree wrote that, Vodafone is going to start booking for iPhones through customer care & website in another few weeks. Airtel also announced it also starts booking for iPhone in few weeks. Airtel customers can send “iphone” to toll-free number 54321 to get updates about iPhone, prices, package…etc.

What will be the price in India?

Apple announced new upgraded 3G version of iPhone recently, which will be released on 11th July. The new 8 GB model is available for 199 USD (Rs.8246) & 16 GB model for 299 USD (Rs.12,390). But, remember that these prices are only applicable to US in collaboration with AT & T, a big service provider in US. There was a roomer that AT & T was giving some money to Apple for each it customer it gets. It was one of the reason to get such a great gadget for less. So prices in India will depend on service provider who is bringing it to India, i.e, Airtel & Vodafone.

What to do with 3G? It’s not yet in India!

The new Apple iPhone is 3G enabled, but in India 3G technology is not yet in use! I am curious that, will Airtel & Vodafone will launch 3G service along with release of iPhone to India? For those who don’t know about 3G, it’s a third generation mobile technology to bring broadband internet speeds on your mobile phone! you can see Wikipedia entry on 3G for more. Currently India supports only EDGE (Wikipedia), so we will not benefit out of new 3G upgrade in iPhone if our network doesn’t supports it.

Related reading: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/06/09bharti.html

From just making phone calls, mobile phones evolved as more advanced gadget which everyone should have. It’s been deviated a lot from it’s primary requirement of just making calls. Have you ever seen any mobile phone advertisement saying you can make calls from this device?! never! Now JiGrahak Mobility Solutions adding great functionality to this magic box to do more!

With ngpay you can tranfer funds from your bank account, book a movie/flight ticket, pay electricity/landline bill, re-charge your mobile…..etc.. all from your existing mobile phone! This requirs an active GPRS connection work. You will have to download & install a small application on your mobile phone from ngpay website, which is available for free. Once registration is done, you can add whichever services you want to use. Ex: If you are a HDFC account holder, after installing application goto Add Serices & add your HDFC account by giving your HDFC account number & iPIN. Now you can view your account summary, transfer funds…etc.

ngpay supports wide range of services, few of the major services supported are HDFC Bank Netbanking, Inox Movies, Fame Cinemas, Make My Trip, BESCOM, MTNL, Tata Indicom, BPL Mobile, Spice Telecom…etc. You can get the full list of services supported at http://www.ngpay.com/site/services.html

I personally tested the application on a basic Nokia handset 2626, which worked superbly. I configured my HDFC account on it, checking account balance was a breeze! Though I have not checked all the services, it seems to be working fine as I never got any error message until now which normally happens with Java applications. As this service grows, I guess more & more services will be added enabling people to do almost anything on the go! Though you should have network on your mobile phone

Last week there was a function in my cousin’s house. He recently bought one digital camera also, so I took the responsibilty of taking pictures. Finally we had arround 500 images shot! We sat with & removed all duplicate images & finalized 450 images for printing. As we both are working for IT companies, we didn’t had time to order pictures & follow up with conventional photo printing shops. So, we descided to look for any help in web & here is what we found!

PicSquare:

In our search we first landed on Picsquare.com. I signed up to have a check & process was quite simple. Photo upload interface was good with bulk upload, which is the most important feature a photo printing service provider website should have. Picsquare also got Flickr & Picasa Album integration, which saves time & internet transfer to upload the photos again which you already uploaded to Picasa Albums or Flickr. You can just select images you want to print from your Flickr/Picasa album. Price is one of the other factor to consider, Picsquare price for 4×6 print is Rs. 2.99

Snapfish:

Snapfish is the service provided by a known big brand HP. Snapfish is available in many country across world including India. Again signing up was not a big problem by filling out a normal web form. I looked for upload options & I was really shocked! There was only one option to upload photos & that too only 12 images at a time! There was no Flickr or Picasa Album integration too! As I already said, I had 450 images to print, it might have taken a night to upload all my images & order for printing. My expectation was high as HP is a known & big brand offering Snapfish in many countries. But it failed to win my heart! Price for a 4×6 print is Rs. 2.95

iTasveer:

itasveer is pretty much clone of Picsquare with similar features. It has bulk uploader to upload photos & also Flickr/Picasa album support. One feature I loved with itasveer is that, it allows to create photo gifts like mugs, T-Shirts, Collages…etc without signing up! The price is competetive at i tasveer which offer a 4×6 photo for Rs.2.90 which lowest among all reviewed here.

Conclusion:

Picsquare & Itasveer are really good in their service, which puts you in confusion to choose any one of them. Beside photo printing, they also offer free space to host & share your photos with others. Picsquare is one step ahead in this which offers “Personal Photo Site” for free. Both sites also allows you to create photo gifts & order them. Though Snapfish has got big brand image behind that, it’s left behind in features.

Finally we ordered 450 photos on Picsquare. As my cousin stays at Mandya, a town 100 KM away from Bangalore, we gave that address for shipping. I got a call from my cousin on exactly the fourth day after ordering saying order reached them. He was also happy to get free albums with photos. I also orderd arround 70 images with Snapfish & it took one week to reach my office located at center of Bangalore!

It’s my hobby to give my own lyrics to popular tracks, but I never took it seriously. It was fun sharing & singing those songs with friends. Now, it’s time to get it re-composed by muscicians & singers! Yeah! at Meri Dhun you can alter original lyrics a bit & get it re-composed! This will be a great surprise for birthday parties, wedding, wedding anniversary….etc. A sample personalized lyrics is like this:

Original Lyrics:

Jadoo Teri Nazar, Khushboo Tera Badan - 2
Tu Haan Kar Ya Naa Kar - 2
Tu Hai MeriKiran - 2
Jadoo Teri Nazar, Khushboo Tera Badan - 2
Tu Haan Kar Ya Naa Kar - 2
Tu Hai MeriKiran - 2

Personalized Lyrics:

( Shaadi teri meri, aayi aaj ke din - 2
Main tera tu meri - 2
Tu Hai Meri Priya) - 2
( Shaadi teri meri, aayi aaj ke din - 2
Main tera tu meri - 2
Tu Hai Meri Priya) - 2

There are good collection of songs to personalize. Here is the step by step procedure to personalize a song:

1. You select your Favorite Song.
2. Choose the personalization level and use the on screen editor to modify the lyrics of the selected song. This is a simple 3 step process.
3. You may also create a compilation CD of a set of your own personalized Movie Songs.
4. Once you submit your Personalized Song, it is delivered to the MeriDhun Music Studio where Lyricists, Composers, Singers and Musicians compose and record the personalized version of your song in studio quality to be delivered to you in MP3 and RINGTONE format.
5. All personalized songs ordered via the MeriDhun website are permanently stored in your Personal MeriDhun Account so that you can have access to your music 24/7

As there are lot of work involved in this process, the service is not free. you will be charged depending on customization level you choose starting from Rs.99 for level “Name”

Getting a movie DVD for rent is never been easy. You might not get the movie you wanted from the CD shoppe next to your home. Some times you end up with a low quality DVD/VCD or even badly scratched discs which doesn’t plays properly. Or you even might feel guilty for supporting piracy.

Here is a solution for all those problems. With BigFlix.com you can browse through wider range of movies available for rent. You can queue movies you want. DVD/VCD will be delivered to your doorsteps within a day for no extra charge! You can keep that disc for as many days you want! When you get bored of it, you can ask them to come and collect it back!

Though everything can be done online, they also have real stores in many locations. You can even walk-in to anyone of their stores to collect or return DVDs. There are many plans to choose from, starting from Rs.250/month.

Though BIG Flix looks as a greate service, SeventyMM started same service long time back. Plans of SeventyMM are also looks better than Big Flix. So, there’s no much difference in both this websites, you can pick whichever you think is good one. Do share your comments on which one is better if you have used any one.