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Collection of Cooking Recipes in Graphical Illustrations

Renjith — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:21:32 +0000

Recently when I search for a cookery website (Yeah! I have a passion towards cooking too) I found theydrawandcook.com which has collection of cooking recipes uploaded as images. Usually a normal cookery blog or website will have contents by either uploaded as Videos or in regular text format. theydrawandcook.com presented the cookery recipes in entirely different way. Of course cooking by looking at the Graphical recipe is indeed more exciting than the traditional way.

The website is created by a brother and sister and basically they are graphics designers. They got the idea creating this website while on a vacation. If you do little bit of drawing you can draw your recipe in paper and submit on this site. The submitted recipes are tagged by the country so the world map created on this site can help you to easily find a recipe by a country.

How to Find Everything About your Travel Destination

Renjith — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:20:46 +0000

Imagine that you are planning a vacation to overseas. So the first thing probably you will be doing is some research about that country/place you are planning to visit. Because it is important to have some adequate information handy before visiting that place. By doing such homework beforehand makes your travel easier and remarkable. Most of the time we will be visiting a places which we have not visited before so we may not have certain information such as currency, language, famous area to visit in that destination, Things to try in that place and the variety of foods available etc. So keeping such information handy as a travel guide you will never miss to visit an important area in that place.

Manoramaonline a Malayalam news daily has created a page in association with www.arrivalguides.com. The page has more than 300 destination information’s in more than 10 languages. The travel guides are available free to download. (In-order to read these guides you must have Acrobat Reader installed.)

What are the Guide Contents?
The travel guide will have Basic facts, important addresses and websites, must-see sights, famous restaurants, Things-to-do, Night Life, Sightseeing and Maps.

You can check it out the Manoramaonline website Travel Guide here Or if you wish to explore more destinations please do visit ArrivalGuides website www.arrivalguides.com

Youtube is going live and you can watch 2011 IPL matches with better clarity

Renjith — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:19:33 +0000

Yesterday YouTube has announced a new stream for watching live videos called www.youtube.com/live the stream is for watching live sports events, Concerts and interviews. The page is dedicated only for live streaming so you can probably subscribe to the page to get notified about up-coming shows as live in YouTube.

Also YouTube is partnering with more companies by rolling out a new platform for live streaming their content on YouTube. Hopefully you can expect more quality content on YouTube!

You can watch IPL live from www.youtube.com/ipl (it is a direct link only for watching IPL) for watching all the live shows+up-coming shows log on to www.youtube.com/live

Make sure you subscribe the channels for up-coming events

Use DVD Later to create a queue for hottest Netflix movies

Renjith — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:08:41 +0000

Using DVDLater you will never miss any new and upcoming movies on Netflix. The DVDLater is a Free web service for Netflix to manage all the latest movies. DVDLater website will have the entire new and upcoming movie’s catalogue on their website even you will find the previews for the hottest movies that is going to release in coming months. DVDLater has the listing of Coming Soon to Theaters, In Theaters Now, Previews and upcoming releases. Adding it to your Netflix queue is pretty easy you just have to click on “Save to Queue” and it will pop up a window to login to your Netflix and store it Netflix Queue. So whenever a movie available in DVD it will be ready to be watched on your Netflix account.

Note: If you hover on to the movie image or click on the image title you will get complete information about the movie.

3 Ways to listen your Favorite Music Online for Free

Renjith — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:36:29 +0000

We know about online radios out there and you may find hundreds or thousands! But I prefer listening only to my favorite tracks in a play listed form. So today I am going to mention about 3 services which I like and usually prefer to listen online music. The reason is simple you can listen whatever you like!

GrooveShark
Grooveshark is a combination of online music box and an online radio. You don’t require to create an account there to listen music but if you would like to personalize your dashboard and to create a custom playlist you will require to have an account. Using your own account you can upload and store music files on Grooveshark. If you liked the tracks you can buy the music online from amazon and iTunes.

Deezer
Deezer has designed to provide the basic function available in Grooveshark plus it give more important to music quality so you will find an equalizer to adjust the music listening experience. The full screen mode of the player is simply amazing and resembles the iTunes media player. Using a Deezer account you can create custom playlist and add the widget on your website or blog so anyone can listen to your favorite playlists. Music procuring is same way as Grooveshark.

Soundcloud
Soundcloud can’t say an online music playlist. It is actually a community of DJs around the world. It is a repository of custom worked music files by DJs. You search for your favorite music tracks and you will find different types of remixed tracks by many Djs. Is n’t cool? A DJ can upload his own tracks and get rating and comments on the tracks. Unfortunately you can’t download every track you see in there but some Dj’s will allow you to save the files locally. Sound cloud apps are available for iPhone, Android devices also it has got a desktop player for Mac pcs.

Also See: MEar for unlimited cloud music experience

Let us know if you happen to know similar services for online music listening.

How to create a Personalized Valentine’s Day Card Using Phixr

Renjith — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:17:50 +0000

Phixr is an online photo editing tool supports almost all the photo sharing websites includes your Facebook photo album also it is providing an option for direct uploading image from your computer as well. No signup required to create and edit pictures online. There is a huge list of tools for enhancing your image online.

For a Valentine special they are giving more option to decorate your images with objects such as flowers, heart shapes, borders, textures etc. So let’s create some impressive photo and gift it to your valentine!

Once you finished with editing the image you can straight away upload it to any of the image sharing websites, Email or save it in any of the image formats. They are providing an option for creating a custom-made gift by joining with a company named Zazzle.

So let’s create something special this time!

Wishing you all a Happy Valentines Day in Advance!

Google Chrome Cr-48 Demo Lab – You can be part of the pilot program

Renjith — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:14:27 +0000

Check out the Google Chrome Cr-48 Demo lab. Google Chrome OS the cloud OS showing it’s muscle by various test performed. Demo lab is an interactive test lab where you can suggest the Lab Tech to perform a test on Cr-48 Notebook. Let it be any test they are ready at your command. The recorded video will display the test right in front of the screen.

I have performed Demolision, Explosion,Boiling, Thrown, Dropped, Keeping in Microwave tests. It’s fun to watch the Lab Tech performing it. Google is trying to convey that nothing will affect data on the computer since it’s saved on the cloud, like you can resume your work on a new Cr-48 after a disaster to your notebook the data will be untouched!

Lab Tech is interacting with you.

Also Google is inviting you to be a part of the pilot testing program and you can receive your Cr-48 shipped to your address to give them feedback. Apply for the Pilot Program here

Now its time to check the Demo Lab

What do you think about data privacy on cloud? Let’s discuss it!