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PhotoJoy : The best tool to create Wallpapers Collages, Animated Photo Widegts and 3D Screensavers

Ashish Mohta — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:35:22 +0000

Photojoy is a desktop application which allows you to do magic with your pictures. You can create Collages wallpapers ,Animated widgets and keep it on your desktop and 3D screensavers. Here is an example of each of them. I created them all on Windows Vista and should work on XP as well.

Create Wallpaper Collages

These wallpapers are different from tradional wallpapers from the pint that here you create a beautiful effect by putting one image on background of other. Like putting images on seashore where water is just coming and you took a snap. How it will look like ?

Wallpaper Collages

Create Animated Widgets for your desktop

Desktop Widget of your pics

3D Screensavers with All Zoom and jazzy effects ( Animation )

3d Screensaver

Though this tool can do so many things with your pictures its the simplest I have seen in use. All you need is to tell where are your pictures and then choose any of the 3d screensaver, wallpaper colages or Desktop widget ( power toys ) and it will do the rest. make sure you try this becuase this is your best and personal wallpaper, screensaver and widegt maker. Download Photojoy

Image Inc : Blend images in three steps

Ashish Mohta — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:55:08 +0000

Image Inc is a utility to blend existing images without any technical knowledge and with few clicks. You need a base picture, followed by a top layer image and then add a mask. The utility will automatically merges everything together.

Blend images with Image Inc

Apart from this you can get a texture effect and 3d texture effects in your images.

3D texture image

Overall Features

26 different Blend modes on top layer
Opacity slider on the top layer
Tiled mode on top layer
Gradient presets on mask layer
Rotate and Flip options on all layers
Convert to Grayscale on all layers
Invert colours on all layers
Flatten and transfer to Base option
Copy image to Clipboard
Save merged image in *.bmp format
Loading of additional graphics formats
Zoom presets in main window

Download Image Inc

Remindr : Get reminded on Twitter, eMail,Messenger and Phone at the same time

Ashish Mohta — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:23:59 +0000

Remindr is a great service if reminding you just on phone calls is not enough. This service reminds you on Email, Phone, Your Messenger client like jabber and gtalk and if you are busy with Twitter and forget something important just follow the bot and it will remind you there also.

I guess the last option , many twitters will like as they are most of the time haging on there than on mails. Using this is pretty simple. Just enter the message with which you want to get the reminder and details of the places where you want to get reminders. Try Remindr

Get reminded on Twitter, Messenger, Email and Phone

Windows Live Sky Drive goes 25 GB

Ashish Mohta — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:13:18 +0000

Sky Drive 25GB

Juts a quick note ot Windows Live SKy drive lovers that in recent announcement the Live Sky drive limit has been expanded to 25 GB from 5 GB. This is so huge as its the biggest free storage service for any body as of now. Here are all the features

25 GB of free online storage
Available in 6 more regions and 13 more languages
Download entire folders as Zip files (limited release)
Gorgeous online slide show for your photos

Now I am alos able to see all my live space pics right here. This makes it really easy for me to download all my pictures easily. So if you havent checked out SKyDrive do it now.

Virtually Mount Amazon Storage, Live Sky Drive, Google Docs and Picasa on your hard drive

Ashish Mohta — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:02:52 +0000

Bringing Cloud services to Desktop and Gladient does that. They have created a desktop application which allows you to navigate your Amazon S3 Storage, Windows Live Sky Drive , Google Docs and Picasa services like mounted hard drive in your computer. Its like bringing the cloud service to desktop.

Galdient Sky Drive

This makes managing all your documents, storage files and pictures very easy. Now with just one click you can download whatever is required instead of going to the website.

Gladient comes with a credential manager which takes care of your login details. Moreover you can connect to any number of amazon or skydrive account . Its not limited to just one account. So now imagine how quickly you can copy from one amazon s3 account to another amazon s3 account without worrying the browser issue.

Update : Skydrive users might not be able to access this service as of now. The problem is the recent increase in space to 25Gb in skydrive which has made Gladient client a little incompatible. They hae announced in the blog and we all need to wait till they come up with new patch.

I am getting an error with Windows Sky Drive

The configuration for this virtual directory can not be verified

Gladient Error with Windows Live SKy Drive

Try Branded Color Contact Lenses Virtually

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:05:24 +0000

If you are planning to buy new set of branded contact lenses and you are not sure how it will look on your face and you want to try out all the lenses , its time you check out TryOnContacts service.

This service allows you to select contact lenses out of 4 brands i.e. Acuvue 2 Colors,Crazy Contact Lenses,Focus SoftColors,Freshlook Colorblend and Wild Eyes Contacts. You can upload a picture of yours and do some settings. These settings allows this service to locate your iris and eye shape.

Once done you can now choose different lenses and see the magic happening like the one in the picture below.

Virtual Lens Makeover

Disable or enable Windows Hotkeys in one click

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:11:19 +0000

Just in case you dont want other people using hot keys in your computer i.e. You dont want people to lock down or log off your computer using hot keys ( WIN + L ) and similar commands this utility comes in handy.

Basically it changes a key in computer’s registery to do this

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

The value is: NoWinKeys (DWORD Value)

Set to 1 = Hotkeys disabled. Set to 0 = Hotkeys enabled

Hot Key enable or Disable

But with this small utility now you can do this in one click. Download Disbale Windows Hot key

Type in 6 different languages with MagicTyper [ Russian and Arabic Inlcuded ]

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:35:58 +0000

Magic Typer allows you to type in six different languages using the standard keyboard you have. This service gives you a mapped virtual keyboard supporting Hebrew , Russian , Greek, Urdu, Persian and Arabic. They even support Hebrew and Russian phonetically.

All you need is type in english and it will type in russian or whatever language is chosen. Remember this is not done using Russian keyboard but it is mapped. See the images below and try out MagicTyper

Magic Typer in Russian

Magic Typer in Arabic

Virtual Coin Toss with your friends online with Flipfor.US

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:55:42 +0000

Flipfor.Us is fun service which allows you do a very simple thing, Flips a coin virtually and tell you if it was heads or tell. Now when you do this with friends just put in your email id and his email id. Once flipped you will get what you got. And Obviously you are allowed to choose if you wanted head or tail before you flip.

Flip coins online for a toss

Now sure how people will use it but very handy when you want to toss with a friend is in a different country and as it sends email you cant cheat either , so go and flip your coin at Flipforus

Schedule telephone reminders with Wakerupper [ US and Canada Only ]

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:36:40 +0000

Wakerupper allows you to create a sceduled call or telephone reminders which you can use to remind yourself about important meetings, anniversary, getting up early or even getting out of bore metting or a date lol!! from the web.

This application works with US and Canada only and when you resgiters with them you can even use Snoozing or recurring calls. However this premium service will cost you like 5 cents per call. Check out Wakerupper

Scheduled Calls for US and Canada