Killer Tech Tips

If you want to have some fun with your digital photos collection and impress people around you, why not put together a few photos, add some comic speech bubbles and spin a funny yarn? Here, I’ll take you through 4 services that let you add speech bubbles to your photos instantly in a matter of minutes:

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When you’re browsing through pictures on Flickr, you should have seen an ‘All Sizes’ option above photos. Clicking on the ‘All Sizes’ option takes you to a page that has links to the photo in various sizes, including its biggest version.

However, some photos have restricted permissions and have the ‘All Sizes’ option missing or disabled and it’s not possible to directly retrieve the original version of the photo.

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A month ago, I talked about using the Google AJAX Feed API to insert RSS feeds in your website. I happened to stumble upon Feed Source recently which is a quite a nice tool that you can use to insert articles from an RSS feed on your blog or website.

Just go to the site, specify the URL, customise the colours, copy and paste the code, and you’re done. It comes without any frills or bells – just a no-nonsense tool that does its job.

And of course, it’s possible to embed RSS posts using a bit of PHP coding if you’ve got a blog running on WordPress.

Feed Source (note that the domain name is bit different from the name of the service)

I always like to have a well-tagged and organized music collection complete with cover art. Some of my MP3s don’t have cover arts included in their ID3s, and it’s a pain searching for cover arts and adding them to the songs. Google Image Search is good, but there are better and efficient tools to do the same job of searching and fetching CD Album Cover Arts.

What follows is a list of some CD Album Cover Art search engines and tools that I’ve been using over the past few months. I’d really appreciate if you know of any other cover art searching tools – please leave a comment if you have something to say.

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Google AJAX Feed API seems to be the quickest way to embed an RSS Feed to your website or blog. Embedding the RSS Feed is quick and simple if you use that tool, and it should just take a few seconds for you to do that.

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I’m a huge fan of Del.icio.us, and I use it quite a lot to bookmark web pages for later reference. I know there are quite a lot of people who use the service everyday.

This is a list of about 15 Greasemonkey scripts for Del.icio.us. Some of these add functional enhancements. Others add interface enhancements and some others integrate other services like Ma.gnolia with Del.icio.us.

In order to be able to use these scripts, you need to have Firefox installed with the Greasemonkey Extension. Once you have gotten those, just click the Download link near the Greasemonkey script for the installation to happen.

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SugarSync is a complete, and a really perfect online backup and file syncing solution for your data. In this post, I’ll be writing my review and thoughts on the application, how it works and why it’s better than some other online file syncing tools available out there.

I’ve got three 30-GB SugarSync annual subscriptions (each has a retail value of $49.99) to give away. You’ll find details on how you can grab one for yourself at the end of this post.

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Just a quick post to let you all know that I have 75 invites for the Evernote Note taking application to give away!

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Google Images is probably the most ‘comprehensive’ image search engine out there. Many of you should have probably used it to find a wide range of pictures. Here are some tips to make the experience better:

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