Google has launched a new competition with cool prize money of 2,000,000 INR for the winning team. As the name suggest ‘Product Prodigy Competition’, they are looking for young minds to develop some awesome applications.

Here is the official line from Google about the theme on which the product is to be developed in the competition… To organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Competition is open to all Computer Science students of select Engineering Colleges only. One can have a team consisting of (more…)

I have been enjoying Hindi FM channel using my Google Talk. Even you can enjoy listening to number of FM station within your Google Talk software.

Procedure is damn easy. This is done using Gtalk2Voip, it is a free and publicly open voice gateway for major Instant Messenger clients.

Here are the steps to listen to any channel listed below:

1. Sign in your Google Talk application.
2. Add this ID in your Google Talk service@gtalk2voip.com
3. Now add another ID with radio (more…)
   Comments (10) Posted on Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Well this is the latest trend, most of the well known sites has web 2.0 icons. Like many people, I am amazed at look of these icons. These icons generally have glass effect with tinge of 3D shadow.

I tried to make icon for my site(tothepc) and was successful to some extent. Most of my friends liked the icon, however there were some brickbats like: icon is too light, colors etc etc etc.

Here is my step by step guide of making a cool icon for your website or blog. FYI Davinder is my name !

Step1:Decide on the dimension of an icon. This depends on the structure of the template your are using. I went for 300px X 93px
Open Photoshop and and type the text for the icon. Then jazz it up with some stylish font type, I used ‘Garamond’

You can download and install font from this website or Google around. To install a font: go to C drive, Windows folder, fonts folder. Then click on File, click on install new fonts. (more…)

For all Wordpress users out there, you need to be handy with shortcuts that can be used while writing or editing a post. This will save you lot of time and you can wrap up the work quickly. Here is run through few important keyboard shortcuts to add that extra pace to blogging using Wordpress!

bold - Alt + Shift + B
italic - Alt + Shift + I
link - Alt + Shift + A

blockquote - Alt + Shift + Q
del - Alt + Shift + D
ins - Alt + Shift + S (more…)