Using a regular printer you can dress your wall with a poster featuring your favorite image. We have already discussed on how to convert an image into ASCII format and dividing into multiple A4 sheets using ASCII Poster Maker.

Then paste those individual sheets and cover the wall with huge ASCII poster. How about a tool with similar functionality that retain original colors and zing of the photo?

Block Posters free online service should come handy in this regard. It allows you to split a photo into multiple sets of A4 sheets. You can print these individual A4 sheets using a home printer. Then paste these sheets one by one forming the whole poster on the wall. With the help of this tool you can generate a poster to cover the whole wall. It has simple 3 steps procedure: (more…)

iGoogle is your personalized space on Google to access all your favorite stuff. At iGoogle you can read and place the content according to your liking. Besides the content, you can also personalize the looks of your iGoogle page.

There are number of pre-designed themes in the iGoogle Theme Directory. Besides, it also lists the procedure to make your own personalized theme. However, using that procedure to make iGoogle theme may require lots of bells and wishltes. Here are few simpler options to create your own personalized iGoogle theme:

1. igThemer - This tool automatically make iGoogle themes using the new Google API. There is web based form to select color attributes of each part of theme. After you are done with configuration, click on create button to get your own customized theme. (more…)

Image fun continues on Techno Life with more Image tools to play around with your images. ‘Instantizer’ is a free online tool to convert your image into a polaroid styled images in few simple clicks. In more practical terms, output image with have a jazzy white-shadowed border with an option to write a unique caption.

You can make your very own Polaroid styled images in 3 simple steps: Upload any photo from your computer by clicking browse button. Enter the text/caption in ‘Brief description’ text box that you want to display on the photo-frame.

Then enter the degree of rotation - to tilt towards left enter 5 or more, to tilt towards right enter -5 or less. Here is polaroid styled frame image of Aishwarya Rai… so beautiful ! (more…)

There are so many search engines to dig out usual stuff on the internet. How about a search engine specifically for applications and widgets related to different platforms? Clever Hippo is the possible alternative. It is a search engine for applications and widgets.

With the Clever Hippo application search you can search thousands of applications that are available for your social network, mobile device, blog, home page, and desktop. You can find applications for Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, OSX, and more. Browse through various categories: music, fashion, political, celebrity, technology, gift, time-savers and many more.

Website has huge listing of applications, for example iphone section has over 750 applications ready for browsing and downloading for further use. Homepage of website also show featured (more…)

It is known fact that tech savvy/aware users are hooked to RSS readers, be it online or desktop version like Google reader and Feed Demon respectively. With shared items concept on Google Reader, sharing interesting content/links has become easier.

Taking advantage of  Shared items on Google Reader is an interesting web service called ‘ReadBurner’. Does this remind you of feedburner? ReadBurner also deal with RSS feeds in a different manner, it aggregates items that are shared on the Google Reader.

This works by constantly updating RSS feeds of currently several hundred linkblogs. In order to filter out the best stuff ReadBurner counts, whenever an item is shared by multiple persons.

You can submit your linkblog RSS feed to have your blog links feature on Readburner. It also shows statistics in terms of top (more…)

Making an animated gif file is not easy. It takes lot of time, effort and expertise to get things done. However, there are number of online service that make process of creating animated gif easy as ever.

There is no need to install any software or spend hours together reading tutorials. Simply upload images, select animation style and its all done. Here are 5 service to make animated gif online:

1. Gickr -It allows you to instantly create Animated GIF online for free. Just upload pictures or get them from your Flickr account. Create funny flashy slideshows with you and your friends, cartoons, previews, banners, etc. Very handy tool, however ads on the site can be very (more…)