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June 5, 2010June 18, 2010

WeReward | Earn with your iPhone

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.

Social media has gained immense popularity over the last few years. Services like Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare have become so popular that they have become a great way to promote your businesses. Smartphones have contributed significantly to the popularity of social media. IZEA, the creator of popular services like Social Spark, Sponsored Tweets has launched a service called WeReward which rewards you for completing tasks and checkins in the real world. All you need is-

1. An iPhone
2. A Twitter, Facebook or Foursquare account
3. A Paypal account

The only part that costs is buying an iPhone in case you don’t have one. Rest of the requirements are basic. Have a look at this video to understand how WeReward works-

Its simple, iPhone owners first need to Download the App. Then link it with your social networking account. You can then look at opportunities like checkins and tasks for which you will be awarded reward points. You can also earn reward points by referring other users to WeReward through the referral program. Once you’ve accumulated 10,000 reward points, you can cash them out to your Paypal account at the rate of 1 penny per reward point. The minimum payout amount is thus $10 which is pretty low. IZEA services usually have low or reasonable minimum payout amounts so the services will work for you even if you don’t use them too frequently.

If you are a business owner, you can visit WeReward.com to know more about what the service has to offer and to sign up with WeReward.

December 10, 2009December 10, 2009

LG Chocolate Touch

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LG Chocolate Touch. All opinions are 100% mine.

What do you want from a phone? Making calls, sending texts is something basic and all phones are meant to do that. Some people care about looks, others want it to be user friendly. You might also want to use it for your business and to access your email. It should also cater to your personal needs like taking pictures, videos and to listen to music. It would be even better if you could use it for social networking to stay connected with your friends and family. Imagine all these features bundled in a stylish touch screen phone. That’s exactly what LG Chocolate Touch has in store for you.

LG Chocolate Touch is a touch screen CDMA mobile phone that has been built for all kinds of personal use. It uses Dolby Mobile technology for crystal-clear sound quality which makes listening to music next best to a live performance. It has 1 GB inbuilt memory dedicated to memory and supports upto 16GB microSD memory card to store a large chunk of your music collection. It also has some sweet Visual Effects and features, including Rhythmical Beat that vibrates the handset to the beat of the music to enhance your listening experience. It also has a one-touch Social Network Message Key for easy use of social networking and micro blogging like Facebook, Twitter etc. The phone also offers top-notch text, picture, video, and voice messaging, including Visual Voicemail. The LG Chocolate Touch has a 3.2 MP camera to snap pictures and record videos. It also has an image editor to edit the photos without transferring them to your computer. It also supports GPS to ensure you never get lost.

The LG Chocolate Touch has loads of other useful features that make it a good buy if you are looking for a nice phone for personal use. Visit the website for complete specifications.

December 9, 2009December 9, 2009

Eye-Fi: Make Your Camera Wireless

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine.

Whenever I go for a vacation, I take my camera with me and click loads of pictures to capture those moments forever. As soon as the vacation ends, the people around me make me feel that carrying my camera with me was the biggest mistake of my life. Every friend, relative I meet has the same old question to ask- “Where are the photos from your vacation?”. All of a sudden everyone around me mercilessly asks for the pictures without understanding the hassles of transferring and uploading all the pictures. Whenever I decide that its about time and I should transfer the photos to my computer, I waste an hour looking for the USB cable which often ruins my plans of transferring the pictures. Eventually, the photos stay in the camera till my memory card gets full and I have no option but to transfer the photos. Does this sound familiar? I’m sure I’m not the only one who faces this problem.

I definitely need something to make photo sharing simpler. Eye-Fi is a Wi-Fi enabled SD card. Sounds interesting? Read on. Just insert the eye-fi card into your existing camera, snap photos and videos and all you need to do when you go home is to turn the camera on with your computer or wireless router on. It automatically transfers all your pictures and videos to your computer and organizes it in date based folders. It can also upload your photos and videos to your favorite web sharing site like Flickr and Facebook. Here’s a video that shows how the eye-fi card works-

To give you an idea of how good it can be to have a eye-fi card, consider a situation when you’re on a vacation and you don’t have access to a computer. You run out of memory and you need all the pictures stored in your card. Sounds like a very probable situation, doesn’t it? You are helpless if you own an ordinary card. If you are using a eye-fi SD card, all you need to do is step into a Wi-fi hotspot and turn your camera on. The pictures and videos will be uploaded to your favorite sharing site and you can free space on your card without loosing your photos. So if you’ve had enough of depending on the unreliable USB cable and memory card reader that get lost very often, switching to Eye-Fi can truly make your camera wireless.

May 22, 2009

The Konami Code

photo credit: Pixel FantasyThe Konami code is a cheat-code which is used in many Konami games like Contra. It involves pressing the following series of keys-up up down down left right left right B A as depicted in the adjacent picture. Konami code is very popular on the web these days. It works on many sites like Facebook, Digg, Google Reader, ESPN, GameSpot and many more popular sites. So go ahead and try it out on different sites and discover new sites that use the konami code. For a long list of sites that use the Konami Code, visit Konami Code Sites. You will need to perform the Konami Code on that website as well. So keep trying, you never know which site might support the Konami Code.

So remember the Konami code is-

Some sites use variations with the Konami code. On Facebook you need to press enter after entering the Konami code to see the special effects. Here’s a video that shows how the Konami code works on Facebook.

Finally, if you haven’t tried this on Konami games, you need to get hold of a gaming console or use some kind of emulation to try the Konami code with ancient games. The Konami code also works with a few newer games.