All you need to do is, give the URLs (one URL per line) or you can give a URL of particular set of photos from Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Photobucket etc. You can also make collages using Google image search etc.

Later you need to choose the layout.

And hit the ‘Create’ button and soon the Collage will appear in front of you.

Here you get the direct URL link and Embed code for this collage, also clicking on any photo allows you to see the original photo (i.e. wherever it is hosted).

Shape Collage online doesn’t allow you to create collages using the photos from local storage, if you want to add photos from your local storage, you need to use the desktop application i.e. Shape Collage.

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After a log hour of Discussion with our team here, We decided Ankit Laddha as the winner of the HP PhotoSmart Premium 309G giveaway contest. Many congratulations Ankit!!  We will contact you by email and will arrange for delivery of the printer as soon as possible.

Our experience on this contest :

• We got very quality feedback( few of which ran half page) . That showed that people who were interested in the contest were serious. We will be sequencing them all so we can follow-on the feedback. Thanks guys.
• We got an insight of what kind of readers we have. There were many who were techie and many of them where regular computer users who read us daily and are not that active on internet. This lures us to do more serious writing and think a step deeper when we write.
• We had tough time deciding the winner. There was a tie up between 3 and we had to choose it right.

At the end I would like to Thank HP  who helped us in Organizing such a useful event and you all to take part with so much of enthusiasm, we hope to see more. Thanks again.

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Here is a pack of 60 High Definition (1920×1200) Adventure Sports Wallpaper, have a look at the scaled versions below.

Liked them? Go ahead and Get the Sports Wallpaper Pack Now Via Wallpaper Dome

Need more Wallpapers, Visit out Wallpaper Category.

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Also RIM has come with 2 posts ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) which you can study and understand how to create the theme easily.  Download the BlackBerry Theme Studio from here ( You will have to register with RIM to download it. )

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You can download a copy from here

However since this is a beta version it will expire in October 2010, exactly after a year. Also this version requires activation which you would be prompted for once you launch any of the component e.g. Word, Excel.

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Here is another image editing tool, which can help you crop your photos, and at the same time this online tool helps you to add rounded corners and shadow effect in your photos.

The interface of Cut My Pic is very simple and damn easy to use, all you need to do is browse the photo on your local storage, and click ‘Go’ to upload the photo, as soon as the photo is uploaded, in the next step you can crop, rotate, add rounded corners and drop shadow to you photo, also you can click on the preview to see if the photo has taken shape as per your requirement, as shown below.

Once you are done, in the next stage you can save the new photo or you can directly send the photo to someone via email.

Cut My Pic is really a nice online tool to edit you photos on the fly. Give it a try and share your views about it with us.

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Once you run the setup it will do some installation and then you will have use your BlackBerry Desktop Manager to install the upgrade. As it takes care of backup your data you dont have to worry much about loss in case the installation doesnt work for you. It took around 30 minutes in total for the complete installation.

However its a leaked version so we warn that it might not work for everybody and we do not take any responsibility if something goes wrong.  You can download a copy from here.

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2 more advantages you would get using my port is that it lists out the commonly exploited ports by trojans and ports used by services on your computer. This makes sure you dont close any of the ports accidentally.

You can read more about Software Ports here. Download My Ports (Via Ghacks)

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Google might bring the same concept for Images too but in much better way. Image Swirl is a new Labs project of Google which out runs Google Image search now itself. Instead of displaying boring thumbnails, Swirl displays stacks of related images which when clicked starts the wonder wheel.

Like you can see in the image above, start by selecting any of the stack which will open up a wheel containing related images. Click again and you will see more. This will eventually lead  to one single image.

Comparing it with current Google Search its better. Not only you can find more images in less page views but relating to each other makes more sense to users. It gives them understanding of how the images are related and how they can search better.

Image Swirl is using both java script and flash. So make sure you don’t have them disabled. Also if you want to open up any image directly, juts hover your mouse over it and use the blue link that pops up there. Check out Image Swirl @ Google Labs and find more details on Official Google Blog

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Microsoft announced an update to Sync Toy with version updated to 2.1. Some of the major improvements are better performance when it comes to copying files. It’s faster now. Second improvement is that you can not only backup files now but also take backup of the configurations. This is useful if you lose all your settings for some reason.

Just to make it clear that Sync Toy is very different from the Sync Center which we had seen in Windows 7 and Vista. Sync Center is for Network folders while Sync Toy works with any folder. You can read about different modes of Sync Toy here.

Configuration Backup in Sync Toy doesnt have user interface which is pretty lame. The overview says

Folder pair configuration backup: Folder pair configuration is automatically backed up under %localappdata%\microsoft\synctoy\2.0. User can replace SyncToyDirPairs.bin with the backup copy to resolve last saved configuration.

When I first saw it I assumed I will be able to back from here and based on per folder basis. Looks like we might have to wait for next update. Download Sync Toy 2.1 from here

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