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ROW is one of the participating blogs in Blogging Idol competition hosted by Daily Blog Tips. There are about 90 participating sites, winner will be the site that gains the maximum no. of subscribers in a months time.  They are giving away $3000 worth of prizes. Out of $3000 an amount of $700 will be given as cash to the winner of this competition. Well, I have decided to give away the whole cash amount to my subscribers IF I WIN this contest. I am keeping my contest very simple to include larger audience and to give a fair chance to everyone.

How to win:

1. Subscribe to ROW by email. You will get one point.
2. *[Optional but a bonus entry] Make a post on your blog about ROW’s $700 give-away and ask your blog readers to subscribe. You will get one bonus point (and hence double the chance to win). If you are making a post make sure to come back here and mention URL in the comment form so that I can track your blog post. Also while making a comment use the same email id in the comments form you used to subscribe to my blog on Step1.

Some rules:

1. Winner of ROW $700 contest will be selected randomly by putting all the email addresses in http://www.random.org/lists and selecting the top three entries.
2. To distribute the booty among more people I will give 3 prizes out of $700.
   • 1st Prize - Cash $400
   • 2nd Prize - Cash $200
   • 3rd Prize - Cash $100
3. Winners would be paid by PayPal.
4. You stand a chance to win only if I win the Blogging Idol contest. I can win if I can gain the maximum no of subscribers in a months time [July 1-July 31st]. So guys, to increase your chances of winning, help ROW win by publicizing this blog.

So keep rolling guys and Best Of Luck!

It’s official now. Apple 3G Iphone is slated for a worldwide launch [for selected cities] on July 11 this year. Also there is good news for Indian buyers. After this launch Apple will shortly be introducing –anytime later this year— this latest 3G phone in India, most probably through Airtel.

The price of this new phone starts from $199 and they claim it to be twice as fast as its predecessor.

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Some softwares and tips to protect your expensive gadgets, phones, mp3 players.

http://www.ihoundsoftware.com/ A great free app [free upto 3 devices] to protect your gadgets like ipod, phones. You will get an alert as soon as your lost gadget is connected into some other computer. They claim that this “Software works on most USB devices that you need to connect to your computer to update. i.e. MP3 players, Flash Cards, Jump Drives, Phones, iPods.”

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/label-a-usb-flash-drive/: Label your USB Drive with your name and contact info.

There can be valid reasons when you wish to make a post which sticks on the home page of your blog. Follow the steps below:

1) Go To “Edit Posts” for the post that you want to make sticky.

2) Click on “Post Options”. You will see options as shown in this screenshot.

3) Change the “Post date” to any future date.

4) You are done.

After making a post sticky if you try installing Windows Live Writer. You would get the following error.

The style template used for editing your weblog posts could not be downloaded.You will be able to post to this Weblog, but the editor will not use your blog’s style.

While configuring your blog, WLW makes a temporary post on your blog. Now since you have made one of the posts sticky. WLW would not be able to find the temporary post it has posted and hence will throw the error shown above.

A simple solution is:

1. Either configure WLW before making your post sticky. OR
2. Change the date of your sticky post to current date and time. Configure WLW. Change the date again to future.

This is an ongoing list of websites and services which can be useful for people of bangalore. Please add in the comments below if I have missed out any.

1. Bangalore : Find directions and bus-stops : You can get directions from your start point to end point on a neat map. Also included is an Auto fares calculator.
2. BMTC : This is an official website of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation(BMTC). You can get information on bus routes, Volvo, buses running to BIAL.
3. Exhaustive List of Taxi Services: An exhaustive list of taxi services operating out of Bangalore.
4. http://airliftonline.com/Default.aspx : This seems to be a nice substitute for Volvo Buses. Prices being very competitive. Though, I am yet to check this out.