Personalize your credit card - ICICI Bank's latest addition

How many of us would love to customize our credit cards rather than have the same drab silver/gold/platinum colors. Quite many I guess. I personally would love to have a credit card with the Firefox logo on it. :) Here is probably my opportunity to get that done now. :D

ICICI Bank has come up with an option to personalise your credit card with any image you choose. It is called the ICICI Bank Picture Credit Card and you can use pictures taken with a digital camera, pictures taken with a mobile phone pictures taken with a mobile phone, scanned images etc etc.

To get a clear image on your ICICI Bank Picture Credit Card, your digital image must be at least 640 x 480 pixels in size. If your image is smaller than that, it may not look very good on the card. Oh and by the way, as always, everything that is good in this world is charged. This card will cost you Rs. 200 and you can change the image as many times as you want, each time you change, the charge is the same!

Update on mGinger

mGinger reports on its website that its first sms campaign for Travelmart India to be a great hit! mGinger's total payout stands at Rs. 908.60. The maximum individual payout was Rs. 2.80 and I got Rs. 1.05. :D. Not bad huh!

First sms ad from mGinger

A few days back I had written a post on mGinger explaining why its business concept should work in India. Looks like they have started off today, or so it seems as I received an sms ad from mGinger this morning. It was an ad by Travelmart India with giving out a special offer followed by a mobile number. My immediate reaction was to login to mGinger to see if there is any change in my earnings. Check out the screenshot. It says that I have earned Rs. 0.20 because of the ad I got this morning and a referral earning of Rs. 0.80 thus summing up my earnings at Rs. 1. :) That's good for a starter I guess. Now I am gonna wait and watch till my earnings reach Rs. 300 so that I can redeem it.
All those who want to give mGinger a shot can do so through this link.

How to Truly Impress A Client!

One of the email fwds I got today.. And a good one too. Check it out!

I was in the airport VIP lounge en route to Seattle a couple of weeks ago. While in there, I noticed Bill Gates sitting comfortably in the corner, enjoying a drink.
I was meeting a very important client who was also flying to Seattle, but she was running a little bit late.
Well, being a straightforward kind of guy, I approached the Microsoft chairman, introduced myself, and said, "Mr. Gates, I wonder if you would do me a favor."
"Yes?"
"I'm sitting right over there," pointing to my seat at the bar, "and I'm waiting on a very important client. Would you be so kind when she arrives as to come walk by and just say, 'Hi, Ray,'?"
"Sure."
I shook his hand and thanked him and went back to my seat.
About ten minutes later, my client showed up. We ordered a drink and started to talk business.
A couple of minutes later, I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was Bill Gates.
"Hi, Ray," he said.
I replied, "F*** off, Gates, I'm in a meeting."

;-)

mGinger helps you pay your phone bills!

Welcome to the world of mobile ads. After the ads on blogs/websites, this one had to come.

When Google Adsense was introduced like any other blogger, i added it to my blog so that I could earn some pocket money. Fortunately or unfortunately, I never kept my blog up to date and never really earned anything out of it and therefore lost any hope of earning thru Adsense. I'm sure a lot of people have had similar experiences like mine. Now this is probably something different.

Would you like it if someone sent you ads to your mobile and also paid you for it? If yes, then read on!

mGinger is a service which sends ads to users based on their preferences. You get paid 20p for every ad sent to your phone. Wait, but that's more! For every advert that your friend receives, you get 10p and for every advert that your friend's friend receives you get 5p.

The mGinger website also gives a sample calculation as to how much a person can earn in a month. If you get 10 ads a day and you have referred 10 friends, and each of those friends have referred 10 other friends, then you will be earning Rs. 1,860/- per month which I guess will cover your mobile bills :) Thanks to mGinger if it really works out!

Seriously speaking, not a lot of people are going to say no to this kind of money every month. After all, it is only going to be a few extra smses per day. Infact, I only stand to gain from it.

This reminds me of an article based on a SMS research conducted by Intellect - Lintas Media Services, Research & Technologies which says that 66% of the respondents are willing to accept advertising through SMS on their cell phones.

You can sign up for mGinger with this link.

Duplicate File Finder

Duplicate File Finder is an awesome but simple and effective tool developed by Brooks Younce Software to locate duplicate files in one or more selected search paths or drives. It scans the files and compares them based on a byte for byte comparison, which ensures 100% accuracy. You can then choose to delete the selected duplicate or original files. There is also a 'Fast Searching' option for comparing large files. 'Fast Searching' compares the first and last 10 mb of large files, thus ensuring 99% accuracy.

Duplicate File Finder is ideal for disk cleanup and for people like me who may have downloaded the same file many times by mistake :D. I saved close to 1 GB because of this tool!

The tool is only 110 kb and you can download it from here.

Recuva - File Recovery

Many a time we delete files by mistake and by the time we realise, it is too late. Here is a software called Recuva from Piriform (yeah, they are the same guys who developed CCleaner) which helps us recover deleted data

Recuva is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

You can download Recuva from here.

Update Checker - filehippo.com

Would you like to be reminded about updates available for the all the softwares on your computer? Check out Update Checker, a tool created by filehippo.com.

Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to filehippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download.

What's more, the tool is only approximately 100kb to download. So why wait, download it from here.

Addicted to the internet??

Wanna know whether you are an internet addict or not? Take up the Internet Addiction Test created by the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery and you will know for yourself!

If you are interested in Internet Addiction and want to know more, read this study report.

To take the test, click here.

Agloco - Earn money online by browsing.

I'm sure most of us have probably had one or two emails from close friends and from not so close friends trying to get us to join AGLOCO by now. If you haven’t, then AGLOCO is a new service that will be finally launching this week that allows advertisers to reach you directly while you surf and search the internet, by adding a small toolbar called the Viewbar at the bottom of your browser.

The incentive for users to join is that they not only get paid for their own surfing and searching, but also for any of their friends that they refer. Though I'm not sure about the whole thing, I’m prepared to at least give it a go.

To join Agloco, click here.