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22 Aug 2008

Contemporary computer speakers

Once I had blogged about the computer speakers in this article,which allows readers to choose the right one.

Here is another set of contemporary computer speakers.These speakers give you the full range of sound,highly suitable for gamers,music lovers and movie watching.The best part of it is that it gives you 30 days to try them in your home.Since speakers sound different in your home than when they are in the store.If you’re not satisfied you can send them back for a full refund.

Read full article. Published on August 22, 2008.
21 Aug 2008

Currencies for MMORPG games

MMORPG means Massively multiplayer online role-playing game in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world.These games are played throughout the world.Popular MMORPGs are based on traditional fantasy themes, often occurring in an in-game universe comparable to that of Dungeons & Dragons.Most import part of it is that it always allow players to communicate with one another. Depending on the other interactions allowed by the game, other social expectations will be also present.

World of Warcraft,also known as wow is a MMORPG.Players control a character avatar within a game world, exploring the landscape, fighting monsters, completing quests and interacting with other players.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning known as war is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game.It is currently under development by Mythic Entertainment.The game revolves around the continual worldwide conflict that the Warhammer Fantasy setting is known for, and the game will be geared toward ongoing, constant war.

RPG Trader provides gamers the opportunity to buy currencies & accounts for these MMORPGs.It offers the cheapest prices possible to every MMO.You can buy WoW Gold and War Gold for above mentioned games.Besides there are many others like AoC Gold,EQ plat,LOTRO gold

Read full article. Published on August 21, 2008.
20 Aug 2008

Apple iPhone 3G in India costs Rs.31,000 & Rs.36,100

Apple iPhone 3G in India costs Rs.31,000 & Rs.36,100

After a long time finally Vodafone revealed Apple iPhone 3G in India which will be available in 8GB & 16GB models and costs Rs.31,000($715) and Rs.36,100($833) respectively.

Apple has provided them with a limited stock, so they are advising interested customers to pay an advance fee to book their iPhone at Vodafone stores.

Many buyers booked there Apple Iphone 3G in india before the prices and models are revealed and as most of the people expected that the price will be between 20k to 22k INR($461 – $507) but Apple decided the prices between Rs.31,000 and Rs.36,100 :D that too we have to pay Rs.10,000($230) in advance to get an appointment time and date along with the place of location and time to get iphone 3G starting from August 22 .

So isn’t this a twist to indians?!

Read full article. Published on August 20, 2008.
16 Aug 2008

Win $200 – $1000 cash in August-September Contest for Best Article!

Update: Contest extended until 25th December 2008

In this contest you need to work hard to win.There is no luck involved here.All you need to do is submit articles which are related to art and creativity(Categories are mentioned below).Best articles will be published on techtreak.com,with a link to his personal page.

Bonus prize of $200 will be awarded to the winner if the entry was submitted within a week.One randomly chosen winner will get 1000 entrecards.

Mail your entries to contestsubmit@gmail.com .Articles should be rewritten in MS word format or HTML.All the images should zipped separately along with the main article file.Please do provide your details and Paypal id.

Contest will end on 30 september 2008.So hurry!

Categories

1.Product designs and ideas

Ideas and designs should be totally original,and not borrowed from any source.Contest winner will get minimum $100.Bonus prize from $ 200 – $ 1000 will award if the designs are extraordinary.

2.Best of Best

Articles in this category should include a list of at least 20 different items.Link to original source of information is essential.Best entry will be awarded $50.

  • Creative and beautiful Pencil designs
  • Beautiful speaker designs
  • Art and creativity in Olympics(all Olympics held till today or just from 2008)
  • Beautiful apple stores around the world

3.Photography:-

One of the best entry will be chosen from 3 topics below.Best entry will be awarded $50.

Few Guidelines

You can have photos from other sources or you may use your own.If you wish to use your own photographs,then please host it on your personal web page (flickr,website,blog).

Photos should be linked to their source page.

  • Day to day life

In this section,photos should be depict everyday life or routines.

Photos can be of the simplest things,but should be eye catching.

  • Time freeze

Photographs showing freezing of motion.

  • Beautiful women

Portraits of beautiful women.

Women can be of any age.

No adult content allowed

Also you can submit article related to creativity,if above mentioned topics does`t suit you.Don’t forget to use an exciting and eye-catching title.Prizes awarded  will be depending on the quality of the delivered article.

Please do tell by placing comment,if you would like to have more such contest on techtreak.com

Read full article. Published on August 16, 2008.
16 Aug 2008

Download 19 sets of free icons collection for a better blog

Many of us really love to make our blogs look like a professional blog, with a cool design to grab readers attention but before all what we need is a nice looking graphics which tends to look more attractive, many times i wonder how to get some good similies, rss feed icons and some other blogging icons for my custom wordpress theme designs. So i just thought to make another collection after my The Best 35 Most Popular Wordpress Plugins but this time you can Download 19 sets of free icons collection which really helps to make a better blog :D

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Read full article. Published on August 16, 2008.
10 Aug 2008

The Best 35 Most Popular Wordpress Plugins

Here i have built The Best 35 Most Popular Wordpress Plugins which are really help full for bloggers to boost your wordpress blogs right from traffic, content, feeds, comments, ajax, make money, sitemaps and more. There are some thousands of wordpress plugins out there but i have included all the top best plugins which i really thinks helps a blogger built a better blog(10 Tips for making your blog more profitableTips for making your blog more profitable) :D

The Top Best 35 Most Popluar Wordpress Plugins

Check out the most popular wordpress plugins below:

  • Get Recent Comments – This plugin displays excerpts of the latest comments or trackbacks of your posts in your sidebar. You will have a comprehensive control on how they appear. It ranges from the number of comments, to the length of the excerpts up to the html layout. This plugin also lets you to order the comments by the corresponding post, or simply sort them by date. Even you can filter the unwanted pingbacks, which originate from your own blog. And it is a widget.
  • Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator – This is really a smart plugin that generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. The generated formats are supported by Google, MSN, Yahoo and Ask.com Search. XML-Sitemaps will help you to get indexed by the major search engines.
  • All in One SEO Pack – This plugin Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engine Optimization(SEO). To help your blog better index.
  • WordPress Database Backup – WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.
  • Gravatars – Automattic, the company behind WordPress, recently acquired Gravatar. In case you don’t know, gravatars—or “globally recognized avatars”—are images that you can associate with an email address, so a picture of your choice can appear alongside your comments on many others’ blogs.
  • Akismet – Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
  • AJAX Comment Preview – Other preview plugins don’t know what sort of changes WordPress will make to a visitor’s comment, but this plugin uses AJAX to send each previewed comment through WordPress’ inner voodoo in order to figure out those changes.
  • Subscribe to Comments – Subscribe to Comments is a simple wordpess plugin that allows commenters on your blog to get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.
  • Comment Relish – This is one of the rare and most wanted plugin for a blogger to boost there feeds. When a reader makes his first comment on your blog then it will send a Thank you mail to his email.
  • Most Commented – Retrieves a list of the posts with the most comments.
  • Skype Smilies with Wordpress – If you are really bored with the normal yahoo and msn smilies then you must try these sweet Skype Smilies which your readers will love to leave a comment with them ;)
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Read full article. Published on August 10, 2008.
8 Aug 2008

Apple iphone in Shuffle and Nano Cooming Soon

Rumours of a slimmed down iphone, which may very well be the iphone Nano,has been fanned by the UK`s Daily Mail.The reports said the iphone Nano may hit the stores before Christmas 2008.Iphone product would launch in the UK by mobile phone operator O2 for the pay-as-you-go market,but offered no clue when or if it would be launched in the us.

It indicates that iphone nano would be a dumb-down version of the current iPhone 3G.The news suggest that the new iphone Nano could have a touch wheel interface on one side and a screen on the other,meaning that calls would be dialed from behind and lack full internet browsing functionality.

Read full article. Published on August 8, 2008.
8 Aug 2008

Winners of “Subscribe & win $100, entrecard credits, AdSpots”

This is it! Our Subscribe & win $100, 1000 ec’s, 125×125 ad spots and more! contest has finally ended and we have got some pretty fair response and there is a steady grow in rss feed readers too. We have got some 99+ entries via comments and 300+ subscribers :D

And the winners are:
Elibur from All about online blog contests won $100
BBx from Win, Win, Win and other stuff won 1000 entrecard credits
Jagdesh from Only Tech Stuff won a 125×125 banner(sidebar) for a month($20)
Brad from Boardman Country won One Text Link Ad(Featured Section) for a month($10)

And the winner of Bonus 125×125 is Pweng Bee from Buzzing out of Money

Congratulations to all the winners and i have sent you email which you guys used to comment and a very big Thanks to all the participants :D Remeber this is not the end there is a another contest comming soon in this month with some cool cash prizes and giveaways. So just stay tuned with us.

Read full article. Published on August 8, 2008.