Like  a rise of any one family member can mark a rise of the entire family, similarly rise of every single individual can result in the rise of a nation as a whole. India, today is at the threshold of being a Developed nation, on the verge of being an Economic Super Power like USA and Russia. The Youth of this country had never been so outgoing, outreaching and ambitious in the past. They are ready with plenty of outstanding business ideas that are just waiting to flourish given the right environment and incentives. That’s what the "Tech Sparks 2010" is all about.

Tech Sparks is a mega event presented by YourStory.in in association with Microsoft BizSpark to watch out for the potential Product Technology Startup Ventures.

If your technology product startup has what it takes to be recognized as the most promising technology, this event will provide you with the visibility, exposure  you would need to scale up your operations.

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There is no shortage of online photo editing tools on the web space and that often leaves us confused over which one to use for editing our photos. Picnik is one similar online photo editing tool but with some difference, with some unique features – fun and creativity. Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. You can tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. Its fast, easy and fun.

So the next time you are out with your family and friends and you have taken some pictures, edit them with wonderful tools offered by Picnik and make them more memorable and appealing to your eyes.

You can also directly grab and edit your photos from various social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, etc.

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Have an opinion, shout out the answer and want others’ opinion, feel free to ask a question. That’s the purpose behind this on-line application known as ‘Urtak‘. Linguistically, it’s an Icelandic word meaning “statistical sample”. This word has been borrowed by the developers of this web based tool because ‘every Urtak is a sample of what a community thinks‘.

Urtak enables one to crate his/her own personal poll and seek answers to his/her questions from the people of their respective communities. One can also participate in a poll created by others by answering their question.

The questions are to be answered in 3 options- Yes, No and Don’t Care( Of course, there are always other potential responses to even a yes or no question — not sure, no opinion, don’t know, skip, etc. But we think Don’t Care is the simplest. After all, either you care to answer a question, or you don’t.

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We all need to change and adapt ourselves to the changing demands of human life from time to time. Children’s basic primary education and the way its imparted to them at schools is matter of great concern now-a-days. Lets get rid of the traditional and boring blackboard-copy-pen method to impart the basic Math And English skills that has been drowning of all the fun from our kids’ childhood since ages, lets give way to BrainNook – the world’s first age-appropriate, educational, virtual world for children.

This on-line tool makes practice fun through enjoyable, syllabus-based games based on Mathematics and English Grammar, embedded within colorful virtual worlds.

The games are appropriate to each child’s age, offer diverse gameplay, and are based on topics in Mathematics and English Grammar. Children take on the role of an alien exploring the Earth and collecting stars in order to repair his spaceship. Children earn stars by traveling through virtual worlds and playing games. The worlds are based on different regions of the globe, increasing children’s curiosity about our planet and engrossing them in the story.

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Next time when you are alone at home with nothing to eat and your mother and/or wife are outside or you are staying away from home for work and you cant afford or you would not like to eat outside all the time, for newly wed wives wanting to win over their husbands’ hearts through the stomach way, and loving mothers looking forward to surprise their kids with new weekend dishes, CookThing has come to your aid. CookThing is a web Application that will tell you how to quick anything you want to. In other words, you get the recipes for several dishes.

It covers a wide range of food items like chicken, rice, beef, salsa, bread, pasta, curry, seafood, breakfast, cake, cookies, soup, eggs and beans. Then there are varieties in each category to choose from.

The best part is that you can also select the ingredients you want to use i.e. there’s no need to panic if a particular or few ingredients are not available while cooking these dishes – you select the ingredients, and get the recipe accordingly. Isn’t it great? Continue Reading ->

Out of the bag of Twitter applications that enables the Twitter users to enhance and upgrade their Twitter-account usage, comes this online application called ‘JustUnfollow’ which will help you to simply unfollow the Twitter users who do not follow you.

What JustUnFollow Do?

• This application is not built for bulk unfollowing (actually any twitter application offering bulk unfollow is violating Twitter TOS), Once logged in to JustUnfollow, you can choose the users to unfollow.
• At any point, JustUnfollow would display 50 of your non-followers to you(the developers of the app are working upon  to show you a list of all your non-followers on login). You can then view info about each of the non-followers and unfollow those you think are not worth following.
• JustUnfollow uses twitter oAuth for authentication so there’s no need to share your twitter password. Just sign in using your twitter account and view your non followers. Then, choose which non-followers on twitter to unfollow.

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