And just for a little motivation, Premium WordPress Themes are up for grabs worth 120$.

For the rules, hit the jump!!

1. To enter this competition, you will need to provide a link to this post, by copying the URL below and promoting it in your blog post.

[URL: Techkeyla Awesome 20 -Emerging Force of Tech Bloggers ]

2. Only English blogs please.

3.Only blogs related to technology, Social Media, Gadgets etc. We will scrutinise it thoroughly. Blogs catering to irrelevant categories will not be entertained.

4. Send in your nomination in the comments section with your blog URL, author’s twitter ID, and links to what you think your best 3 posts are. Also include the major categories of technology that your blog caters to – eg iPhone Apps, Android, facebook, WordPress, Web tricks etc.

5. All blogs who want to nominate themselves should have at least 50 posts.

6. You can definitely ask your blog followers to vote for your blog by commenting in the comments section mentioning your blog name, and why they want it to be in the list.

7. If you have more than one blog, you can still enter, provided it is not a sub-domain. I guess you should know what I mean by that.

8. If it is a multi-author tech blog, please give details of all authors.

9. The final poll list will be thrown out for open vote during the last week. And the best 20 with the greatest votes win.[ All previous votes will also be considered in this poll] In case, we are not able to find enough votes, the judgement of Tech Gurus @Techkeyla HQ will be final and binding.

10. Finally, in case of any clarification required, or should you have any questions, drop your comment below, or tweet us @techkeyla 

Also, we will be contacting potential nominees over the next couple of weeks informing them about this competition. So if you do receive a comment from us about this, spring into action and promote this competition to your readers so that they can vote for you!!

Also to be fair, we are not including ourselves in the Awesome 20 list. As sad as that sounds, you can show us your love by linking to us, and/or becoming a fan of techkeyla on Facebook [ Link: http://facebook.com/techkeyla]

And what is there to win?
GLORY, FAME and PRIDE.
Not only will your blog be mentioned and scrutinished thoroughly by the tech gurus at Techkeyla HQ, we will be offering our take on what is good, what is great and what is awesome about your blog. And not only that, we will also do a feature on what your blog should possibly change and what can it do to improve.

Finally, a Premium WordPress Theme also awaits you worth 100$. More details on that later.
With so much to win, the stakes are definitely high.
So what are you waiting for? Nominate your tech blog now.

Special tips:
Publicize and Promote this Father of a Blog competition on your Blog, on Twitter, Facebook and each and every social network you can think of. Digg it baby!! Digg it!! The race has begun!

How do you expect me to get hold of everything in the techno-blogosphere and elsewhere from a cubicle, with no-AC, a shitty keyboard which makes me hit the keys like I was Lars Ulrich, a Monitor which has its own idea of colors, a USB port which wouldn’t recognise mine, and at the end of it all , charge me Rs.35 for an hour. Bitches! All I could do was check my mail, mail back the important ones, and by that time (yes, I indeed didn’t mention the disconnections and the snail speed), the hour bell has rung.

And why was I exactly in such a place. Coz I was preparing for my education loan, back at home. And as they say, ” All’s well that ends well”. The ending was certainly happy and it marked the beginning of a new era. Here I am, in England, Southampton. I am studying M.Sc in Management Sciences in University of Southampton, and I am loving it here. Hope to write more posts soon.

Ciao!

It is an online magazine encompassing different topics and they feature interviews of writers, passionate bloggers, webmasters et al. I believe that I belong to the second kind. They contacted me and I couldn’t help say anything but yes. Very soon, they replied me with a long list of questionnaire which included questions on my blogging experience etc.

An excerpt:-

Is there anyone from your past that once told you you couldn’t write?

Oh yes many, including my English teacher back at school. I never gave standard answers which were marks friendly.

If you could pick a travel destination, anywhere in the world, with no worries about how it’s paid for – what would your top 3 choices be?

New York- Big Apple

Cupertino – Home of Apple

Tokyo – Home of Jap-Anime

How bloggers can benefit from blogs financially?

There are ways to generate income through blogs. Though I do not blog professionally, and haven’t made a reasonable income from my blogs, there are bloggers who make their entire living from it, and even make a killing. I am still searching for the answer to this question myself.

Is it true that who has a successful blog has an awful lot of time on their hands?

It might be true, and might not be as well. I blog whenever I can. It does not come across as a hindrance to my work (may be the other way around is true). But I do know of people who have very tight schedules but also regularly maintain their blogs which are successful as well.

Leaving aside the bandwagon of celebs (read Bollywood celebs) who cash in on their celeb status to catapult their online presence, there are in fact people with demanding careers who also blog and do a commendable job at it too.

You can read the full interview here. I feel so elated and a bit like a snob as well. Good going Sujoy!!!

Cheers!!

GMail Blog turns ONE today and the celebrations have just begun. The blog has been one of the most read blogs of the Google family of blogs, and with the feed addition of GMail blog on the homepage of GMail, this has gone up and up. Looking back at the one whole year of providing tips, tricks, tweaks, hacks and embedded features that GMail has to offer, GMail blog enlists their 10 favorite ones. Some of them are enlisted below.
Tips for importing old email to Gmail

2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address

Top 10 little-known Gmail features (Part 1)

and then Part 2

Getting Gmail anywhere: IMAP versus POP

5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about

I covered a few of them on my blog here. Well, looking back myself, I have had so much to learn and explore GMail and the constant rolling out of new features and an efficient tracking of it on the blog has kept me on my toes. And the ride got a way better and more vrooming since the launch of GMail 2.0, and then we’ve had the recent launch of GMail labs. Phew!Here’s a list of what I wrote about a few posts on Techkeyla.
GMail spiced up. And it looks tasty

IMAP vs POP. And the winner is GMail

Gmail Gets BOOSTED

GMail Blog Notifier on the GMail Homepage

Tweak your Gmail with Firefox

You know what they say “Love has a reason”. Happy Birthday GMail blog. Here’s to many more years to come.

Image Courtesy: Olivie’s First Birthday by Jan Kratochvil

These posts are arranged in no specific order. Just the Top most visited, most read and most commented posts on Techkeyla.

Complete Gmail Shortcuts :- This showed how to get a screen of the complete list of Gmail shortcuts in your Gmail Inbox screen.

How addicted to Blogging are you?:- JustSayHi’s widget on calculating your Blogging addiction quantitatively.

5 rumors for the Black Friday:- Had to be in the list. Quite predictable

What is common between Prison Break and Blogging?:- A link to Christin Kayser’s post on Blogging Experiment trying to link Michael Scofield and a succesful Blogger.

Don’t Click Just Roll:- Dontclick.it ,an innovative way for browsing. Are we gonna see more of this soon?

BSOD Questions me:- What is so fake about the BSOD Screenshot on Wikipedia?

Is a lot, too much for Facebook:- Too many apps cluttering your profile page, has Facebook ended its neatorama and joined the MySpace clutter clan?

10 Million Dollar Challenge & Google’s Opensocial is Live:- Both stories of Google, two different things, one big GOOG.

Full length Mixx Review:- The name says it all. I received quite a lot comments and mails on this one.

The Unofficial iPhone Review:-Had to be here despite the fact that there are millions of other iPhone reviews in thousands of languages. There were no comments, but it was one of the most visited ones.

Other posts in the running, which not quite made to the list spanned across Google and Apple mostly, and Mixx coming a close third. A distant fourth exclusion was a post called iJones. Of course, there is definitely a room for error given there were 165 posts to look into, but well, you get my bias,don’t you?

Image Courtesy:-espion

First posts are always very tough to handle for me. May be it is the pressure of making the right first impression, or may be I’m taking it too seriously, as this is no longer a Blogger Blog , but a full fledged website (well at least the domain says so eh!). So anyway, it’s a new year, and a new site so let’s kick it.Oh btw, Happy New Year 2008!

So, I’m just gonna reflect on the past few days and the sleepless nights I’ve had , since 31^st December 2007 when the domain was bought till today-3rd of Jan 2008, when the first post is being posted. Special mention: I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Brajeshwar for all the help he has extended me right from buying the domain, to hosting it, to even answering my silly queries filled with ignorance.Thank you Brajeshwar. But the journey from being a Hello World page to the Page you see now hasn’t been quite smooth, thanks to me being unprepared, and of course being spoilt by the drag n drop of Blogger Template. The entire procedure has been quite a long one(longer than I expected it to be) and I still know there are certain changes more to be done here and there. But it feels so good and so right to have finally come up with Techkeyla.com and moved on from my older blog techkeyla.blogspot. And I think I’m liking it here more to have been able to play around with the separate php files for sidebars, and headers and footers, unlike Blogger’s single page template code. The posts on the previous blog are still very much there, and will remain so, until Blogger one day intends to delete them.

It also helps to have a few geeks as your pals-Thanks Ashwin, Ravindra – who have helped me with the design and testing of the Template. Yeah, but the image design, and Adsense layouts are all mine.Phew! I’ll soon put up the theme for download and you know where to get it from.So here I am, wish me luck, may Techkeyla hit it BIG. Cheers to the New Techkeyla!!!!!!!

(TOAST CLINKS)

Image Courtesy:-Andreas Reinhold