Hey! Diwali is near, and all of us at itasveer are getting all geared up – for Firecrackers, Mithai and Shopping!
And of course, that means we have been paying special attention to making it a special month at itasveer!
Have you been keeping track of our special ‘Satte pe Satta’ offer - seven offers to be announced in seven days?
In case you haven’t, you should now because we have announced all the offers! You can buy the lowest ever priced prints online @ Rs. 1.99 only (3.5″ x 5″ sized), get Rs. 100 off our entire range of coffee mugs, get a 20% discount on T-Shirts, 40% on Large sized prints (6″ x 8″ to 20″ x 30″), Free Shipping and more! All the details are here. All of them are valid till 20th Nov so you can shop till you drop! Also, you can’t couple the offers – but then again, you can just place another order with a different discount applied!
There is also a specially created Diwali Store (much like our Rakhi store which was a great hit). You can buy Diwali Themed Mugs and Keepsake boxes here. I am going to put some photos of these products soon! [Also, a shout-out to Mukesh Kanojiya for helping us with some of the designs!]
So we sign off with a huge,
October 26th, 2007
Posted by Ashish
This was long due! Sorry to all of you who were not able to shop at itasveer because of this. We tried our best to get this up fast, but the paperwork took its own sweet time. So after almost 7-8 months of unavailability we just got the good news. Better late than never!
Happy printing once again to our long lost users :)
October 17th, 2007
Posted by Animesh
28th October is the date.. check out the new photowalking home at www.photowalking.info for details.
The weather looks great this time, so this should be a blast. And this announcement is well in advance now.. so looking forward to seeing some new faces there :)
October 17th, 2007
Posted by Animesh
Just thought we’ll spread the word about this – if your camera needs some tuning, make sure you dont miss this free chance. My 350d has been long due for a sensor cleaning so I’m definitely going :)
Dates:
For DSLR’s and lenses:
Gurgaon – 18th Oct ‘07 to 20th Oct ‘07
Mumbai – 26th Oct 2007 to 28th Oct 2007
For other cameras and camcorders:
Gurgaon – 22nd Oct 2007 to 24th Oct ‘07
Mumbai – 29th Oct ‘07 to 31st Oct ‘07
Click here for more details
October 17th, 2007
Posted by Animesh
One of our users – Abhishek Baxi from New Delhi has done the groundwork to initiate Photowalking in India. Now if most of you are wondering what that is.. here’s quoting from Wikipedia -
“Photowalking is the act of walking with a camera for the main purpose of taking pictures of things you may find interesting“.
Photowalking has been catching on in several countries as a fun way to discovering interesting sights, possibly even in your near vicinity, which otherwise went unnoticed in the rush of daily life. Its a great way to meeting new people, spending some quality time with your attention deprived camera (if you’re like me!) and sharing your tips and techniques, and hopefully learn a few nuances of this wonderful art :)
So this is a call to everyone interested to spread the word and join in this fun past time. The first Photowalk is this Sunday (16th September) and you can sign up on the mailing list at www.photowalking.info to get the updates. Its great to see that Abhishek took the time to get things moving. I’ll try my best to make it Abhishek, hope to see you then.
Update: Check out Trevor’s article on Photowalking. Trevor has a great blog on photowalking at http://photowalking.org
September 13th, 2007
Posted by Animesh
Here’s unveiling a new feature on itasveer – Upload by Email. This one has been raring to see the light of the day. It has been available on itasveer for some time now, unannounced though.
Got that friend’s photo on email you wanna make him a b’day mug with? Need to upload those dozens of forwarded party photographs to your itasveer account?? No need uploading-downloading, Upload by Email has come to your rescue.
To use this feature: -
- Go to “Upload by Email” page from the Upload page on itasveer.
- Generate an Upload Email Address for yourself (this email address is unique for you and better kept a secret)
- Launch your email program (Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook et al)
- Compose an email to your Upload Email Address, attach the photographs and just press the send button. Or forward emails you already have in your email account.
- Let the magic churn! You’ll get an email when it’s done uploading! Wouldn’t take more than 5 minutes.
You can even use your desktop email client (like Outlook) as a silent upload client. Just compose an email in the same manner and send it to your itasveer Upload by Email address. Outlook will keep the mail in your Outbox and send it silently in the background.
itasveer is a better home for your photographs than email accounts, don’t you think? If you have suggestions to make this feature better, please write to us.
September 11th, 2007
Posted by Nishant
Hey! We bring you the first ever review of the top cameras and camera phones on itasveer.com.
While 65% of our traffic is from India, much of the remaining is from the Indian diaspora, thus this is probably one of the first statistical analyses on camera usage from an India centric perspective.
So, without further ado, here’s what we found.
For those who want a quick summary: Sony and Canon are the top camera brands with more than 50% of itasveer members using them. The top Point & Shoot model is the Sony Cyber-shot DSC W5, the top DSLR is the Canon EOS 350D and the top camera phone is the Sony Ericsson K750i. About 10% of users uploaded images clicked from a camera phone on to itasveer.com
For those who love graphs and charts and more data, here are the details. [Warning: This is a long post, but with lots of tasty graphs and charts.]
The Top Brands
Canon and Sony are the most widely used brands on itasveer.com with as much as 50% of our members using them. Noteworthy is that a surprising 10% of our users use cameraphones and Nokia and Sony Ericsson figure in the top 10 brands.
The Top Camera Models
The Sony DSC W5 is the most widely used camera on itasveer.com. Interestingly, the Sony Ericsson K750i figures in the top three! Canon EOS 350D is the most used DSLR camera. Animesh, the photography aficionado among us also owns the 350D and swears by it (which, by the way, did not lead to any skewness in the data :)).
The Top Cameras by brand
We also thought it would be useful to list the top 3 cameras, both Point & Shoot and DSLRs for our top camera brands. These are the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC W5, Canon Powershot S2 IS and the Nikon E4600 in the case of Point & Shoot and Canon 350D and Nikon D50 in the case of DSLRs. For your reference, we have also added the camera’s rank within its brand on flickr.com in brackets next to the camera model. (Click to enlarge)
The Top Cameraphones
Finally, the top camera phones in general, and also by brand on itasveer.com. After the Sony Ericsson K750i which figures in the top across all kinds of cameras, it’s Nokia all the way with the N70 being the most popular cameraphone from the Nokia stable.
Methodology
The data used for the analysis is actual data from itasveer.com for the period April 2006 to August 2007. The top cameras have been evaluated based on the number of users using a camera model. The model is automatically detected from the photo’s EXIF data, however, this is not possible for about 10% of the images uploaded on itasveer.com which haven’t been included in the analysis.
So let us know what you guys think! Which are your favorite cameras?
September 5th, 2007
Posted by Ashish
We were making a pretty much regulation (bug fixes) release today, and we kept running into problems. So sorry about the frequent “itasveer is out on a coffee break” page. All batch uploads also got turned off during that time!! Also, users might have experienced a 20 minute outage yesterday night, we moved our DNS servers to new ones, and it seems we were impatient in updating that in our system, which translated into unwanted outage :(. Our sincere apologies for the trouble.
BTW the new release has some speed optimizations, so itasveer should feel zippier. Doodlepad has cut down on its already feather light weight (it has gone down from 225kb to 200kb) and is better than ever. So you’all.. keep the feedback coming :)
Update: We’re still facing some issues it seems, we’re trying hard to get things back to speed.
Update (late in the night now) : We’re finally looking good. Spent our whole day figuring out what was wrong with our Mysql server. Turns out it was a DNS resolution problem and had been lurking there for quite some time!
September 4th, 2007
Posted by Animesh
15th August has a special significance for us. Of course, one reason is that it’s the anniversary of India’s independence :D, but also because our first promotional campaign was structured around 15th August. We came up with these (somewhat serious) posters, and had them plastered around colleges, markets and sent out as emailers.
This time around we have decided to sweeten up the freedom celebrations by offering Free shipping on all orders at itasveer.com. And by all orders, we mean all orders: even if you buy 1 print, you can get free shipping.
(Oh, just one thing though: you can’t couple this with another offer. So for e.g. you can’t get 10 free prints (which we offer on sign-up) and also free shipping.)
Just use the coupon code ‘FREEDOM‘ on the Shopping Cart page when placing an order before checkout.
August 10th, 2007
Posted by Ashish
There are new Doodlepad features in town. Here’s a rundown of the features and how to use them.
Copy/Paste:
You can now and copy and paste items in the Doodlepad with ease. Any colors, effects, fonts etc. are preserved. Use the Copy Paste buttons, or choose from the right click menu.
Crop:
Put your images into interesting shapes! Select an image and click on ‘Crop Photo’. Pick from a square, circle, star or splash shape to crop your image. In this example we picked the star shape!
Shadows and Borders:
You can add borders and shadows to your photos now. See what the above photo looks like with a shadow and a border added!
We added a shadow first.
Then we added a 5 width white border (also changed the background color to make it more visible).
Cool eh?
Tint and B&W Effects:
Last, but definitely not the least you can also add B&W and tint effects to your image!
So, that’s all for now, stay tuned for more!
Meanwhile, gO DoOdLE! :D
(By the way, there are even more reasons to Doodle – we have launched four new products: Large Mugs, Stainless Steel Travel Mugs, Mousepads and Collages (Posters) and there is a 20% introductory discount on all these. Use the coupon code NEWPRODS to avail)
July 27th, 2007
Posted by Nishant
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