Everyone likes to be healthy and in shape and we try in our own ways to achieve that elusive balance between eating our favorite food and watching the calories. My wife and I have many a times ordered a Salad at McDonalds or other fast food restaurants over a burger or a sandwich thinking we […]
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How do you like our new theme? I am really excited with the new look and will making tweaks as we go! Enjoy the new look.
GMail filter tips and increased attachment size
There is no doubt GMail created more than a ripple when it was invite-only with 1GB storage space, search, better spam handling, labels and filters. I have been using GMail ever since I got my first invite from a friend when giving out GMail invites was the rage. One of my favorite features of GMail […]
Be a part of ShanKri-la’s rise to fame
It was the long holiday weekend here in the US and hence absence of posts over the last few days. I am catching up on the emails and the happenings from last weekend. Chris at Blog-op has posted about the Blogging to Fame competition giving away $80,000 in cash prizes. The last time I embarked […]
5 easy ways to read RSS feeds
You learned about RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds in this simple but informative video. Now, you are attracted to the orange button like a bug to the light. If you don’t know what RSS is, look at the life-changing tutorial video.. maybe not that radical but it’s sure to change your browsing experience. And don’t […]
Free CSS Authoring Tool – Simple CSS
I am learning CSS and PHP. In fact, that was the whole reason I started out with ShanKri-la. To get myself educated with a little bit of the behind the scenes web technology. I just came across this free tool today to author CSS – Simple CSS. It is provided by HostM.com web hosting. This […]
My favorite not yet popular posts – Meme
Matt at eJabs tagged me with this meme. I think its a pretty cool idea that you could breathe new life into your old posts that you were so proud of but it never saw the light! I changed the title from ‘My Favorite Unpopular Posts’ to what you see here. Here is a list […]
Please give a big hand to Pedro !
I know everyone here is putting up with my monotonous writing style and probably fall asleep halfway through reading a post. I do appreciate that. Not the sleeping part but the trying to read bit. It’s time to shake things up at ShanKri-la and inject some liveliness. I thank Pedro for accepting to be a […]
Friday Fun and All My Faves – Why Search?
Friday Fun! My wife came ‘stumbled’ on this website and showed it to me and it was very cool.. So here you go! It is anotherone of those Shockwave animations.. but really impressive! http://uploads.ungrounded.net/221000/221483_Play.swf Don’t forget to turn your volume on. Antipodes Map! If you are a stumbler with StumbleUpon, you might have come across […]
Top 5 Must Read Blogs
I have gotten the top-5 fever this week. So, here is another top 5 list this week. I have recently become a reader of Hannes Johnson. He has really interesting stuff in his blog about the blogging business. Actually I found his blog through the Feed Link Train! He has tagged me to do a […]
Google Analytics gets a facelift
Google Analytics is a great tool to look at your website statistics and measure your site growth, trends, etc. Google made this enterprise class application free to use by the masses including me. Today at the Emetrics summit in San Fransisco, they have unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. They are rolling out the […]
ShanKri-la’s Top 5 Firefox Extensions
I recently came across the Group Writing Project at ProBlogger. There is a whopping number of people writing a Top 5 list of their choice and a lot of them make a great read. Plus, you get a shot at winning $1001. As my regular readers would know, I like to write about Firefox so […]
ShanKri-la Feature: Quickest way to send a file – Tinyload.com
There are plenty of options to share a file with someone. If it wasn’t too big, you would email them as an attachment. If it was bigger than your email attachment limit, you might consider signing up for an account with one of the multitude of online storage options but that means registering for an […]
Use Yahoo Photos? It’s time to move to Flickr
TechCrunch is reportng that Yahoo! has decided to shutdown their Yahoo! Photos service and will be announcing that shortly.. They acquired Flickr 2 years back and the popularity it has gained has been phenomenal. It is bad for any business to run two of their own services competing with each other. This is a really […]
Feed Link Train – Game for Bloggers
We are again in for another game. The last technorati favorite game was fun and I found a lot of great blogs through that and hopefully some of you have found us through it and not to mention increased exposure in the blog world. It’s the Feed Link Train this time and it’s aimed at […]
iGoogle – Should Apple be mad?
Google has renamed Personalized Homepage to iGoogle. I like it that it’s shorter but I have started to form a not so good opinion on anyone with a product with ‘i’ as a prefix anymore. And there is no dearth of such names in the market.. iHome line of products, iPlayer (soon to be launched) […]
