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Cellphone rescues shoppers: Frucall

Cellphone rescues shoppers: Frucall

While you are browsing through a bookshop or favorite game store, ever wondered if you should ask your friend to get online and see if there is a better deal online? Not anymore.. You can call Frucall (1-888-DO-FRUCALL) on your cellphone or from a pay phone and get the prices from online store! It’s time […]

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Weekend fun and some updates

Weekend fun and some updates

I have been just overhauling the blog with some nice additions. Hope you like it.. Contact Us We now have a ‘Contact Us’ menu option. Please do drop us a line about anything! We would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions and comments. Subscribe to comments We should have had this all along, but it […]

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Leave comments – Get Link Love at ShanKri-la

Leave comments – Get Link Love at ShanKri-la

I did not know that WordPress had intentionally added a ‘nofollow’ to all links left in comments to dissuade spammers. Not exactly a bad thing right? Then, I came across this excellent article at Chris’s Blog-Op. I am an avid reader of his very informative blog and proud to have him as one of the […]

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ShanKri-la Featured as Tech Blog of the Week

ShanKri-la Featured as Tech Blog of the Week

Great news this morning! ShanKri-la has been chosen as the Tech Blog of the Week by Daily Cup of Tech. We are thrilled to have been awarded with this honor and encouragement. We did have our share of doubts starting this blog with so many technology related blogs out there and some of them have […]

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Fastest Virus Web Scanner – NanoScan

Fastest Virus Web Scanner – NanoScan

Everything has to be fast these days. I talked about the fastest dictionary Ninjawords. Now, we have the fastest online malware scanner. If you want to know if your PC has any of the pesky viruses, trojans, spyware or other threats in 1 minute, Nanoscan claims to do it. Quick facts: It is small.. very […]

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Friday Electronics Deals

Friday Electronics Deals

These two will make great gifts for someone else or yourself, if you are on the market for one: Slickdeals has listed this deal from Dell SanDisk 4 GB Cruzer Micro U3 USB Flash Drive $30 . I have a Kingston 2GB with U3 in it and it is sweet. It acts as if it […]

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Home Buyers: The Hunt is on

Home Buyers: The Hunt is on

This interesting concept caught my eye today! In today’s real estate market, where selling a home has become so hard, sellers are doing everything at their disposal to sell their property. Lot of sellers are offering concessions in closing costs. Some offer LCD tvs. I saw a couple of offers where they threw in a […]

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Tax time: Should you avoid big name tax places?

Tax time: Should you avoid big name tax places?

Consumerist thinks so. And I trust their reasons. Here is the short article with links to some bad apples. As they suggest, try to use someone with a few good references. I used the free offering from TaxACT this year and already used up the tax returns towards the closing costs for our home! Remember […]

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Wesabe updates: Goals, Groups & Full-text feeds

Wesabe updates: Goals, Groups & Full-text feeds

We talked about Wesabe here lately and Marc Hedlund from Wesabe commented here about upcoming new features. True to their words, they have introduced some new features on their site. While it’s not the ooh-aaah kind of improvements, they definitely make it user-friendly. Now, to the quick facts: Goals are just goals: Earlier, in the […]

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Ready to use Flickr? Here is a tutorial

Ready to use Flickr? Here is a tutorial

I have written a few posts here, here and here about Flickr before. If you don’t use them already, it is time you tried it. I came across a link to a Flickr Tutorial for Newbie’s on Lifehacker. Try it and leave a link in the comments to your Flickr albums. It is time to […]

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ShanKri-la Feature: Save money the Web 2.0 way – Wesabe.com

ShanKri-la Feature: Save money the Web 2.0 way – Wesabe.com

Sorry about the little hiatus. Long story short.. it has been a crazy week at work after a week away from work at a training! It’s time for the weekly ShanKri-la feature! We just bought a house a month back. We feel the pinch from a large part of our paycheck going to the mortgage. […]

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Mortgages, PMI & Sub-prime loans

If you are on the market for buying a home and don’t have 20% down payment, eJabs has a great post on PMI writeoff. We just went through the whole home buying process last month and I should share some of our experiences while the facts are fresh in my mind. FHA Loans If you […]

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Popular cameras on Flickr

Now that you are hooked to Flickr after reading my posts here and here (wishful thinking!), now you can see how popular or unpopular your camera is at Flickr!! This is a new section they have added.  It could be useful for someone about to spend their years savings on a camera to see what […]

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GrandCentral.com – One number for life

GrandCentral.com – One number for life

This service has been around in beta for a while, but now is in it’s final weeks of beta testing. You have to read this article in New York Times about the website GrandCentral.com. I won’t reiterate all the details because the NYT article explains how this works very eloquently and I won’t do justice […]

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ShanKri-la Feature: JellyFish.com

ShanKri-la Feature: JellyFish.com

How about a featured site every week here at ShanKri-la? Let’s see how this goes! It’s no secret I’m all for sweet deals. I love to save a buck or four and spend it on things I don’t need! There is no dearth of websites that claim to save us money shopping on their website. […]

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