Originally posted 2011-02-01 16:30:00. DISH Network is celebrating their 30 years in business by giving their 7 premium Starz movie channels for FREE until Feb 2012! We just switched to DISH and couldn’t be happier with this offer! Just go to channel 349 to see this on the screen. We’re celebrating 30 years in business…. [...]
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Forget Curating Your Own Google Reader
Originally posted 2010-03-11 08:00:00. Google Reader is probably my second most visited site in a day after Gmail. As much as RSS readers have and RSS feeds have gained popularity, a vast majority of people don’t want to take the pains of setting up their Google Reader account with the sites they want to follow. [...]
Bored with Google Reader? Try Fastladder
Originally posted 2007-07-11 02:25:33. I came across this new web based RSS Reader through Lifehacker and bookmarked it to try it out later. I got around to trying it today and here are my impressions on it. What readers have I tried? I am a RSS feed junkie fan. I have tried desktop and web [...]
Free HTML5 Online Editor: Aloha Editor
Originally posted 2010-08-02 10:32:01. HTML 5 is gaining steam so fast that a lot of folks are interested in getting on board this fast moving train. If you have been looking for a HTML5 editor, here is a quality free one. Aloha Editor is a free downloadable browser based HTML 5 editor that is designed [...]
Shot of Caffeine for Google Search
Originally posted 2010-06-09 07:00:00. Google has enjoyed a nice and solid slice of the web search industry. They were good at indexing the whole Internet and providing relevant results. However, the web is changing. More and more people are searching for real-time news and the web is getting richer and richer. Microsoft has seen some [...]
Which DNS Service Should You Use?
Originally posted 2009-12-17 08:00:45. Google recently introduced Google Public DNS service. Last week, I wrote about what Google Public DNS actually means to you. If you are not aware of what it is I recommend reading that post before reading this further. With a couple of different options with DNS Servers now between your ISP’s [...]
Yahoo Photos closing deadline announced
Originally posted 2007-06-19 22:29:01. Raise your hands if you use or have used Yahoo Photos. Even though I have been using Flickr, Picasa Web Albums & Photobucket for various needs lately, I still have a lot of my pictures left in Yahoo Photos. You might have read it here or elsewhere about Yahoo’s decision to [...]
Read books on your phone – Wattpad.com
Originally posted 2007-04-05 22:26:23. I play games on my phone when I am bored or if I am travelling or if I am killing time between aisles while my wife is shopping! But, the little keys in the little keypad aren’t kind to my digits. I can feel its impact on my poor fingers for [...]
DropBox Web – Redesigned with Bulk Operations
Originally posted 2009-09-14 09:42:37. Dropbox is my favorite file sync software and one of its major advantages over others in the file sync area is their incredible web access to all your stored files and folders. Dropbox Web just got prettier. Not only, did it get a nice UI redesign but they also added some [...]
Xmarks Finds a New Home in LastPass
Originally posted 2010-12-03 08:00:00. Xmarks – a browser based bookmark sync service has finally found a new home in LastPass. Xmarks service faced the threat of shutdown as they couldn’t monetize their excellent bookmark syncing service. However, they opened up a pledge to see if their users wanted to support them. This gave them enough [...]
Create Custom HTML Signatures in Gmail – Black Canvas
Originally posted 2008-08-25 17:25:14. One of the primary gripes about Gmail is the lack of HTML support in email signatures. And it sticks out like a sore thumb. Obviously, Google has heard this complaint for a long time from it’s huge user base especially from the power users. And they haven’t still addressed this user [...]
Foxmarks Bookmark Sync for IE & Safari
Originally posted 2009-02-08 12:15:41. Foxmarks is one of the best Firefox extensions out there. Foxmarks lets you create a profile at Foxmarks.com and syncs your bookmarks across any number of Firefox browsers on various computers you use. This means you can seamlessly bookmark in one computer at work and come home to find it and [...]
Groovy Online Task Manager – voo2do
Originally posted 2007-08-16 01:19:43. I am a fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) way of accomplishing tasks. In my quest for increased productivity, I have tried and used many online to-do lists, task managers, tiddlywikis and I review some of them here time to time. I stumbled across a groovy online task manager [...]
Texter – A Must Have Productivity Tool
Originally posted 2010-05-20 07:06:00. I have known about this little utility called Texter for a very long time through Lifehacker. But, until today I never gave it a shot. I was tired of typing repetitive things throughout the day, day in and day out every week. Be it, my site urls or email signatures, some [...]
BuddyPress Get WordPress Single Install Friendly
Originally posted 2010-03-01 17:19:55. BuddyPress is another awesome open source forum project that works great with WordPress MU. BuddyPress reached version 1.0 last year but it was friendly only with the multi-use version of WordPress – WordPress MU. Those with single installations of WordPress, like myself, were unable to use BuddyPress with the same ease [...]
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