Recently, I featured the top 15 Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail & Google Reader. It was one of the most popular posts of October. Greasemonkey is pretty popular after all. 🙂 For those unaware, Greasemonkey is a very useful Firefox extension that allows you to extend website capabilities by installing little scripts from UserScripts.org. Chris at […]
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Read Local News on a Map with YourStreet
I love a good Google Maps mashup. I have previously talked about a Sex Offender mashup, Flights mashup, etc. I can spot a good one when I see it and YourStreet is one of them. The concept is simple and that is what makes them attractive to me. You can get your local news in […]
Blogging Tip: Turn off FeedBurner Redirect in RSS Feeds
As a voracious RSS feed consumer, I have always been irked by the fact that a lot of FeedBurner enabled blog feeds have the title URL point to a FeedBurner URL instead of a link to the actual post. If I wanted to bookmark the post or save the link to blog about it, I […]
ShanKri-la Reviewed & Google PageRank Update
BlogsWeLuv is a blog dedicated to discovering new and quality blogs. Mike & Tish co-founded this awesome idea and have built it into a great place to find new blogs. A good thing has gotten even better with talented contributors like my friends Garry, Mark, and Bush. Garry has been a guiding force for me […]
Gmail Gets Free IMAP Access
While Google’s PageRank team have been busy penalizing the big players with a penalty sweep, GMail team has been busy adding IMAP support to GMail. I have tried using POP3 with Thunderbird but I missed the features available with IMAP. One of the main IMAP feature is that it syncs both ways. So, if you […]
Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 2007-10-24
I am sure you are ready for another dose of some brand new and useful Firefox add-ons. As always, some of these make it to my Top Firefox Extensions list that I update frequently. The picks reflect the ones I am trying currently or find useful enough to share. After a month or so if […]
Automatic Software Install & Updates with AppSnap
I use OpenSUSE Linux 10.3 as my primary workstation at work. If you have ever played with Linux you might have seen how software updates are done. For those unfamiliar with it, in Linux you connect to a software repository and you can tell which of your installed software have new versions available and update […]
Get Website Email Updates with RssFwd
Just after rejoicing the magical 200+ RSS subscribers yesterday, you can see how selfless I am. I am going to actually show you how you can get email updates without subscribing to a RSS/Atom feed. If you are one of those email junkies and prefer to get updates from a website via email, you are […]
Top Greasemonkey Scripts for GMail & Google Reader
One of the mos useful Firefox extensions has to be the Greasemonkey extension. This extension lets you download scripts from userscripts.org or write your own to change different aspects of a website. I use GMail & Google Reader the most and I find these Greasemonkey scripts a life saver! I am listing them here so […]
Open Links in Firefox from Internet Explorer
04/27/11: Updated with a working download link. I have been trying out Newzie for a week now after Ryan of CyberNetNews wrote about it as the Best Desktop Feed Reader. You might have probably heard me praise GreatNews one time or the other. But, Newzie is really a well thought out and zippy little RSS […]
Firefox 2.0.0.7 Released & Flock 1.0 Announced
Firefox 2.0.0.7 Firefox released version 2.0.0.7 as a Fire Drill (Security) release. This security release addresses a severe vulnerability to Firefox for Windows & Mac users who have installed the Quicktime plugin, at minimum all iTunes users. From reading more into this issue in the above link, it seems like a pretty serious one and […]
Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 07-09-18
It is time for another Picks of the Week collection of Firefox extensions. I haven’t posted any for a few weeks so I have some juicy ones here for you. Check it out and let me know how you liked them. Daily Dilbert – Are you a Dilbert fan? This extension will add a tiny […]
Happy Software Freedom Day
I just learnt from Kyle at Kyle’s Cove that today is Software Freedom Day. This introduction at the official site explains a lot about celebrating this day which aligns a lot with what I am trying to do with ShanKri-la. Letting technology assist us in our daily lives. In a time when our lives are […]
Free iPhone Unlock Software Released
Unlocking Apple’s iPhone has been an obsession for a lot of hackers since it’s release. Engadget reported that the race between various groups of open source hackers may be over with the release of the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock app. More recent reports from Engadget says that the iPhoneDev team has released […]
4 Cool Ways to Track Flights
If you have traveled by flight anytime, you know how unpredictable flight schedules are. It is even worse when you are trying to pick or drop someone at an airport. Sometimes it’s bad weather. Sometimes it’s bad luck. Sometimes it’s just plain incompetence on the airlines’ part. Now, you can be a little bit more […]
