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 […]
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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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Get Random Wikipedia articles in your browser
If you are like me, which would be unfortunate, you’d find yourself going to Wikipedia as a source of truth for lot of information that you want to look up. Well, you might even have your browser’s homepage set to open Wikipedia on startup. Well, you can do one step better. Add this to your […]
Picasa & Flickr: The best photo management tools?
With the digital cameras being omnipresent and as we get trigger happy with our cameras, what do we do with tons of pictures we end up with? For a while I tried to create albums for every occasion and tried to keep track of it.. only to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of pictures […]
Do you monkey with task lists? Get MonkeyGTD
If you are like me and try to keep track of your task lists at work and at home and on the quest for keeping things organized.. look no further! I think I have found the holy grail!! Everyone has heard about Wikipedia and there wiki’s popping up everywhere. From this was born TiddlyWiki. From […]
