I use online dictionary all the time.. here is a cool site to look up words fast in a clean interface like google’s search page. Ninjawords – A really fast dictionary… fast like a ninja. I use this in the WebSearch Pro Firefox extension which requires a post by itself but once you try it, [...]
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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 [...]
Free software for your computer
I don’t pay for software anymore! I use open source software for Windows that are free for most applications. Gone are the days you had to pay for software like: Anti-virus Firewall Email client Photo Editor and the likes.. The lists of free software for windows are countless on the Internet and could overwhelm anyone [...]
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 [...]
Travel deals – Web resources
Everyone can use a good deal.. especially when you are travelling! Flight & hotel costs can cost all your limbs.. but not if you are savvy enough to use the internet. You can find some sweet deals if you search for them. But, my fingers would start aching entering the travel dates and other search [...]
Picasa Web Albums catching up with Flickr
I talked about two best photo sharing apps that I love in a previous post. Picasa Web Albums is Google’s answer to Flickr that Yahoo bought and done a great job with. One thing that Picasa Web Albums was missing was the community element of searching others pictures by ttitle, subject, tags, etc. Now, Google [...]
Adobe Photoshop $650 Gimp $0 Saving a bunch on software – Priceless!
I came across an article on TechCrunch about Adobe’s release of free, ad supported online version of Photoshop in six months. A quote from TechCrunch: One of the risks of trying to find a niche to build a startup is that the big guys can land on your face at any time. That’s why all [...]
Why Do I Blog?
Matt over at eJabs wrote recently about why he blogs and he was in fact inspired by a similar post by another fellow blogger. Now, it’s my turn.. I have been a silent lurker at many a blogs for a long time! I like to read about technology, news, personal finance and entertainment. I was [...]
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 [...]
Firefox 2.0 – Get it now!
A lot of discussion is going on in the nether world about the browser war!! IE 7 has been available for download for a few days now. And Firefox 2.0 has just been released into the wild!! Actually, I read about a mistake by the Mozilla foundation by mistakenly making the new download page public [...]
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