Apple just announced the Mac OS X Lion july release yesterday at the 2011 Apple WWDC conference. Good news is that it is going to cost just $29! However, there was one interesting fact in the announcement. Steve Jobs said that Mac OS X Lion will only be available through the Mac App Store as [...]
How To Get Around To Those Blocked Websites
It is the policy in many schools, institutions and even workplaces to employ website blocking software to prevent people from accessing a certain list of websites. This could be done for many reasons and it is the social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and email sites like Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail getting blocked. Another [...]
iSteve: The Books Jobs is Available Now for Pre-Order
If you even have the remotest interest in Apple Inc or its CEO Steve Jobs, you are in for a treat. For someone who has guarded his private life more than any new Apple product design, it was a surprising move when he allowed for an autobiography on him. Here is the excerpt From bestselling [...]
Free HTML5 WordPress Theme
Most modern browsers are starting to support HTML 5 and CSS3. The two pack an awesome punch in terms of offering functionality that was previously possible only with the help of plugins, javascript, etc right within the browser. This makes webapps work incredibly faster and function well without any overhead. If you are a fan [...]
How to Clear DNS Cache in Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
I was working on moving a few of our WordPress sites from Apache to Niginx. One of the changes was the new server ip address. But, I kept hitting the old ip address when i tried to ping from my iMac. Doh! I haven’t cleared the DNS cache in my Mac OS X Snow Leopard. [...]
MiMedia Offers 7GB of Free Online Storage
I have been a great proponent of the online cloud storage service Dropbox. Recently, Dropbox had some negative publicity when they updated their terms of service. So, I started looking for Dropbox alternatives. A long time blogging friend of mine, Mark Sierra commented about a service he has used for quite a bit – Mimedia. [...]
BlackSheep Protects Against FireSheep
I wrote about a Firefox extension, FireSheep, that could let someone else on the same public WiFi connection as you could log into your social networking accounts. Eric Butler released Fire Sheep download with a good intention to show the seriousness of how lax the login procedures are for most of the popular social networking [...]
Sony PlayStation Network Users Get Free Identity Theft Protection
If you have a Sony Playstation network account, you probably have heard of the massive attack on Sony’s PlayStation network. This led to hackers walking away with user account data possibly including personal information like credit card numbers. Sony has in turn arranged for one year of free identity theft protection for PlayStation Network users [...]
What is FireSheep and How to Protect Yourself?
I am going to be traveling a lot this month and probably end up using a lot of free WiFi access points. So, when I came across FireSheep I had to write about it. FireSheep, in essence, is a Firefox extension that can sniff out your login information to many sites and let a stranger [...]
Quick Survey: Future of ShanKrila.com
Please take a few minutes and fill out this survey. If you can’t see the embedded survey form, you can go here to fill it out. http://app.fluidsurveys.com/surveys/priya/future-of-shankrila/
How to Manually Update Chrome Extensions?
Google Chrome is fantastic when it comes to updating chrome extensions automatically. But, there is an extension that has gotten a nice update you read about but your Chrome browser has not updated it yet. Instead of waiting for Google Chrome’s scheduled update to kick off, you can update it manually. Here’s how: Type in [...]
Best Dropbox Hacks and Dropbox Portable
Dropbox has literally changed the way I do things in the Internet. If you haven’t heard of Dropbox, it is an online file synchronization service with the following cool useful features: File Sync between multiple computers Cross platform support – Windows. Linux & Mac No complicated interface – runs in the background and access via [...]
Iomega Prestige 1.5 TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive $120
Originally posted 2010-02-04 21:52:26. I had brought the Iomega Prestige 1 TB hard drive in a great deal couple of months back. Storage prices are dropping so fast. I just saw that Amazon has dropped the price of Iomega Prestige 1.5 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive to $119.99 with free standard shipping. The [...]
The Google Wallet Phone – Nexus S 4G Android Smartphone
Google just announced 2 new products that is about to pave way for the next generation of mobile payment systems – Google Wallet and Google Offers. Google Wallet will let you store credit cards, loyalty cards, etc and will let you pay for purchases with a single tap. Google Offers will use NFC to show [...]
How to Avoid WordPress Firefox Redirect Loop Error?
Scenario: I had an existing site with this in the .htacess file which basically redirects anything without a www to a www address. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [r=301,nc] Now, I installed WordPress in a sub-directory and the site was setup without a www prefix. Now, I cannot log [...]
Follow K
Download Mac OS X Lion
Protect Your New Gadget
