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 Blog-op [...]
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 [...]
How to Overcome RSS Feed Overload?
Have you collected a lot of RSS feeds over time that you neatly categorized in folders? If you are like me, you hardly have time to visit some of these folders because to actually go through them all, you are going to need a few hours a day. And who are we kidding? RSS is [...]
Want to earn some cash?
I am sure you have entered our little Diwali 2007 Giveaway. If you’d like to give your shot at some some cash prizes, I have some more contests for you. Blog About Your Blog Contest: Blog About Your Blog is running a Bidvertiser contest that ends Oct 29. There are some cool cash prizes ($100, [...]
Get 5GB of Free File Hosting at BOXSTr
I know there is a lot of online file storage options. But, few have this kind of high numbers while keeping the service free. BOXSTr offers 5GB of free storage plus some significant bandwidth to share files. Quick facts 5GB of free online storage space 1/2GB of daily bandwidth with rollover bandwidth (reset daily) Upload [...]
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 [...]
ShanKri-la Sports a New Logo & Favicon
It’s exciting times around here. We just recently hit 200+ RSS subscribers and we have a Diwali 2007 Giveaway going on. In the midst of all this, I had won a contest at the ProBlogger Birthday Bash. The prize was a logo design by the famous Graphic Designer, David Airey! He was wonderful to work [...]
ShanKri-la Diwali 2007 Giveaway
Diwali is a great Indian Festival of Lights. It was one of my favorite festivals growing up. I still have fond memories of this colorful celebration with lots of fireworks and miss being home for it. What do I win? I would like to thank my readers and would like to show my appreciation by [...]
Good Reads: Buzz in Blogs 2007-10-18
Let’s look at what’s going on around the blogs this week. How to Setup up Google Custom Search for your Web Search to Make Money: Maki at Dosh Dosh has a great post on how to setup Google Custom Searchfor your blog search. He shows how you can use it to make money but I [...]
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 [...]
A New Milestone for ShanKri-la
I just wanted to take the time to thank all my readers for supporting me and encouraging me since the beginning. I have had my doubts when I started blogging like who would read what I write. With 200+ RSS subscribers today, I have found a few of you who do like what I write [...]
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