Without a doubt, iPhone is a great piece of work. I love its revolutionary touch interface, the wi-fi capability and the large widescreen display. You can read more about my views on it here. I love the iPod nano and used it a lot before I got my SonyEricsson w810i. It is from the Sony [...]
Google Reader finally gets Search
Google Reader is one of the popular online feed readers around. With the release of the new Bloglines beta, Google Reader is going to have to innovate to retain or improve their market share. One of the features missed by Google Reader users is the ‘Search’ feature which is in a way funny for an [...]
AdGridWork Serving full page Paypopup ads?
Yesterday was an interesting day for ShanKri-la. I started out fixing broken feed and ended up fighting annoying popups that had creeped into my blog. Read on, if you are into things like that. Broken Feed Vinod kindly pointed to me that my feed was broken. Here is what went down if it’ll help someone [...]
ShanKri-la Loves Your Blog
My good friends Tish of The Kat House and Brown Barron of Brown Thoughts have come out open with their love for ShanKri-la by awarding this Oscar equivalent for blog awards. A tip of my hat to you, my friends. I love your blogs too. It’s my turn to seize this opportunity to show my [...]
Free KAPLAN Full Length Online GMAT Exam
If you are preparing for the GMAT exam or simply curious to see how you will do without any preparation, here is an excellent way to spend a few hours this coming long weekend. KAPLAN is offering this free full length online GMAT exam. You need to register soon with KAPLAN and you can get [...]
Track Car Mileage and Get Projections with MyMileMarker
Just what I was looking for to track my car mileage! I drive a 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse with over 100,000 miles on it. It is running well and I try to guess its mileage with every fill up by setting up my trip meter with every fill up and making a mental note of the [...]
Check for Sex Offenders in your Area
I just came across this Windows Live maps mashup that lets you find sex offenders in your neighborhood on a map. Vision 20/20 is a free web based service that uses the publicly available data of 650,000 sex offenders in the US and displays it in a map of your area. You just enter your [...]
PassPack – Online Privacy Manager Reviewed
I talked earlier about how to manage your passwords in my Guide to managing your non-essential passwords. I subsequently showed how you can use an excellent free online tool, Clipperz to store your passwords, registration keys and much more online securely and in an easy to access manner. PassPack Tara Kelly of PassPack since invited [...]
How to Run Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Simultaneously
Updated: June 20, 2008 With Firefox 3 finally released, it is time to upgrade and enjoy the new features and the performance increase it offers. But, the truth is we have learnt to trust our current profile in Firefox 2 and naturally you’d be leery of upgrading to Firefox 3. For good reasons. There are [...]
Stalking by Phone Number Made Easy
Google Maps Mashups are a joy to use. You can now find out your ex’s location just by typing in the first 6 digits of the 10 digit phone number in the US/Canada. NPA-NXX Geolocator shows you the location in Google Maps as soon as you type in the 6 digits. It could not locate [...]
Good Reads: Buzz in Blogs 2007-08-18
It’s time to take a look around and see what’s happening around us. Review of GreatNews RSS Reader: Neely of NutShell JournalIt’s no secret to my readers that I am a fan of GreatNews RSS reader, a portable and versatile feed reader. Neely found that my reasons for using Desktop feed reader compelling enough to [...]
FARK.com – Filtering the Fark Out of News
If you have not heard of Fark.com by now, you have to come out of that hole you are hiding in, right now. It’s now news – It’s Fark What is Fark, I was asking myself. Is it an acronym? No. It’s just a name possibly a substitute for the F-word coined by an outstanding [...]
Flickr Uploads and Batch Edits Gets Better
It feels like it has been a while since Flickr has been in the news. Yet, it is one of my favorite applications partly because of my interest in photography. Some day I want to dig deeper into it but right now I am content with enjoying others’ fine pictures. Uploader Upgrade Flickr used to [...]
BuiltWith.com – Web Page Technology Profiler
That’s a crafty domain name for a site that let’s you find out what a site is built with. BuiltWith is a web page technology profiler that analyzes a website and gives a detailed listing of technologies that it finds on a web page. In their words, BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and [...]
5 Ways to Find Free Music Using Google
Google hacking is uncovering information indexed on the web that weren’t supposed to be indexed. Sometimes, it is because of the ignorance of webmaster or sometimes people just don’t know what they are letting Google index! I have read about Google hacks and lately have been hearing more about people using Google to download music [...]
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