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 [...]
Tips Galore
Tips make our lives easier. Tips are bite-sized words of wisdom passed on to other people in the hope that it might benefit few other souls. I will pass on to our readers whatever tips that I find myself using in day to day work around the house. Here are a couple of starters that [...]
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 [...]
Recipes from your Favourite Restaurants
Everyone has heard of the sheep clone, Dolly. But have you ever heard of a Recipe clone? Todd Wilbur from Top Secret Recipes does just that. He clones recipes from popular restaurants like Applebee’s, Olive Garden and others. Check the site out for a complete list of recipes. There are numerous sites on the web [...]
Daylight Saving Time
Yes, it is already time to change the clocks around the house this coming Sunday, March 11. This is as a result of Energy Policy Act of 2005 that is effective from second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. The transitions usually occur at 02:00. It used to be from the first [...]
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 [...]
Did you know this about Auto Insurance in Michigan?
Well, I didn’t! My car has been hit while parked on a couple of previous hit and run incidents but I never filed a claim because of my $500 deductible and the damages would have cost less than that. Couple of weeks back, I was at Sam’s Club waiting in an aisle for someone to [...]
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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