Welcome to ShanKri-la’s Reference page.
This will be an evolving list of links to websites, services, tutorials, tips, guides, manuals, resources that I use or find useful. It does not contain referral links and if I add it in the future, it will say so.
Consider this to be my ultra-filtered, no BS, premium bookmarks.
Browsing | Getting Things Done | Finance |Firefox | Photo | Telephony | Webmaster | WordPress
Browsing
- PopURLs – One page for all major headlines, pics and videos. An excellent time sink.
- StumbleUpon – A wonderful place to discover new sites of interest.
- Delicious.com – Online Bookmarking site (here’s my page)
Getting Things Done
- Remember the Milk – Great online task management application.
- d-cubed – A GTD web application based on TiddlyWiki concept.
- TiddlySpot – A hosted place for a variety of TiddlyWiki’s like d-cubed, MonkeyGTD, etc.
Firefox
- Top Firefox Extensions – A categorized list of top Firefox extensions compiled by truly yours.
Finance
Photo
- Flickr – sharing and storage
- PhotoBucket – sharing and storage
- iStockPhoto, Yotofoto, Stock.Xchng – if you are looking for royalty free images for blogging
- Crestock – Free high resolution stock photo everyday
- Canon SX 10 IS Review – Best point & shoot super zoom camera
Telephony
- MagicJack Review – Learn how you can pay just $20/year for long distance.
- Free 411 – Google’s free 411 service. Get text message with directions to your mobile.
- GrandCentral – One number for life (recently acquired by Google)
- Jajah – Dial-around service. 3 cent international calls.
Webmaster
- Google Analytics homepage – Get snazzy reports and graphs of your website traffic.
- Google Webmaster Guidelines – Guidelines for a webmaster from the big G.
- Google Webmaster Tools homepage – Submit your sitemap, robots.txt and view your site indexing stats, etc.
- MyIPNeighbors – If you are shared hosting, view your ip neighbors.
- Collection of robots.txt files – From Daily Blog tips. Good starting point.
- Text Link Checker – Check your site for links to nad neighborhoods.
- Website Grader – A quick tool to analyze your website.
- Xinu – Look at a wide variety of stats in one cool interface. (Xinu project)
WordPress
- K’s Custom WordPress Search Engine – by yours truly
- Top WordPress Plugins – by yours truly
- Adding a Sitemap to your Blog – by Garry Conn
- Global Variables and the WordPress Loop – For WordPress hacks
- Separating Comments & Trackbacks – WordPress Hack
- Turn off FeedBurner Redirect – by yours truly
