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

• Wesabe - Online web 2.0 money management.
• Mint - Another excellent online web 2.0 money management application.

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

Telephony

• 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.
• MajicJack - Learn how you can pay just $20/year for long distance.

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
• Adding a Sitemap to your Blog - by Garry Conn
• Global Variables and the WordPress Loop - For Wordpress hacks
• Separating Comments & Trackbacks - WordPress Hack

Hello newcomer, did I say welcome to ShanKri-la yet? Before you move on, just wanted to thank you for visiting and we hope you come back and see us again!