Reference

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

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 - My finance app of choice. Use it everyday.

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)