Screenshots help us in many ways whatever we may need it for. I use it when I am troubleshooting with some support helpdesk, when building websites, for blogging, etc.
Windows has the basic Print Screen option that you could load up in Paint and just crop the area you want. I did that for a long [...]

Do you have pictures you publish online that you want to protect from someone else using it? There are plenty of software options for watermarking images. But, what if you want to occasionally watermark an image or you are at someone else’s computer without the right the software?
PicMarkr offers a free online solution for [...]

The trend for a lot of software companies in this age of freeware is to release their old versions for free. This lets potential users TechSmith is doing just that with their award winning products SnagIt & Camtasia.
SnagIt
SnagIt is a Screen Capture and an Image Editing tool. It is really feature rich [...]

Let’s look at what’s going on around the blogs this week.

How to Setup up Google Custom Search for your Web Search to Make Money: Maki at Dosh Dosh has a great post on how to setup Google Custom Searchfor your blog search. He shows how you can use it to make money but I would [...]

I just noticed a small link in Google Image search called Google Image Labeler! My curiosity won me over and clicked over to find out that it is an interesting game.
Google actually wants us to help them index images better. So, instead of just asking people to label images randomly, they have made an addictive [...]

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 restrict number [...]

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 [...]