I woke up this morning to see 45 emails via Facebook. Looks like I started spamming my friends’ walls with messages like ‘How to make $6000 with hot colon?’. Luckily, I have friends who know me better than to post such nonsense in their walls and they said so. Finally, the Facebook team had sensed the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 15, 2009
For some reason, my getting around blocked websites has received a tremendous response here. So, I figured I’d share another way you can get to blocked websites just by using your email. MailMyWeb.com is a beta web service that lets you send an email with the url of the site you want as the subject. In [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 4, 2009
I really thought that was the case when I saw a bunch of emails marked as read when I know for sure I hadn’t opened them. I was in a 3 hour meeting. My first thought was to check to see if anyone else is logged into my Gmail account elsewhere right now. You can do that [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
I famously proclaimed that Digsby is my favorite instant messenger in this blog post. Digsby is a free instant messaging client that offered support for multiple instant messaging support including Gtalk, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, etc. It also stodd out by offering support to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc making it a one-stop application [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A long time reader of ShanKrila and a blogging friend of mine, Jeanne Dininni of Writer’s Notes contacted me yesterday by email with a computer question. I’ve been battling a “PC Antispyware 2010″ computer infestation. Don’t know whether you’re familiar with it or not, but I was hoping that maybe you’d be able to give me [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 18, 2009
We have previously looked at some good proxies to get around blocked websites. Some readers in the comments have said some of the php based proxies don’t work anymore. It is a reality that most of the social networking sites are blocked in most work and school places. I am not here to argue the merits [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 17, 2009
There was a critical security vulnerability detected in last week’s Firefox 3.5 release. Mozilla has reacted quickly and has pushed a security update that fixes this security hole. If you are running Firefox 3.5, go to Help -> Check Updates and update to Firefox 3.5.1 immediately. You can find more details here.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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