There are plenty of URL shortening service and one that gained a lot of traction is bit.ly. Google had introduced it’s own URL shortening service late last year – Goo.gl. One of the prominent places you might have seen it in action is in Feedburner Twitter integration. Since then Goo.gl has made it’s way into […]

0Boxer Makes it Fun to Organize Emails in Gmail
on September 27, 2010 in Gmail, Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps
Who said organizing emails in your Gmail inbox has to be a boring, mind numbing affair? 0Boxer aims at making the mundane email tasks such as reading, deleting, organizing, tagging your Gmail emails a fun task. Once granted access to your Gmail account with oAuth, 0Boxer web app monitors your Gmail account for activity. You […]

One Site to Instantise Popular Web Services
on September 16, 2010 in Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps
A few days ago Google unveiled an awesome new feature in Google Search – Google Instant. Google Instant search enabled seeing results as-you-type and was ridiculously fast in displaying the results. It wowed everyone including yours truly. Inspired by Google Instant, a lot of web developers started applying this to various services like YouTube, Flickr, […]

ToodleAir – A Must Have ToodleDo Companion
on September 14, 2010 in Getting Things Done, Productivity, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps, Windows, Windows Freeware
For those using ToodleDo, it needs no introduction. If you are new to it, check out my ToodleDo online task manager review here. ToodleDo has really helped me with managing my tasks with me loosely following the Getting Things Done principle. However, I wanted an easier way to input my tasks as I came across […]

Get IIT Technical Lectures For Free on Youtube
on September 10, 2010 in Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps, Youtube
IIT – Indian Institute of Technology is one of the premium Indian educational institutions. Only the best of the students graduating from high school get into it after rigorous screening. I went to school right across from IIT Chennai and always wondered what it would be attend classes there. Now, thanks to a program called […]

TeuxDeux Online Task Manager Part Deux
on August 30, 2010 in Tech for Life, Web Apps
TeuxDeux is a beautiful, simple and elegant online task manager. I did a TeuxDeux review here before. TeuxDeux was popular for its easy to use AJAXified interface. It worked just like an online paper calendar. You can easily add tasks to certain dates on the screen. Each task gets scratched off as you are done. […]

YouTube Adds 400+ Free Full Length Movies
on August 27, 2010 in Google, Tech for Life, Web Apps, Youtube
Google is pulling out all stops trying to give out free content. They just announced free calls within US and Canada from Gmail this week. Now they have added over 400 full length movies for us to watch free on Youtube. YouTube had added a few free movies and TV shows last year. Before you […]

ITA’s Matrix Offers No-Frills Flight Price Comparison Tool
on August 19, 2010 in Tech Deals, Tech for Life, Web Apps
I have long been a fan of Kayak for hunting down flight deals anytime we travel. They offer really nice interface to compare prices and find flight deals for destinations. It looks like their search engine is actually powered by ITA Software’s Matrix engine. It also powers most of the major deal hunting websites such […]
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Passpack Comes to Mobile Phones
on August 11, 2010 in Tech for Life, Web Apps
Passpack is my choicest online password manager and I trust it with a lot of my data. You can read all my Passpack review and related posts here. i have written a lot on why I trust them and will skip trying to convince you that it is secure. Instead, this post is for Passpack […]

How to Enable Multiple Gmail Account Support?
on August 3, 2010 in Gmail, Google, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps
Have I mentioned I love Gmail? Gmail makes up for its dull look and feel with powerful functionality to handle the email volumes of this day. But, as most Gmail users I have multiple Gmail accounts and it is a pain to switch between them. I hate to have to logout of one account and […]

Are You a Book Lover? You Need GoodReads
on July 28, 2010 in Household, Life matters, Web Apps
When I was in high school and college, I used to read a lot of books on fiction. A lot! I’d frequent a used book store near my house and get a ton of books for the summer and go through them religiously. I continued this through college but at a diminishing rate as my […]

NoSQL Database Solutions Like CouchDB Gain Traction
on July 20, 2010 in Tech for Life, Web Apps
Relational databases have been the norm for traditional as well as web applications. But, certain specialty web applications such as web based instant messaging have scalability needs that push the boundaries of traditional SQL based databases. NoSQL databases are document oriented non-relational databases. It contains an ad-hoc and schema-free structure with a flat address space. […]

JoliCloud Netbook OS Adds Nice Features in Version 1.0
on July 19, 2010 in Gadgets, Netbooks, Tech for Life, Web Apps
JoliCloud Netbook OS is an incredible offering that can supercharge your netbook into a productivity center without being bogged down by heavy operating systems such as Windows 7. JoliCloud is basically an internet operating system that mixes web connectivity with desktop applications and you can read our Jolicoud review here. JoliCloud Netbook OS has now […]

Trunk – An App Store for Evernote
on July 15, 2010 in Blogging, Evernote, Tech for Life, Web Apps
Evernote has gone from an awesome note-taking application to a memory platform where various applications can hook into it through it’s API. As a next evolutionary step, Evernote has announced the next extension in their platform – Trunk. Trunk is essentially an Evernote App Store. It’s sole aim is to showcase applications, hardware and platforms […]

Gmail Gets Rich Text Signatures. Finally!
on July 12, 2010 in Gmail, Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps
Finally, we can let out a huge sigh of relief. I love Gmail a lot and can’t even consider any other email service for all the features it has. For years, Gmail users have been resorting to various workarounds to get HTML signatures in Gmail. I have regularly covered different ways to achieve this in […]
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