It’s time for another look at some of the Firefox extensions making the rounds this week. For the new readers, I do these picks post every couple of weeks or as soon as I come across enough extensions to warrant a post. You can see the previous posts in this series at the bottom of […]
Borrowing made easy: neighborrow
I am always on the lookout for the next big thing in the web application arena. This one caught my eye today. While I am not sure if it’s the next big thing, it has the promising tone to it. neighborrow has an interesting concept and here is an excerpt from their site about this […]
Light Painting WiFi Signals [video]
We are surrounded by invisible WiFi signals and may more signals around us. This is especially true in urban settings. The team at YOUrban.no (Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen, Einar Sneve Martinussen) has conjured up an instrument that shows the WiFi signals as a bulbs lighting up in a rod depending on the strength of the […]
RSS overload – A great reference for RSS needs
I think RSS is the next best thing to sliced bread. Really. I even think if I hadn’t found RSS and it’s usefulness, I wouldn’t have started consuming so much information from hundreds of websites without spending a lot of time everyday. And I wouldn’t have felt the urge to create ShanKri-la and share these […]
Power your PHP Web Application with BackPress
WordPress and the new BuddyPress (forum) are couple of immensely popular open source projects in the PHP web applications world. BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications that grew out of the WordPress project. BackPress includes a variety of foundations needed to build a robust, scalable web application as a core […]
How to Get Past Blocked Sites?
Even in the days when businesses are leveraging social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn, there are several workplaces and schools blocking access to those websites. Sometimes it is pointless and sometimes it is mandatory. If you are in the pointless block category, here is a cool site to get around those proxies and […]
Make the Most out of FeedBurner’s Feeds-by-Email Service
Feedburner has offered feeds by email for a long time and it is one of the things every blogger using Feedburner could utilize. If you don’t offer a way to subscribe by email, consider how many readers who don’t use a RSS feed reader but like your content. You could be missing out on dozens […]
Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 08-04-10
Firefox 3 beta 5 has been in the wild for a few days. If you haven’t had a chance to try it yet, you can snag this portable version of it and read this post to run Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 simultaneously. The advantage of the portable version is that there is no installation […]
Apple App Store 500,000 Apps [Infographic]
I have started to collect infographics from around the web. Here is one made where the Apple App Store has reached half a million apps milestone! You can see the infographic in full size here.
Google Instant Unveils Search As You Type
Sorry to be covering Google so much lately but it is hard to ignore when they bring so much productivity enhancements in their tools! Google has unveiled something new called Google Instant. It is simply Google search on steroids. Lots of steroids. Google Instant gives you search results as you type in the search box. […]
aideRSS – Help Has Arrived for RSS Overload
Do you have hundreds of RSS Feeds in your feed reader and have trouble following them all? Help is on the way. aideRSS – Read What Matters AideRSS is a RSS feed filtering service that ranks articles in a blog/website by analyzing reader interaction with the posts through comments or web services such as Digg, […]
ShanKri-la Loves Your Blog
My good friends Tish of The Kat House and Brown Barron of Brown Thoughts have come out open with their love for ShanKri-la by awarding this Oscar equivalent for blog awards. A tip of my hat to you, my friends. I love your blogs too. It’s my turn to seize this opportunity to show my […]
The Rumor is True! Google is Building an Operating System
We have heard rumors of Google’s plans to build an operating system for a long time. Guess what, it’s true! When Google released its Google Chrome browser 9 months ago, the Google OS rumors kinda died down. Plus, the mobile devices OS platform Android was also another reason. Google Chrome OS Not to be confused […]
Site Speed Impacts Google Search Ranking
We have been hearing of news lately that Google is going to start factoring in website loading speed in web search ranking. When all things equal, a site that loads fast will appear higher in the search results than a site that loads slow. Google just posted on their Webmaster Central blog that they in […]
Evernote Opens up it’s API – Users Rejoice
Evernote is a note-taking application on steroids. It has the winning formula and success written all over it. I did step over a line and called Evernote as a Google Notebook alternative. And it has definitely come true for me. I have completely ditched Google Notebook for Evernote. Evernote just introduced some very important and […]
