Apple just announced the Mac OS X Lion july release yesterday at the 2011 Apple WWDC conference. Good news is that it is going to cost just $29! However, there was one interesting fact in the announcement. Steve Jobs said that Mac OS X Lion will only be available through the Mac App Store as […]
How To Get Around To Those Blocked Websites
It is the policy in many schools, institutions and even workplaces to employ website blocking software to prevent people from accessing a certain list of websites. This could be done for many reasons and it is the social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and email sites like Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail getting blocked. Another […]
How to Clear DNS Cache in Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
I was working on moving a few of our WordPress sites from Apache to Niginx. One of the changes was the new server ip address. But, I kept hitting the old ip address when i tried to ping from my iMac. Doh! I haven’t cleared the DNS cache in my Mac OS X Snow Leopard. […]
MiMedia Offers 7GB of Free Online Storage
I have been a great proponent of the online cloud storage service Dropbox. Recently, Dropbox had some negative publicity when they updated their terms of service. So, I started looking for Dropbox alternatives. A long time blogging friend of mine, Mark Sierra commented about a service he has used for quite a bit – Mimedia. […]
BlackSheep Protects Against FireSheep
I wrote about a Firefox extension, FireSheep, that could let someone else on the same public WiFi connection as you could log into your social networking accounts. Eric Butler released Fire Sheep download with a good intention to show the seriousness of how lax the login procedures are for most of the popular social networking […]
What is FireSheep and How to Protect Yourself?
I am going to be traveling a lot this month and probably end up using a lot of free WiFi access points. So, when I came across FireSheep I had to write about it. FireSheep, in essence, is a Firefox extension that can sniff out your login information to many sites and let a stranger […]
Quick Survey: Future of ShanKrila.com
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Best Dropbox Hacks and Dropbox Portable
Dropbox has literally changed the way I do things in the Internet. If you haven’t heard of Dropbox, it is an online file synchronization service with the following cool useful features: File Sync between multiple computers Cross platform support – Windows. Linux & Mac No complicated interface – runs in the background and access via […]
The Google Wallet Phone – Nexus S 4G Android Smartphone
Google just announced 2 new products that is about to pave way for the next generation of mobile payment systems – Google Wallet and Google Offers. Google Wallet will let you store credit cards, loyalty cards, etc and will let you pay for purchases with a single tap. Google Offers will use NFC to show […]
How to Avoid WordPress Firefox Redirect Loop Error?
Scenario: I had an existing site with this in the .htacess file which basically redirects anything without a www to a www address. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [r=301,nc] Now, I installed WordPress in a sub-directory and the site was setup without a www prefix. Now, I cannot log […]
Skype Experiences Worldwide Outage – PC Version
Skype is suffering serious connectivity problems worldwide and it seems like it is affecting just the Skype PC versions. Skype for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android seem to be working fine. However, video and voice calling with Skype PC versions seem to throw this error. @skype has ackownledged this outage in their twitter feed. Some […]
Easiest Way to Send Large Files or Folder with Google Docs
Here is a little known fact about Google Docs. You can easily send a large file or folder to someone else by just uploading it to Google Docs. Google Docs has an upload feature that lets you add files or folders upto 1GB in size. You can simply choose Files or Folder and start uploading. […]
Thinking Twice About Dropbox Security & Alternatives
If you are a reader of this blog for any length of time, you’d know that I am huge proponent of Dropbox. However, Dropbox recently came into a lot of fire when they changed their terms of service indicating that they have access to all the data stored by their users. As with any cloud […]
Download Firefox 5 Beta Now
Firefox has taken a page out of Google Chrome‘s development cycle. I can’t even remember how many months passed by before we updated from version 3 to Firefox 4. With the new faster development cycle, Firefox is moving into a rapid development process. Under the Rapid Release Firefox, you can expect to see cutting edge […]
Show/Hide Firefox Address Bar Like Google Chrome
Google Chrome just introduced a cool feature which lets you maximize the browser space you have by letting you easily show/hide the address bar. Firefox is not be out done by Chrome for long. With the Firefox extension – LessChrome HD, you can get the same show/hide address bar feature in Firefox. Once installed (no […]
