These two will make great gifts for someone else or yourself, if you are on the market for one: Slickdeals has listed this deal from Dell SanDisk 4 GB Cruzer Micro U3 USB Flash Drive $30 . I have a Kingston 2GB with U3 in it and it is sweet. It acts as if it […]
Home Buyers: The Hunt is on
This interesting concept caught my eye today! In today’s real estate market, where selling a home has become so hard, sellers are doing everything at their disposal to sell their property. Lot of sellers are offering concessions in closing costs. Some offer LCD tvs. I saw a couple of offers where they threw in a […]
Tax time: Should you avoid big name tax places?
Consumerist thinks so. And I trust their reasons. Here is the short article with links to some bad apples. As they suggest, try to use someone with a few good references. I used the free offering from TaxACT this year and already used up the tax returns towards the closing costs for our home! Remember […]
Wesabe updates: Goals, Groups & Full-text feeds
We talked about Wesabe here lately and Marc Hedlund from Wesabe commented here about upcoming new features. True to their words, they have introduced some new features on their site. While it’s not the ooh-aaah kind of improvements, they definitely make it user-friendly. Now, to the quick facts: Goals are just goals: Earlier, in the […]
Ready to use Flickr? Here is a tutorial
I have written a few posts here, here and here about Flickr before. If you don’t use them already, it is time you tried it. I came across a link to a Flickr Tutorial for Newbie’s on Lifehacker. Try it and leave a link in the comments to your Flickr albums. It is time to […]
ShanKri-la Feature: Save money the Web 2.0 way – Wesabe.com
Sorry about the little hiatus. Long story short.. it has been a crazy week at work after a week away from work at a training! It’s time for the weekly ShanKri-la feature! We just bought a house a month back. We feel the pinch from a large part of our paycheck going to the mortgage. […]
Mortgages, PMI & Sub-prime loans
If you are on the market for buying a home and don’t have 20% down payment, eJabs has a great post on PMI writeoff. We just went through the whole home buying process last month and I should share some of our experiences while the facts are fresh in my mind. FHA Loans If you […]
Popular cameras on Flickr
Now that you are hooked to Flickr after reading my posts here and here (wishful thinking!), now you can see how popular or unpopular your camera is at Flickr!! This is a new section they have added. It could be useful for someone about to spend their years savings on a camera to see what […]
GrandCentral.com – One number for life
This service has been around in beta for a while, but now is in it’s final weeks of beta testing. You have to read this article in New York Times about the website GrandCentral.com. I won’t reiterate all the details because the NYT article explains how this works very eloquently and I won’t do justice […]
ShanKri-la Feature: JellyFish.com
How about a featured site every week here at ShanKri-la? Let’s see how this goes! It’s no secret I’m all for sweet deals. I love to save a buck or four and spend it on things I don’t need! There is no dearth of websites that claim to save us money shopping on their website. […]
Get Random Wikipedia articles in your browser
If you are like me, which would be unfortunate, you’d find yourself going to Wikipedia as a source of truth for lot of information that you want to look up. Well, you might even have your browser’s homepage set to open Wikipedia on startup. Well, you can do one step better. Add this to your […]
Tips Galore
Tips make our lives easier. Tips are bite-sized words of wisdom passed on to other people in the hope that it might benefit few other souls. I will pass on to our readers whatever tips that I find myself using in day to day work around the house. Here are a couple of starters that […]
Recipes from your Favourite Restaurants
Everyone has heard of the sheep clone, Dolly. But have you ever heard of a Recipe clone? Todd Wilbur from Top Secret Recipes does just that. He clones recipes from popular restaurants like Applebee’s, Olive Garden and others. Check the site out for a complete list of recipes. There are numerous sites on the web […]
Daylight Saving Time
Yes, it is already time to change the clocks around the house this coming Sunday, March 11. This is as a result of Energy Policy Act of 2005 that is effective from second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. The transitions usually occur at 02:00. It used to be from the first […]
Did you know this about Auto Insurance in Michigan?
Well, I didn’t! My car has been hit while parked on a couple of previous hit and run incidents but I never filed a claim because of my $500 deductible and the damages would have cost less than that. Couple of weeks back, I was at Sam’s Club waiting in an aisle for someone to […]
