Recently, I featured the top 15 Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail & Google Reader. It was one of the most popular posts of October. Greasemonkey is pretty popular after all. 🙂 For those unaware, Greasemonkey is a very useful Firefox extension that allows you to extend website capabilities by installing little scripts from UserScripts.org. Chris at […]

Gmail Gets Free IMAP Access
on October 25, 2007 in Tech for Life
While Google’s PageRank team have been busy penalizing the big players with a penalty sweep, GMail team has been busy adding IMAP support to GMail. I have tried using POP3 with Thunderbird but I missed the features available with IMAP. One of the main IMAP feature is that it syncs both ways. So, if you […]

Get Website Email Updates with RssFwd
on October 11, 2007 in Tech for Life
Just after rejoicing the magical 200+ RSS subscribers yesterday, you can see how selfless I am. I am going to actually show you how you can get email updates without subscribing to a RSS/Atom feed. If you are one of those email junkies and prefer to get updates from a website via email, you are […]
Top Greasemonkey Scripts for GMail & Google Reader
on October 8, 2007 in Tech for Life
One of the mos useful Firefox extensions has to be the Greasemonkey extension. This extension lets you download scripts from userscripts.org or write your own to change different aspects of a website. I use GMail & Google Reader the most and I find these Greasemonkey scripts a life saver! I am listing them here so […]

Deal Alert: Kingston 2GB USB Flash Drive – $6.95 (free shipping)
on September 17, 2007 in Money Matters
I have mentioned previously that the one newsletter I love is the one from Buy.com. They truly give out some awesome deals! I had purchased my Kingston DataTraveler 2GB USB Flash Drive from Buy.com a few months back. Now, it is again on sale for $16.95 with free shipping! I have ordered another one to […]

Get private beta invites – InviteShare
on July 26, 2007 in Tech for Life
I gave out a few beta invites I had for Spock and GrandCentral. Now, I get atleast 1 request everyday for a GrandCentral invite! I don’t mind the requests at all and in fact love the traffic Google is sending my way when people search for a GC invite. As I am wiping my evil […]

Google arrives at GrandCentral
on July 4, 2007 in Household, Tech for Life
Google has acquired GrandCentral, the ‘one number for life’ service that we have featured here before. GrandCentral (in beta but aren’t they all?) is an innovative web-based voice communications service that promises one single number for life and gives you the ability to manage all your phones from one single web interface. I have gotten […]

Google Docs gets a facelift – GMail to follow?
on June 28, 2007 in Tech for Life
Google Docs & Spreadsheets have gotten a nice facelift. Docs is Google’s alternative to Microsoft Word and Spreadsheets for Excel and they are both web applications but with the slick interface you’ll hardly feel so. Â Google has believed that tags and search combined should satisfy Docs & Spreadsheets users after its wild popularity in GMail. […]

GMail filter tips and increased attachment size
on May 30, 2007 in Tech for Life
There is no doubt GMail created more than a ripple when it was invite-only with 1GB storage space, search, better spam handling, labels and filters. I have been using GMail ever since I got my first invite from a friend when giving out GMail invites was the rage. One of my favorite features of GMail […]

5 easy ways to read RSS feeds
on May 25, 2007 in ShanKri-la, Tech for Life
You learned about RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds in this simple but informative video. Now, you are attracted to the orange button like a bug to the light. If you don’t know what RSS is, look at the life-changing tutorial video.. maybe not that radical but it’s sure to change your browsing experience. And don’t […]

GrandCentral.com – One number for life
on March 16, 2007 in Tech 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 […]
Picasa & Flickr: The best photo management tools?
on February 26, 2007 in Tech for Life
With the digital cameras being omnipresent and as we get trigger happy with our cameras, what do we do with tons of pictures we end up with? For a while I tried to create albums for every occasion and tried to keep track of it.. only to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of pictures […]

Do you monkey with task lists? Get MonkeyGTD
on November 4, 2006 in Tech for Life
If you are like me and try to keep track of your task lists at work and at home and on the quest for keeping things organized.. look no further! I think I have found the holy grail!! Everyone has heard about Wikipedia and there wiki’s popping up everywhere. From this was born TiddlyWiki. From […]
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