RT Cunnigham at Untwisted Vortex graciously accepted to review ShanKri-la and offer some suggestions. Better yet, he posted the review at Untwisted Vortex. RT, thanks for the excellent review and the link love! If you haven’t been to Untwisted Vortex, it’s definitely worth a stop and I know you’ll be hooked. I am looking at […]

Free CSS Authoring Tool – Simple CSS
on May 17, 2007 in Tech for Life
I am learning CSS and PHP. In fact, that was the whole reason I started out with ShanKri-la. To get myself educated with a little bit of the behind the scenes web technology. I just came across this free tool today to author CSS – Simple CSS. It is provided by HostM.com web hosting. This […]

ShanKri-la Feature: Quickest way to send a file – Tinyload.com
on May 8, 2007 in Tech for Life
There are plenty of options to share a file with someone. If it wasn’t too big, you would email them as an attachment. If it was bigger than your email attachment limit, you might consider signing up for an account with one of the multitude of online storage options but that means registering for an […]

Cellphone rescues shoppers: Frucall
on May 1, 2007 in Tech for Life
While you are browsing through a bookshop or favorite game store, ever wondered if you should ask your friend to get online and see if there is a better deal online? Not anymore.. You can call Frucall (1-888-DO-FRUCALL) on your cellphone or from a pay phone and get the prices from online store! It’s time […]

Fastest Virus Web Scanner – NanoScan
on April 13, 2007 in Tech for Life
Everything has to be fast these days. I talked about the fastest dictionary Ninjawords. Now, we have the fastest online malware scanner. If you want to know if your PC has any of the pesky viruses, trojans, spyware or other threats in 1 minute, Nanoscan claims to do it. Quick facts: It is small.. very […]

Home Buyers: The Hunt is on
on April 13, 2007 in Household
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 […]

ShanKri-la Feature: Save money the Web 2.0 way – Wesabe.com
on March 30, 2007 in Money Matters
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. […]

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 […]

ShanKri-la Feature: JellyFish.com
on March 15, 2007 in Tech for Life
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. […]
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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