Sorry I have gone missing a little this week. I have been swamped with my day job and a little re-design I have been working on for ShanKri-la. Watch out for a post on that front this week. I do however have some very interesting reads for you this morning. Free Screen Sharing and Remote […]
Tag Archives: tips n tricks
Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for PassPack
PassPack has become indispensable for me to keep track of usernames & passwords for various services I use. I did an extensive review about this awesome service that goes beyond just managing usernames & passwords earlier. Here are some keyboard shortcuts that makes using PassPack such a breeze. Press 1 & click the star on […]
Blogging Tip: Turn off FeedBurner Redirect in RSS Feeds
As a voracious RSS feed consumer, I have always been irked by the fact that a lot of FeedBurner enabled blog feeds have the title URL point to a FeedBurner URL instead of a link to the actual post. If I wanted to bookmark the post or save the link to blog about it, I […]
How to Run Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Simultaneously
Updated: June 20, 2008 With Firefox 3 finally released, it is time to upgrade and enjoy the new features and the performance increase it offers. But, the truth is we have learnt to trust our current profile in Firefox 2 and naturally you’d be leery of upgrading to Firefox 3. For good reasons. There are […]
5 Ways to Find Free Music Using Google
Google hacking is uncovering information indexed on the web that weren’t supposed to be indexed. Sometimes, it is because of the ignorance of webmaster or sometimes people just don’t know what they are letting Google index! I have read about Google hacks and lately have been hearing more about people using Google to download music […]
How to Safely Try New Firefox Extensions?
A friend emailed me last week saying that he liked my weekly Picks of the Week Firefox Extensions posts but he doesn’t actually try new ones, even if they sound interesting, for fear of breaking his perfectly working Firefox. That’s when it dawned on me that some of my readers might be thinking the same […]
Xinu and a Poll
Unlike last week, I am not trying to give you a long name and its meaning, Instead, Xinu is a web service that provides a lot of stats in a nice layout to get a quick overview of a multitude of information. If you liked Website Grader [review] to learn a lot about your website, […]
5 easy ways to read RSS feeds
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
