We have talked about GrandCentral here and it’s recent acquisition by Google here. However, if you had tried to get ‘one number for life’ you would have been turned away by the private beta message. I have 10 invites to GrandCentral with me and I would like to give it to the first 10 commenters […]
Google makes FeedBurner PRO free
on July 6, 2007 in Blogging, Feedburner, Google, Tech for Life
More news about Google. If you use FeedBurner, you’d know that Google acquired them and here is a positive fallout from that acquisition. If you have been paying for FeedBurner PRO, you won’t be billed for June 2007 and after. For everyone else, it is free and you can activate the FeedBurner Stats PRO right […]

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. Google has believed that tags and search combined should satisfy Docs & Spreadsheets users after its wild popularity in GMail. […]

Online Password Manager – Clipperz
on June 28, 2007 in Life matters, Tech for Life
Here is my promised review of the online password manager I started using last week – Clipperz. I had originally come across Clipperz in a post at Daily Cup of Tech where Tim asked his readers if they would use an online password manager. If you’d like you can see my reply in the comments […]

Wesabe gets cash accounts & flashier
on June 14, 2007 in Money Matters, Tech for Life
I use Wesabe to track my personal finances and I have written about it before. It is definitely well worth a look if you are looking for a way to manage your personal finances online but securely. What was a great product just got even better with these new features: Cash Accounts Previously, Wesabe just showed […]

Kyle’s Cove and Website Grader
on June 7, 2007 in ShanKri-la, Tech for Life, WordPress
One of my recent adds to my daily read section in my feed reader is Kyle’s Cove. Kyle authors his technology blog and I find it very resourceful just in the few days I have been following and earned his way into our Blogroll. If you like ShanKri-la’s content, I am sure you will like […]

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 […]

Wesabe updates: Goals, Groups & Full-text feeds
on April 7, 2007 in Money Matters
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 […]

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 […]
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