I delve a little bit into web development and WordPress theme customization as you can see right here. One tool I find indispensable is the Firebug Firefox extension. I can view/edit and play with live HTML/CSS code for any web page and see the possible results live for the tweak I am doing. You can […]
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GmailThis! – An Excellent Gmail bookmarklet – Tips & Tweaks
GmailThis! has to be one of the most useful bookmarklet’s I have in my browser toolbar. It let’s me open a Gmail compose window with the Subject line and the email body with the URL of the website I am currently at, already filled in.This makes it so easy to email anyone an email with […]
Contests With Cash Prizes Are Just Awesome!
$200 Cash Contest from Lifejotter.org I made a good friend from helping Bunk move his WordPress.com blog to his self hosted WordPress blog, Lifejotter.org. Bunk talks about lifestyle design and the art of making life work to your advantage. He makes convincing and insightful points in every post he makes and I totally recommend his […]
Diwali 2007 Giveaway Winners
We had a wonderful participation for this contest even though the prize was modest. I would like to heartily thank every one of you who took the time to enter the contest. Thanks for the blog posts. Thanks for the stumbles. And thanks for subscribing to our feed! Here are the list of participants who […]
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 […]
Good Reads: Buzz in Blogs 2007-10-18
Let’s look at what’s going on around the blogs this week. How to Setup up Google Custom Search for your Web Search to Make Money: Maki at Dosh Dosh has a great post on how to setup Google Custom Searchfor your blog search. He shows how you can use it to make money but I […]
ShanKri-la Sports a New Look
For those who are following ShanKri-la via your RSS reader, we are sporting a new look! As much I loved the old theme, it had a few flaws that bothered me. I have been in the lookout for a new & clean theme and I finally found one this weekend. Here is a little sneak […]
Good Reads: Buzz in Blogs 2007-09-26
Sorry for the slow posting this week. I have been resting a lot this week and looks like for another week to come. In spite of the free time I have had in the past few days, I couldn’t bring myself to get on my laptop. I have been catching up on some movies and […]
Firefox 2.0.0.7 Released & Flock 1.0 Announced
Firefox 2.0.0.7 Firefox released version 2.0.0.7 as a Fire Drill (Security) release. This security release addresses a severe vulnerability to Firefox for Windows & Mac users who have installed the Quicktime plugin, at minimum all iTunes users. From reading more into this issue in the above link, it seems like a pretty serious one and […]
AdGridWork Serving full page Paypopup ads?
Yesterday was an interesting day for ShanKri-la. I started out fixing broken feed and ended up fighting annoying popups that had creeped into my blog. Read on, if you are into things like that. Broken Feed Vinod kindly pointed to me that my feed was broken. Here is what went down if it’ll help someone […]
PassPack – Online Privacy Manager Reviewed
I talked earlier about how to manage your passwords in my Guide to managing your non-essential passwords. I subsequently showed how you can use an excellent free online tool, Clipperz to store your passwords, registration keys and much more online securely and in an easy to access manner. PassPack Tara Kelly of PassPack since invited […]
BuiltWith.com – Web Page Technology Profiler
That’s a crafty domain name for a site that let’s you find out what a site is built with. BuiltWith is a web page technology profiler that analyzes a website and gives a detailed listing of technologies that it finds on a web page. In their words, BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and […]
Binary Moon Links Competition – Get Free PR7 Links for Entering
Writing great content is a crucial part of blogging but just writing good content alone will not bring readers. Sometimes, we have to reach out to a wider audience and give them a chance to know about your blog. From then on, it is up to them to become a reader or not. Contests are […]
Launch everything: Launchy
The most used part of my Windows XP is the Quick Launch area. I keep shortcuts to all my often used programs in there. Start->Programs menu becomes unusable if you have an addiction for trying new software all the time. I still continuously battle the ever growing list in my Quick Launch bar by weeding […]
