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ShanKri-la - where technology meets daily life!

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Bringing you the techie stuff to everyone so you can also use technology and the web in your daily life in simple ways. Or atleast you will find out what's hot these days.

Added on: May 16th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Karthik
Listed in: Technology Internet
Tags: Firefox photos Web 2.0 wordpress Flickr web apps

Recent Posts

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Now Available for Download

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 06:00 in Software, freeware, windows, updates, deals, household, microsoft office, tech for life, windows freeware

I guess it’s free beta week this time. We just saw that we can download and try Adobe Lightroom 3 beta for free. If you have uploaded to Windows 7 recently, you might be looking to re-install your Office software or the free Open Office softwar...
Beware: Facebook Phishing Scam in the Wild

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 06:00 in Software, Firefox, Security, social networking, gmail, social media, tips & tricks, household, facebook, featured, tips n tricks, tech for life

I woke up this morning to see 45 emails via Facebook. Looks like I started spamming my friends’ walls with messages like ‘How to make $6000 with hot colon?’. Luckily, I have friends who know me better than to post such nonsense in their walls a...
WordPress Wins Best Overall Open Source CMS Award

Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 13:20 in Software, news, blogging, wordpress, webmaster, open source, web-design, tech for life

PacktPub awards Open Source CMS Awards every year. To my delight, WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award for the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. In the last 4 years, this is the first time WordPress has won this award. Plus, it was na...
Mozilla Announces Weave Sync 1.0 beta 1

Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 07:53 in Software, Firefox, reviews, freeware, Mobile, open source, featured, add-ons, firefox add-ons, mozilla labs

It has been a while since I have covered Mozilla Labs. It is one of the cool places where some of the cutting edge web technologies like Prism, Personas, Ubiquity, Bespin, Snowl, Geode, etc. Mozilla Weave is one such technology out of Mozilla labs. W...
WordPress.com Adds GeoLocation Feature

Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 07:00 in Firefox, wordpress, social media

Location awareness is becoming ubiquitous. With iPhone apps like Brightkite & Loopt, web apps like Flickr have embraced geo tagging and ability to search people or pictures by location has been around for a while. Most recently, Twitter added goe...
Access Blocked Websites By Email

Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 14:19 in Security, tools, social media, tips & tricks, web apps, tips n tricks, tech for life

For some reason, my getting around blocked websites has received a tremendous response here. So, I figured I’d share another way you can get to blocked websites just by using your email. MailMyWeb.com is a beta web service that lets you send an ema...