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Good Reads: Buzz in Blogs 07-12-16
I was just going through my Google Reader starred items and found these gems that I wanted to share with you. Enjoy! Caution: Online MD5 Cracker Tool - Ryan of CybetNet News MD5 is a popular encodi...
Want A Netflix for Books - PaperSpine
I am sure you have heard of, if not used Netflix for renting movies online if you live in the United States. The most attractive thing that made Netflix popular was the fact that you can keep a movi...
Early Look at DocSyncer - Sync Your Docs with Google Docs
Google Docs & Spreadsheets have started to make me think different about I use and organize documents. I keep track of some of my spreadsheets online at Google Docs just because I can access it ...
Schmap - Travel Guides Supercharged
I love traveling. And I am fond of reading travel guides before and while traveling. I like to get the background about the places I am visiting and try to find the best bang for the buck in the lim...
Get Your Link in ShanKri-la - ScratchBack
ScratchBack is an online ‘tipping’ system where you can ‘tip’ a publisher and get a link back in return. You can sign-up for a free account and create a widget like the one ...
3 Super Fast Dictonaries in the Internet
I have stopped looking up words in my Webster’s College Dictionary a while back. I used their online version for the longest time before I started using other super fast means of finding meaning...
Remember the Milk - Reloaded With New features
Remember the Milk is my choice online task manager. As fun as the name sounds, the application is very intuitive to use as well as very web 2.0. I have wrote about Remember the Milk here, here and her...
ShanKri-la goes Mobile with Mofuse
Mofuse is a web service that lets you instantly create a mobile version for any blog or RSS-enabled website. Quick facts about Mofuse You can track visitors to your mobile version Anyone can create a...
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 user...
Read Local News on a Map with YourStreet
I love a good Google Maps mashup. I have previously talked about a Sex Offender mashup, Flights mashup, etc. I can spot a good one when I see it and YourStreet is one of them. The concept is simple an...
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...
How to Overcome RSS Feed Overload?
Have you collected a lot of RSS feeds over time that you neatly categorized in folders? If you are like me, you hardly have time to visit some of these folders because to actually go through them all,...
Gmail Gets Free IMAP Access
While Google’s PageRank team have been busy penalizing the big players with a penalty sweep, GMail team has been busy adding IMAP support to GMail. I have tried using POP3 with Thunderbird but I...
Get Real Estate Info by SMS - HouseFront
We bought a house earlier this year. We spent quite a bit of time looking at potential houses before we zeroed in on ours. One of the ways we scouted for houses was by driving through neighborhoods th...
Get Website Email Updates with RssFwd
Just after rejoicing the magical 200+ RSS subscribers yesterday, you can see how selfless I am. I am going to actually show you how you can get email updates without subscribing to a RSS/Atom feed. If...
Start your browsing with HomepageStartup
Going to bookmarks to start browsing is so old. If you are a little savvy with your browser, you might have set up multiple pages to open as your home pages. (if not ask me how in the comments) If you...
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 pa...
How To Get Around To Those Blocked Websites
Does your workplace or college block some of your favorite websites? We have seen various hacks in the past from setting up a tunnel session to your home computer to going to proxies. Now, you can jus...
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 li...
Good Reads: Buzz in Blogs 2007-08-09
Let’s take a look around and see what other bloggers are talking about lately. Ultimate Guide to time saving for Bloggers - Tips and Resources - Shankar Ganesh Most of us are blogging after our...
aideRSS - Help Has Arrived for RSS Overload
Do you have hundreds of RSS Feeds in your feed reader and have trouble following them all? Help is on the way. aideRSS - Read What Matters AideRSS is a RSS feed filtering service that ranks articles ...
Sorting Added to Remember the Milk
One of the features I missed in Remember the Milk (RTM) has been added. Remember the Milk (RTM) is a very cool and efficient online task manager. I have a love for GTD (Getting Things Done) tools and ...
Mister Wong Comes to USA
I like competition because we, as consumers benefit directly from it. I especially like the new competition to del.icio.us, the popular social online bookmarking service. Mister-Wong.de has been hugel...
Wesabe releases API for your Bank Data
Need an API to your bank, credit card data? Wesabe provides it even if it is indirect. Who/What is Wesabe? Wesabe is money management in a true web 2.0 sense. You have a secure place to manage your ...
Remember the Milk integrates with Twitter
I use Remember the Milk (RTM) everyday and I have given my brain a break from trying to remember the long list of stuff that I try to do everyday at work and home. I have said it before and I’...
Get a GrandCentral invite at ShanKri-la
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 ...
Bored with Google Reader? Try Fastladder
I came across this new web based RSS Reader through Lifehacker and bookmarked it to try it out later. I got around to trying it today and here are my impressions on it. What readers have I tried? I am...
Google makes FeedBurner PRO free
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 wonR...
Google arrives at GrandCentral
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 co...
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