Top 3 sites of the week - Oct 1st week 2012

Here are the top 3 sites of the week:

1) Money - the one thing which keep us alive in this materialized world. so for people who want to know about it and save it will be passion for some people. The below site provide us with lot of information and the site is ad free
http://www.savvysugar.com/


2) Technology/Business/Design - The following is one of the few sites which really stunned me by its wide variety of articles on various topics which I'm not able to find it online anywhere.

http://www.fastcompany.com/

3) Deals/Discounts - Even though are there are thousand sites which give us local deals,the below site provides daily discount coupons on wide categories which eventually work on the merchandise site.

http://www.retailmenot.com/

PS: Leave your comments.

BillMonk

Sharing the one thing that every bachelor who shares their room will never deny. There would be only one responsible guy (Poor guy :(    ) who will be paying the money for all the expenses that needs to be shared with all his roommates. He should note down all the expenses and send the balance sheet to his roomies who would carefully analyse the expenses ,thinking whether to pay him back or not.

I hope this would have happened to you at least once in your lifetime. There would be a MS excel prodigy who used to write formulas to calculate the share that each guy needs to pay.


As the web applications start blowing away the desktop applications,there are sites which started providing the applications online for free use without downloading it on your computer.

Making notes of the expensed made by you ,calculating the individual share and intimating your roommates about the expenses have been made easy by https://www.billmonk.com

The site requires your roommates to register based on the invitation created by that responsible (Poor)  guy and they can add the expenses that they've made that needs to be shared. All the members will start receiving mails about the expense details.

It's quite a useful web application that might be helpful. Try this out.

https://www.billmonk.com/

PS: This has been suggested by roommate - Rahul

100 best web sites 0f 2010 by pcmag.com

There were times where I didn't know which site to go for editing my photos in online.
If I had to find some useful news all I was doing google it and found it out.

The problem is that I don't know which site suits my needs. I hope everybody might have encountered this problem. For those who encountered such problems the following link contains some 100 best web sites that may be useful.

PC magazine has listed out 100 best web sites 0f 2010. The list contains something for everyone.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367622,00.asp


I've seen only the first 25 sites and 2 sites are  already in my favorites folder.

Online photo editing tool:
http://www.picnik.com/

News about everything:
http://www.boingboing.net/


Hope you people find it useful

Yahoo's Fit to post

I've always dream of writing a good blog that will be read by many people. But till now I couldn't do it.

I've read and admired a lot of blogs. But I was not able to find a place where collection of blogs on different genre where I can read anything I want.

Then I found about the yahoo's 'Fit to post'. People are blogging in different genre and it appears on bottom of the yahoo's home page which provides easy access to people . I've read some blogs and it was pretty good.

May  be you people can try it out .

http://in.yfittopostblog.com/

If anybody knows how to blog on yahoo's fit to post let me know. Even I couldn't find details about 'Fit to post' in Wikipedia

Images buzzar for Indian business

Images are always part of advertising strategies. An exclusive photo shoot is require for branding of any products (From movies to apparels). Some products require an exclusive photo shoot but others can require a generic photo that suits the need. For generic photos spending huge money may not worth at all.Many people couldn't even think this as an opportunity to provide service for the people who need photos that suit their needs.

The "imagesbuzzar" site has exclusive contents of Indian images which provides the pay and use service of images. I've never heard it before. For me it's a new thing in India.

I think it's pretty good idea.

http://www.imagesbazaar.com/default.aspx

Online book shops in India

We need everything on our door step. We need to stay home and enjoy the weekend. That's the reason why e-commerce is getting stronger day by day.

In India, I'm not sure how well it has been developed, but I saw one real good thing. The book shops on the net.

As far as I know landmark and the odyssey are the two famous book shops in India. They’ve started the online shops and it's quite interesting.

They are offering some discounts while you order it online, but surprisingly the same book comes without discount if you go the shop directly to buy. The free delivery is an added advantage while shopping online.

 

Discounts + free home delivery that's sound very interesting.


I didn't try buying it. But if you are interested you can try. The following are the links to odyssey and landmark respectively.


http://www.odyssey360.com/

http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/index.aspx

I've missed out CROSSWORD,my friend Vikram  reminded me

http://crosswordbookstores.com/

Shoppers Stop book shop:
http://www.shoppersstop.com/catalogservlet?categoryId=326222

If you are using mobile internet and you can buy books using NGPAY application.
They're providing option for buying books in LANDMARK.

NGPAY->Explore All-> Books n Magazines -> LandMark

ngpay is FREE. SMS 'ngpay' to 56767 to download

Snapshot of email message in GMAIL

While I was checking my mails in GMAIL,I found this interesting thing(May be I'm the last one to see this) which I want to share with my readers.

I was trying to open a message in a new tab,so I did a right click on my message. Instead of a drop down list,I got the snapshot of my message. It's really a good future which saved my time in opening the message in a new tab.

RIght click on the message while give us a snapshot of the email.

URL shortener bit.ly

When we want to tweet some webpage the size shouldn’t be a matter, but unfortunately twitter supports 140 characters. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t tweet URL more than 140 characters.

We can shorten the URL and then it can be tweeted. A site which I came across last time when I had such problems in tweeting a url more than 140 characters.

http://bit.ly/

Paste the URL in the text box and press shorten. A shorten version of URL will be created and displayed. Use that URL to tweet it to your friends

AOL internet radio

AOL is providing an opportunity to listen to the radio in USA. It's possible to listen to all FM stations in USA. Even Tamil and hindi songs are playing in one station. If you are die hard fan of english songs you can try AOL radio.

http://music.aol.com/radioguide/bb?icid=navbar_Radio