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Internet in India

Useful Links

Sharing a few of the excellent resources you may find useful. You may find them useful too. Periodically, I clean them up. If you find anything irrelevant do let me now.

Artificial Intelligence / GenAI

Indian Language Digital Tools, Portals & Mobile Apps

Podcasts

Startup, Entrepreneurial Resources

Open Data

Entertainment

  • TV guide across various streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime etc) & TV channels: JustWatch, ReelGood (Trak.tv gives good movie / TV recommendations)

Travel

  • Budget Your Trip: Discover the cost of your upcoming holiday
  • SplitWise: An easy way to split expenses with your co-travellers
  • TimeShifter: An app that creates a personalized itinerary for beating jetlag
  • TripIt: Forward all your tickets to TripIt to view your itinerary in an organized manner
  • Visit A City: This helps you come up with an adjustable plan for your holiday based on the number of days you can spend in each city.

Gardening

  • Nestasia – lovely planters
  • Ugaoo – online garden store & plant nursery

WordPress Blogging Tools

  • WordPress – The most popular open-source blogging platform.
  • Bunny.net – the leading CDN for WordPress
  • WordPress Plugins
    • Broken Link Checker – This plugin will monitor your blog, looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Hogs a lot of memory.
    • Post Type Switcher – Convert Page to Post, Post to Page, Page to Attachment, Post to Custom
    • TablePress – a nice plugin to add professional tables to your posts and pages.
    • Yoast SEO – The leading SEO plugin for WordPress
    • WP-Optimize – cleans up the WordPress database.
    • WP Super Cache – Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
  • WordPress Themes

My Chrome browser Add-ons

  • Awesome Screenshot – a great image grabber
  • Evernote – a must for those who want to make quick notes, bookmark URLs
  • Ghostery – protects your privacy
  • QR Code Generator – This extension generates a QR Code from the current page, link or selected text through a quick and easy right-click menu.
  • META SEO inspector – Shows page titles, meta descriptions, headers, links, and more.
  • WhatFont – a nice way to check which font is being used on a page

My Thunderbird email client Add-ons

  • Thunderbird email client
  • Folder Pane View Switcher
  • QuickFolders – easy way to search folders without having to scroll thru a big tree of folders
  • Remove Duplicates – at times when you import mail from a client like Eudora/Outlook to Thunderbird, there could be a chance of having duplicate emails/folders in Thunderbird. Get rid of those duplicates
  • XPunge – This compacts and empties all your Trash folders. You can set a timer to do this task or do it manually.
  • Mail Summaries –  Adds a summary of mail accounts and folders to replace the account central pane and the empty folder preview

Domainnames

  • Top Level Domains (TLDs) – get to know what are the other domain extensions other than .com, .in, .net
  • Checking Availability of domain name Availability
    • iWantMyName – lets you check the availability of a domain name against most of the international domains from one place
  • Domain name/DNS Tools
    • Domain Monitor Service – Monitor the daily status of any domain and receive daily email alerts when one or more of your domains change its status.

Images / Photos

  • Free Images / Photos for your blog
  • Online Image Editor
    • Canva – is a simple, drag-and-drop design software that’s completely online and free to use
    • PicMonkey
  • PIXresizer – a neat Windows utility for resizing images.
  • Photoshop Alternatives
    • Gimp – a good alternative to the expensive Photoshop. GimpShop makes hardcore Photoshop users feel comfortable with Gimp.
    • Polarr

Social Media: Twitter

  • dlvr.it – Feed your blog’s or site’s RSS feed into a Twitter account
  • Twitter Followers
    • Untweep – Unfollow those who don’t tweet often. Rather I would want to unfollow those who tweet way too often. Also, check who unfollowed you.
  • Twitter Clients – helps you use Twitter as a Pro User
    • BufferApp – takes care of sharing that content on a schedule your followers will love.
    • Hootsuite – shortens URLs, can manage up to 5 profiles for free, talks to Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn.
  • Twitter Management Tools
    • Audiense – The app lets you manage your lists, see your community on a map and browse your community conveniently based on their engagement. On top of this, the app allows you to bucket your followers according to time zones, which is very useful to know when to reach them best.
  • Twitter Reports / Analyzing Tools
    • Audiense – The app lets you manage your lists, see your community on a map and browse your community conveniently based on their engagement. On top of this, the app allows you to bucket your followers according to time zones, which is very useful to know when to reach them best.
    • Dewey – search your Twitter bookmarks.
    • FollowerWonk – Grade your Twitter account

Video Conferencing

  • Fireflies.ai – Log meeting notes, transcripts, and recordings in Google Meet, Zoom etc.
  • tl;dv – Record any call in Google Meet or Zoom with our simple Chrome Extension. Access the recording immediately after finishing the call.

WiFi Tools