BG Mahesh | mahesh.com

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.

WordPress Blogging Tools

  • WordPress – The most popular open-source blogging platform.
  • 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.
    • RankMath SEO – far superior to Yoast SEO
    • 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.
  • PrintFriendly – Chrome Extension for Printing and Converting Web Pages to PDFs
  • 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 Messages – Search and remove messages which are the same as other messages in your mail folders (referred to as duplicates or dupes).
  • 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 the availability of the domain name
    • 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
  • Offline & Online Image Editor
    • Affinity by Canva
    • Canva – is a simple, drag-and-drop design software that’s completely online and free to use

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

Etc

  • PDFgear: Read, edit, convert, merge, and sign PDF files across devices, for completely free and without signing up. This is available as a downloadable and online option.