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The WeChat App

WeChat – An App Review

I was thrilled when I was contacted to review WeChat – a social network messaging app. I immediately downloaded the app from itunes (it’s free) on my iPhone 4. Almost immediately I realized the ease and convenience of directly adding Facebook friends to my contacts list. You also have the option of sharing IDs or…

A Screenshot of the PressReader App

PressReader – An iPad App Review

PressReader is an app that provides a gateway to read newspapers from multiple publications across the world. It has options to download and read over 2100 newspapers. Wow! I hadn’t heard of this awesome app until the folks at PressReader offered me a trial subscription, and I have been hooked on it since then. I…

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2012

My 2011 Blogging Report and Happy New Year to All

WordPress.com has very kindly sent a blog report summary this year to all users of its platform. I found it interesting enough to post the report here and acknowledge the great readers of this blog for the support and kind words that inspire me to keep going even during some hectic personal times. I have…

Apple iPad vs Samsung Galaxy Tab 750

I’ve been a happy owner of the original Apple iPad for more than a year now. It’s an awesome tablet and everyone in the house is completely happy with it. But, how does it compare with the competition one year later? Sadly, not so good. The new Samsung Galaxy tab comes chock-full of interesting features,…

Pleasant Bloggy Surprise

I was pleasantly surprised by my blog statistics yesterday. For some time, my blog has been comfortably static – regular bibliophile visitors turned blog buddies, along with real life family and friends. So, today when I logged in and saw my site visits have almost doubled in a single day, I knew I had to…

Created a New Page for my Blogroll

I have been lazy about maintaining my blogroll for a really long time. It got to the point where half my links led to deleted or retired blogs. Finally decided to stop tweeting about it and actually moving and updating my link list. It’s still a work in progress, but I have at least weeded…

Awesome Just Write Feature from WordPress.com

Four years ago, I moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress and have never looked back. My reasons for the move were: Ability to use tags and categories to label my posts, instead of just using labels. The Misty look theme, which I loved, and still have a soft corner for. Akismet spam blocker I…

The Versatile Blogger Award

Yay! I won an award!

The Confused Yuppie has been so kind enough to present me with the Versatile Blogger award, and I am seriously so thrilled. I try really hard that my blog should reflect all my interests (not just books), and so getting this award is great! The rules of this award is: Link back to the person…

My Klout scores

Social Media Experiments

Lately, I’ve tried out some new tools to increase my social media space, all with varying degrees of success. I first heard of Klout through my Twitter feed when someone posted their klout scores. I knew immediately that I had to go and take a look-see. What is klout? It’s an online tool that people…