Island Chic’s Babble

I don’t mean to be over excited but i think it’s quite cool that i can finally find my tiny teeny home in the virtual world, which has never happened before even with Google Map. Thanks to National Geographic’s  interactive map of Maldives!

I grew up on a tiny island in the Northern most atoll of [...]

I have switched to a WordPress custom domain from Blogger quite recently. Since I have moved I’ve been meaning to import my old blog posts from Blogger onto the new blog (not because my posts were all that cool, just because they were mine and I wouldn’t want to leave them to rot [...]

The hype about Google Wave, ever since its launch to the privileged few, have definitely been causing enough waves in the social media to create curiosity among the ignorant and not-so-tech savvy lot (I’m in there somewhere) to want it, no matter what!

The array of blog posts, twitter accounts created merely for the purpose [...]

Although blogging used to be a hobby, I can’t really call it a hobby anymore because I hardly blog. Who’s to blame? Twitter!
Ever since I’ve started tweeting (@islandchic) I just can’t bring myself to blog anymore. Here’s why.

Brevity – tweets are shorter (limited to 142 characters) and therefore it takes less effort to tweet than [...]

I work from 9 am to 5 pm. During my work hours, I still log on to Facebook every now and then. It keeps me connected to the friends around me. We’d arrange our after work outings with Facebook group messages or decide to go check out an event, which we’d have coordinated [...]

National Geographic has perhaps the most beautiful collection of nature related photography on the web.

In addition to a number of breathtaking photographs from the National Geographic Magazine, there are a number of screen savers and desktop wallpapers available for free download in categories such as Adventure & Exploration, Animals, History, Landscapes, Nature & Weather, Patterns in [...]

I’ve always been a huge fan of firefox and when Hotsteppa introduced me to the world of firefox add-ons I was as excited as a child with a new toy (let’s make it a huge box of toys!)
Since then, I’ve been totally hooked! I’ve using many of the add-ons from the huge array of cool [...]

Mark Zuckerberg, from the United States is only 23 years and is a self-made billionaire with stakes worth US$ 1.5 billion! According to Forbes, he is the youngest billionaire on earth and possibly the youngest self-made billionaire ever.

How did he get there? For those of us who doesn’t know, he is the founder of Facebook! [...]

Great news for Google lovers! Gmail Chat has now enabled voice and video capabilities. How cool is that? From within Gmail, i.e. your web browser, you can have an actual conversation with and chat face to face over video! Yes, I love Google for a reason!

As usual simple steps you need to [...]

The best way to organise, edit, create & share your photos and videos! Picasa 3.0 Beta is now no longer a beta version.
Download Picasa 3.0 here!
It is the the best application to:

Manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had edit
Eliminate scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, [...]