the sri lankan tech guide » the “official” site stuff http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:51:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 …And we’re on Twitter! http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/09/21/and-were-on-twitter/ http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/09/21/and-were-on-twitter/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:21:45 +0000 Lohita http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/?p=108 That’s right, we’re now on Twitter! You can find us at http://twitter.com/tsltg. We’ll be improving our integration with Twitter even more in time to come, so stay tuned!

]]> http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/09/21/and-were-on-twitter/feed/ 0 Walking n’ Talking http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/07/walking-n-talking/ http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/07/walking-n-talking/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:59:46 +0000 Rehan http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/?p=51 Just back from showcasing our site to a few stores and the reception has been great! We got EPSI and the Tech Zone (Unity Plaza) onboard and hoping to upload their products and store information the moment we get it ;)

We also paid a visit to EGS and met Rajiv :) talked about the different aspects of the site and hopefully get their product list by this evening :D

So all-in-all it’s looking good ;) Stay tuned for more and yeah it coming ;)

]]> http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/07/walking-n-talking/feed/ 2 EGS now officially onboard! http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/05/egs-now-officially-onboard/ http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/05/egs-now-officially-onboard/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:48:20 +0000 Lohita http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/?p=43 Yup, that’s right, E-Globe Systems is now officially onboard The Sri Lankan Tech Guide! More information on them at http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/store.php?id=6. Stay tuned for more updates to their products! So remember, for EGS products you now know where to look – The Sri Lankan Tech Guide! :D

]]> http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/05/egs-now-officially-onboard/feed/ 0 Another store added…more on the way http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/02/one-more-store-addedmore-on-the-way/ http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/02/one-more-store-addedmore-on-the-way/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:21:23 +0000 Rehan http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/02/one-more-store-addedmore-on-the-way/ Just uploaded some prices from E-Globe Solutions, the first to be added was Computer.lk – we’re hoping to get the ‘not-yet-online’ stores to submit their price lists to us for inclusion hopefully by the end of next week – will have to setup some meetings. Though atm it’s looking quite neat – and can’t wait to add some more stores and features ;) And if you’d read my previous post I might just find that keyboard buried down in some price list – fingers crossed ;D

]]> http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/02/one-more-store-addedmore-on-the-way/feed/ 0 Find that store! http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/01/find-that-store/ http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/01/find-that-store/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:31:06 +0000 Rehan http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/?p=13 Just added – store contact information (main office) which includes the address, email, website, phone and fax numbers and…people to contact! The most frustrating thing when calling up shops is that you don’t know who to speak with and you end up being thrown from one person to the next…an average of say 3 people having to repeat your request over and over :S Enough of that! Call/email directly and know who your dealing with ;)

]]> http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/01/find-that-store/feed/ 0 Hello Sri Lanka 2 http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/01/hello-sri-lanka-2/ http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/01/hello-sri-lanka-2/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:26:35 +0000 Lohita http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/?p=10 Hellooo there people! Welcome to what may possibly be the most useful site for all your computer related, consumer electronics and gadget purchases! As Rehan mentioned, I’m the other guy behind the site.

As to how this site came about, well, one day when the two of us were chatting while swimming at the SSC pool, he brought up how how hard it was to actually find the price of computer parts here in Sri Lanka which I also agreed was very true. The two of us collectively are rather annoyed, to say the least, at the lack of information online about the pricing / availability of products such as computer parts here, the horrible loads of attitude we were given by their sales people when talking to them over the phone and furthermore the “Oh but that’s how things are here in Sri Lanka” response we got from a lot of people. I mean come on people, it’s not so hard to put up your prices online, lol. After brainstorming a bit we decided that what we needed was Sri Lankan comparisons site! They’ve got them in the US, so why not here? That was when we dreamed up this idea and decided to run with it! After all, why should everyone have to go through such crap?!

So here we are, still developing this site and seeing how things go. We’ll be launching it properly in the near future, and hopefully you all will benefit from it. Expect more features / products / stores to be added, which we’re going to keep under wraps until we do actually release them, though maybe if you’re lucky we’ll let you know what we have in mind, hehe. Do let us know of suggestions you may have as feedback is always appreciated and we’ll do our best to incorporate your ideas.

So my friends, onwards then to a better Sri Lanka, one that has more information available online!

]]> http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/01/hello-sri-lanka-2/feed/ 1 The million dollar question http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/01/the-million-dollar-queston/ http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/01/the-million-dollar-queston/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:33:43 +0000 Rehan http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/?p=7 Another reason we decided to start this site is because…well we just love tech! If I had a million $ dollars (heck if I were a bank I’d get billions) I’d just spend it on tech…maybe a mega widescreen…ps3 :D I got a Wii and yeah its sweet but atm the games are kind-of so-so excluding a few awesome titles like ‘Call of Duty 3′ and ‘NFS: Undercover’ and of course ‘Wii Sports’ for group gaming ;) Yes, this seems like another avenue for my random ramblings but we decided that this site should be casual…yes casssual and just having fun doing it! Well thats all for now – I’ll possibly be back with another ‘random’ post – stay tuned ;) – yes I seem to use the ;) wink alot ;) :D

]]> http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/04/01/the-million-dollar-queston/feed/ 2 Hello Sri Lanka! http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/03/31/hello-world/ http://www.thesrilankantechguide.com/blog/2009/03/31/hello-world/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:46:54 +0000 http://thesrilankantechguide.stockit.biz/blog/?p=1 Hello! Welcome to the first online technology product guide in Sri Lanka! It’s been a long time coming – but its finally here! My name is Rehan and I’m one of the guys who’s involved – the other guy is Lohita – you’ll hear more from him later ;) The reason we decided to launch this guide now was that we had become increasing frustrated with how the internet was being used in Sri Lanka by companies (in this regard tech product dealers) not doing enough to serve the appetite of online users hungry for information like tech prices (our main goal), availabilty and other things – so what the heck…we’ll do it instead and save them the trouble ;) As you can see we havent added many things yet – but of the many ‘phases’ we have in mind – this is the first ;) So thats all for now – please tell your mates and hopefully very soon – this could be big ;)

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