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Firefox Gets Live Chat Support
2008-01-04 07:31:00
  As you would know Firefox is one of the best web browsers out there. Still it got some snags that i hope Firefox 3 will clean it up. But I’m quite surprised Mozilla recently dished out a  live chat feature on their support page. Currently live chat service is handled by a handful of ...
More About: Chat , Support , Live , Live chat

How to Download Free Music from Social Music sites
2008-01-03 17:30:00
Wanna download music from social music sites like Last.fm, Imeem, Pandora, Myspace etc. Free music zilla is a smart tool that recognizes the songs you are playing on of these sites and shows you the links from which you can easily download by clicking on them. All you need to do is ...
More About: Social , Music , Free Music , Download

Fix iPod Scratches using Banana
2008-01-02 18:05:00
Scratched your spanking new iPod and don’t have Brasso or Dremmel to fix your scratched iPod? Try using my favorite fruit banana instead of those expensive kits. Here?s a short video which will show you the process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfT9qfVkVQ M Lovely Techbuzz Share This
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5 Windows Vista Secrets You Don?t Know
2008-01-02 08:47:00
Today I’m gono show you some cool Vista tips that I’m sure you haven’t seen. Open Command Prompt Here: In Vista you can get some extra menus for your properties box just by holding the “Shift” key and right clicking on a file. As you can see below a command prompt button. Now you can easily ...
More About: Windows , Windows Vista , Secrets

Most Popular Windows Freewares for year 2007
2007-12-31 19:05:00
 As you would know New Year is just couple of hours away. I tought about compiling a post on the most popular freewares of the year 2007 . Below is the list of the most downloaded applications of 2007…… Enjoy ! Browsers Avant Browser - Block pop-up windows and browse multiple sites at once. Mozilla Firefox ...
More About: Windows , Downloads , Popular , Ares

How to Speed up Windows XP Shutdown
2007-12-31 06:10:00
After quite sometime your Windows Xp normally tend to become slow. Mostly due to miscellaneous services that get installed with time, making your PC slow. But there is a cool registry trick that makes shutting down a breeze. Did you know that Windows X P keeps a couple of values in its registry which determines ...
More About: Speed , Windows Xp , Speed up

Custom From Address to send from Gmail
2007-12-29 18:26:00
Gmail has a really cool feature, Gmail’s custom ‘From:’ feature lets you send messages that display another address. As i also have to deal with day to day emails coming to my website email, its really cumbersome to email from my hosting email application(buggy as hell). Log in to your Gmail account at mail.google.com. Now ...
More About: Google , Gmail , Send , Address , Custom

Custom Form Address to send from Gmail
2007-12-29 18:26:00
 Gmail has a really cool feature, Gmail’s custom ‘From:’ feature lets you send messages that display another address. As i also have to deal with day to day emails coming to my website email, its really cumbersome to email from my hosting email application(buggy as hell). Log in to your Gmail account at mail.google.com. Now head ...
More About: Google , Send , Form , Address

Sony Offers Free PS3 With Purchase of an HDTV in the US
2007-12-29 15:02:00
Just few days back i checkout some blogs and came to know Sony Australia would dish out a free Playstation 3 with a purchase of any Bravia 1080p LCD TV. Now Sony has gave something to cheer for the people in the states but with some basic changes. Before purchasing a Sony HDTV you ...
More About: Free , Offers , Hdtv , Purchase

iPhone firmware 1.1.3 leaked?
2007-12-29 14:43:00
 Apple always seems to be in the news…..Why not when you got the Jesus phone? News follows you. According to Gear Live, they got a sneak peak at Apple’s iPhone latest unreleased firmware, 1.1.3 . Possible features includes sending SMS to multiple recipients, springboard (home screen) supports reordered icons and pagination, as well as bookmarks. ...
More About: Iphone , Firmware , Leaked

How to Make Vista Style Tab Previews for Firefox Tabs
2007-12-28 18:31:00
 Apart from the cool features that comes with Vista … even the scary ones. Vista is a really great looking OS, especially the taskbar thumbnail previews. Now what about the same feature for your Firefox ’s tabs…la Opera tab thumbnails. Well you could use the Tab Scope extension for a similar feature, with fully customizable options. Whenever you ...
More About: Style , Tabs , Make

How to Multiple Logins Simultaneously through CookiePie?
2007-12-27 18:58:00
  Nowadays we are accustomed to having different profiles or accounts for various services ranging from email, social networks, community websites. But you can only login to one account at a time for a specific service due to cookies. Today I’m gono show you a Firefox plugin that lets you login to any number of accounts ...
More About: Multan , Cookie , Ulta

How to Display Background Image for Explorer Toolbars
2007-12-27 06:20:00
 Actually this is a very simple  tutorial to display background images for explorer toolbars. It might not a high profile trick, yet still you’d love the fun part. Scroll below to know how its done. 1. First navigate to ? HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInterne t Explorer Toolbar 2. Now create a new String Value by right-clicking in the right hand pane ...
More About: Windows X , Display , Image , Background

DVD43: Decrypt Your DVD?s Copy Protection on the fly
2007-12-26 13:12:00
 DVD43 is a free application which removes or unlock the copy protection scheme from the media(DVD) letting users to rip or copy content from it. Its similar to the shareware alternative AnyDVD but DVD43 is free! After installation it runs in your system tray, and auto detects the encryption on the DVD when you insert ...
More About: Downloads , Copy Protection , Copy

Merry Christmas to everybody!?.Lets Party!
2007-12-24 18:27:00
         WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.  Announcement Share This
More About: Christmas , Party , Merry Christmas , Merry

How to Send Out Executable Files Via Gmail
2007-12-24 13:53:00
 As you would know, due to security reasons Gmail prevents users from sending and receiving executable files (files with the extension ?.exe?, ?.dll?, ?.ocx? or ?.bat?). If you try to uploading these files, Gmail will send you an error message: “This is an executable file”. However you may try compressing the files into other formats ...
More About: Google , Send , Files

Remember the Milk + Gmail = Task Management Nirvana
2007-12-23 12:55:00
You would have already came across Remember the Milk, an online task management software. Guess what ever since I have started using Remember the Milk…. in one word its “priceless”. I’m pretty sure you are loving this, Remember the Milk directly integrates into Gmail , so you can manage your tasks right ...
More About: Google , Firefox , Management , Nirvana

How to Make VLC Player to Work in Vista?
2007-12-21 18:15:00
   VLC player is my favorite media player not just because its a free, open source alternative to WMP or other alternatives, but due the fact that it supports almost all audio or video files out there. But the problem is that it doesn’t always work correctly on Windows Vista . Normally you would face problem ...
More About: Work , Player , Make

Installing Mac OSX Leopard on your Intel PC.
2007-12-20 16:22:00
 Thanks to skilled hackers or I should say geeks! Leopard comes to your PC. Well it happens because the latest patched Leopard DVD comes with the amazing PC-EFI built in. For all those novices out there,  PC-EFI allows users to enjoy OS X on normal PC’s without compromising on features or future updates. With ...
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Restart Windows from Task Manager! No hard resets
2007-12-19 05:38:00
You might have encounter Windows completely freezing not letting you even open the start menu to restart. Doing a hard reset isn’t good for your PC components especially the hard drive. Here’s how you could restart your PC without having to do severe damage to your PC. You can bring up Task Manager ...
More About: Windows X , Windows Vista , Hard

Mac OSX Expose clone for Windows Vista
2007-12-17 17:52:00
As you would probably know Expose is an application for Mac OSX which lets you quickly tile windows and with a flick of a key you could go to your desired window. But hey could we do that with Windows Vista too….. Yes! you can. With a cool application named Switcher your life ...
More About: Windows Vista , Clone

Search for MegaUpload and Rapidshare files using Google
2007-12-15 15:12:00
No chit chat i go straight to the details. For MegaUpload, put the following in Google : Video files: avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:megaupload.com Music files: mp3|ogg|wma site:megaupload.com Programs/Applications files: zip|rar|exe site:megaupload.com eBooks files: pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:megaupload.com For Rapidshare, put the following in Google: Video files: avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:rapidshare.de Music files: mp3|ogg|wma site:rapidshare.de Programs/Applications files: zip|rar|exe site:rapidshare.de eBooks files: pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:rapidshare.de You can narrow down you search for what you looking for in the first part of your code.  Say ...
More About: Search , Files

How to Hide Drives in Windows XP
2007-12-15 15:04:00
 Ever wondered if its possible to hide a particular disk drive (disk partition) that houses your important documents that you don’t want to expose. Hell…yeh! you can hide them. Windows Xp has a simple utility that does just that. Go to Start > Run > Type ?diskpart? after a command prompt window comes type in  ?list volume?. Now ...
More About: Windows X , Windows Xp , Hide

GPS Tracking Key from LandAirSea!
2007-12-15 07:33:00
Recently GPS systems have been in the buzz. But mostly the high-end version of these tracking devices seems to be still out consumers. LandAirSea Systems renowned name in GPS tracking technologies brings this pocket-sized device named as the ...
More About: Reviews , Tracking

How to Quickly Kill Tasks in Windows?
2007-12-14 11:20:00
  We all are accustomed to opening up Task manager atleast a few times every day to shutdown un-responding tasks, or to checkup on which programs are eating up a lot of memory. But i don’t like bashing my keyboard’s Ctrl+Alt+Del keys every now and then. I’m sure you’ll love this tiny little app ...
More About: Windows , Downloads , Kill , Tasks

Cooliris Previews surf without opening new windows!
2007-12-13 16:56:00
With all the daily surfing that i go through, i find it really frustrating to go trough endless scores of windows. This mostly happened due to click happy fingers clicking on just about any link it comes across. Hey what can i do if someone disguise a MLM or pron site with a ...
More About: Windows , Internet , Firefox , Surf , Web 2

Public Vista SP1 RC available for Download
2007-12-13 07:16:00
  Finally, Microsoft gives Vista SP1 RC  green flag for public consumption. Yesterday they officially posted the Release Candidate of Vista SP1. According to Microsoft the installation may take around an hour to completely, so make sure you have plenty non computer related work before jumping for the installation. But many websites and blogs have reported ...
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Download Divx Pro for Windows or Mac for free!
2007-12-12 10:21:00
                      Way back in June, Divx offered DivX Pro for free which normally cost around $20. I assumed folks at DivX, Inc are in the holiday mood to dish out there flagship product for free. All you need is a valid email address where the serial code will be emailed. The pro version of DivX ...
More About: Windows , Download , Free

How to make Gmail fetch all your emails from different accounts
2007-12-10 18:34:00
Nowadays most people have more the one email account, usually just about enough to handle. As i write I have around 6+ email accounts ranging from service providers like Yahoo, Gmail ( i got two of those), Hotmail also known as Windows Live mail, besides my website email…etc,etc. An easy way is to use ...
More About: Google , Emails , Make , Fetch

Merge Your Orkut Profile with Facebook
2007-12-10 16:57:00
Would you like to enjoy the two most widely used social networks simultaneously without having to hoop between windows. Recently i found a Facebook app that will surely make your social-life much easier letting you managing both profiles simultaneously. MyOrkut is an application that integrates your very own Orkut profile to your Facebook account! Best part ...
More About: Internet , Web 2 , Profile