With megaupload shutdown by FBI and FileSonic disabling it’s sharing functionality and what better time than this for Facebook to introduce the new file upload feature in groups. Previously on facebook Groups, members can create and modify docs files. Now through files option user can upload file upto 25 MB size with all data types Continue reading
Today the world is almost heading to the ‘global village’ concept, but still many sites, and forums out there compel that you need a US address and only adds US members. It may be for the advertisers needs, but we often come across several situations where you needs it and is a must. So here is a way for Continue reading
The paid URL link shortners are a great headache to all of us as it eats up a lot valuable time and also, are really very very annoying. They are pretty good deal for the website owners and webmasters – no offense , But are really annoying for the readers. You see a heap of Continue reading
I am regularly searching for cool websites online. Recently, I have come across some Online Alarm Clock websites that can help you manage your time better. There are many features; you can set to open a YouTube video on Alarm wake up or simply a song or Tune. These alarm clocks can be useful either Continue reading
Twitter is one of the top most micro blogging site. People usually don’t get enough time to update all the Social Networking sites. Most of them concentrate on Facebook and Twitter and use linking services to update other Social networking sites. We already knew how to update Facebook status via Twitter with the help of Continue reading
What is IPv4 and IPv6 explained. Difference between IPv4 and IPv6.
Google calendar is a very powerful web-based calendar and task manager. Facebook is the most popular social networking site on the internet. This post shows you how to see all the Facebook friend’s birthdays on you Google Calendar.
Find your Friends’ Blogs on the Web Blogging can be done for more than one reasons. Some people like to share their life via blog; some just want to write something about what they feel about people and things around them. Some people want a place that defines them and a few blog about their Continue reading
Socializing on social platforms such as Facebook and twitter has reached new heights today.Browsing internet has become a thing of past; Today internet is about interaction.Backed by faster searches,easy to use interface, here comes the social savvy browser-RockMelt. RockMelt is re-imagining the browser for the way people use the web today.Today using internet means more than Continue reading
Many a times we hear the word bandwidth and some of us keep wondering that what bandwidth is really. How does it determine our internet speed? Why do many hosting companies provide many bandwidth options In their plans? Following article will give you a insight of Bandwidth distribution.
I really like Google Chrome browser. It’s fast, reliable and minimalistic. Today I’m gonna show you which extensions I use to make my life with Gmail, Facebook and YouTube easier. Better Gmail (Unofficial) This extension is pretty much all I need for Gmail. It’s key features are: Show Unread Message Count in tab Favicon Hide Footer Continue reading
Keeping a PC safe and secure in today’s environment has become a very difficult task. Nevertheless, due to our increased usage of and dependence on the PC and the Internet, a lot of personal and confidential data has become digitized and keeping it immune has become an essential task. Hackers and data thieves have stepped up the game by using advanced methods to steal data from ignorant and innocent users. There are several ways, anyone of which a hacker may employ, to steal data or compromise security of the systems. So how does a normal user gear up defend oneself on this battlefield?
Windows OS’ users have got a lot of softwares to do any task; be it reading Books, listening music etc. Also, the most popular among them are the free ones. Most users have either iTunes, Winamp or Foobar for music, Firefox or Chrome for browsing. Undoubtedly, these free softwares are very useful and therefore very popular. However, there also exists a large pool of softwares that aren’t yet famous but nevertheless useful. In this post, I list 5 of such softwares and briefly discuss them.
Broad Band Error Codes and Solution If you are customer of broadband you must have experienced these or at least some of these errors at least once in your system and then you keep scratching your head that what the hell went wrong when you were doing every thing according to the manual. Well then Continue reading
Many of us use Gmail as our primary mail client. But most of us don’t know about the most useful features of Google Labs for Gmail. If you are using Gmail and have not used these Gmail Labs options yet, you are definitely missing out some fun.You can get to Gmail Labs by clicking on Continue reading
Today Social Media has become a dominant force in marketing world and with each passing day its roots are spreading wide. It is has become one cost – efficient method to promote websites and blogs by getting you links and huge amounts of traffic. Social media is bound to get your site/blog profits over a Continue reading
In my last post I discussed about what is public DNS, if you haven’t read it you can visit http://techbu.com/2010/07/31/what-are-public-dns/and read about public DNS . In this post ill discuss step by step how to configure public DNS. I am going to use Windows 7 in which I will use these public DNS. Same method Continue reading
GMail introduced a new feature recently, that is browsing mails offline. If you haven’t heard about it read it here. Use GMail offline with Google Gears Today we are going to see how to do that. First you need to install Google Gears, you can download the online installer from here Download Google Gears Run Continue reading
Gmail has introduced its latest Labs feature called offline Gmail to enable e-mail access even when you are not connected to the Internet. While this might sound uber geeky, the concept is simple enough when you actually use it. Oh, and the “offline” mode is already available in a simpler form if you happen to Continue reading
Since a few days right click on pictures in orkut album is disabled, so we cant not save the images from orkut albums using the save image option, also saving the entire page wont help you. Here are two simple ways to save images in orkut albums. Using print screen (Screen Capture) open the pic Continue reading
I love showing off our status messages. I often set witty messages, latest (probably unheard) news, my latest blog links, joke of the day, puzzles and what not in my status. Many a times I wish to log those messages to make a life stream aka time line. Wouldn’t it be great if I could Continue reading
Yet another addition to the services provided by Google to the internet users. Google launches their new open source web browser “The Google Chrome” . People at Google labs are popular for their user friendly designs and features and im sure that this Google Chrome is not going to be any different. Update: Download Google Continue reading There are so many people all over the world who are avid lovers of video and who are frustrated. They are enjoying only half the story. Most of them want to download flash videos from YouTube, the famous online video sharing portal, but are not able to. What makes them even more frustrated is that Continue reading
This article provides you with a very simple method to get orkut scraps delivered directly into your mobile phone as sms messages. The pages you may subscribe are scrapbook, community pages or even community messages. All the messages will be delivered free of cost. Following are the steps to get any orkut page as sms Continue reading I have discussed many ways like using proxy sites, Translating tools like Google translator , url redirection techniques and cached pages to open blocked sites at school and office here http://techbu.com/2007/08/22/open-any-blocked-site/ If those tricks can not fool your firewall here is one for you. Usually firewalls at colleges and offices check the url for restricted Continue reading
Till today I never used a broadband connection other than the one they provide at my college. At college we are behind a proxy server, so we are not in direct connection with the computers outside our college. Today I happened to use BSNL dataone broadband internet connection at my uncle’s place, and I casually Continue reading A lot of users use internet schemes with restrictions on the bandwidth consumption. Firefox re downloads all the heavy files even if they are in the cache ( Even if the cache size setup way too high ), this will considerably increase your bandwidth consumption. It’s very annoying to download the files again if you Continue reading
Radius IM is the new all ajax online messenger of the block. You can sign up into your yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, AOL and G talk and chat with your contacts in the same window. Quoting the developers ‘RadiusIM is all about location. It’s a free web service that shows you who’s around and let’s Continue reading Hello Fellows! You know that many of us spend lot of our computing time on the internet and most of that time we use Firefox tabs to open all our favorite Sites and services inside Firefox right?, yes, Gmail inside Ff, Yahoo inside Ff, ebay inside Ff, Banking inside Ff etc. etc. etc….With all these Continue reading
If your Internet connection is slow, there are a number of methods to speed it up. One of them is to free the bandwidth reserved by windows. Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows updates and interrogating your PC etc To get back the bandwidth reserved by Windows and Continue reading