Be the Mayor of your City; A Short Guide to Foursquare
Foursquare is a location based social-network that lets you check in at different venues you are visiting leave a feedback.It’s a game, social-network,and for business
Continue reading →[How to]Sync Facebook birthdays with Google Calendar
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.
Continue reading →Chrome extensions for Gmail, Facebook and Youtube
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 →Five Lesser Known But Useful Free Softwares
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.
Continue reading →20 Awesome Gmail Lab Features You Should Try !!
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 →Importance of Social Media in Blogging!!
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 →Must Read | Some lesser known GMail features to make your life easy.
Gmail is known for its faster access & reliability. It is one of the best free email provider that offers unlimited or you can say ever increasing mailbox space. Most of the users online uses Gmail as there primary Email client. Apart from the basic mail settings available on other free email services, Gmail also [...]
Continue reading →What is a proxy server? When do we need one?
The word Proxy is derived from a Latin word proximus which means “close”.A proxy is actually a server which helps us maintaining our privacy on the Internet. It is just like a wall between you and the Internet. When you use a proxy, the webpage on the other side won’t be able to see you, [...]
Continue reading →How to use Public DNS ?
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 →Linux file system explained for beginners
For those of you coming from windows backgrounds, the way the linux filesystem is laid out may seem confusing at first glance…. but that is where this article comes in !
The first thing you should know when working with linux, is that everything is treated as either a file or directory. Yeap thats right, even hardware is considered a file by linux, and, speaking of hardware… all your hardware devices are located in the /dev directory, but more on that later.
Continue reading →Creating iso images in linux
In windows XP, you would most probably use DVD/CD burning software such as Nero or DeepBurner to make iso images, and software like alcohol 120% or daemon tools to mount the images.
In linux, you can use the commandline to both make and mount iso images.
Continue reading →What exactly is Linux?
Most people look at Distros like Ubuntu and Fedora and Slackware and call them “Linux”. When these distros boot up and get into a GUI environment, people call the GUI linux as well.
But…..That is not true!
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