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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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!

Windows XP takes a lot of time to start, If you hate waiting like me then you must consider using hibernation option instead of turnoff for a faster startup. To do this, 1.Hold down the “shift” key in the shutdown dialog to change the “Stand By” to “Hibernate“. 2. Or You can just press H [...]

The Windows Experience Rating is sort of like a system performance gauging system that you only find in Vista . While many complain that it’s flawed and unfair at times, there’s a way to fool Vista. Basically, we change the performance figures in the XML that holds the scores for each of the subsystems. To [...]

Allowing Network Access with Blank Passwords (XP and Vista) Although you can log in locally without a password, by default, WindowsXP Pro does not allow network users to access the computer without a password. Typically you will receive an Unknown error 31 if this is the case. To change this setting: Run gpedit.msc Go to [...]

Using Google For Searching for Cracks, Serials, Ebooks, etc via FTP Google has some fantastic potential for you to find whatever you are after on the internet. To search for a book/program/file, perhaps try the following. Go to Google’s search page and use the following criteria in the search dialog intitle:index.of? file extension Name of [...]

Open notepad and paste the following code and save the file with .vbs extension, it will create a VBScript File. It will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok.” ;copy from here————– Dim msg, sapi msg=InputBox(“Enter your text”,”Talk it”) Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”) sapi.Speak msg ;———-to here Download the .vbs file

Download StartClock form the following url and run StartClock http://startclock.osnn.net/files This cool freeware will replace the word start with the system time. This tiny piece of code comes with startclock.ini file for making configuration changes such as 12 hour clock with seconds 24hour clock ,load program at start up, refresh rate (Be careful with this [...]

As an added security precaution it is possible to clear all data that has been written to the page file so it cannot be retrieved. The downside to this tweak is that it may substantially increase shutdown time depending on the amount of data in the page file. [Start] –> [Run] –> Type Regedit –> [...]

Remove Security Alerts From System Tray Go to Start > Control Panel > Security Center.In the left pane, click the Change the way Security Center alerts me link, located right at the end of the column. In the new window that popsup, uncheck everything.