Keith Dsouza, Author at Techie Buzz

Firefox 3.6 aka Namoroka Will Feature Restart-Less Extension and Theme Installation

The one thing I hate about Firefox is the requirement to restart the browser when installing new extensions and themes, this is pretty much similar to earlier versions of Windows, where small registry changes required users to restart the browser.

Firefox 3.5 is in the works and should be released sometime in June, but discussions about the next version of Firefox which will be codenamed Namoroka and tagged as version 3.6, will do away with this problem altogether.

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Find Alternatives For Popular Software for Windows, Mac and Linux

Each and every software you use may have an alternative, but how do you find the best alternative for the software you are using? By Googling for the alternatives or by asking friends to give you some suggestions.

If you have used any of the above mentioned methods to find alternatives for popular softwares, you should definitely give a try to a new service called AlternativeTo, which suggests alternatives for Windows, Mac and Linux based systems.

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Startup Manager For Ubuntu

Techie Buzz is powered by a Ubuntu Hardy operating system, and we do a lot of configuration and setups on the server.

However unlike Windows we only use the command line for managing the server, so adding and removing startup items becomes a pain.

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All In One SEO Pack Bridge for WLW Plugin Release

I love using Windows Live Writer and don’t use the WordPress admin dashboard to write posts, however I also make use of the All In One SEO Pack plugin, which allows users to tweak the title of a post, and add keywords and description to it.

However WLW does not have options to add additional fields to the post, so I have to manually go in and edit the posts when I want to customize the title or keywords for SEO optimization once I have published the post.

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Disable Transfers Tab From Showing Up In Opera

Opera has a annoying habit of popping up a new Transfers tab, everytime you start a file download, this could be intrusive at times, since this tab may be set to steal focus on the browser, bring it to the foreground.

If you are looking to disable the transfers tab or open it in the background, you can follow the steps listed in this post.

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Copy Files To Multiple Folders At Once

In our earlier free copy paste replacements for Windows article, we had listed several tools for making copy pasting easier, however one tool which we did mention was Piky Basket, which is no longer free.

The main feature of the application was to allow users to copy or move files from multiple locations or folders to multiple folders.

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Logon Screen Changer For Windows 7

The Logon Changer for Windows 7 provides an easy way to customize the logon screen background with just a few clicks. Simply download the freeware application, run it and click Change Logon Screen.

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Gmail Gets Smarter With Search Suggestions

Google Suggest is a very useful feature in Google Search, it suggests topics to you as you type words, however Gmail has been missing that feature for quite sometime, and the news that Gmail search would be getting a search Autocomplete feature definitely brought some joy to us.

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This new feature is a part of Gmail Labs, so you will have to enable it by visiting Settings > Labs and selecting the enable option for Search Autocomplete.

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