In the past we had told you about a tool to recover passwords for desktop softwares by unmasking them, however if you are using Firefox, we came across a interesting Greasemonkey script that will allow you to unmask the password fields and display it as plain text when you mouse over them.

Microsoft Outlook 2007 has a handy preview tool that will allow you to preview documents (Word, spreadsheets, PowerPoint) from within the mail message, however it lacks the inbuilt ability to preview several popular file formats such as zip files, PDF files, programming source code files and so on. The lack of previewers for some of [...]

Aha another Gmail Labs feature coming to the fore, how can we stop talking about these new features? No matter how stupid they are? This one, the add image thingy has been around for a long time now, albeit through a different method, and is a liftoff from Microsoft Outlook, which Gmail is soon trying [...]

We have been using TweetDeck for quite sometime now and love the interface quite a lot, on the other hand we feel that Microsoft Outlook is the best tool for emails. OutlookDeck is a interesting new application that will allow you to view and search Outlook emails in a TweetDeckish interface. You can view all [...]

Twitter is quickly becoming a place to share everything under the hood, but with that it is also becoming more and more difficult to keep up with content shared with you, for example, if one of your friends posts a URL of a YouTube video or shares a picture with you, you still have to [...]

Managing and running a popular website is definitely not easy, with higher traffic comes the additional work of keeping the website up and running at all times, no matter how much traffic you get. We have already told you about website monitors that monitor websites from your desktop and a free online service to monitor [...]

Quite sometime back we had told you about Facebook Uploader a tool that allowed users to upload pictures to their Facebook account, however what if you want to download photos from Facebook Albums? Instead of saving individual images one at a time, Firefox users can make use of a Firefox add-on called Facebook Photo Album [...]

Several social networking sites have taken up to using Frames to display external content, several sites like Facebook, Stumble Upon, Digg with the help of Diggbar make use of frames to load external content, even tinyurl services like ow.ly make use of frames to display content to users. These changes are good for the social [...]

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 [...]

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.

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. This new feature is a part of [...]

I have been using Firefox for quite sometime now, and have stored passwords for several websites like Google AdSense, Gmail, Yahoo and more on it, so the horror of someone else using Firefox on my computer chills me to no end, though I have a personal laptop which I do not share with anyone, you [...]

Google Reader is no doubt one of the best online RSS feed readers, however I have been using Feedly for the past few months, however the constant changes that Feedly has been pushing down users throats has made me decide to switch to a desktop client that will allow me to read and sync feeds [...]

In a startling revelation that took the Microsoft employees by surprise, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft would be making the source code of all Operating systems they manufacture open source. This announcement was certainly not expected from a company whose engineers working on the code themselves didn’t have full access to it.

Microsoft Outlook can be used for more than just sending and receiving emails, you can also read your favorite feeds (including us) in Outlook. But if you are a Google Reader user and do not want to re-subscribe to feeds in Outlook, there is a simple trick that will allow you to view Google Reader [...]