Many software developers do not have automatic updating in place, which then requires you to keep abreast of the latest development and bug fixes, so that you are not using a vulnerable version of a software, or are using the latest enhancements it provides with a newer version. Some time back we had told you [...]

Twitter (follow me or follow @techiebuzzer to get RSS delivered to Twitter) is a really addictive social networking service where you can update your status to a simple question What you are doing?and share it with your followers, there are times when conversations spark and you need to reply to things your followers ask you [...]

There have been a influx of URL shortening services over the past year, and not everyone is aware about each and every service out there, here is a a list of services you can use to shorten those really long URLs to a shorter one.

If you are looking to test your webpages in multiple versions of IE, including IE8 Beta 2, IE7, IE6 and IE5.5 we have a solution for you that works flawlessly in both Windows Vista and Windows XP. Sometime back we had mentioned about another such tool called IE Collections, but unfortunately it did not work [...]

Paste and Go is a really handy function which saves you a extra click when you copy and paste URLs in the browser address bar. Browsers like Google Chrome and Opera already have this feature built-in, but there is no default option for a Firefox browser.

Over the last 12 years I have been using Windows the only thing that I have not seen change is notepad, it has been as it is for so many iterations of Windows. So as a developer, I have always had to rely on other editors to get my job done. There have been various [...]

Sometime back we had told you about a software that would allow you to mount a folder as a drive, while that software did allow you to easily access you favorite folders easily we came across another useful utility called Folder2MyPc, a freeware which will allow you to add your favorite folders to My Computer [...]

James Bond definitely sports cool gadgets and accessories, but unlike him we are not so lucky to get our hands on those funky gadgets, but here is something you would like. Privnote is a handy service that will let you create destructible notes, that will expire once it has been read.

Many forums and news sites do not link to websites for various reasons, this adds a bit of inconvenience for the users, since they have to copy the links and then paste it in the browser address bar to load the URL. If you are a Firefox user, you have something to cheer about, there [...]

Links for the Live Cricket between India and Australia ODI series 2009 at Cricket Buzz.

Tumblr (visit our Tumblr Blog – Techie Notes) is a micro-blogging service which allows you to publish images, links, videos and text to the Internet in a simple and easy way. Tumblr in itself is quite popular but unlike WordPress and other blogging platforms there is no easy way to backup your posts. Related: Backup [...]

There is always a bundle of scratched CDs or DVDs sitting in your computer cabinet, CDs which contains backups and files which Windows does not allow you to copy to your PC. Quite recently we had talked about several copy paste enhancements and replacements for windows, one of the things we missed adding to the [...]

There are several things I like about Linux, and one of them is definitely grep a command line text search utility, which lets you search through several files for text occurrences. Windows by default does not provide you with that feature, but there are several text editors like Textpad while allow you to do in-files [...]

Online flash games are definitely one way to keep yourself occupied for quite some time, in-fact my perfect time waster has been this tennis game which has been sucking in hours and hours from my boredom.

Using two text editors to compare files has never been easy, but being a programmer I have been using several useful tools in my day to day life, and one of them has been a easy to use file comparator that shows me difference between two files or revisions, without having to break my head [...]