In a jolt for Indian users of PayPal, they have decided to stop personal payments that are sent to Indian accounts and originate from one. The shock was even bigger when PayPal started reversing payments received by Indian accounts and sending them back to the people who sent them. Here is a email that Indian publishers have been receiving after PayPal reverses the payments.

Google Custom search which provides websites with a much better way to allow users to search content seems to be down. I tested the same on Techie Buzz as well as several other sites with the same results.

Let me talk about Proto, an event which showcases Indian startups, but does not care about people who promote them. It is definitely not the first time I have been going after them, but honestly, I don’t even feel like dealing with them, leave aside writing about them.

Feedburner is the most widely used service by websites to deliver RSS feeds and emails to subscribers. Last year, Feedburner was bought out by Google and things have started to go downhill after that. This has continued for too long now, and it is time to Google to buck up and deliver or just move out of the way.

Feedburner Socialize has a bug where it will tweet your posts several times if you edit it. Every time you edit a post a tweet will be sent out to your twitter account.

I don’t like the sponsored results and the textual ads in the default Google search results. I’ll show you how to banish these awful ads from your Google Chrome web browser search results.

Mac fans try to spoil the holiday spirit by attacking a hashtag on Twitter created by Microsoft for their display window in Saks at Fifth Avenue on Windows.

Microsoft has released a fix for 62% progress bug while upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7.

iTunes has been updated to version 9.0.2 and includes support for Apple TV 3.0 and also blocks Palm Pre’s sync capabilities. However, users have to still download a 90MB file just to upgrade. When will Apple start doing intelligent updates, which don’t involve downloading a giant file just to upgrade?

Twitpic the popular image share service for twitter, seems to have silently endured a database crash or had a severe glitch in their system. While I was browsing pictures on Twitpic, I saw that all the image view counters have been reset to 1.

One of the most annoying things about Windows Update is that it automatically restarts the PC after a certain time. Here are some steps to disable automatic restarts after a Windows update.

Operation Aborted is one of the most annoying errors in Internet Explorer that prevents visitors from seeing your website, most of errors occur due to poor JavaScript coding, however unlike other browsers IE does not handle this well, here are some ways to prevent and fix the operation aborted errors.

In a major embarrassment for Google, Gmail went down once again today and is still inaccessible to many users.

You can repair, enable or disable the default behavior of ZIP files in Windows XP by using two commands. If you have Vista or Windows 7, you can also make these changes, but it’s not as simple.

Windows Live Writer is one of my favorite blogging tools, and I use it quite a lot to post to several blogs I write for, however out of the blue today WLW started to crash and did not even allow me to open it.