Windows 7 was released last week, and Microsoft had to scale their infrastructure to take care of the unexpected traffic, they also delayed the released of the product keys that could be used to activate and use Windows 7. However the keys are not available for download and users need to follow the steps given [...]

Diz files are plain text files which are usually included in zip files. DIZ stands for “Description in Zip File” and usually contains information about the archives they are present in. DIZ files usually do not require any additional viewer, however they are not associated to open in any software, which makes it harder for [...]

Firefox 3.1 is pretty fast due to a new JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey being used, however many user would still encounter slowness while using Firefox 3.1, since TraceMonkey is not enabled by default. In order to start using TraceMonkey you will need to enable it, which once again is not straightforward. Here are some simple [...]

This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, the lead blogger for HelpDeskGeek.com, which focuses on providing Help Desk tips to IT Professionals. Want to write a guest post for us? Drop us a line using the contact us form. Windows Firewall blocks incoming network connections to your computer to help protect it from malicious [...]

Mozilla Firefox releases periodic updates to the Firefox browser but it does not always push the updates to the end users immediately and does it after a certain amount of time. If you want to upgrade your browser to the latest released version, there is no need to re-download the entire installation once again and [...]

Firefox 3 provides users with a notification for available updates to the installed extensions, however this does not work all the time and the update check is done only at periodic intervals. If you are looking to manually find updates for extensions installed in Firefox you can easily do it by following the simple steps.

You lost your opener and are looking to open a beer bottle? Well it’s not that difficult, here is a simple video that will show you: How To Open A Beer bottle without a Opener. Enjoy the beer :-)

UIF Files are proprietary file formats created by MagicISO. UIF stands for Universal Image Format. It is an image file of a CD or DVD that is compressed. It is used to edit, create and extract image files, and it supports a few different formats. UIF files are compatible on Windows, MAC and Linux. To [...]

Yesterday we told you about 3 new exciting features where they integrated Google Calendar and  Google Docs into Gmail, along with that, they also added a new feature where you can add a custom gadget to Gmail by providing the XML URL for it. Here is a simple and step by step tutorial to add [...]

One of our readers Shadow sent us a query which asked us: How do you change files from Quick Time media player to Windows media player? My friend just uploaded a slipknot album, the only problem is, I have windows and he has quick time. So I can’t listen to it. Well this is a [...]

Recently Sakib one of our readers from OpenGiga asked a question: How to convert a video file to a GIF animation? While researching for the answer, we did come across some solutions but those were not very good, this lead us to search Techie Buzz archives itself to see if we could find something we [...]

Opera has a very annoying feature, where it assumes the role of a BitTorrent client without giving the users any easy options to disable direct integration. This would mean that I would have to fire up another browser so that I can download and open the torrent in my favorite client uTorrent. The problem as [...]

Backups are the way of keeping your data safe and secure from disasters, and those include your personal data as well your blog database where you have been writing for days, months or years. We have always opted for hosting providers that provide us access to Shell interfaces using which we can use putty to [...]

Internet Explorer has the highest market share as far as browsers are concerned, and it would be foolish to not make your website compatible with it, but what if you are a Linux user? Should you just switch to Windows for Internet Explorer or for that matter install a virtual machine for a single piece [...]

Torrents are gaining lots of popularity as a medium of sharing files over the P2P network, many of you may have already downloaded several torrent files, but what if you want to create and share your wedding video as a torrent among several of your friends. Here is a simple tutorial that will show you [...]