Recently while installing the HP Print software suite for the HP 2840 All-in-one printer, I hit a roadblock where the installer quit giving the error; HP Installer Option Plug-in has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. The [...]

User Manuals are the first thing that go to the garbage bin, after you have got your hands on your favorite product / gadget, though most of the time you do not require a user manual, it becomes essential when you have a problem with your gadget or want to learn more about certain features. [...]

Picasa is one of the best photo managing and editing software I have ever used, though I haven’t written much about it, I stand to mend those and give you more and more tips about it, and like Picasa I will be covering several other softwares, that I have neglected or rarely written about in [...]

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 [...]

No, we are not turning into a money making blog, and neither are we publishing a e-Book, but having been into the blogging scene for 3 years now, I definitely have learnt quite a few tricks that have helped me grow my AdSense earnings from $100 a year, to few hundreds a month and finally [...]

Having being using Windows Live Writer for quite some time I have benefited from several tips and tricks I have learnt from several websites. Like always we like to share those tips and tricks with everyone, and earlier we have collected and shared 100s of tips and tricks, which we have written or some of [...]

Google has been pretty serious about security of search results, so that users do not fall prey to malware or virus attacks. In order to make people aware of problematic sites, Google shows a message This site may harm your computermessage in the search results for problematic websites. Related: Online Security Tips How to keep [...]

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 [...]

It is pretty much easy to add GTalk to the sidebar in Firefox, but if you are a Opera user there are no widgets available to do that currently. The WongSK blog has a excellent tutorial that will help you add GTalk to the sidebar panel in Opera. To add GTalk to the Opera sidebar, [...]

If you run WordPress on your local PC, chances are that you may not be testing it using custom permalinks, you may have on your actual website, the reason being that your default Apache configuration may give you 404 errors when you try to use custom permalinks. This is because, a Apache installation on windows [...]

Recently one of our readers emailed us, asking me to share productivity tips on how I use the computer on a day to day basis, the suggestion in itself was fantastic and I would be more than glad to share things I do in my day to day life to solve problems faced by me [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I tend to use a mix and match of browsers, including Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, but having used Firefox for quite sometime, I have stored passwords to numerous websites in it. Being so used to the Password manager in Firefox definitely has its own flaws, which includes having the [...]