No matter how good you are at remembering things, there are times when you can forget your password, many websites though have a feature that will help you reset/retrieve you forgotten passwords.

Gmail too has an option to retrieve forgotten passwords by asking a series of questions, however they have now added a new option to recover your password through a SMS text message.

To make use of this feature you will have to sign-in to your Google Account and select ‘Change Password Recovery Options,’ enter your cell phone number and click ‘Save.’

Tip: Recover your password via text message [Official Gmail Blog]

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Like we promised last week, we are back with another edition of Friday Fun, however this time we will focus on fun brought out by the folks who provide Technical Support to us.

So here goes enjoy your Friday and look forward to a great weekend.

Hey I Have the Mouse in the Right Corner?

I Need Some Time To Figure Out Your Problem

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Hey Back It Up

It’s a Matter of Life and Death

Reinvention of the Mouse?

Dogbert’s Tech Support

That’s all for this week, on another note if you enjoy having a laugh, you might like to visit Not Always Right a site dedicated to anecdotes and funny real life customer support incidents, the site never disappoints.

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There are news and videos floating around that TweetDeck one of the most popular twitter cross-platform clients is being acquired by it’s main rival Seesmic.

This news is definitely not good because where is the business acumen? Why did Seesmic create a application to rival TweetDeck in the first place? Why did Seesmic waste so many hours positioning itself as a alternative? Why did they waste so many hours of developers?

All glaring questions that need to be answered, if this so called “rumor” goes through, this is definitely a giveaway by Seesmic at least, because as far as we know TweetDeck beats them outright.

However here is a video that is speculating these rumors, looking at it you will definitely see something concrete in this sense is happening, the video features founder of TweetDeck Iain Dodsworth and Loic from Seesmic.

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Wow, this is a really proud moment for me, it’s been 3 years running this blog, churning out articles day after day, providing information and interesting softwares, tips and tricks and more.

However we all look to going higher in whatever we do, and for that we strive harder every day, it has been the same with me for the blog.

There is a really good news I want to share with everyone, we recently put in a application for the first time to be included as a source of news in Google News, and I am more than proud to tell you that we have been approved.

This is really a celebratory moment, hard work definitely pays off, and I would like to take this chance to thank all the wonderful authors other than me who write for Techie Buzz, all our loyal readers who have borne with ups and downs and stuck with us, given us feedback and helped us improve day after day.

I credit this to all of you, you have really been the backbone of this site, and I hope that you will stick by with us for a long long time.

However with the larger audience we will get, we will have to get better and do much more than we did, improve quality and give everyone the best, we definitely have been improving everyday and you as a reader have had the first hand experience of it.

You won’t be seeing our articles in Google News right away, the entire process may take a few weeks, we will definitely let you know whenever things are finalized.

And last but not the least I want to thank Martin from Ghacks.net who helped me out by providing the initial help.

Hope all of you will enjoy this news and help us grow better everyday.

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In a certain embarrassment for both Bing and Google, a search on Google for the keyword Bing, shows the second result’s title as Bing Temporarily Unavailable.

This may have been a result of some problems with Bing from last week, however it is embarrassing nonetheless.

However this issue will certainly be fixed soon, considering this twitter tweet from the official Bing account directly sent to the official Google account on twitter.

As of writing this post, the search for the keyword still shows the message from the screenshot, wondering how quickly Google will act on this.

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If you are using Personas, a lightweight skin changer for Firefox and are a Harry Potter fan, Warner Bros have released new Harry Potter and Half-Blood prince personas to coincide with the July 15th premier of the movie.

Currently there are 4 personas available in the series, you can see them in action below.

The good thing about using Personas over themes is that you can apply the changes without having to restart the browser.

You will need to install the Personas before you can make use of styles for your browser.

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Microsoft is just days away from releasing the technical preview of Office 2010, if you haven’t seen it yet we did have a Office 2010 features screenshot tour earlier.

With the upcoming release nearing, Microsoft has gone out and created a promotional video for Office 2010.

The video is funny, futuristic and can be termed as a Hollywood potboiler, trust Microsoft to go funny with their promotional videos.

You can watch the Office 2010 promotional video below.

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Update: Engadget has confirmed that the screenshots are fake.

Before even the news of Google launching a operating system could settle down, Engadget has acquired a set of leaked screenshots of the Google Chrome OS.

There is nothing much to give away from these screenshots and these may be completely faked and photo shopped, however the leaker claims that these images were shot when a Google rep was demoing the OS to a Acer rep, however we are pretty sure that there will be more sets of screenshots leaked in the near future, we will keep an eye for those.

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We talked about how Google was developing their own operating system, in that post we had said that we would do a more detailed post about what things look for Microsoft & cover other discussions, here is what we actually think about the Google OS post.

Microsoft May Not Sit Up And Take Notice

For 100s of reasons, Microsoft may take notice of this announcement, however there will be no board meetings, there will be no developer talk and there will be no panic.

There have been so many variants of Linux coming up that have just been there, done that and remained, if anyone wants to challenge Microsoft they need to convince people to start using them.

And Microsoft themselves have not been able to convince people to stop using IE6, so forget about others convincing people to change their OS.

Google Is Doing More Than They Should

Agreed Google is really big, they do a lot of things, but most of the times they close down really good projects, for reasons unknown to the rest of the universe, and by good projects we mean really good one’s.

Google Notebook and Google Browser Sync are two real good examples of Google closing down good projects.

Both of these products were really useful and could have been continued, however Google chose to close them down.

It is really a corporate decision, but we would really like to meet people who forced that one onto users.

Coming back to the point, Google OS is still not out for public usage, and we bet that many manufacturers may want to put a Google OS on their systems, but we bet that many people will ask this question “Ok what else can I do other than searching? Where is the operating system?”.

Of course Google will definitely publicize their OS using ads, however will it work, will people relate to Google with a OS like they do with search? A thing we are sure the Google marketing department is thinking hard about with this announcement.

Search, Emails, Calendar and Docs Don’t Make A OS

While Google made a announcement they forgot to tell users how and what applications they would support, agreed that these 4 things are required, but at the end they do not really make a OS, unless you can support applications that people use on a everyday basis, no one is really going to support you.

There is WINE, but hey you are selling this to public not geeks, unless you develop applications to work with your system, no one is going to bother about using you, netbooks are fine as the main aim of it is to provide users with portability without carrying a huge laptop around, however what does portability mean when you can’t access applications that are essential.

Lighter, Faster, Meaner, Google OS Is Just Another Linux

The biggest problem with the open source community is that you can fork and create your own variants, there are so many variants of Linux that we stopped counting, that is where the open source philosophy is lacking, everyone thinks they can do better than someone else, and there is no restriction.

Once Google open sources, there may be ten different OSs that crop up based on that, and then you have to decide which one to choose.

There is no problem with open source, the problem exists because there is no control, there is just forks and forks which are different from each other.

Of course Google will control their own fork, but they are creating something out of something else, leaner and meaner.

OEMs Don’t Give You Free OS, So The Whole Concept Of Free Is Flawed

If you buy a laptop or a netbook from a retailer, your OS does not come for free, no matter whether they give you Windows or Linux.

OS manufacturers make money no matter what you use out of the final retail cost, so the concept of a free OS is largely a flawed medium when it comes to buying computers.

Keep this in mind, no Linux distro comes free when you buy a OEM laptop, desktop or netbook, it is a largely wrong concept people are used to.

Google OS Is Still Not Here, So Why This Discussion?

That is why we are here, to discuss and analyze things before they leave their stables, to analyze and let you know your technology head on.

Of course things may not turn out as we discussed it here, however it may happen and it is our honest opinion.

Go ahead and let us know your thoughts, the post is incomplete without them.

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Google Desktop, our recommended way of indexing and finding content on your personal computer, has just announced that they will be supporting 64bit OS starting today.

This is good news for people who have a 64bit PC but have not been able to take advantage of this really awesome tool that allows you to search every nook and corner, emails, chats and more just like you have been searching with Google.

Over time Google Desktop has improved and is much more faster than when it started out, so if you have shunned it before give it a try once more.

It also searches across multiple computers on the same network. Download Google Desktop

Google Desktop now supports 64 bit Windows [Official Google Desktop Blog]

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