Office 2010 Starter Edition the freeware OOPS adware version of Office 2010 has leaked on the Internet by a WinMatrix forum user.

The starter edition of Office 2010 includes Microsoft Word Starter Edition and Microsoft Excel starter edition, which do not have all the features of the regular Word and Excel. However, the starter edition will be enough for your day to day use of dealing with documents.

Why is Microsoft giving the Office 2010 starter edition free? Like we told you in the beginning this is not much of a free version and is instead an adware, so you can expect to see ads pop up while editing your documents or creating spreadsheets.

You can always try out Office Plus Professional 2010 till October 2010 by downloading it from the official download page.

[via Blogs DNA]

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Have you ever wanted to measure a element on a webpage or the size of a window on your desktop? Pixel Ruler is a freeware utility that will come in handy. Pixel Ruler is a screen ruler which will help you measure any element in both horizontal and vertical positions.

Pixel ruler floats on your screen and can be used to measure any application displaying the results in pixels.

Download Pixel Ruler

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Facebook users have several ways to interact with their friend and family. Fishbowl adds another way, by allowing users to access Facebook from their desktop. You can browse your newsfeed, view and share photos, explore and organize your content and more. Fishbowl integrates fully into Windows 7 making use of all the features including Jump Lists. You can access Fishbowl in mini-mode and a full view mode.

Download Fishbowl [via Windows Club]

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Many new bloggers are usually very concerned about being indexed by Google and try various means to check if a site has been indexed by Google or not.

There are few ways in which you can do it, one is using the site operator to search Google, for example site:techie-buzz.com. Indexed by Google is a dedicated site which tells you whether or not a certain site is indexed by Google. Just enter your URL and it will display a simple Yes or No Answer for your query.

Indexed By Google? [via Tech Spikes]

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Foobar2000 v1.0 beta has been finally released after 7 long years. Foobar2000 is a barebones player which is quite flexible and extendable. We had done a lengthy article on how you can convert Foobar2000 into a super music player. Don’t forget to check it out to turn this simple player into a music powerhouse.

Download Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta [via DSQ]

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Creating collages of favorite photos is great fun! It’s also a nice way of collecting some of your memorable photos. To help you with this collage creating, here is an online tool, Shape Collage.

Shape Collage is an excellent and simple online tool that helps you to create collages of your favorite photos across the web. All you need to do is, enter the URL of the photos out of which you want to create a collage and click on "Create" button. You will get your collage prepared from the photos the provided link had.

This tool has some pre-defined shapes out of which you can choose your collage. You can see that in the picture below. If you don’t want to use those shapes, you have an option to use letters. For example, if you want a set of photos to be shown in the form of a letter, say "H",  then you need to type the same letter in the "Text box".

Apart from the online tool, there is also a desktop software. You can find out more about this here: Create Photo Collages With Shape Collage

Here are few examples of what these collages look like:

http://www.shapecollage.com/online/?cid=mf04oxvk

http://www.shapecollage.com/online/?cid=c1a8rs0h

Techie-Buzz Verdict

This is an awesome and simple tool. It’s fast too! Just set the shape, insert the URL click "Create". Your job is done! It also provides you an option to post to Facebook and share the collage with your friends. So, no fuss of opening another window for that. Overall, a really handy tool.

Techie-Buzz Rating: 4/5 (Cool!)

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Since going semi-live yesterday, the PlayStation Network Digital Comics service has received tremendous support and hollers from many users. Though the page has one redeemable code for a free comic, the people operating the Twitter account managed to send out another code, while the PlayStation Blog also sent out another code. So, if you have a Sony PlayStation Portable with a US PlayStation account here is a list of the codes scrambled straight from the depths of the internet.

EC2N-9HBR-HJD6 – Transformers: All Hail Megatron #1

63N8-R2BF-9E4D – Aleister Arcane #1

724K-A4BG-JLD7 – Star Trek Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment #1

Note: These codes will not work with MediaGo. These codes are for US PlayStation Network accounts only. They have to be used with the PSP’s built-in PlayStation Store. The Digital Comics Reader has to be downloaded to view these comics. These codes will expire on the 16^th of December, 2009.

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Google Search has had tough competition lately with the introduction of Bing. However, the innovation @Google never ends and they have been continuously updating their search to make it much better and useful to users.

Some recent introductions in Google Search labs include:

• Social search: Allows you to find results from your social contacts in search results.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Allows you to browse the results using your keyboard.
• Accessible View: Allows you to navigate search results quickly and easily.

In addition to that, Search Engine Land is reporting that Google is also playing around with a new sidebar which will make the search results more jazzier.

From the looks of it, it definitely looks more jazzier, however, it is also more useful as the sidebar sports links to narrow the search down to particular segments like images, news, books, maps and so on.

In addition to that, the search also provides related suggestions under the “See also” category. This can come in pretty handy when users are trying to use Google to search for travel destinations since they have more similar options to search from.

Overall the new interface is pretty exciting and it will be good to see it being rolled out soon. One thing is for sure, search is the bread and butter for Google and they will never be buoyed down by competition. And any innovation is always good for consumers like us, may it be new features or new competition, it is a win win situation.

What do you think of the new search interface by Google? Are you impressed? Are you looking for more? Do share your thoughts with us.

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Sometime back we told you about a trick to bypass the time limits imposed by Megavideo a popular site for watching videos. Megavideo imposes a limit of 72 minutes of continuous video watching till it pops up a alert saying that you need to wait for a certain time before you can watch the video.

This can be quite annoying when you want to watch longer videos continuously for free. The trick we told you previously helped many users to bypass those limits, however, we came across some new tricks to bypass the limit.

The first one includes getting a new video URL by visiting Mega Streaming and using it to watch the video instead of the regular Megavideo URL. The second one includes using a Firefox add-on called IIIitmux.

You will need to generate the URL and use the add-on before you start watching the video. Have fun watching full videos at Megavideo without interruptions.

Bypass Megavideo time limits [via Life Hacker]

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Google Image Search is a pretty good image search engine. However the way the images are displayed is pretty Plain Jane. Google has now introduced a new experiment in Google Labs called Google Image Swirl, which will allow you to browse related images in a pretty cool interface.

Google Image Swirl organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarities and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.

Give it a try at Google Image Swirl.

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