Have you ever faced problems downloading videos from sites like Google, YouTube, IFilm, Metacafe, etc ? If you did then you have come at the right place. I just came across a great site which allows you to download such videos with ease. All you need to do is, first go to keepvid.com then;

1. Choose the site you want to download from.
2. Copy the link of the page with the video on it and paste it in the textbox.
3. If you download an flv file, you need an FLV player.

Source - BizznTech

Labels: Internet, Multimedia

You want to chat with a buddy on Yahoo! Messenger but his status on Yahoo! says Off-Line. There are two possibilities here - your friend could be really offline or he may have logged into Yahoo! Messenger in “Invisible Mode” to avoid interruptions. (Yahoo! Messenger has a Stealth settings feature that lets you choose the people who see you as online and offline.)

You can however beat that mask easily with services like Xeeber or VNGrabber that reveal the exact status of your Yahoo! Messenger friends. All you have to do is type the Yahoo! Messenger username and you will instantly know the exact online status of that person. Time to put on your detective gloves.

Visit:
http://www.xeeber.com/

Labels: Internet, Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo! Player makes it easy to find and play the best MP3s, videos, and radio stations available on the Internet.

Yahoo! Player also features "skins" available from Yahoo!'s Web Site, a CD-lookup service that automatically finds and displays the title, artist, and song titles of the current CD, easy-to-configure preset buttons so you can play your favorite streams or files with one click, a built-in web browser used to locate the latest music news, interviews, free music downloads, radio stations, and videos.

Requires MS-Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, MS Windows Media Player, Sound Card, Speakers, P200 MHz Processor, 800x600 16-bit color display or better.

Yahoo! Player supports AIFF, AU, CD Audio, Indeo Video, Microsoft Video, MPEG, MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media.

Download from here.

Labels: Internet

These days lots of websites disable right clicking function of the mouse button. It's really, really annoying. This is done so that you don't steal (via right-click->save picture) their photos or images or any other goodies. Unfortunately, it disables all right-click functionality: copy, paste, open in new window.

But here's a trick to bypass that. But sadly it only works in Internet Explorer:
Follow these steps:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Go to "Tools"->"Internet Options".
3. Click on the "Security" tab.
4. Then click on "Custom Level".
5. Scroll down to the "Scripting" section.
6. Now set "Active Scripting" to "Disable".
7. Now a dialog box will appear. Click yes to confirm the change.
8. Click "OK" and close the tools window.

Note: If this tweak causes some problem while surfing some sites, you'll have to turn that setting back to "Enable". This is because generally javascripts enhances a website.

Labels: Internet, Internet Explorer

Over the time, I have been collecting some cool greasemonkey scripts for Orkut.

For those of you who don't know what Greasemonkey is please read this.
And I am sure all of you know what Orkut is. :)

So here's my collection for you all. Hope you like it. Add more if you have in comments. I will update the article from the comments. I will also continue updating this list of greasemonkey scripts in my upcoming posts. :)

Note: You need Firefox with Greasemonkey installed to use these scripts. Just use this link to install greasemonkey in your Firefox browser :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

1. Lets you configure orkut's color scheme, changes your Gmail address on the top right corner into an actual link to your Gmail inbox :

http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutrestyler.user.js

2. Adds a toolbar at the top of the orkut page with various formatting tools and extra links :

http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutformatbar.user.js

3. Adds search function for finding your posts or those of a specific user in scrapbooks and community threads :

http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutfindmessages.user.js

4. Transforms links of images into the images themselves, so you can see them inside orkut (now this facility is supported officially by orkut):

http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutlinktoimage.user.js

5. Alerts you when you receive new scraps and when your friends log in, like MSN :

http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkuthinewscrap.user.js

6. Adds a contextual menu when you right click (Windows) or control click (Mac) on someone's avatar :

http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutprofilecontextmenu.user.js

7. On clicking "reply" in a thread this script adds an input box in the same page without loading the page. After submitting your post you can see it immediately without having to back go to the last page of a thread :

http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutfastreply.user.js

8. Adds shortcuts to scrapbook, photo album and compose message next to every user's photo :

http://www.sujooo.com/ed/greasemonkey_scripts/orkutshortcuts.user.js

Labels: Internet, Orkut Tips And Tricks

There are hundreds of Firefox Extensions on the web. Here are some cool Firefox Extensions which make your browsing, downloading and navigation in Firefox as easy as possible, while harnessing the full power and features of Firefox.

Fasterfox - Speed up Firefox. Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Fasterfox’s unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing. Also tweaks many network and rendering settings.

FlashGot - Handles single and massive downloads with several external Download Managers.

Linky - Lets you open or download all or selected links, image links and even web addresses found in the text in separate or different tabs or windows.

GreaseMonkey - Install user scripts and change the behavior of any web page

All-in-One Gestures - Merges the popular following extensions for management of mouse gestures, scrolling and power navigation. (Mix of Mouse Gestures, Rocker navigation, Tab scroller, History scroller, Link tooltip and Autoscrolling extensions)

Adblock Plus - Is an enhanced version of Adblock. Block ads, applets, flash, embedded-media etc.

SwitchProxy - Lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes.

FoxyTunes - Listen to music while surfing the Web, and control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser.

Gmail Manager - Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

gTranslate - Translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. Uses the Google translation services.

Labels: Firefox, Internet

Now access the internet via your standard Microsoft Calculator using this trick.
You can do this for fun or when your browser is messed up for some unexplainable reason.

Steps:

1. Open your MS Calculator. This is normally found in Start => All Programs => Accessories => Calculator.

2. Open the help-window by pressing the F1 key.

3. Click the top-left corner icon of the help window once (Standard is a Document with a Questionmark).

4. Select 'Jump to URL'.

5. Type your address into the avaliable field, but remember to type http://, and not just www. (or equivalent).

Have fun !!!

Labels: Internet, Weird, Windows XP

This is a fairly simple and useful trick to score yourself a gigabyte's worth of free online file storage.
GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Gmail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

Download GMail Drive

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@shish {Cool Wizard}

Labels: Internet

Hey guyz just try this amazing link... there is a man in it sitting on a computer ... type sumthing in the box which you want him to perform..

Eg :- Type laugh and press the button and see it laugh ..

Really Cool ...

Link :- http://www.subservientprogrammer.com/main.aspx

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@shish {Cool Wizard}

Labels: Internet, Misc