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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Etherpad-Better than GoogleDocs ?

Just came to know about a new tool launched by Appjet known as Etherpad well definately its a revolution and something new some may argue that there are other similar tools like SubEthaEdit but its for MAC and its paid Etherpad is free maybe not so reliable but it does offer something new if many people want to simultaneously want to edit many things
You can try yourself Etherpad at
http://etherpad.com/

Monday, November 17, 2008

Prevent Virus Spreading From USB Flash Drives With iKill


Here is a simple tool known as iKill which prevents the spreading of viruses from Pen Drive to your PC.

It works by scanning the drives for the presence of removable drives. If found, it parses the autorun.inf file for the executables it may run. If AutoProtect is enabled,it will automatically delete the files present on the drive. Otherwise, it will prompt you for your permission to delete the virus. Version 2 includes unspecified updates.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Save youtube videos directly from Firefox3 cache

Open the youtube video page in firefox 3. Allow the video to play once.

Now the video is finished playing. Open a new tab in firefox 3. In the location bar (address bar) type
about:cache

and press enter. A new page will load. In the page see the heading

Disk cache device

Under that there is “Cache Directory”. There will be a long address similar to one shown below

C:\Documents and Settings\usrname\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\abcd123h.default\Cache


Copy the full address (You must copy the cache link address from your computer. The above address is just to show and make you understand). Now open “My Computer”. In the address bar paste the already copied long address.

A folder will open. This folder contains the youtube video file in the form of cache. Note that the video file will be big in size. Now open VLC Media player or any other flv player. Drag and drop the bigger cache file in the media player. The file that plays the video is your video file. Copy and paste it in desktop. Rename the file to yourvideo1.flv (or any other name of your choice with flv extension).

Now you have saved the youtube video right from your firefox 3 cache rather than downloading it again.

You can watch the saved video while offline.

Tested in WinXP, Firefox3