As we all know that none of the video sharing sites provide a link to download their videos. So we will have to do some tweaking and play around to download the videos. Here are some ways to download any video from the internet , they are based on the common hack (Right-click -> “Save Target As” OR copy the link into your download manager, but change the file extension to .flv)

Method 1: For Firefox Users – Install the VideoDownloader Extension from Mozilla Add-ons website – It downloads all embedded objects on a webpage including the video clips. This is very easy for beginners.

Method 2: One of the easiest ways is to copy your video URL and paste it on KeepVid Lite. When you click submit, you will be provided with a link to save the video as an FLV file.
Using these tricks you can easily download videos from Youtube or Google Videos or Metacafe.

Now some more questions that arise are:

How do I play FLV files on my computer – They dont open with windows media player or winamp or itunes or real player ?

You can download free FLV players to watch FLV files locally. A good FLV player has a simple and easy-to-remember name – FLV Player. Another nice alternative is the Riva FLV player. Try them out.

How do I split a large FLV file into smaller playable video clips?

This is the most common question among video enthusiasts – they want to split a large FLV video file into smaller chunks for editing or resharing only the interesting tidbits on the internet. To break an FLV file, get the free FLV Parser – a tiny command-line tool to split FLVs into pieces. Its intended use is to convert a large FLV into a series of shorter FLVs based on a series of millisecond-based timecodes. Using the -s switch will split the audio and video of the outputted files; the audio track will be extracted as a series of MP3 files, and the short FLVs produced will have no audio track at all.

How to convert FLV videos to Windows AVI or Quicktime MOV or 3GP formats ?

The free Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer software from Super can convert FLV files to practically any other video format including MP4, MOV H.264, AVI, ASF or Flash SWF animations. Super video convertor.

How do I convert my AVI, MPEG, MOV, 3GP movie clips back to FLV format ?

Say you complete editing your movie in Windows Movie Maker or Avid and now left with an MOV file that you want to convert to FLV. Just get the free Riva FLV encoder and relax. The Riva encoder even lets you select parts of the video that you want to convert to FLV and crop the rest.

I have three small video clips that I download from Google Videos and now want to join them into one single video -How do I merge FLV files ?
There is no free software that lets you join FLV files other than the expensive Macromedia Flash Professional. However, here’s a simple trick to join several flv video files – convert individual flv files to avi using Super [as mentioned above], then join the multiple Avi files into a single avi file using free VirtualDub and finally convert this avi back to FLV using Riva FLV encoder.Its done.

How do I watch Youtube Video on my iPod, PSP or Television ?

Again we’ll make use of the Super Video Encoder mentioned above. Just convert the FLV file into a corresponding format (like Apple iPod or Sony PSP or MPG) and transfer it to your gadget

Often when an employee departs, they take important Excel passwords with them. This guide outlines how to use a simple Excel password recovery application to crack lost or forgotten passwords, allowing you to unlock password-encrypted Microsoft Excel documents quickly as possible.

Step 1: Download and Install the Office Password Recovery Utility

To perform the following recovery steps, you’ll need to grab the download of Office Password Recovery Pro, available directly here. (2.1Mb)

Once you’ve downloaded the program, run the install with the default options.

Step 2: Navigate to the Protected File and Begin the Recovery Process

Click the Open button on the top left, navigate to the protected spreadsheet file:

The Open button launches the Recovery Wizard.

The Wizard gives you the option of simply decrypting the spreadsheet (aka. removing the password protection entirely) or displaying the original document password:

Recovery Option 1: 100% Instant Document Decryption

This option is the quickest way to access your file, but strips all password protection from the document, so you’ll need to setup password protection on the file again if you want to lock it down in the future.

With this option, the application securely pings the Password Solutions’ server to determine the type of encryption used on the file and determines the best decryption method for removing the password from the Excel workbook:

When prompted, choose where you’d like to save the unlocked, decrypted version and hit OK.

Success! The program now offers to automatically open your unlocked document.

Recovery Option 2: ‘Recover the Password to Open’

If the document is password-protected and you’d like to recover the original password (perhaps for use in opening other Office documents) select Recover the Password to Open.

You’ll then be asked a couple questions to aid in determining the password schema. These are geared at narrowing the applications search for possible matches, but are not required.

If you don’t have any idea, simply leave all default selections, press the Next button twice and then click Finish.

Office Password Recovery then starts attempting to crack the password using a number of built-in ‘attack schemes’ and millions of unique password combinations.

Once your password has been recovered, the program clearly notifies you of the results:

Note: Even the passwords on individual sheets within your Excel workbook are recovered, giving you complete access across the entire workbook.

If you’re stuck and just can’t find that password, we highly recommend downloading Office Password Recovery Pro and running through these steps.

Does your Windows machine take a long time to boot up? Well a company has developed a remedy to improve Windows boot time, and it is called Soluto.

The way the application works is simple. It installs, then it asks you to reboot and then it watches your boot time and tells you what is taking up the majority of that time. It allows you to pause the item (does not start up again until un-paused) or you can delay its startup. It will wait until the initial set of applications is loaded before attempting to start your delayed applications.
This program works well for techies and entry level computer users alike. If you are an expert user you can take action on all your items and have a great list to work from on speeding up your boot up. A novice would be able to pause the items that they know they do not use or have already uninstalled.

For instance Roxio’s burning suite starts up automatically but do we need it to? Photoshop and Acrobat also start processes automatically and don’t forget all the applications that call out to see if there are new versions available. Everything starting up at once causes your machine to act slow.

Soluto wants to remove the frustration from computing. You can also enable a Frustration Detection mode that will analyze your machine at any given time and it will tell you what is wrong.

To begin just follow this link here.

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ThreatFire, formerly known as CyberHawk, is a company that specializes in providing users with behavior-based security.  Their latest security solution, ThreatFire 3, keeps your computer safe against malicious items such as viruses, Trojans, spyware and many other crippling threats.  This program remains amazingly efficient without having to rely on standard signature updates.  ThreatFire performs its magic by continuously analyzing the behavior of applications and processes on a user’s system.  It then immediately alerts you of all suspicious activity in which the content can be blocked or allowed.   

While ThreatFire is effective on its own, this software becomes a full-featured internet security suite when combined with traditional anti-virus and firewall applications.  Such powerful combinations make your system virtually impenetrable to outside attacks.

ThreatFire 3 comes ready to use right out of the box.  This program doesn’t require a lengthy, difficult configuration process, though it offers many customizable options capable of enhancing protection.

Unique Security

ThreatFire completely distinguishes itself from your basic anti-virus software.  Typical applications are normally required to first identify a threat before they can provide solid protection against it.  Upon detection, protection is typically provided from a signature update that must be first written by an expert and delivered to a database.  During this process, a large window of opportunity and time is left open where threats go undetected, penetrate the security software and infect your computer.  ThreatFire uses technology that keeps the scanner fresh and aware of deceptive infections.  

This program is very user-friendly and not only protects your computer against common infections, but also blocks more sophisticated threats such as keyloggers, rootkits and buffer overflows.  When ThreatFire 3 detects unusual activity, it displays an alert and provides adequate details regarding the potential threat.  If a known threat is detected, the program automatically quarantines it, allowing you to sit back with no further action required.  If new or unknown threats are detected, ThreatFire displays an alert that allows you to quarantine or grant access to the content.  It adds ease to the decision making process by providing detailed information that helps determine the legitimacy of the content in question.

Some of its newest features include an on-demand scanning component that provides additional protection.  It also comes equipped with a handy cleanup utility that sweeps your system clear of virtual debris. 

Compatibility

ThreatFire 3 is a highly compatible security solution and integrates seamlessly with many popular anti-virus products.  This software has been known to enhance previous versions of CA, Webroot, Symantec and McAfee programs.  ThreatFire even has the ability to tremendously enhance the protective capability of basic security applications such as Trend Micro’s Internet Security 2007.

While ThreatFire is compatible with many competitive brands, innovations made in the new release prevents it from being installed on a system running a previous Cyberhawk application.  Cyberhawk users making an upgrade must first remove that software before installing ThreatFire 3.

ThreatFire performs on various Microsoft platforms including Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 1 and 2 for the Home, Pro and Media Center editions, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 and Windows 2003.  This program requires a minimum of 15 MB of disk space for installation. 

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Portables are very important in this fast life, Many Portable software and Windows essential software are now coming in Portable versions. So more software are coming with portability features. Such as Opera and many other Windows Essential software are available for the Flash and usb drives.

Recently Yahoo launched its latest version but this time Latest Yahoo can be downloaded in the version, which carry the portable feature.

Users of Yahoo messenger can take Yahoo messenger 10.0.1102 anywhere they want to. The Portable Yahoo Messenger carrying all the features, which normal and latest Yahoo Messenger is having in it.

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The reason why most users choose PDF format to share and transfer documents is because they can be protected by the creator. Content, such as text and images, can not be copied or stolen from such PDF documents.

One solution, is to install the below software and follow the instructions to unlock the PDF documents. 

Download: PDF Password Unlocker 4.0

However if you want to unlock a PDF file without installing any software, I would recommend PDF Cracker. It is a Free online PDF Unlock utility.

It works simply by uploading a protected PDF file through your PC and once uploaded, it will open an unlocked and non-restricted version of the same PDF document in a new window

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