>Grab Youtube Video without downloading

>Grab Youtube Video without downloading

Just watch the Youtube video in firefox and get FLV file of that video in cache folder of firefox in easy way. No need to download youtube video using any softwares or Add-ons. Just follow these steps.

Watch full Youtube video in Firefox bowser. (Let the video buffer completely)

When you see reply button on youtube video, don’t close the Firefox browser.

Go at following folder C:\Documents and Settings\%currents user%\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\2ai338p4.default\Cache
If you are not able to find “Application Data” after Local Settings, just add “\Application Data” on the address bar at Local setting folder. Sometimes it might be Hidden.

In “Profiles” open “Cache” folder. You may find a lots of unknown type files in this folder.

Most probably the last file will be youtube video. (Hint: Arrange the files by “Modified”)
You can even find it by size. It will be the largest file.

The file will be of Unknown format. Just rename it into any name with “.flv” extention.

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>Hide drives in Windows XP (Logical partitions)

>This is how you can hide one or more of your drives (logical partitions)
Windows XP provides (Not officialy) a utility by which u can hide one or more drives .

1. Go to Start > run > type diskpart
a dos window will appear with following discription.
DISKPART>

2. Then type list volume

You see something similar to this . .

Volume### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
————– —- —— — —– —- ——- —–

Volume 0 F DC-ROM
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB Healthy
Volume 2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy
Volume 3 E Docs NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy

3.if u wanna hide drive E then type

select volume 3

then this message appears { Volume 3 is the selected volume**

4.now type

remove letter E

now a message appear { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter **

Sometimes it require a reboot.

Logic: Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unknown volume.

Note: Your data will remain safe .
To get back the Drive, repeat the process, but in 4th step above, replace

remove

by

assign

ie., type

assign letter E

Caution: Double check the steps before you try, or else it may give fatal results.

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>Tricking Notepad

>Tricking Notepad

Here’s a really funny way to break Notepad.

This actually works. It will not crash your computer, it just breaks Notepad in that it causes it to display very oddly. No permnent damage comes of the following steps.

1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor)
2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): “this app can break“
3. Save the file to your hard drive.
4. Close Notepad
5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.

Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can’t figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks

Explanation: In notepad, any other 4-3-3-5 letter word combo will have the same results.
It is all to do with a limitation in Windows. Text files containing Unicode UTF-16-encoded Unicode are supposed to start with a “Byte-Order Mark” (BOM), which is a two-byte flag that tells a reader how the following UTF-16 data is encoded.

The reason this happens:

1) You are saving to 8-bit Extended ASCII (Look at the Save As / Encoding format)

2) You are reading from 16-bit UNICODE (You guessed it, look at the Save As / Encoding format)

This is why the 18 8-bit characters are being displayed as 9 (obviously not supported by your codepage) 16-bit UNICODE

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Google Realtime

Google Realtime Homepage

Google Realtime Search was only a section of Google’s search sidebar that allows you to restrict the results to Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and other sites where you can post public updates. Now it’s a full-fledged service that has a homepage, a logo and a name.

Watch “How to use Realtime Search” Video here.

Even if Google Realtime’s homepage is at google.com/realtime, you’ll miss two important new features if you don’t go to this special URL: filtering results by location and showing the context of a message using a conversation view.

Restrict search results to a location to find out what people from a certain place think about a topic. “You can use geographic refinements to find updates and news near you, or in a region you specify. So if you’re traveling to ‘Moscow’ this summer, you can check out tweets from ‘Muscovites’ to get ideas for activities happening right where you are,” suggests Google.

If one of the search results is part of a conversation, Google shows a link to the full conversation. “Often a single tweet sparks a larger conversation of re-tweets and other replies, but to put it together you have to click through a bunch of links and figure it out yourself. With the new full conversation feature, you can browse the entire conversation in a single glance.”

Google also added a new feature to Google Alerts: updates, which is another name for realtime results. It’s not a good idea to choose the “as-it-happens” option because you’ll receive a lot of email alerts.

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Capture Google Earth Videos

Capture Google Earth Videos

This is a short video animation captured using the free version of Google Earth.

Wegame, a popular tool for recording video games, was recently updated and it now supports full-screen recording at 30 frames-per-second for smooth video.

Unlike most other screencasting software where you just hit the Record hotkey to start recording, it may take a couple of tries for you to get comfortable with the Wegame capture process.

Launch the Wegame client and connect with your online account – you don’t have to upload your movies online but you still need to login for the software to work.

Then launch Google Earth and you’ll see a green square box inside the Earth program. Hit F6 and the square should disappear meaning the animations are getting recorded. Hit F6 to stop the capture and the recorded video will get saved in your My Documents folder.

If you are recording Google Earth animations on a slow machine, try lowering the frame rate to 15 or 20 and also switch to Half-screen recording. The video is saved in Windows Media format that you can play in almost every media player.

Note: Please read the guidelines for using content from Google Earth and Google Maps, before using the above method. – CosmoCyber

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