Category: internet hacks & tips

There are numerous ways to download youtube videos but most of the methods either require downloading software or some user script to be installed at the user end.

At the end using the software or the user script becomes tedious for a layman user, but there can be a simple way out also to download any youtube videos.

You can simply download any youtube video just by clicking a bookmark in firefox or opera

It involves a simple link which you need to make a bookmark in the toolbar by dragging the link to the bookmarks toolbar.

I remember one of my friend was facing a problem some time back, when some application start using the internet bandwidth on his computer because of some unknown reason, due to which the limited bandwidth usage in his mtnl broadband plan got exceeded.

NetLimiter, is a software which comes to rescue in these types of situation as you can know how much internet bandwidth is being used by any program on your system.

NetLimiter is useful program which allows you to monitor each application on your system which connects to internet, it also allows you to easily manage your internet connections bandwidth and share it among the different applications on your system which connects to internet.

Some other features of NetLimiter

If you are a laptop user like me, who needs to configure network settings every now and then to connect to your internet at your home place and at your office, you will definitely love this application called net profiles

Net Profiles is a freeware which help you configure the internet connection with a single mouse click, it allows you to switch in between the various network profiles you create through the application.

Net Profiles saves your network settings as profiles,you can easily activate different profiles to change the network connection settings.

As shown in the image above you can create a network profile, after selecting your network card you need to specify IP Settings and click Save button.

Automatically change your profile via program shortcuts,

Some other features includes:

I just found a cool way of sharing your latest articles with your twitter followers if you are blogger or a person writing some thing on the internet.

I just got this idea from some of the fellow blogger’s so, I am assuming that most of the people already know about twitterfeed.

For those who don’t know

As it says in the tag line of twitterfeed says: “feed your blog to twitter” you can use twitterfeed free service to tweet your latest articles you publish on your blog automatically.

We have written numerous articles on how can you access blocked web sites like at your work place listed below.

• By pass download limit restrictions and access any blocked site with ultrasurf

• Access blocked, banned websites like orkut, myspace, facebook from school or office part 1.

• How to access blocked or restricted orkut or any site with proxy but without using any proxy servers for free.

• How to access restricted orkut by free proxy servers available for orkut.

But still we are receiving many comments where the users complains they are not able to access blocked web sites.

We found a free http tunneling utility called HTTP-Tunnel-Client last night which lets you bypass the restrictions of the firewall.

How it removes restrictions?

Simbolic RSS Alert – It is a FREE simple application for monitoring RSS feeds. It is very light low memory consuming application which sits in your system tray and monitors different rss feeds which you specify.

The main purpose of the application is for users who don’t need a complete RSS application but would like to know when a couple of feeds have changed.

This application is really use full when you want to monitor some feeds like latest cool freeware’s released, new Microsoft products released or when you want to monitor some of the official google blogs like Google Reader Blog, Google Blog, etc which does not offer subscribe via email option.

Symbolic rss alert application allows you to customize the interval for checking for new updated feed items on the feeds which you specify ( as shown in the image below ).

As shown in the image above, I have set the time interval as  5 minutes in my case. Right click on the application icon in the system tray to play with the options and features.  

Yes, you can freely download and convert any youtube video with the help of this new free utility called Abcc Free Youtube FLV Downloader AND Converter.

What is Abcc Free Youtube FLV Downloader AND Converter?

It is a free software which allows you to download Download video from YouTube and convert the downloaded Flash (.FLV) videos to other formats.

It supports the conversion of  FLV to AVI, WMV, MPEG, 3GP, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Xbox, PMP, PSP, Apple TV, Pocket PC, MP4, MOV video and MP3, AAC, AC3, AMR, M4A, OGG, WAV audio.