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There are many ways to do download YouTube videos. You could install some software or use a website to download and convert videos, but the easiest way is to install the firefox plugin.

If you don’t use firefox (here’s why you should), then there are many sites out there that let you download YouTube videos. I recommend these:

1. http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
2. http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/
3. http://www.downloader9.com/

As to software for downloading and converting .flv YouTube and Google videos, YouTube Downloader seems to be the best.

See for yourself which one of the methods you like best and happy downloading!

When using 3rd party burning software (eg, Nero Burning Rom) to copy audio
CD,some noise may be heard at the end of each track. To prevent this,try the
following method:
1. Enter System Properties\device manager
2. Select IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
3. Double click on thee CD writer IDE channel
4. Select advance setting
5. Change the transfer mode to 'PIO Only'
6. Restart Computer

You know the drill. You start to shut down the computer, you wait a few moments,
and then you see a dialog box asking if you want to kill an application or service that
is running. Instead of prompting you, you can make Windows XP take care of the kill
task automatically. Here's how:
1. Open the Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.
3. Highlight the value AutoEndTasks and change the value to 1.
4. Close the Registry Editor.

If you dual-boot your computer with Windows XP and another operating system, you
see an operating system selection menu on startup. If you typically boot into Windows
XP and not the other operating system, you can speed up the dual-boot timeout value
so that you do not wait so long for the boot process to select your default operating
system and continue with the boot process. The default timeout value is 30 seconds
but you can change this setting to 10. This gives you enough time to select the
alternate operating system if you want but also speeds up the boot process. You can skip this section if you do not use a dual-boot configuration.

Follow these steps:
1. Locate the boot.ini file on your computer. It is a hidden file by default; mine is
located in C:\boot.ini.
2. Open the file with Notepad (which is what opens it by default).
3. Change the Timeout value to 10.
4. Select File/Save and close Notepad.

You can remove the boot logo that appears when you start Windows XP. This little
tweak probably shaves only a few seconds off your boot time but seconds count if you
are serious about trying to get Windows XP up and running as quickly as possible.
The only negative is that if you remove the boot logo, you will also not see any boot
messages, such as check disk.
To remove the boot logo, follow these steps:
1. Select Start/Run, type msconfig, and click OK.
2. In the System Configuration Utility, click the BOOT.INI tab.
3. On the BOOT.INI tab, click the NOGUIBOOT check box option. Click OK.

If you constantly see an error message that you can't get rid offor example, from a
piece of software that didn't uninstall properly and continues to give errors on
startupyou can disable it from displaying on startup. Run the Registry Editor and go to
HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows. (This
key holds a variety of Windows system settings, such as the location of your system
directory.) Create a new DWORD called NoPopupsOnBoot and give it a value of 1.
Exit the Registry and reboot for the setting to take effect. To disable it, either delete
the DWORD value or give it a value of 0.

The PC industry will experience its sharpest unit decline in history, with PC shipments totaling 257 mln units in 2009, an 11.9% decline from 2008, according to Gartner. Previously, PC units experienced their worst decline in 2001 when unit shipments contracted 3.2%. Up to this point, emerging markets collectively recorded their lowest growth in 2002, 11.1%. Mature markets recorded their lowest growth in 2001, negative 7.9%. Both emerging and mature markets will handily surpass these previous lows in 2009, with emerging markets expected to post a decline of 10.4% and mature markets a decline of 13%.

Worldwide mobile PC shipments are expected to reach 155.6 mln units, a 9% increase from 2008. Desk-based PC shipments are forecast to total 101.4 mln units, a 31.9% decline from 2008. Mobile PC growth will be substantially boosted by continued growth in mini-notebook shipments; excluding mini-notebooks, other mobile PC shipments will grow just 2.7% in 2009. Worldwide mini-notebook shipments are forecast to total 21 mln units in 2009, up from 2008 shipments of 11.7 mln units. Mini-notebooks will cushion the overall PC market slowdown, but they remain too few to prevent the market’s steep decline. Mini-notebooks are forecast to represent just 8% of PC shipments in 2009.

The latest update to Firefox pushed out to users last night via automatic update addresses 47 bugs and enhancements, according to Mozilla. 17 bugs were marked as “critical” or higher.

Five potential security vulnerabilities were patched including these 3 that were marked as “critical”:

* MFSA 2009-10 Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards
* MFSA 2009-08 Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability
* MFSA 2009-07 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.7)

Glenn Randers-Pehrson, Martijn Wargers, Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Gary Kwong, and Timothee Groleau were credited with identifying and reporting the problems.

Most of the issues involve common C/C++ memory management bugs such as freeing uninitialized memory or memory that has already been freed. If Firefox were written in Java or C# or any language with automatic garbage collection they wouldn’t have these problems, I’m just saying…

Mozilla has been updating Firefox 3 approximately once a month since its release in June of last year. Here’s a list of all the updates so far:

* v3.0.7, released March 4, 2009
* v3.0.6, released February 3, 2009
* v3.0.5, released December 16, 2008
* v3.0.4, released November 12, 2008
* v3.0.3, released September 26, 2008
* v3.0.2, released September 23, 2008
* v3.0.1, released July 16, 2008
* v3.0, released June 17, 2008

Here is a quick short cut to shutdown windows easily.Just Press and leave the windows key and then press U two times(Windows key + u + u). But remember you shouldn't keep on pressing the windows key when you press the two Us. You should leave the windows key before hitting U two times... Hope you enjoy this little shortcut..!!

When you make changes to your file system and use Explorer, the changes are not usually displayed until you press the F5 key
To refresh automatically:
1. Open RegEdit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update
3. Set the value name "UpdateMode" to 1
.

If you like to view your files in Windows Explorer using the "Details" view
here is a tweak to speed up the listing of file attributes:

Viewing files in Windows Explorer using the "Details" mode shows various attributes
associated with each file shown. Some of these must be retrieved from the
individual files when you click on the directory for viewing.
For a directory with numerous and relatively large files
(such as a folder in which one stores media, eg: *.mp3's, *.avi's etc.)
Windows Explorer lags as it reads through each one. Here's how to disable viewing of
unwanted attributes and speed up file browsing:

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Navigate to the folder which you wish to optimize.
3. In "Details" mode right click the bar at the top which displays the names of the attribute columns.
4. Uncheck any that are unwanted/unneeded.

Explorer will apply your preferences immediately, and longs lists of unnecessary attributes will not be displayed.
Likewise, one may choose to display any information which is regarded as needed, getting more out of Explorer.

When a user shuts down Windows XP, first the system has to kill all services
currently running. Every once in a while the service does not shut down
instantly and windows gives it a change to shut down on its own before it kills it.
This amount of time that windows waits is stored in the system registry.
If you modify this setting, then windows will kill the service earlier. To modify
the setting, follow the directions below:

Start Regedit.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.
Click on the "Control" Folder.
Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Right click on it and select Modify.
Set it a value lower than 2000 (Mine is set to 200).

THE FOLLWING STEPS U HAV TO DO:

- open regedit
- browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\wpaevents
- double-click OOBETimer
- remove the 'ca' part from it by pressing HOME and then DEL (on keyboard)
- click OK
- close regedit
- start -> run
- type in: C:\windows\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
- choose the 2nd option (phone activation)
- click Change product key (at the bottom)
- enter the product key you got from running the Blue List key generator
- press OK
- close the window
- restart your comp
..after restart..
- start -> run
- type in: C:\windows\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
- verify that it says 'your copy of windows is already activated'
- proceed in installing XP SP1 from http://www.windowsxp.nu

The default speed of the Start Menu is pretty slow, but you can fix that by editing a Registry Key. Fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay

By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to speed it up.



Speed up the Start Menu (Part two)
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If your confounded by the slow speed of the Start Menu, even after using the tip above, then you might try the following: Navigate to Display Properties then Appearance then Advanced and turn off the option titled Show menu shadow . You will get much better overall performance.

The Windows logo key, located in the bottom row of most computer keyboards is a little-used treasure. Don't' ignore it. It is the shortcut anchor for the following commands:

Windows: Display the Start menu
Windows + D: Minimize or restore all windows
Windows + E: Display Windows Explorer
Windows + F: Display Search for files
Windows + Ctrl + F: Display Search for computer
Windows + F1: Display Help and Support Center
Windows + R: Display Run dialog box
Windows + break: Display System Properties dialog box
Windows + shift + M: Undo minimize all windows
Windows + L: Lock the workstation
Windows + U: Open Utility Manager
Windows + Q: Quick switching of users (Powertoys only)
Windows + Q: Hold Windows Key, then tap Q to scroll thru the different users on your PC

If your mouse contains a wheel for scrolling, you can change font size on the fly when viewing a Web page. To do so:

Press and hold Ctrl. Scroll down (or towards yourself) to enlarge the font size. Scroll up (or away from yourself) to reduce the font size.

You might find it useful to reduce font size when printing a Web page, so that you can fit more content on the page.

To get Admin account on the "Welcome Screen" as well as the other usernames, make sure that there are no accounts logged in.

Press "ctrl-alt-del" twice and you should be able to login as administrator!

finally worked for me after I found out that all accounts have to be logged out first.

For facebook application type http://m.facebook.com/ on your mobile.

If you use Facebook then maybe you installed the application "Photo of The Day," a small module allowing submissions each day a new photo of National Geographic. Well, if so, know that you are trapped!

Indeed, a team of researchers at the University of Foreth-ICS and the Infocomm Research Institute have developed a small ploy to demonstrate the potential dangerousness of applications running on the network. Researchers have voluntarily placed malicious code on the application in question in order to generate queries and saturate an HTTP server. With each click of a mouse, the application returned a petition of 600 kb on the server. The team announced that the code could largely be developed with JavaScript automating these queries at regular intervals.The mass adoption community networks by Internet offers us a unique opportunity to study the vulnerabilities exploited to transform these venues platforms antisocial activities and illegal attacks such as denial of service, proliferation of malware, spam or violation of privacy. "

You can read the full report of this study here

Hi,
To fix this problem, you need to reset your password and get anew password.

1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/reset.php
2. Enter your email
3. Click Reset Password
4. Log in to your email, click the confirmation code
5. Now you can enter new password

Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. Some of the best, useful and interesting Facebook applications, which I found are as below :-

1] iLike - Add you favorite songs on this app and see who else likes it. Also, add up coming music concert you are planning to visit and you might have company! The best part of this application is the “Challenge”. Click on Play Challenge and it starts playing songs and asks you to identify the song, album, artist, etc… believe me its addictive.

2] Free Gift - It’s a silly little application which probably does not make sense to most of us, But as creator Zachary Allia, says “It’s the thought that counts.” You can send and receive gifts with this application.

3] MeetingWave - This is a useful application that allows users to meet new business contacts, clients or even prospective employers. All a user needs to do is post a Private Invite for a business meeting in the real world, set the time, date and venue for the meeting and wait till somebody from the Facebook world accepts his or her invite.

4] MyDocuments – This application sounds like Microsoft Windows but works like Google Docs. Users can upload any types of document on their Facebook accounts, then share it with their friends.

5] Send SMS Text Messaging – This application lets users specify Facebook contacts who can send messages directly to their cell phone from Facebook. Users’ mobile phone numbers are kept confidential to avoid spam and prevent unnecessary text messages.

6] Call Me on Skype - For those who still likes using Skype, here’s a nifty application that sits right on their Facebook profile. It lets users call friends for free, start group chats and call landlines and mobiles.

7] Virtual iPhone - If you’re wondering how this application came to be on our list of useful Facebook applications, it can save users hundred bucks if they’re considering an iPhone. It is the closest thing to owning and using an iPhone without having to spend the money. If you don’t like it, you can always stop using it and think of all the money you’ll save.

8] Super Wall – This is one of Facebook’s most popular application and it ought to be useful as well. This application lets users share photos, videos, graffiti and more with their Facebook friends. Why is this useful? Because it breaks the barrier of seriousness among some friends who may not be involved with Facebook. Some of these Super Walls may be quite annoying at times, but the application serves its own purpose and seems to be doing this with flying colors.

9] Graffiti - It is a simple application which lets you put your imagination at work and come up with colorful Graffiti. These Graffiti can be sent to your friends or they can just hang on your Graffiti wall and visitors can leave comments and also respond by drawing something for you.

10] My Personality - This app is based on psychological personality questionnaire used in actual scientific research. Once you select this app, you will have to answer about 15-20 questions after you personality profile is created, mostly you will agree with the profile however if you don’t then you can answer additional questions. You can answer up to 100 questions to make an accurate profile.

Guys, if you know any other good Facebook Applications, let everyone know !!

Share Your Photos

1. Head to the "My Photos" page after logging in to Facebook. You will see all of your available albums.
   
   
2. Click "View" under the album you want to share.
   
   
3. Hit the "Share" button. You will be prompted to add a comment and recipients. You can share your album with friends outside Facebook by entering their email addresses. Select "Post This on Your Profile" if you want to post the album on your profile.
   
4. Click "Share" and wait for the confirmation that your album has been sent.

I have to open substantial problems of Facebook for some time

Only after a few aborts and new shop over the address bar the side is developed (Refresh does not bring anything). Then the side is developed however faster and completely, and left and lower surfaces of Facebook construct themselves very fast.

Facebook is the only side on which I observe, with the IE6 it has no problems.

Greeting

Here is a very useful instructions that would help you access Orkut, Hi5, Tagged or MySpace using Proxy settings.

1. Open the Firefox 3 browser by double clicking on its icon.

2. Click on Tools menu at the top of the browser window.

3. In the tools menu, click the Options option.

4. Go to Advanced settings and click on the Network tab.

5. Click on the Connection's Settings option.

6. There should be four radio buttons options under the title "Configure Proxies to Access the Internet." Click on the Manual Proxy Configuration option.

7. Select the Use this proxy server for all protocols option.

8. Type kp1.no-ip.org under "Http Proxy:" in the first box and in the second box type the number 80.

9. Click OK to save it and return to the main browser window.


P.S.: The above steps should allow you to your desired sites like orkut, myspace, hi5, etc. But note that if you get some message saying "This document contains no data", just ignore it.

orkut mobile allows you to quickly and easily access orkut from an Internet enabled phone or mobile device. To do so, simply visit http://m.orkut.com using your mobile device; you'll be able to see your profile and access many of the same features that are available on orkut when you sign-in to your orkut profile on the computer.

Now you can access orkut on your mobile.

In order to access orkut mobile, your phone or mobile device will need to meet the following minimum requirements:

1. Your device should be properly configured to access the Internet according to your mobile service provider instructions.
2. Your device's web browser must be XHTML compliant. To determine whether your browser is compatible, point it to www.google.com/xhtml and perform a search. If you're unsuccessful, your browser may not be XHTML compliant.
3. Your device's browser must have cookies enabled and your mobile network must also allow cookies to be set. The setting for cookies is usually located in your device's browser settings.
4. Your mobile service provider must allow secure SSL traffic (HTTP secure).

Please note: You'll need to contact your mobile service provider if you're unsure if your device is properly configured, and to determine if they allow cookies and SSL traffic to be used on their network.

This is the mastermind behind Orkut community.

Some facts about Orkut:

1) Orkut Buyukkokten(the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when every person registers to
this website.

2) He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.

3) He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody
adds you as a friend in the resulting chain.

4) He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.

5) He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.

6) He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.

7) He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.

He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.

9) He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.

10) He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.

11) He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time
you view your friend's friend-list.

12) Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the
richest........

India's number one social networking site "Orkut" has introduced a "safety filter" that automatically filters out adult content such as sexually suggestive phrases or images.

The filter has been introduced in India, and is turned on by default for all the users. Google plans to introduce it in other countries in the next few weeks.

The new filter monitors and filters the content that may violate Orkut's community standards. The new filter will likely vary from country to country or from one household to another. Users have the option to turn off the filter.

With the "Safety Filter" on, If a user come across the content such as photos or text that they may find unacceptable, they will receive a warning and the specific content will be replaced by special icons.

However, according to Orkut, no filter is fully accurate and so users may come across a page that they think should be blocked. Users can flag it as usual and let Orkut know.

Hey guys here is a way you can make custom theme for orkut.

Works only in mozilla firefox.

Download grease monkey plugin and install it.

Enable greasemonkey and restart firefox.

Click Here and in the text box enter your image location on the internet, in the below box give a name to ur theme and click create theme! now right click on the link and click save link as and save it in a suitable folder.

now run the file u just downloaded, click install and visit orkut!

Enjoy!

Hi friends,

Remember those good old days when we could just right-click and download photos from Orkut albums. Well Orkut has disabled right clicking on photos other than those images in your own albums. There are numerous Orkut profiles with fake picture copied from genuine users. So, this is indeed a very good move by Orkut to control privacy of its users.

But don't worry friends i have found a solution for this now by following few simple steps you can save pictures of another users:-

1. First Open the photo/image that you want to download.
   
   
2. Click on it and hold down the left mouse key and drag it to the tool bar, and release the mouse key.
   
   
3. Now it should open in a new tab with only the image.
   
   
4. Right Click on the image, and select Save As, browse to the path where you want to save the image and click on save.

Country	Total Unique Visitors (000)	Share of Total Worldwide Internet Audience (%)
Worldwide	1,007,730	100.0%
China	179,710	17.8%
United States	163,300	16.2%
Japan	59,993	6.0%
Germany	36,992	3.7%
United Kingdom	36,664	3.6%
France	34,010	3.4%
India	32,099	3.2%
Russia	28,998	2.9%
Brazil	27,688	2.7%
South Korea	27,254	2.7%
Canada	21,809	2.2%
Italy	20,780	2.1%
Spain	17,893	1.8%
Mexico	12,486	1.2%
Netherlands	11,812	1.2%

About a third of young adults 20-26 and 20% of teens say they’ve sent or posted naked or semi-naked photos or videos of themselves, National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. A third of teen boys and 40% of young men say they’ve seen nude or semi-nude images sent to someone else; about a quarter of teen girls and young adult women have. 39% of teens and 59% of those ages 20-26 say they’ve sent suggestive text messages.73% said they knew sending sexually suggestive content “can have serious negative consequences,” yet 22% said it’s “no big deal.”

Orkut Tops List of Social Networking Sites in India

Orkut reigned as the most visited social networking site in December 2008 with more than 12.8 million visitors, an increase of 81 percent from the previous year. Orkut’s audience was three times the size of its nearest competitor in the category. Facebook.com captured the #2 position with 4 million visitors, up 150 percent versus year ago, followed by local social networking site Bharatstudent.com with 3.3 million visitors (up 88 percent) and hi5.com with 2 million visitors (up 182 percent).

Top Social Networking Sites in India by Unique Visitors December 2008 vs. December 2007 Total India – Age 15+, Home/Work Locations* Source: comScore World Metrix
	Total Unique Visitors (000)
	Dec-07	Dec-08	% Change
Total Internet : Total Audience	26,240	32,099	22
Social Networking	12,795	19,369	51
Orkut	7,123	12,869	81
Facebook.com	1,619	4,044	150
Bharatstudent.com	1,736	3,269	88
hi5.com	714	2,012	182
ibibo.Com	1,970	990	-50
MySpace Sites	352	741	110
LinkedIn.com	293	513	75
PerfSpot.com	2,106	433	-79
BIGADDA.com	515	385	-25
Fropper.com	256	248	-3

Property	Audience, 000	% Reach
Total Worldwide Internet Audience	1,007,730	100.0%
Google Sites	775,980	77.0%
Microsoft Sites	646,915	64.2%
Yahoo! Sites	562,571	55.8%
AOL LLC	273,020	27.1%
Wikimedia Foundation Sites	272,998	27.1%
eBay	240,947	23.9%
Facebook.COM	221,791	22.0%
Amazon Sites	187,354	18.6%
CBS Corporation	178,844	17.7%
Fox Interactive Media	172,841	17.2%
Ask Network	164,513	16.3%
Apple Inc.	161,500	16.0%
Tencent Inc.	158,617	15.7%
Baidu.com Inc.	152,447	15.1%
Adobe Sites	123,623	12.3%

Mobile users accessing Facebook spend an average of 24 minutes per day on the site, similar to the 27.5 minutes spent by PC users. Mobile users on Facebook averaged 3.3 visits per day versus 2.3 visits per day by PC users. Mobile is used consistently throughout the whole day, but the early morning (7-10am) is the key day part for mobile, accounting for 22% of total mobile minutes browsed, compared with only 11% of total minutes browsed by PC Internet users in the same day part. Mobile can therefore act as an extension to media such as the Internet and TV, while it reinforces other early morning media, such as radio and newspapers. Mobile is confirmed as a strong youth medium with 48% of users between 18-34 years old, compared to 40% for the fixed Internet and 29% for the TV audience. Mobile is also more skewed towards men, who represent 63% of total users compared with 53% for the fixed Internet.

Top mobile sites	Top PC sites
Mobile Operator Sites	Google Sites
Google Sites	Microsoft Sites
Facebook.com	Yahoo! Sites
Yahoo! Sites	Facebook.com
BBC Sites	EBay
Apple Inc. Sites	BBC Sites
Microsoft Sites	AOL (inc. Bebo)
Sony Online (inc. Sony Ericsson)	Amazon Sites
Nokia	Ask Network
AOL (inc. Bebo)	Wikimedia Foundation

SITES	Dec-2007	Dec-2008	% Change
Total Audience	183,619	190,650	4
Online Gaming	67,457	85,977	27
Yahoo! Games	16,184	19,468	20
EA Online	12,673	15,369	21
Disney Games	11,933	13,458	13
WildTangent Network	7,650	13,306	74
Addictinggames.com	9,706	11,343	17
AOL Games	8,380	10,750	28
MSN Games	9,685	10,263	6
Miniclip.com	7,264	8,636	19
Nick.com Games	6,020	7,092	18
Spil Games	1,821	6,715	269

	Dec-2007	Dec-2008	% Change
Total Internet : Total Audience	183,619	190,650	4
Job Search	12,445	18,826	51
CareerBuilder.com Job Search	5,132	9,121	78
Yahoo! HotJobs Job Search	2,282	5,605	146
Indeed.com Job Search	2,712	5,106	88
Monster.com Job Search	4,131	3,776	-9
Simply Hired, Inc.	1,188	3,104	161
JOB.COM Job Search	731	1,237	69
MSN Careers by CareerBuilder.com	593	1,004	69
AOL Find a Job by CareerBuilder.com	504	856	70
Jobs.net Job Search	350	368	5
Jobster.com Job Search	186	365	97

SITE	Dec-07	Dec-08	% Change
Total Audience	26,240	32,099	22
Social Networking	12,795	19,369	51
Orkut	7,123	12,869	81
Facebook.com	1,619	4,044	150
Bharatstudent.com	1,736	3,269	88
hi5.com	714	2,012	182
ibibo.Com	1,970	990	-50
MySpace Sites	352	741	110
LinkedIn.com	293	513	75
PerfSpot.com	2,106	433	-79
BIGADDA.com	515	385	-25
Fropper.com	256	248	-3

Web traffic