APPLICATION AND SOFTWARE

OPERA MINI Tips and Tricks

Opera Mini comes equipped with various great features including Opera Link, Virtual mouse and security features. However some settings are still appealing to customize. For example, if you want to save the bandwidth, just go to the menu Menu> Tools> Settings, and then removed the check mark in front of the Load images option. Conversely, if you want to display images with high quality, you can change the settings into High Quality Image.

If you use a low resolution display, give a checkmark on Full screen mode option, so that various accessories and the taskbar will be removed and the web page will be displayed in a full screen mode. To reduce power consumption and save the battery life, you can also remove the animation effects that appear with each menu by removing check mark on Visual effects option.

The last tips, try to open a web site with a complex view such as nytimes.com or cnn.com on Opera Mini. The Page will not directly appear in a legible font size, instead the page will appear in overview mode that reflect the entire site. Then you can zoom by using the cursor.

Now, if you want to directly access the web page without having to go to overview mode, you can go to the Menu> Tools> Settings and remove the check mark on the Show Overview option.

And don’t forget to save your work. Happy browsing…

How to Download YouTube Video to Your Computer

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YouTube and similar video sharing web sites have indulged us with tons of free videos from all over the internet. Although YouTube doesn’t give us the clue to download the videos, I’m sure most of you have already known that it’s pretty easy to download YouTube video right to your hard drive. There are a number of tools that will help us saving Youtube videos for playback on your desktop, iphone, PSP, or your DVD player.

Using Firefox Add-ons

If you’re Firefox user, which I think this is the simplest way. All you need to do is installing the Download Helper add-on. Not just videos from YouTube, the Download helper will grab just about any media files from any source and save it to your machine. Video Downloader is another firefox add-on that can grab video form YouTube, although some users reported that the latest YouTube site update seems to be interfering with the video download.

Using Video Downloader Applications

Not a Firefox user? It’s Ok. Where there is demand there will be supply… right? You can try out My Video Downloader, With this handy program you can download video from popular video sharing sites such as YouTube, MySpace, DailyMotion, iFilm, and Metacafe. The videos downloaded from these sites are flash video files or FLV files. If you don’t want to watch your video in a FLV player on your computer you will want to convert the file to a different format. You will be able to encode the files to iPhone, iPod, PSP, Zune, DVD, VCD, SVCD, AVI - XviD, MP3, 3gp, Flash (swf) and Quicktime. If you satisfied with the trial version, you can buy it for $24.99. Read the rest of this entry

ObamaFox, Traces all News about Barack Obama

Obama news has dominated headlines all over the internet, therefore you can get the updates from any online news. But there’s easier way to collect all information about the elect president if you’re using firefox 3.0.

ObamaFox

All you need to do is install the Firefox’ Extension, ObamaFox. Once it’s done Just click the small Obama icon in the bottom right corner of your browser and get the latest Obama news from your favorite news sources. Choose from 18 sources, including the Obama HQ Blog, Eyes On Obama, New York Times, Google News, CNN, Digg, and Twitter. You will also get major campaign updates and action alerts automatically in your browser.

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Download iPhone 2.2 jailbreak

Can wait for iPhone 2.2 jailbreak? Slow down buddy…you can find the download links just below this page. Anyway let me give you a short description about the the iPhone dev team’s latest jailbreak…

iPhone 2.2 jailbreak came up with a few more precautions than normal - 2.2 fixes an issue in the baseband, blocking off an exploit the iPhone dev team was working on utilizing to unlock the device. They’ve figured out how to get you the goods from 2.2 without modifying the baseband, but tread lightly to make sure you’re picking the right options.

Here’s more information and download link

via | MobileCrunch

Download Youtube Videos with TechCrunch’s Tool

YouTube is one of the largest is a video sharing website together with metacafe, Break, and Google video. Video that appears generally can only be viewed through, not for downloading. The video files are packed in a flash video (FLV) format. Now, what if you want to download those videos in your hard drive so you can edit or just to watch them offline

If you search google, you’ll find out that there are tons of tools to download video from video sharing service. There also several methods you can try to get the videos, from browser plugins, applications, to special web pages dedicated to download videos from Youtube. But there’s no guarantee that they’re all working, since Youtube and similar video sharing websites constantly changing the way they stream the videos.

One fast and simple solution to download Youtube video is by using Youtube video download tool from TechCrunch.

TechCrunch

To download a video to your computer, find the Youtube video that you wish to watch of course, for example Jason Mraz - I’m Yours - Hard Rock Calling 2008. Next, enter the YouTube URL for the video, in this case copy paste ‘http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryentN-MyLE’ in the box, click get video and wait while it’s being download, use VLC or another compatible player to view it. And you can watch Jazon Mraz concert on your desktop right away.

Note that, all videos will be downloaded in flv format - Use VLC, FLV player, Media Player Classic or other compatible player to view it.

Hack YouTube to get HD video playback

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YouTube has long been anticipated to release high definition video playback, and they’re now starting to test out real HD quality videos, The new format could be a big jump for YouTube, as the video size is similar to H.264 encoded mp4 files in the iTunes Store which size is over 80MB.

The new playback looks clean and professional in the widescreen format (1280×720) and seems like real HD 720p video. Formerly YouTube’s high quality video maximum resolution was at 480×360, to do so, viewers must add “&fmt=18″ to the end of a YouTube video’s url. Now to watch the 720p video format the trick is similar to that, simply by adding “&fmt=22″ to the end of the video URL

Currently there’s no view full screen option to YouTube embed technology for HD videos, but you can toggle it on from the Google service’s hosted video page. While these videos will result in slower loading and will trigger problems getting the clip to display on older hardware, it requires powerful PCs for smooth playback.

Here’s examples of an HD embed video on YouTube from wired:

and here’s the standard video playback

HACK Windows Vista Settings with UTW

HACKING Windows XP is easy with TweakUI, but it’s no longer supported on Vista. Luckily, there’s Ultimate Windows Tweaker, a third party tool that similar to TweakUI but runs perfectly on Vista.

Ultimate Windows Tweaker - UTW

Ultimate Windows Tweaker (UTW) allows you to Tweak over 130 Vista settings, all of them grouped into seven categories (Personalization, Security, Internet Explorer, User accounts and UAC, System and Performance, network Optimization and Some Additional options).

To prevent something goes wrong with your system, you can simply create a system-restore point just by clicking a button in the UWT window. Or click Restore Defaults to set everything back the way it was.

Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a free download for Windows Vista systems (32- and 64-bit) only