Tuesday, November 10, 2009

How to Download movies when you are watching them?



You are watching your favoruite video on Youtube, Dailymotion, Myspace, megavideo, Facebook or any other site, watching is great but if you want to save it on your Hard disk how do you do that?

You can use any of the following methods to do it.

1) http://keepvid.com


This site gives you a hyperlink from where you can download your movie.
All you have to do is paste the url of the movie that you were watching into the text box and click on download.






In the next page right click on any of the download links (Depending on the quality) and click "Save Target as..." and save your file.
I have tested this site for Youtube and Dailymotion, you can try for others.







2) http://netvideohunter.com

You need Firefox version 2 and above for this to work.
This Site gives you an addon that will integrate with your Firefox.
Just click on Install which will download an exe file.








Double click on the exe to install the add on, this installation will restart your Firefox.
Once restarted you will be able to see a blue play button on the right bottom corner of your Firefox. Every time you play a video on any website the counter will increment. Double click on the icon to see a list of available videos. Select the video you want to download and click on download to get the video.
You can use this add on to download music as well.
This add on will help you download content from any website and is one of the best options available.

You can also check out the following link on Youtube (from the netvideohunter folks) which shows how you can download the movies using netvideohunter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOIUh13vs4


3) Hey!!! What about users using Internet Explorer, opera, Chrome??
Users using Internet Explorer can find all the files in their internet Explorer Temp Directory. I am not sure about Opera and Chrome as I have never used these two browsers till date.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

How to keep your PC secure running on WindowsXP

Cleaning up your PC
1) Go to the following link and download ccleaner.
www.ccleaner.com/download
After downloading. Install the software.
CCleaner is a system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool.
CCleaner removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
It contains a fully featured registry cleaner that fixes issues with the registry. It contains NO Spyware or Adware!

2) Protect your system from viruses.

There are many free antivirus that are avialble in the market today. The best ones that are recommended.
a) AVG antivirus
b) AVAST
You can download AVG free from the following link
http://free.avg.com/
and AVAST home(basic) Edition from
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
The advantage of AVG over AVAST is that AVG will not ask you to register in 30 days.
Remember to keep updating your Antivirus database with regular updates

3) Now that you are protected from viruses, there are other threats as well.
Use Ad-Aware software to scan for any malicious spyware and remove them.
Spyware are the software programs that record crucial information from your system (Such as keystrokes and Screenshots) and send it to other systems.
You can download the software from
http://www.lavasoft.com/single/trialpay.php
NOTE: The free version does not offer a real time monitor and protection of spywares.
Remember to keep updating the Ad-Aware database.

4) Apart from the ones I have mentioned above use ZoneAlaram software to control the applications that are trying to access the Internet.
ZoneAlaram is a free firewall which can be downloaded from
http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/free-upgrade-security-suite-zone...
Using ZoneAlaram you can Approve or Deny programs that are trying to access your Internet.
This will
a) Help you save your Bandwidth.
b) Stop illegal programs (like spywares) to send information.
c) Moitor incoming and outgoing traffic.

Caution

Do take a backup of your registry when you use Ccleaner. In case of any problems you can restore your registry.