You are browsing YouTube and you’ve found nice video. You want to save the video so you can view it offline. In my previous post, I’ve shown you one method on how to download flash video from websites using Mozilla Firefox and DownloadHelper. In this post, I will show you how to download most of the media (audio and video) from any websites, using any of your favourite web browser.

What you need is, Grab++. Grab++ is a small utility that will help you to capture audio and video files from most of all websites, and enables you to download them. Grab++ is integrated with OrbitDownloader, and it is free. Grab++ works by sniffing files that being downloaded by your browser for media. Below, I will show you how to download a video from Youtube with Opera, using Grab++.

DriverPacks is a collection of hardware and device drivers, and this bundled drivers is very suitable those who are too lazy to search for drivers everytime you re-install Windows or if you just simply forgot to backup all your hardware drivers.

DriverPacks is an open source project, mainly to create a ‘uniform’ Windows installation CD that works with every hardware without having to look for the drivers. The latest DriverPacks slipstream tool, DriverPacks BASE 8.09 RC 1 support the creation of stand alone drivers location, without the need to have a source OS. Currently, there are 10 DriverPacks available:

I’ve been using Drupal for almost a year and I find it very easy to customize and configure. In fact, Drupal is my second blogging platform after Blogger. The Drupal development and community is very active. In this post I will show you how to easily integrate Google’s ‘Adsense for Search’ into Drupal 6 so that the search result can be shown and contained on your Drupal site.

1. Download and install ‘Google Custom Search Engine’ module for Drupal 6 to your Drupal installation. If you don’t know how to install a Drupal module, extract and upload the content of google_cse-6.x-x.x.tar.gz to the sites/all/modules directory of your Drupal installation. Make sure the folder google_cse exists after you upload the files (1).

Accessing Wikipedia while you offline or don’t have internet access is made easy by WikiTaxi. WikiTaxi enables you to read, search and browse Wikipedia offline. In this post, I will show you how to set up WikiTaxi so you can access Wikipedia while you’re offline.

TrueCrypt is a free and open source on-the-fly encryption software. TrueCrypt will create a 'drive' (TrueCrypt volume) and you can work with the drive' just like any other normal drive. The encryption and decryption process will be done on-the-fly without the need of interaction from user. In this post, I will show you the way to use TrueCrypt easily to protect and encrypt your sensitive files.

Basic Way to Use TrueCrypt

Creating TrueCrypt File Container for TrueCrypt Virtual Drive

Most of today's modern mobile phones have the ability to play MP4 video files. The hard part is to encode the video while maintaining the compatibility and optimising the video file for mobile phone playback. While video in 3GP container can be encoded using advanced codec (AVC/H.264 for example) and HE-AAC for audio, most of the 3GP files are encoded using H.263 for video and AMR-NB or AMR-WB for audio which is not very great compared with XViD and AAC in MP4.

This method will allow you to convert .flv video (flash) to mp3. In fact, this method can be use to convert almost any video (avi, wmv, mpg, rm, mp4, mkv, etc) to mp3. We will do it the easy, free and open source way.

Veoh is a Youtube like service that allow users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material.

Veoh.com started to block viewers from various countries started from 31 May 2008. The block occurred due to low concentration of visitors from the countries, according to a representative of Veoh.

This post will tell you on how to send files from mobile devices (hand phone for example) to your laptop/PC via Bluetooth. This will be helpful if you lost your hand phone cable for example.

First, make your computer visible via Bluetooth so that other devices can find your computer using Bluetooth. To do this, right click on the Bluetooth icon in the taskbar and choose 'Open Bluetooth Settings'. Go to 'Options' tab, and tick 'Allow Bluetooth devices to find this computer'.

This post will tell you on how to easily download flash video from websites (Youtube for example).

For this, you will need Mozilla Firefox browser and DownloadHelper Firefox Addon.

First, install the DownloadHelper addon in Firefox. Then, restart your Firefox. After installing DownloadHelper, you will get a nice DownloadHelper icon beside the address field.