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How to Easily Download YouTube Videos
| 28 January 2011 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
In my previous post, I have written 2 posts on how to download video from YouTube using Grab++ and YouTube Downloader. In this post, I will share another way to download videos from YouTube easily, so simple with only few steps involved.
JDownloader is a powerful download manager which simplifies downloading process especially from one-click hosting sites such as Hotfile.com and Rapidshare.com. While JDownloader is mainly for downloading from one-click hosting sites, JDownloader also supports downloading videos from popular video hosting sites like YouTube.com and MegaVideo.com. So in this post I will focus on that.
JDownloader will automatically capture and analyze any URL that you copied. JDownloader will then display all download links that it is able to download. JDownloader is able to download videos from YouTube including the high definition one.
How to Download YouTube Videos Using JDownloader
1. Install and run JDownloader. Make sure the JDownloader is running.
2. Find the YouTube video that you want to download using your web browser.
3. Copy the URL of the YouTube video. JDownloader will automatically capture and analyze the URL that you copied just now. You might need to wait for a while till JDownloader finished analyzing the URL.
How to Easily Backup and Restore Web Browser Bookmarks (and other data too)
| 27 January 2011 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
If you are a frequent web surfer, your bookmarks will be one of your important piece of data. Usually for most of us, when we are planning to reinstall the operating system that we use, we tend to forget to backup the web browser bookmarks and other data such as saved passwords, extensions, etc. (at least for me, and most of my friends). Unless you are using web browser synchronizing services such as Opera Link or XMarks, backing up and restoring your bookmarks manually is pretty much not a user friendly step.
FavBackup is a free simple program that allows you to easily backup and restore your web browser bookmarks. FavBackup supports backup and restore the bookmarks for major web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Flock).
Other than bookmarks, FavBackup is also able to backup full web browser profile and data such as cookies, saved passwords, site preferences, search engines and many more. This will ease the backup, restore or migration process of your web browser profile to another system.
By default, FavBackup will automatically list the profiles of the web browser that installed on your system. If you want to backup a portable web browser, FavBackup has the ability to select custom web browser profile location.
How to Run Multiple Copies of Mozilla Firefox Portable on Windows
| 16 September 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Sometimes, you might want to run multiple copies of Mozilla Firefox for some purposes. For example, if you are playing Mafia Wars on Facebook, you have many Mafia Wars profile and you want to run *ahem* Mafia Wars Autoplayer Script *ahem* with different settings on each profile.
One of the easiest ways to run multiple copies of Mozilla Firefox is to use the Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition. But still, if you are trying to run multiple copies of Mozilla Firefox Portable on Windows, the default setting will prevent you from doing so and you will get the “Another instance of Firefox is already running. Please close other instances of Firefox before launching Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition.” error. You can actually enable the option to run multiple copies of portable Mozilla Firefox in a few easy steps.
1. Extract Mozilla Firefox Portable as you normally would. In this example, I will use “E:\whiztech\App\FirefoxPortable-01\” as the path.
Download Minimalist Wallpapers for Your Desktop
| 5 September 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
I’m sure some of you love to use simple and less distracting images as your desktop wallpaper. If you are looking for simple desktop wallpapers, you should try checking out Simple Desktops.
Simple Desktops is a website which hosts a collection of minimal distraction desktop wallpapers. You can browse the vast collection of minimalistic wallpaper on Simple Desktops. If you are a creative one, you can submit and share your own wallpaper on the site too.
Because the website is simple, the wallpapers are uncategorized and you will need to browse page by page. The wallpapers on Simple Desktops are offered at 2560×1600 pixels.
Quick Info: Do You Know? Facebook Picture’s File Name/URL Contains Uploader’s Profile ID
| 31 August 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
If someone sent you an image URL from Facebook, or image file saved directly from Facebook, you can actually get the uploader’s profile ID from the image file name/URL. This post will tell you how to get the uploader profile of a picture from Facebook.
So, back to the basic, every Facebook profile has a unique profile ID. If you look at a Facebook profile URL, http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=n, n is where the unique profile ID for a Facebook profile is located. The unique profile ID is actually embedded in the file name and URL when a user uploads a picture to Facebook.
For example, let’s take a look at this picture URL from a Facebook profile.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs408.snc3/24713_413931002118_604502118_5121698_1325306_n.jpg
As you can see, the filename for the picture is “24713_413931002118_604502118_5121698_1325306_n.jpg”.
The 3rd number from left in the filename (in this case, 604502118) is actually the unique profile ID of the uploader.
So, the Facebook profile URL for the picture uploader is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=604502118.
Via: Reddit (I lost the original comment URL, sorry)
Thank you kulll for letting me use his Facebook profile in the example 
Google Chrome: How to Save/Capture Entire Web Page as Image
| 23 July 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Quick tip. Sometimes, you might want to capture and save entire web page as an image file. Normally, if you take a screenshot using the ‘Print Screen’ key, you can only capture what is displayed on your screen. If you are a Google Chrome user, you are lucky because there is a helpful extension available to help you to save entire web page as an image.
Webpage Screenshot, an extension for Google Chrome, will let you save a web page as image. The extension will save a long web page as a single image. Because the extension ran on the browser itself, you can actually save a web page that requires you to log on.
Use Middle Mouse Button to Display and Access Shortcuts to Programs/Files/Folders
| 22 July 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
For most average computer users, the most passive mouse button is usually the middle one. The middle button is usually used to scroll documents or web pages, and almost for nothing else. In case you are wondering if you can put the middle mouse button to a good use, you might want to try MouseExtender.
MouseExtender is a small program that ran on the system tray and it will display a nice menu that contains shortcuts to file, program, folder and URL by clicking the middle mouse button. You can group shortcuts which belong in same category using tabs.
By default, MouseExtender will override other programs’ function that uses the middle mouse button. For example, clicking the middle button on webpage in a web browser will gives you the ability to scroll the webpage using the cursor, and when you’re running MouseExtender, it will bypass this function and displays shortcuts. However, MouseExtender allows you to exclude programs from displaying the shortcuts and let the program uses its default middle click function.
Quick tip: Mount Folder as Drive (Windows)
| 15 June 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Windows only. If you are looking for a way to mount your frequently accessed folder as a drive (and you don’t feel like having a shortcut on your desktop), Visual Subst might be the application for you. Visual Subst is a simple and small application that will let you mount any folder as virtual hard drive easily.
How to use Visual Subst to mount a folder as a virtual drive
1. Choose the drive letter that you want to point to the folder. (1)
2. Select the folder that you wish to mount as virtual drive. (2)
3. Click the add button to mount the folder. (3)
Visual Subst is freeware and available for Windows. Portable version available.
[Via: LifeHacker]
Visual Subst
Developer Description: Visual Subst is a small tool that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives.
Download DotA Allstars 6.67b AI Map
| 8 June 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
*Updated on 28th September 2010 for Rev2d AI*
*Updated on 21st June 2010 for Rev 2c*
*Updated on 16th June 2010 for Rev 2b*
*Updated on 11th June 2010 for v06/11/2010*
Finally, after the long wait, AI for the latest DotA map is here! After BuffMePlz stopped developing AI for DotA maps, Harreke from PlayDotA.com took the job to bring AI to the lastest DotA map. DotA Allstars 6.67b AI is the first AI map released by Harreke.
This latest DotA AI map requires Warcraft III patch 1.24e to play.
Changelog:
qBittorrent is Now Available for Windows!
| 8 June 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
In my previous post, I wrote about alternative bittorrent clients that are able to get good download speed on TMNet Streamyx. 2 of the clients are based on libtorrent, a C++ bittorrent library. While Linux/Unix users have many choices of bittorrent clients based on libtorrent, there are not much choices for Windows users. On 6th July 2010, the qBittorrent developers announced the availability of the first Windows installer for qBittorrent. With the developers hard work, qBittorrent is now available on all major operating system. If you are looking for an alternative bittorrent client for Windows, you might want to try qBittorrent.
qBittorrent is an open source bittorent client based on libtorrent library and Qt framework. The development was started on March 2008. Previously, qBittorrent is only available for Linux/Unix operating system only.
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