Youtube FLV to MP3

Every net user visits youtube.com nowadays. You may be thinking of getting audio only from the youtube video you are watching. For example, if you are viewing a video “When you say nothing at all” by Ronan Keating (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJrEBtmM1Q ), you will feel great if you get an extraction of that audio from that video.

To do that, first we need to download the video as flv format. From FLV format, we can grab the audio.

Ok, here are the steps.

1. First download the flv from the video. To do this, you can visit http://www.keepvid.com . You can need to paste the youtube video url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJrEBtmM1Q and start downloading. Mostly the file name will be get_video only. Just rename it with flv extension.

2. Now you need a converter of flv into mp3. To be honest, there are lots of ways to do it. We suggest using free Super application to do the job.

3. You can download the Super windows application from http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html . Please go to the bottom of the page. You will find download links. It is an excellent application. You might have crossed it in your life if you ever need a media converter.

4. Install Super application. Run it. Drag and drop the flv file inside the application. Select output as mp3 file.

5. You can change the file saving path in Super application by right clicking on it.

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Desktop sticky notes – Memento 1.09 – very small freeware

Generally desktop notes software provide help in knowing the to-do things, reminders and related information on that. There are really lots of software there on net to download for this work. If you are using windows, until in XP there is no tool to do that.

Although if you want to download from net, You will see many of the commercial. Well, to be true, we can buy commercial ones to support them. However, these are not worth buying it. If you find any, you can tell them in the comments. And some of the software are very big in file size. 7MB of download for this work is too large file.

OK. So, here we present a very small, tiny software called Memento. Its installation size is only 345K. It does what a simple “desktop notes” software to do. You can create notes. You can delete them. You can display them around your desktop. “always on top” mode sticks the window to be on top most of any windows. This is particularly useful when you want to have an eye on an important note. It does not do any magic or colorful things on its sticky notes windows. They are simply square type windows with yellow color background.

You can search inside of any notes. Currently it does not support searching all notes at the same time. However, this can be done, if you use Google desktop search. Memento has a Google Desktop Search add-on for Memento.

You can get more information about the software at http://www.guyswithtowels.com/dev/apps/memento.html

You can download http://www.download.com/Memento/3000-2347_4-10153931.html?tag=lst-0-1

Free registry cleaner (Abexo) and download for Windows XP

We are going to introduce “Abexo Free Registry Cleaner” . This is a totally freeware. Not a “30 day” running one. Before that we explain some of the thing about Windows Registry.

Whether you are doctor or a teacher or just a surfer who uses a Windows system, you must be aware that system slowness can be caused by invalid registry entries. Registry is nothing but a database stored by Windows with lots of information like Windows path, programming file paths, startup information etc. While uninstalling some applications in Windows, they leave the registry values. So, the registry size increases and automatically it slows the speed in accessing registry. There are some invalid exe links in registry which can slow context menus in windows. Like when you click right button on files or folders.

There is lots of Registry cleaning software around the software world. Most of them are commercial ones. There are some software providers who give this tool as freeware. However, these tools only scan the registry and show the problem that we have this or that much of invalid registry values. And they will require us to buy the software to clean and fix them. This is a highly irritating one to the user. But the software firms feel that this is the way to make a user to buy their product. However, when dealing with critical system tools like Windows registry, as a user we have to be very careful so that we don't crash the system. So, an amateur programmer's tool cannot be used as such.

Ok, what we are going to recommend is a freeware product that can clean and fix registry problems. It is really free and we use in our lab. The product is called "Abexo Free Registry Cleaner". Download.com editorial people have given it 4 out of 5. And it has been awarded by its users too (as on July 5, 2007).

You can get more information about this product at: http://www.download.com/Abexo-Free-Registry-Cleaner/3000-2094_4-10434887.html?tag=lst-0-1

You can download the product from the same above download.com URL.

Download.com certifies it as spyware free.

PS: Again we would like to warn that system registry information is critical and they require running Windows OS properly. So before deleting registry entries with this software, backup your registry database. You have to use this software at your own risk.

A single frame of your DVD movie into mind blowing wallpaper – Transformers Movie

Even from the age of VCD, people captured single frames. Some used it for personally, some even started fan sites. Some use wallpapers.

We believed our eyes that what we see is sharper and quality ones. From the age of VHS to the latest HD, we believe these frames as quality ones. Honestly I believe, I see HD DVD are excellent quality one. Well, it is sure that we are going to see some more advanced codec soon.

Here I present a DVD captured image (hmm, I can say photo too) that I recently saw in HD quality trailer of Transformers Movie. As everyone, I was very impressed to see the movie trailer. Hey, believe me, it is technology news. How? This movie has used excellent and superb and impressing and and, I can go on. Yes, it uses advanced 3D animation. And they are giant ones. They are quality. They are sharper. You will say every penny and every second is worth watching the movie. It is 3rd July. The movie is releasing on 4th July.

As I wanted to capture every frame to my desktop wallpaper, I captured one “dam” image form the movie trailer. You can download it here. I personally use it. If you want you can use it too.

Ok, Here I give the url that impressed me to the bottom of heart. I recommend high speed Net for this,

http://stage6.divx.com/user/joeuploader/video/1245763/Transformers-Trailer-4-HD

Here is a low quality version on youtube for low speed net,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7uXvqfQvNI

You can click on the above thumbnail image for the full size wallpaper.

How to play youtube FLV and other FLV files better and smoother

There are lots of websites that allow download youtube.com videos into your hard disk. By default, there are no players inside Windows to play .flv format. FLV format is the file format supported by youtube. While you search on net, you will get some commercial flv players as well as some free players.

"FLV Player 1.3.3" (as on July 2nd, 2007) is such a free player. It is a very lite weight player. The file size is less than 1.5 MB. You can find more information at http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html we know that youtube videos are generally smaller in height and width.

Problem
This FLV Player software plays the video exactly the way when played in the same size. Sometimes, you may want to play the video little larger. Here comes the problem with this software. It does not smoothen when the windows size is doubled. It pixelates.

Solution
Here we would like to give a solution to play flv smoother and better looking. There is a code http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm called “K-lite Mega Codec” which can enable Windows Media Player to play FLV format files. With Windows Media Player you can the youtube flv or any other flv videos smoother and better. This is a freeware codec. You can download this and install it. After the installation your Windows Media Player will have the ability to play FLV files.

We do not promise that the video looks very good in big screen. However, when the size is doubled or little bigger, you can expect WMP to do good.