Top 10 Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets

Best Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets Collection

In Windows Vista Microsoft Introduced a new Features Sidebar Gadgets, which are really cool and very useful too. By default, Microsot Windows Vista comes with a handful of Gadgets in the Sidebar. These Gadgets include things like a clock, a calendar, a picture slideshow, the local weather, etc. But you can add and remove some more cool gadgets into the sidebar. So am here posting some of the best Widgets for the Vista.

1. SD Sidebar Clock

I am going to start with clock which is on top of my sidebar, Sd sidebar clock is best replacement for stock sidebar clock it looks more than cool and have many more to show than a clock, it tells you time like normal clocks but at its background there is date, year, day, month mentioned and time in digital format, cool :)

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2. Multi Meter

Multi Meter is still the best CPU and Memory Usage monitor, it supports Single Core / Dual Core / Quad Core processors displaying each core seperately. No complaints about the effectiveness of this gadget… just could be ‘purdier ‘:)

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3. Windows Media Player Gadget

This is a nice alternative for those who prefer Media Player over iTunes. One of the nice things about this gadget is that it doesn’t ever need to actually launch Media Player itself. You can open & navigate your songs (plus videos!) all from it’s neat small size on the sidebar. When you detach the gadget it expands to show a video window and playlist controls. It also has a huge number of configuration options and controls for play speed and a plugin menu which is empty at the moment, but it will be interesting to see what that is used for in the future.

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4. Drive Info

A very useful sidebar gadget works very good with my hard drives, Drive Info let you put your HDD drives into sidebar for easy access along with a shortcut it shows usage bar which let you see how much space left in the partition. You can see left space in percentage and in gb’s you can select from many background colors in options and assign drive for shortcut. You have to put this gadget multiple times in sidebar if you are using more than one drive.

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5. Up time

This gadget shows uptime of your machine, total time from when your computer is running on, in days to hours to minutes to seconds a nice looking gadget and very useful too when your computer is running from a long time and you want to see how much time was that actually.

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6. Now Playing

Now playing is a cool gadget that shows album art of the song that’s currently playing in the side bar when player is minimized or in the tray and supports many famous media players, when you activate this gadget it shows which player to choose, when you choose one only album art pictures shows on the sidebar which sounds good.

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7. Winamp Remote

One of my favorite sidebar gadget from the list, it is so much much useful when you use winamp and you drag all thousand songs into your winamp playlist and juggle them a lot so this gadget help you doing all this rite from your sidebar without maximizing winamp and do the stuff, it shows song name when song is playing and launch winamp when click one time on it also let you control volume and song seeking. You can choose from 2 skins for gadget winamp modern and classic. This gadget also works with KM player.

Installation: extract zip then open install32.bat for 32bit vista and install64.bat for 64bit vista.

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8. Network Activity

Display network activity in real time. It displays two bars (TX/RX) that show your current thoughput. These bars have a text overlay showing you the exact speed that is being acheived. This is a very light weight gadget and has a settings menu that allows you to assign the network card and sampling interval that you are comfortable with.

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9. Computer Status

See the status of your Computer/Notebook in the Sidebar and on a SideShow device. View CPU, RAM, WiFi, Battery and Recycle Bin status. It also includes a Radio and the Date.

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10. Terror Alert

This Windows Sidebar gadget displays the current level of the Homeland Security Advisory System on your sidebar. This is the initial version, and I finally will have some time to expand on this as well as create different versions for other locations (many have asked for UK).

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Hope you liked this Windows Vista sidebar gadgets. You can also try:

Windows Firewall profile- Primarily geared for network troubleshooting.The Windows Firewall Profile is a system-wide setting dynamically derived from the network connection state and attributes. This setting dictates the machine’s effective firewall’s policy.
Knowing the current firewall profile indicates the effective firewall policy (and hence the attack surface size) to the user and also assists in troubleshooting.

TOP – Vista Shutdown Control - With this gadget you can shutdown, restart or lock your computer with only one click. Furthermore it shows the time and you can change the design. Check it out!

YouTube Video Downloader- A simple sidebar gadget to download YouTube video. Just enter the URL(The address of the page where you are watching the YouTube video[only youtube site please for this version]) and download the video in flv format. Use VLC Media Player or FLV Player to watch it.

Remove Drive Safely v1.2- Here is the gadget that will help you to disconnect your usb, SATA, eSATA drives (like Safely Remove Hardware tool).
Vista Calculator- Do you play with numbers? If yes vista calculator is for you its simple and easy to use calculator for sidebar, when you do normal calculation eventually you have to open calculator or use your brain lol.. but this is an alternative its calculator on your desktop. When you dis attach it from sidebar it show more calculating options but when intact its simple enough to do regular addition, subtraction, division, multiplication more it looks cool and more geeky.


If you know any other great sidebar gadgets i would like to hear your suggestions.

Top 10 Free RapidShare and Megaupload Premium Link Generators

Download your rapidshare files with premium features for free. Resume, pause, accelerate and download multiple rapidshare files.

Rapidshare and Megaupload are the biggest online file sharing services used by almost everyone on the Internet but what makes it annoying is the weird captchas, waiting time and downloading limits.


Using the huge list of Rapidshare Link Generators that I have compiled below, you will be able to use Rapidshare as a premium user. These sites generate premium download links which can be used without any limitations, even with a download manager. Free rapidshare premium link generator help in generating rapidshare premium links without asking for any money. So, even though you don’t have rapidshare premium account, you are able to download rapidshare files at high speed just like Rapidshare premium users. So, i have mentioned below 5 free rapidshare premium link generator sites to help you download rapidshare files at high speed. You just need to insert your URL and the generator will create a valid premium link for you; a link ready for download that can be resumed, paused, accelerated and more.

List of different Rapidshare Premium Link Generators :

1. RapidPremium


How To Use RapidPremium:

1. Login with your username and password (if you have a personal account).
2. If not, use "public" as the username and password to login to the public account.
3. Enjoy Downloading :)

Megaupload premium link generator will generate premium link for your file and now, you can download megaupload file with high speed, can pause and resume the file download and even use a download manager for downloading file. You can download upto 30 rapidshare files using this rapidshare premium link generator. For megaupload, easy-share, uploading, hotfile, you can download infinite files...enjoy.


2. RS Generator


This site will allow you to download files from RapidShare with all premium features, but without the expense!. You just need to insert your URL and the generator will create a valid premium link for you; a link ready for download that can be resumed, paused, accelerated and more.

The generated link will be as private as the original RapidShare URL, meaning that it will not be available for distribution, promotion and it will only be available for the author or creator of the premium link. The files will not be hosted in RS Generator servers as it's a stream download and because is property of the user.


3. RapitShare


RapitShare.info is a free RapidShare premium links site where you can download files from RapidShare with all premium features, but it's FREE. You will never need to wait to download a file again, Just type the free link URL in the form, submit and get your premium link! Downloading files of pictures, music, or games has never been easier.


4. FreeRapid


Best file hosting tools in one place!Check rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire, etc. links with our very fast linkchecker.Download files as premium user from rapidshare with our premium link generator. Take your downloads in your own hands and try our new Premium Area.You get bandwidth for filling out surveys. The bandwidth never expires, you can use it whenever you want.


5. RapidIT


Best MegaUpload RapidShare Premium Link Generator at Rapid8.Com!. We also allow you to download any files, using our MegaShares, Easy-Share, MegaVideo, MegaP Video, Hotfile, Uploaded.to, Netload.in, Uploading.com, FileFactory & DepositFiles Premium Link Generator, directly. Use it at work, school and home effortlessly. The best thing is that we are simple to use and you're like having free rapidshare, so check it out and tell your friends!


6. Megaupload Premium Link Generator

7. RS Premium Link Generator

8. RapidsharePremiumLinkGenerator

9. HelloRapid

10. Rapiddownloader


You can also try:

RapidLoader

Megaez

RapidFile

RS Fox

FreeRSLinks

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Top 10 Linux Media Players - Play Any Audio or Video Format in Linux OS

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, i have compiled a list of 10 high quality Linux video applications, covering a broad spectrum of uses.

One of the many perks of being a Linux user is that you have plenty of excellent software to choose from. This is especially true if you are in search for an essential application like a media player because there are definitely loads of options. However, this could sometimes be a disadvantage particularly to new-to-Linux users for the reason that they could get overwhelmed with the many choices they have.

Here i have compiled some of the best free media players for Linux OS to play almost any video, audio formats you will ever need as a Linux user.

Here is the list of my Top 10 Linux Media Players:

1. MPlayer

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies. Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+. MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well.

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2. VLC Player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC can play:

* MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
* DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
* From satellite cards (DVB-S)
* Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
* From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

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3. Xine

Xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available – and some of the most uncommon formats, too.

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4. Totem

Totem is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment based on GStreamer. It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as keyboard navigation. It comes with added functionality such as: Video thumbnailer for the file manager, Nautilus properties tab, Mozilla (Firefox) plugin to view movies inside your browser (in development), Webcam utility (in development) and more.

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5. Ogle DVD Player

Ogle is the first opensource DVD player to support DVD menus! A DVD player for the Solaris, Linux and BSD environments released under the GNU Public License (GPL). Ogle, bringing you what you've always wanted e.g. Bookmarks, time skipping, multichannel audio, SPDIF output, crop & zoom video and more.

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6. Helix Player

The Helix Player is an open source media player for Linux, Solaris, and Symbian based on the Helix DNA Client media engine. More operating system versions are currently in development.

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7. Real Player

RealPlayer for Linux allows you to play more video, including popular Windows Media files, RealMedia files and more. Get instant access to your favorite songs or video. Easily create, save, edit and manage different playlists for any event or mood. Updated multi-channel stereo sound allows you to enjoy 5-channel audio plus a dedicated sub-woofer channel for streaming or playback through either your ALSA or OSS sound system. Need to take a break from a live stream? Just click pause. Perfect Play automatically buffers streaming content. So you can pause, rewind and fast-forward through live broadcasts without missing a thing.

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8. Kaffeine

Kaffeine is a full featured Multimedia-Player for KDE. By default it uses xine as backend.
Kaffeine is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

Here are some key features of "Kaffeine":

* Timeshifting
* Instant record
* Electronic Program Guide
* On screen display

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9. KMPlayer

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways.

The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.

In December 2008 KMPlayer was bought by Pandora.tv, and continues to be made available as freeware.

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10. Codeine

Codeine project is a very simple xine-based media player.

Here are some key features of "Codeine":

* Plays DVDs, VCDs, all video formats *
* Bundled with a simple web-page KPart () Starts very quickly
* Simple, uncluttered interface
* "Session based"
* Intelligent behaviour
* You can record http streams with the hidden record action
* You can use drag and drop to play files. Try dragging shoutcast stream playlists, they will play too.

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Top 10 Tools to Split Large Files

How to split up large files / zip archives into several smaller ones for an easier distribution or storage on several disks.

Have your ever wished that you could split a really large video, zip, or MP3 file into smaller files so that you can copy it to multiple CDs or USB sticks? Now that’s it so easy to transfer video onto personal computers, moving these large files between computers can be a real pain. Luckily, there are a few free tools that you can use to split and merge files quickly and easily. So here i'm posting some of the best ways to split large files.

1. GSplit - This application is a free reliable file splitter that lets you split your large files (like Self-Extracting archives, Zip archives, disk images, multimedia, music, video, backup, image, archive, log, large text, document files...) into a set of smaller files called pieces.


2. File Splitter - File Splitter is a freeware program which does not require installation and can be used to split files to multiple chunks as well as to merge multiple chunks into a single file.

3. Rapid Split - Rapid Split is an easy-to-use, wizard-based file splitting software with step-by-step assistance in splitting process. It enables you to split files of all types into pieces that can be stored on removable storage media such as floppy disk and zip disk.

4. JoneSoft File Splitter - The JoneSoft File Splitter application was designed to help you split files to any size you wish. Restoring is simply a matter of running the restore (BAT) file created when the file is split, or, for total control, you can restore using the File Splitter program. Integrated with Windows Explorer to allow even more flexibility.

5. Splitfile - SplitFile's goal is to split (chop) big file in smaller segments to be able to store them in floppy disks or CDs (these are just examples, the target size is fully customizable).
The main feature if compared to other programs like this, is the ability to support very large files( up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes = 8589934591 GB , theoric) and to being configured to increase performances if used with fast disks ( adjusting the read and write buffer up to 32 times the commonly used value).

6. HJSplit - HJSplit is a popular set of freeware file-splitting programs created by Freebyte.com in collaboration with various programmers. HJSplit supports many platforms. All versions are compatible with each other and allow you to exchange files between these different platforms.

7. MaxSplitter - MaxSplitter is a fast and small program that does merely two things: it can split files and rejoin them!

Its interface is intuitive and requires no in-depth documentation to get started.

But although it looks simple at first, it features many specialized options to make the splitting as versatile as possible. MaxSplitter Free Edition is for personal, non-commercial use only.

8. File Splitter Deluxe Software - Split large files (of any type), then easily rejoin without the use of this software. Easily break up large files (no limits, splits any sized file) for copying to floppy or sending via email, as anyone can recreate the original file without having this software. When you split your files, a small software is created in the same folder and can be distributed with your split files, which will allow anyone to recreate the original file, with the original name.

9. KFK is a user friendly file splitter. With it, you can chop large files into smaller chunks. It can help you transferring a large file on floppy disks or a larger file on CD or DVD. Moreover, it allows you to burn the files onto CD/DVD and generate an automatic rebuild file so that KFK is not required to regenerate the original file.

10. Nawras Files Splitter is a free tool helps you split any file into parts in order to make it easier for you when you want to send them over internet or save those files onto CD, Floppy, flash.


There are many others great freeware tools to split larg files, so if you know any other tools that are not on the list i would like to hear your suggestions.

Top 10 Free Windows Applications

Top Ten Windows Applications that are Hard to Live Without

Here i'll review and compile a list of free Windows applications for use in our everyday lives. These free applications will improve your PC and help you carry out the most common tasks easily.

This is my Top 10 Free Applications for every Windows user:

1. Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla's Firefox is an excellent browser, a good replacement for Internet Explorer with a well thought out user interface and impressive speed. The most important benefit of the Firefox web browser is the security in web browsing. This is the main reason for the net users to shift from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Security is the main concern for the software, which communicate with inaccessible computers. This web browser includes many powerful features, like Adblock, which filters out adverts on web pages and FlashGot which manages downloads automatically. Other useful features built into the browser include automatic spell checking on forms, incremental search and live bookmarks. Firefox is being constantly updated, and security fixes are released on a regular basis.

2. CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It 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. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

3. AVG Free Edition

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is trusted antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows available to download for free. In addition, the new included LinkScanner® Active Surf-Shield checks web pages for threats at the only time that matters – when you're about to click that link. It's an award-winning antivirus and antispyware software, Quality proven by 80 million of users and compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is only available for single computer use for home and non commercial use.

4. Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

* Record live audio.
* Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
* Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
* Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
* Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
* And more!

5. VLC Media Player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

6. Open Office

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years' software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software.

7. Picasa

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures, you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, instantly share your images and albums, and even post pictures on your own blog.

8. Spyware Terminator

Millions of users worldwide rely on Spyware Terminator, winner of many awards and high ratings from industry experts and users. Its free comprehensive protection is comparable to competitors' paid versions! Spyware Terminator will scan your computer for known threats and report findings in a manner that is easy to read and interpret. Every entry is given a rating and a classification, which makes it very easy to decide if a detected item should be removed. Unlike some free software titles, Spyware Terminator will remove all threats for free. Spyware Terminator is licensed for free for both home and business use.

9. Desktoptopia

Desktopia is a clever little freeware program that does one thing: changes your desktop background based on a schedule you set. Think of the possibilities, in the morning you can have a nice picture of the sunrising, and at night you can have a full moon. The possibilities are only limited by the desktop backgrounds that you have available to you, though Desktopia does ship with a few backgrounds.

10. YouTube Downloader

YouTube Downloader is software that allows you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats. The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button! It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3. It's compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista.


I hope that you find these applications very useful. I know I do :)

10 Easy Ways to Download YouTube Videos To Your Computer

Download all your favorite videos to your computer. It's never been easier to download youtube videos.

YouTube is the most popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. But they don't have the feature to download these videos, so if you want to download some of your favorite videos from Youtube, but don't know how to do it, than check out this post.

Top 10 tools which help you download YouTube Videos.

1. YouTube Downloader - YouTube Downloader is free software that allows you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats. It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3. Just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button.

2. YouTube Catcher is a free service for downloading YouTube videos and saving them to your PC.

3. Kiss YouTube - Kiss YouTube offers the easiest way for downloading video clips from YouTube. To download and save a YouTube video clip, just add the word “kiss” to the video URL in your browser address bar and hit enter. And then click on the download link provided to save the video to your computer.

4. YouTubeLoader Firefox Plugin - Youtubeloader firefox plugin is a Greasemonkey script, which adds a Download link below the YouTube video.

5. KeepVid - Download and save videos directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, Putfile and more. Simply copy/paste the link of the video that you're going to download and you're done.

6. VideoDownloader is very similar to KeepVid, but supports even more video sharing sites, and it’s also available as a Firefox extension. Just like with KeepVid, all downloads are in .flv format.

7. save2pc is a free tool that downloads videos from Youtube or Google Video and saves it as Avi or Mpeg. No need to use scripts for web browsers. Just run save2pc and start downloading!

8. VidGrab is another simple site that works with YouTube, Google Video, MySpace and Break.com. Besides the download function, the site also sports a top list of most viewed videos.

9. Xilisoft Download YouTube Video - This YouTube video downloader is an easy to use and flexible application that allows you to drag the YouTube URL directly to the program itself. There are multiple options to make your downloading easy: download directly with Internet Explores right-click menu or with the programs own built-in browser. Moreover, multithread and batch processing assures you the fastest download speeds.

10. KCoolOnline - Currently supports 231 video portals including Youtube. It has a basic interface. All that needs to be done is to paste a video url in the form to download the Youtube video. Users who like to download videos from many different video portals might like this as it supports a lot of them.

Top 10 Free CD/DVD burning Softwares

Download free CD and DVD burner software to create and burn audio or data CDs. Burn DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

I've been using Nero all the time and in my opinion it's the best software to write CD and DVD. But there are so many free softwares which help you to do the same. Here is my list of top 10 free burning softwares that you can use in place of Nero.

1. ImgBurn - ImgBurn is probably the best free CD/DVD burning tool available. ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD images including BIN, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI. ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS’s – Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

2. CDBurnerXP - CD Burner XP is a great software. Apart from CDs and DVDs, you can also burn Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs with it. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a Multilanguage interface.
Operating Systems supported- Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista.

3. InfraRecorder - Infra Recorder can burn CD, DVD, Dual Layer DVDs and also supports various audio formats. The audio and data tracks includes .wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso formats. It can erase rewritable discs. Infra Recorder can also burn images in ISO and BIN/CUE formats.It supports multisession writing of discs.

4. Express Burn - Express Burn is a free CD burning program that lets you create and record audio and data CDs under Windows and Mac OS X. This software has a great user friendly interface. To use it all you need to do is drag and drop files. One thing surprises me; well I don’t know how far it’s true; the makers of this software claim that Express Burn is the fastest CD/DVD writing program in the world using proprietary optimizing systems.

5. FinalBurner Free Edition - FinalBurner is one more top free burning software. It can create data, audio and video discs. It can burn CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, and DVD DL. It can also rip Audio CD in .wav, .mp3, .ogg, .mid, .wma, .aac, .mp4, .m4a, .xm, .mod, .s3m, .it, .mtm, .mo3 audio files. FinalBuner can burn Video DVD with formats AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, FLV, etc. FinalBurner can also create an ISO image of a disc.

6. Ultimate CD/DVD Burner - Ultimate CD/DVD Burner is a simple and easy to use CD and DVD burning software package. It supports a very wide range of internal and external (USB 2.0 and FireWire) CD and DVD writers. Burn any data, copy any disc, make backups, create astonishing photo CD albums, make ISO CDs with this very easy to handle software!

7. StarBurn - StarBurn is a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD disc burning software. It's been a long time since I've seen such a good free software. The number of features is quite impressive. You can burn data, audio, video, image discs. You can also grab or compress audio files.

8. Your Free DVD Burner - Your Free DVD Burner is a good one which isn’t much popular. It has some powerful features which is the reason it makes into this list. It can create data DVDs and CDs. It also supports DVD Video. YourFree DVD Burner allows you to create multisession CDs. You can create Bootable CD/DVD discs. It can burn ISO images onto disc. It supports CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD+R disc formats. Rewritable CDs and DVDs can be erased.

9. BurnAware - BurnAware allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning operations: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray (BD-R/BD-RE); create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs; verify the integrity of files; burn your compilations directly on optical media, without having to wait for hard drive staging first and much more.
Operating systems supported- NT, 2000, XP and Vista.

10. Create-Burn ISO Image - Free Create-Burn ISO a good free CD/DVD burner. It can burn CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R/RW, and DVD-R/RW discs. It can also create ISO image for burning CD/DVD. Burn ISO image can also create bootableCDs and DVDs. After burning the disc, Burn ISO Image can verify written data for finding any writing errors. It can erase re-writable CDs and DVDs. It supports Joiet File System, ISO, UDF& ISO/UDF project.


If you know some other good CD/DVD burning software, i would like to hear your suggestions.

The Best Sites to Watch Free TV Online

The Best Places To Watch TV Online for Free. Watch your favourite channels in your PC via online TV.

If you don't have cable at home or TV in you room, or if you have one TV and you can't take your turn to watch your show because of your family (I have that kind of experience LOL), then you should check out this post. I made a list of the best free online TV services I’ve discovered.

1. FreeTube (completely free alternative to cable television that lets you watch tv channels and TV shows online using just your browser).

2. Hiveproductions (lists shoutcast tv streams.)

3. Tape it of the Internet (Over 2,000+ TV shows or 90,000+ episodes, including all the big shows like Lost, Prison Break, etc)

4. Streamic (More then 300 real TV channels to choose from including NBC, ABC, ESPN, BBC1 and many more, organized in categories and ranked by the site users)

5. TVlinks (A directory that amalgamates the most popular tv shows, cartoon & anime series.)

6. PPStream (Sports, movies – all in one please. Just choose a show from the list of available channels)

7. ABC (Watch popular shows like Lost, Desperate Houswives, Alias etc online)

8. PeekVid (Over 700 episodes of popular shows such as 24, Buffy, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy. Shows can be downloaded)

9. PPlive (a popular service for watching many foreign channels)

10. TV-Video (All the latest TV shows as they aired including 24, Smallville, Prison Break, Lost etc)

11. TVU Player (TVU is a nifty little player that offers users a variety of channels that can be used to watch normal TV or Sport. US channels are also found on this player.)

12. Chooseandwatch (It's a free TV portal where you can watch more than 250 online TV channels. Some of them have to be good.)

13. Channelking (Channel King provides the best selection of free Internet TV channels. Free broadband TV channels from around the world enable you to watch TV from anywhere with broadband).


This wasn't enough? Here are some more places where you can watch best channels in your PC via online TV.

TvChannelsFree.com is the largest resource available on the Web for viewing Free Internet Television. Live streaming TV, recorded news, broadband internet TV stations, and video from all over the world. About 2,961 Online TV Channels from 60+ countries in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, The Caribbean, Latin America, Middle East all in one website. You can stream live TV channels from over 60 different countries – starting from popular new channels like BBC, CNN and EuroSports to local channels in United States.

Surfthechannel- Online destination for streaming popular TV content for free. Freely stream TV shows, movies, documentaries, anime shows etc.

Hulu- Hulu is a website that offers free, ad-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, FOX, and others. Hulu provides video in Flash Video format in a higher resolution and bit-rate than YouTube, but lower than standard-definition television, though many films are available in 480p.

ChannelChooser: ChannelChooser is a good place to find many different free web TV channels, all streaming.

wwITv.com: You can find free web TV channels from all over the world here; a great selection.

Miro: Download Miro to watch free internet video channels and play any video file.

Veoh.comp: Watch all kinds of free web TV and more videos at Veoh.com.

Blip.tv: Watch the most popular TV shows over at Blip.tv; lots of free web TV here.

Yahoo TV: Yahoo TV is still really getting going, but you can find a lot of good stuff here, especially trailers and pilots from upcoming TV shows.

AOL in2tv: AOL’s in2tv is one of the best places on the Web to find classic TV shows.

BBC: The BBC has generously placed its news programs online in a free, streaming format.

Newsfilm Library: From the University of South Carolina; this collection hosts a part of the Fox MovieTone collection.

Choose and Watch: Choose and Watch is a free web TV site with literally hundreds of channels to choose from.

Live Online TV: Live Online TV is a good site with many free channel offerings to choose from.

Zap2it.com: You can watch all sorts of free web TV at Zap2it, also includes news and reviews.

Streamick: Streamick has many, many free web TV channels to choose from, but I especially appreciate that it’s so nicely organized into categories.

TVLand: Watch old and new TV shows here at TVLand; I got sucked into an old episode of Little House on the Prairie.

SingingFish: SingingFish is a good place to find all kinds of multimedia. Make sure you take advantage of the advanced search filters.

CurrentTV: not a traditional TV network; this is mostly user-created and submitted free online TV.

FoodNetwork: Don’t have cable, but you need that recipe? No problem – you can watch free web TV demonstrations.

Google Video: Google Video is a good place to find free web TV, however, many of the shows are pay-per-view (you can just go over to YouTube and find them there!).

BeelineTV: Free web TV channels from all around the world.

Yahoo Video Search: Yahoo Video Search is a good place to find music videos, TV show snippets, and more.

RadioFreeWorld: Find free web TV here, as well as free online radio stations.