Google celebrates the birthday of Samuel Morse, the father of “Morse code”. The homepage on Google.com page has been changed and looks like the screenshot below.
To know more on Samuel Morse, please visit the Wikipedia page here.
I know, I have done a lot of posts on YouTube video Downloads so far. Javascripts, and old favorites like Keepvid. But this new tool is fast becoming my favorite. I don’t feel the need to go back to Keepvid anymore. Because KeepHD is the one stop shop which fulfills all my YouTube needs.
a) It supports HD video download as well. Yes, just copy the URL and paste it in the address bar on the KeepHD page. And voila!! Your video can be downloaded in FLV Low Quality, 3GP Mobile video, MP4 High quality or HD.
b) Second best thing, the address bar gets auto-deleted when you click on it. So, once you are done downloading your previous video and before pasting the next URL, there is no need to select the previous URL and delete it. So you have two steps of redundant work eliminated. Also, to download a YouTube video whose URL is say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXENO12nw28 (Hary Hill’s TV Burp), you can just paste the highlighted portion after keephd.com. So this would look like http://keephd.com/watch?v=CXENO12nw28, and the download options page would be displayed.
c) Best feature as yet, you can download videos which are not available in your region. You do get frustrated when you can’t view certain videos on YouTube due to area restrictions. Just download them via KeepHD and view them offline. And especially with the new TV Shows and Movies added on YouTube, KeepHD will surely become one of the favorite internet services available. Happy Downloading!
Related YouTube posts:
How To Download HD videos from YouTube
No need to download Powerpoint slides before viewing them. GMail now has an inbuilt Powerpoint viewer. Also, TIFF support has been enabled. GMail’s Blogpost reports that the new Web-Based viewer has been upgraded with the support of viewing these two document formats. Ok,ok! we know that GMail previously did have Slideshow viewing enabled.
But with this new upgrade, the functions that are included are Copy/Paste, Zoom in/out, Print to PDF, and above all it no longers Flash. Yayy. So, if you have a Powerpoint or a TIFF in your inbox, and click on view, it would be shown in a new browser tab. The browser tab would offer thumbnail views, multiple slides per page, and even an online editing function (of course, that would happen on Google Docs). So, there you go; no more unnecessary downloads unless you are really impressed by a presentation. For all those who don’t cut it, their life doesn’t reach your hard-drive.
Also read: View PowerPoint and TIFF files in your Browser using Gmail
GMail Labs’ new feature enables a new luxury in your inbox. Coming to your inbox is Suggestive recipient listing. This feature will suggest your recipients on the basis of your frequency of your mailing to them. Does it mean, your mailing behaviour is being monitored?
The Official GMail Blogpost tell us that, once you enable this Lab setting, when you compose a message to your dad and mum, it would also suggest you to add your sis to the sending list. But, the criteria here for suggestion, is the entry of a minimum of two contacts.
More thoughts on it:
a) No suggestions on the Bcc text space.
b) Only works with the frequently mailed contacts. Suggestion doesn’t work if mail is being written to a contact to whom I don’t mail often.
c) One bug suggested by Alkarex, is that if the contact recipient name includes an ampersand (&), then when it is in the list of suggested recipient, it is double escaped and appears as &
What did you think of this new Lab feature in GMail?
Innovation is thy name GMail. The new features to be introduced on GMail Labs this time are Sender Time Zone and Image insert in Mail. Let’s deal with them one by one.
1. Sender Time Zone:
In a livewire world where most users are using mail 24/7 and across the world, travelling across different time zones, time zone recognition for mail will definitely make life much easier. SO, the new feature on GMail : Sender Time Zone will do exactly that. It has two features:-
a) Show if it is the sender’s office hours currently (i.e. 9 am to 6 pm in the sender’s time zone)
b) On clicking details, it will show the Sender’s Time Zone, and when the mail was sent. [ via. GMail Blog]
2. Insert Image:
Lemme begin with Yayyyyy!!!! It sounds exactly like it is. You can now insert images in the post. No workaround required. Enable in Labs (Setting–> Labs) and voila. Users who trust your content can view them straight away, else, have to use the ‘Display Images Below’ setting to display the embedded images. Easy peasy!!! [ via GMail Blog]
**10 reasons why I still Love GMail**
Today is the 5th birthday of GMail. I have been using since 2005, that’s a good 4 years of it. Yes, right from the invite only days. Those were the days, when GMail account invites were being auctioned on eBay, and if you were in the club, it was Elite. From 2004 till today, GMail has come a long way. Here is a top 10 list of what we still love about GMail, and why we keep coming back to it.
1. The self-complete contact on the To-address list, which everyone else is now copying.
2. Fast loading Inbox, faster than the fastest inbox loader out there.
3. IMAP, POP
4. Labs for GMail- from editing Chat windows, to themes, to Color settings
5. Chat within the Inbox. Video-Chat within the Inbox..with Widescreen window.
6. Contacts-Quick edits, pictures for Contacts, and status messages.
7. Loadsa Space…yes and counting. Started with 1 gig inbox, now 7 gigs and more
8. Attachment Size. No body allows 25MB still.
9. One account, multiple uses. Picasa, Orkut, Groups, Docs, Blogger et al.
10. And finally, Labels. Multiple Labels for single mail. And totally searchable.
So, what are your top 10 reasons for loving GMail still. Are they different from mine?
[Image courtesy: GMail Blog]
Yes, this is just a Time-Waster for all who just have way too much time to watch videos in a vertically flipped window. Yeah true, that sometimes you would like to see the videos from a Danny Boyle-esque perspective and you want to flip your cameras. But for the time being, flipping of YouTube videos would have to be your solace. To do this, just add the code:&flip=1 after the video url, and voila, your entire Youtube window gets upside down, even to the text level. Have a look at the screen below.
The above video is a Jimmy Kimmel Live show video courtesy: JimmyKimmelLive The url to this video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQs1AxCkQo, and when it is changed to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQs1AxCkQo&flip=1 , the above flipped version is shown. The position of the comments do not change; they are below the video, but the tabs for the share, playlist, flag etc are shown on the botton border of the video. Nice fun to surprise your friends. Cheers!
