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.
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April 2009
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
YouTube HD for Dummies : Search, Watch, Download
How to Watch and Download HQ videos on Youtube
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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
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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?
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