by Sujoy on September 5, 2010
Steve Jobs’ recent keynote at the Apple music event came with a bunch of awesome announcements. Amongst them were the new iPod Nano loaded with a touchscreen, the new iPod Touch with dual cameras and supporting Facetime, as well as the new iPod shuffle which goes back to its body-controls design.
Amongst other announcements, Jobs also announced the opening of the world’s largest Apple store in London. This retail store located very centrally at Covent Garden has been creating waves amongst fanboys and even non Apple fans. It certainly did make it to the news headlines. I made a visit myself this weekend, and so here are a few pictures of the World’s largest Apple store – Covent Garden, London.
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by Sujoy on August 20, 2010
Yes, we have done quite a few YouTube downloading how-tos in the past. Some of them still work, some don’t. The one which continues to work is the ever-updating awesome tool – KeepVid.com. But remember the good ol’ days of the javascript bookmarklet which used to make life so much easier. Well, the bookmarklet is back again.
And it’s called – PwnYouTube. Go drag and drop it on your bookmarks bar just as I did.
PwnYouTube Bookmarklet
Now when you visit a YouTube video, on the page, when you hit the bookmarklet, the menu option appears on top of the screen. Its on a yellow background, so I don’t think you’ll miss it. For your convenience, it looks like this.
Right click, and save as shown. Voila! Easy peasy!
Else, there is another alternative. Just append ‘pwn’ before the youtube video URL.
e.g. To download video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66TuSJo4dZM, enter
http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=66TuSJo4dZM
You’ll be redirected to deturl.com, and there, you’ll find options to download it from SaveVid, YouDDL and KeepVid.
So there you go, happy downloading YouTube videos.
by Sujoy on August 10, 2010
Searching for the perfect wallpaper has never been so easy. Behold Ladies and Gents, here is WALLBASE!
This is an awesome online search tool where you can search for wallpapers based on keywords, colours and tags.
For the totally confused ones, you can go for the Random button.
Also, you can check out the Global Toplist to know which ones are ruling other desktops.
One of the best features I found is the wordpress style Tag Cloud which comes is really handy.
The website says, it has so far 26,592 registered users and more than half a million images. That should definitely keep you busy.
Here is the link [ Wallbase ]
by Sujoy on August 4, 2010
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Google Image search is one of the most visited search engines. Be it searching for normal images we want for a project, or something we want to grace our desktop/laptop as a wallpaper. And more often than not, it is the latter. So, it is quite cumbersome when it comes to searching on Google Images for the appropriate sized – or in other words, wallpaper sized images from the huge list of thumbnails. It is a further pain to sort out by clicking on each of them to verify if they are indeed good looking images in the full size, and if they are not pixelised.
The solution: a Google Image Search hack which allows Full size image results, no thumbnails whatsoever, for your full viewing pleasure. [ as shown in the pic above]
The link is here:
Google Image Ripper » Dear Computer,.
Enter your search keyword, choose your size – which ranges from icon to xxlarge to huge. Press “Rip Google” and voila. Just be prepared to be hit by a massive wall of wallpapers. And just for your viewing pleasure, I’ll attach a massive High Definition wallpaper of Inception. Of course, this one’s a thumbnail, so do click on it to enjoy it in full HD glory. [ The image below might take a while to load ]
