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
Here’s an interesting hack on your Windows XP 3d Pinball game. (If you are one of those few remaining who are stuck with these time killers) So, when the game gets loaded, type the words “Hidden Test”.
It still seems all normal, until you grab your mouse. Click the mouse on the pinball machine and drag it all around. The pinball will now follow your mouse direction wherever it goes. Pretty cool huh!
Now check this out, press H key and see what you get. It pops the high score table with an entry of a Billion and you can remain as high scorer forever.
Lastly, press the R key to increase your rank in the game.
Happy pinballing!!! And as “the Who” said, “Sure plays a mean pinball”
Okay, now it is official that there are at least a good 8 Million Firefox 3 users (as of June 17) and counting. (The number is being quoted as per the Firefox Download day figures available here) So proud to see India in the 500K plus region. And nothing can be better when your favorite browser wants to get cozy with your favorite mail.
Now this is a very basic tip that involves editing values in the Registry. So, if you are not game enough to play with the Registry, I’d suggest stay out. But if you are willing to have a faster shutdown, read on. Go to Run [ Windows +r, or start Menu ,Run]. And then, type ‘regedit’ ( withouth the quotes) to go to the registry editor.
Now go and expand the explorer folder that reads :HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Next go to the tree structure to its child elements to SYSTEM, and then CURRENTCONTROLSET and inside it select Control.
[In case you didn't follow that, the entire path is :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CURRENTCONTROLSET/Control]
Now on the right side, you will see a file called WaitToKillServiceTimeOut. By default, the value set for it is 20,000. To accelerate the shutdown speed change it to something smaller than 20,000. May be 1000 or any number dear to you. And voila! Jobs done and you will sure notice the difference.
But yeah, please try it at your own risk, and do know how to undo it, incase the shutdown speed is a bit too fast for your taste.
Yes, you read that right. And that is possible. Any type of file, any extension, any number and any size can be secretly embedded in a JPEG image. We’ll show you how. So, how will it be when it is embedded? The image will still exist and will show the properties of the original image file. As in, you’ll be able to view the image as well as view its thumbnail etc. The only difference is in the shell menu , where you’ll be having an extra option to Extract your JPG file which will extract the hidden files in the JPG. Here’s how to do it.
Now, first have your secret files ready. Whatever you want to hide in that one random picture. Select all of them and zip them using a normal archiving software like Winzip, Winrar etc. Once that is done, let’s say the archive file is Secret.rar, and the JPG file is Normal.JPG in which the files are to be hidden. Keep them in a single folder. Now go to the Run prompt (Windows +R) and type cmd to go to the command prompt. Change the directory to go the folder where you have the archive file and the JPG image. (You know how to do that, right?)
So we are here now. Type the following command. Say we are in a folder “2hide” in the C: drive. So the command would be:
C:\2hide> COPY /B <image name> + <archive> <new filename JPG image>
e.g. here it would be, C:\2hide> COPY /B Normal.jpg + Secret.rar newNormal.jpg
And press enter. We are done with the command prompt so type exit to say goodbye. Now you can go ahead and delete the original files, except for the newly formed Image. Right click on it , and you’ll now get the option of extracting it. Extract the image to get the hidden files. Of course, you can go to higher levels of hiding by walking the extra mile of compressing over and over again with different extensions and then adding it to the image. Or even, deleting the initial bytes from the header in a Hex editor. But do remember to save the deleted line in a notepad and save it in a safe place. 
So, how was that?
