Adding Google Talk chatting Feature to your blog!

It's been a while since I have posted anything new in my blog as I have been busy with my studies,now I have decided to start blogging seriously again.

Google have recently launched a new feature called "Chatback" which when used enables visitors of your blog or website to chat with you.

To use this feature you need to have a google account and a badge on your blog or webpage which looks like the image below,

You can get the Html code for the badge from here just copy and paste the HTML code into your blog, where you want the badge to be displayed and you will be able to chat with your blog visitors when they click on that badge, a web based googletalk gadget will be launched which they can use even when they have navigated away from that page. A good place for the Badge would be in the Contact me section of your blog.

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Save videos from sites like Youtube without the use of any addons.

Update: This trick no longer works with youtube as youtube videos are now stored in the system temp folder and not the browsers cache, copying a file from the temp folder is not possible. It Still works for other video sites.

How to save videos from sites like Youtube,Google video,Metacafe,Dailymotion,Yahoo videos and Sharkle without any additional addon's to your browser or through online services?

The best way to save embeded video's without using any online service or browser extension(addons) is to extract them from your browser cache (the temporary storage of your browser) where they are stored when you access them through your browser ,this method works for most browsers and embedded content not just the videos, flash content like games can also be saved by this method.

Looking at the Post you may think that the procedure is very lengthy but I assure you once you know the steps it's just a few clicks.

1. The first step you need to take is to find where the browsers cache is located on your computer,it would placed deep down in your systems folder tree structure, for Instance here is the path for the location of the browsers cache on my computer C:\Documents and Settings\*your username*\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\0jevq2wn.default\Cache make sure that you have the show hidden folders option enabled because the folder would normally be hidden, the best way to get to it is to type "local settings" in Run without the quotes, click on OK and follow the rest of the path as shwon in the above example, you will be not able to see the application data folder if you don't have the show hidden folders option enabled.

Here is a Screen capture of my Firefox Browsers Cache



2. As you can see in the above snap shot of my cache there are no recognizable file extensions to the files present in the cache,You need to look for a recent file which is of several mb's as most videos would be, save it to a different location on your computer and rename it with a file extension of .flv at the end of the file name, you can now enjoy the saved video in any player which supports flv(flash video) like the FLV Player or VLC Player.

**Do not close the browser window until you have saved the video because as soon as you close the window the file would be wiped off from the browsers cache in most cases.**

For Opera users the browsers cache should be located in a location similar to the one shown here C:\Documents and Settings\*your user name*\Application Data\Opera\opera\profile\cache4

For Internet Explorer users the browsers cache should be located in a location similar to the one shown here :C:\Documents and Settings\*your user name*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

Note: These files are normally hidden, you need to enable the Option of show hidden files and folders to be able to see them.

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Do you search for free wallpapers, ringtones for your mobile, wordpress/blogger skins

Do you search for free wallpapers, ringtones for your mobile, wordpress/blogger skins, music or free software, widgets for your blogs, If your answer is Yes than the following tip will be greatly helpful for finding quality stuff for Free.

No matter what you are searching for if you use the word free in the search string you will be bombarded with spam in your search results. why waste your precious time searching for them when you can find them ready for you to be consumed.

There are a lot of social bookmarking sites like Digg.com,stumbleupon.com, del.icio.us, clipmarks.com, slashdot.com on the web where you can find the best websites which offer quality free stuff reviwed and ranked by the users, all you need to do is to point Google to search those sites for you.

you can acheive that by using the special operator "site", here is what you have to type in the search bar:

site:digg.com free "wallpapers"
site:del.icio.us free "ringtones"

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