How to watch YouTube videos in slow motion

March 21, 2011 0 comments

Several times many of my friends and blog readers have asked – Is there a way to watch YouTube videos in slow motion? And my answer has been – No, unless you download the video and play it with a video player that offers playing in slow motion. But with YouTube adding support for HTML5 [...]

How to stop YouTube videos from downloading in the background

January 4, 2011 0 comments

When you are playing a YouTube video and want to stop it what do you do? You click on the pause button. Well, there really is no Stop button in the YouTube player. But the problem is that when you pause the video, the video keeps downloading in the background. This is fine and quite [...]

Leanback – Play a continuous stream of YouTube videos

December 31, 2010 0 comments

Leanback (http://www.youtube.com/leanback) is a service from YouTube that lets you watch a continuous stream of videos without you having to play them individually. Leanback is perfectly suited for watching youtube videos on televisions that are internet enabled. When the HD version of a video is available leanback will play that. The controls are very easy [...]

Troubleshooting ‘No Audio’ from the front panel of a desktop computer

February 6, 2010 5 comments

Recently I purchased an assembled desktop pc from a known vendor. On testing, everything worked fine, except that when I connected a headphone to the audio output panel on the front of the cabinet, I did not receive the audio. After the basic checks I concluded that there indeed was a problem. So I called [...]

Find related images with Google

October 25, 2009 1 comment

Google is a great source to search for images. But sometimes when you are searching for a particular image, you find an image that is related to what you are looking for but not exactly the one you are looking for. However, Googles new labs feature called similar images, which you can find at similar-images.googlelabs.com, [...]

How to rotate videos in VLC player

July 8, 2009 12 comments

Sometimes you come across videos that have been shot at an angle. This mostly happens with videos that have been shot with mobile phones. You find that the video is turned to one side at 90 deg and to watch it on your computer monitor you need to tilt your head. Watch the video for [...]

How to fix a corrupt iTunes File

June 20, 2009 0 comments

If you download a lot of files on iTunes, particularly videos, eventually you’re bound to get a corrupt file that can’t finish downloading. As a fix, iTunes might prompt you to “Check for Available Downloads” under the Store menu, but chances are this will only re-download the corrupt file leaving you with something you paid [...]

Watching YouTube videos in High Quality mode

May 9, 2009 1 comment

If you are a regular watcher of youtube videos you must be already aware that many of the videos are available in two modes, normal and high quality and depending on your internet speed you could choose to watch the video in the preferred mode. By default a video loads up in either normal quality [...]

How to convert YouTube videos to mp3/wmv/mp4/flv

April 29, 2009 1 comment

There are several online and offline tools to download YouTube videos. But Tubetilla goes a step further. Tubetilla downloads YouTube videos and converts them to popular formats in one single step .

Handbrake – Converts almost any video format

March 21, 2009 1 comment

Got a DVD that you want to turn into a friendly format so that you can store it on your hard disk, make a backup to disc, or play on a mobile device? Then you’ll want HandBrake. HandBrake is a video transcoder that takes your movies and transfers them to a format that’s useful on [...]

Snapter Ice – Use your digital camera as a mobile scanner

January 19, 2009 0 comments

There are occasions when we need to take a copy of a document or a book but we don’t have a scanner in hand. However, if we have a digital camera, we could take a snap of the document which can work as an emergency replacement for a scanner. But the image shot using a [...]

Volumouse – Easily control sound volume using a wheel mouse

August 13, 2008 3 comments

Volumouse is a free utility that lets you quickly and easily control the sound volume on your computer by simply rolling the wheel of your mouse. This can be much more convenient than finding the sound volume icon in the system tray, clicking on the sound icon, and then adjusting the volume.

Learn and teach things quickly with 5min videos

July 27, 2008 0 comments

The best way to learn something is by doing it. But when you don’t know how to do it at all, then next best way is watching how it is done. There are several websites on the web that host video contents. But when it comes to video tutorials I would recommend 5min.com. All the [...]

Zune – How to get the resume option working for any audio file

July 24, 2008 0 comments

It was only a few days back that I first laid my hands on a 8GB Microsoft Zune. This is my first post relating Zune. As I use it more, I may write more post on it. Ok, here we go.

FlickrSLiDR – Easily embed Flickr slideshows on your website or blog

May 29, 2008 0 comments

Wouldn’t it be nice if instead of inserting several photos from Flickr in your blog, you could embed a single slideshow that displays all the photos? FlickrSlidr lets you do just that. FlickSlidr allows you to easily embed flickr slideshows on your website or blog.

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