Technology Bites

Following are some useful tools which enable you to download videos from popular sites like Youtube, Dailymotion etc., and convert them to MP3.

Web based tools

1. vixy.net – vixy.net is an online FLV conversion service. It enables you to convert a Flash Video/FLV file from any site into AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP or MP3 format. It uses the compressed domain transcoder technology to convert your FLV files.

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Caching is a technique that can improve the performance of your web page by transparently storing data such that future requests for that data can be served faster. Caching your WordPress blog can effectively optimize the performance of your blog even during high traffic peaks.

When caching is enabled on your blog, only the first visitor goes through the series of processes such as processing of PHP code, making calls to the database and finally displaying the HTML output. The final output is saved as a static file and is used to serve subsequent requests. This improves the page loading time significantly and also reduces the server load.

There are a lot of caching plugins available for WordPress. Below are some of the most effective caching plugins for WordPress. Read more

Today Microsoft released the new version of its productivity suite Office 2010, and is available for purchase at 35,000 retail stores and at several online retail stores including Amazon.com
Office 2010 suite was announced last year and the beta version has been downloaded 9 million times. Office 2010 includes some interesting features across the applications. Microsoft also released web versions of these applications in US, UK, Ireland and Canada. Using these applications users can view, edit and share Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote documents from the web interface via SkyDrive. Read more

Search is taking quite a spin around with real-time search results, various experiments with navigation through search results, the type of results like maps, relevant videos and local results are playing a key role. Google experiments with its navigation through search results to provide the best user experience and faster load time. You might be aware of the fact that Google has recently redesigned their search results navigation options, giving it a much simpler and elegant look and feel. Read more

Google Buzz, is a trending way to share information with your friends on the web. With the craze for Google Buzz, many applications, utilities, and plugins are being developed. If your blog is based on WordPress, to help you quickly and easily integrate Google Buzz, following are a selection of some of the best Google Buzz plugins. Read more

Laptops are among the most commonly used gadgets these days. Laptops are commonly used to store all kinds of information – right from multimedia to personal and confidential information like passwords, credit card information and more. A stolen laptop can really be a disaster! So, what are the possible ways to track a laptop, when stolen?

There are many ways to track a stolen laptop. Some cost you whereas, some are free. Some of the effective software for this purpose are – LAlarm, Prey and Adeona.
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Safari, available on both the Mac and Windows, is one of the best browsers. Lot of people prefer Safari for its speed, look and feel and standards support. Like Firefox, you can add plugins to Safari to further customize your browser based on your needs. Following are a selection of some of the best add-ons for the Safari browser.
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Initially Google Chrome didn’t spread it’s magic as the best browser due to it’s lack of support for third party plug-ins and extensions. But, Firefox has got a great support for add-ons and were at helm. This lead developers at Google to add few extra features to Google Chrome and hence extensions were introduced to provide a wide array of features.
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There are plethora of free media players available on the web sporting a wide range of features. While iTunes, Windows Media player, Winamp and alike are well-known, in this article, I’m compiling some of the interesting and free media players with a brief overview of their features. This list is going to be exciting, and we would love to see reactions from you about your favorite media player.
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There are thousands of intriguing Twitter based web sites and applications which enable Twitter users to keep track of latest trends on Twitter, share files, check updates from followers, celebrity tweets and more. It’s hard to identify the best of the Twitter based services with the plethora of services available. To make it easier and convenient for you, here, we are composing some of the best Twitter based services.
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