Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

May 4th, 2008

An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In fact, to download the MP4 files, you need to use the same URL like for FLV files and append “&fmt=18″:

http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=ID&t=SIGNATURE&fmt=18

ID is the video’s identification value, SIGNATURE is a value that prevents you from downloading the file just by knowing the ID. You could create this URL by looking at the source code of a YouTube page, but it’s much easier to automatically generate it.

Change Windows Vista System Restore Disk Space Usage

April 15th, 2008

Problem with Windows Vista is, there’s is no easy way to change the disk space usage for it’s System Restore. Here’s how you can easily change Windows Vista system restore disk space usage by a small batch file.


Just resize the storage space limit by entering the resize amount in MB :)

Download

Details from an accepted iPhone dev program member (with screenshots)

March 21st, 2008

Developer Ashutosh Chaturvedi is one of the few coders who has actually been accepted into Apple’s $99 iPhone Developer program. The program allows access to pre-release iPhone software (including the OS 2.0 beta); technical support; the ability to get code onto iPhones for testing; and distribution of applications via the new App Store.

Ashutosh posted a series of Apple documents, explaining the program, to his blog. Among the salient details:

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Beta!

March 20th, 2008

Download Links..

How to hide any webpage’s images using PHP/CSS..

March 19th, 2008

Yesteray I was configuring an web interface of our blog for the apple iphone’s Safari browser (MobileSafari.app),and I
figured out that it would be much better if it’s possible to hide posts’ images from the whole page, so I thought of the
easiest ways to achieve that and I’d like to share these ideas with you..

Codes I’ve used are CSS, but there are also XHTML/Javascript codes that would help you to but that’s in case you are using
PHP to require loading the script or using “echo”, anyway lets get started..

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Released!

March 19th, 2008

Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. For those of you eager to receive the benefits of Windows Vista SP1 - you can now do so! We’ve seen quite a bit of questions in our comments so we want to communicate as much as possible surrounding Windows Vista SP1 and today’s release to Windows Update as we can.

Improv Everywhere. Organized Fun!

March 19th, 2008

Few weeks ago i watched a video that showed a group of +200 people, who posed frozen in grand central in USA for 5 minutes.. just for fun. People passing by were confused as there was alot of poeple in random places frozen in place, then some of them started laughing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo

After that, i randomly found some funny pics, showing a couple of people taking their huge Desktop PC in a travel bag into Starbucks, setting it up like if it was a notebook, and sitting down and enjoying surfing starbuck’s default wifi website.