Saturday, July 26, 2008

Easy Way To Download Videos From Google, YouTube, etc


Have you ever faced problems downloading videos from sites like Google, YouTube, IFilm, Metacafe, etc ? If you did then you have come at the right place. I just came across a great site which allows you to download such videos with ease.
All you need to do is, first go to keepvid.com then,

1. Choose the site you want to download from.
2. Copy the link of the page with the video on it and paste it in the textbox.
3. If you download an flv file, you need an FLV player.

Find The Best Media Over Internet By Yahoo! Player



Yahoo! Player makes it easy to find and play the best MP3s, videos, and radio stations available on the Internet.
Yahoo! Player also features "skins" available from Yahoo!'s Web Site, a CD-lookup service that automatically finds and displays the title, artist, and song titles of the current CD, easy-to-configure preset buttons so you can play your favorite streams or files with one click, a built-in web browser used to locate the latest music news, interviews, free music downloads, radio stations, and videos.
Requires MS-Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, MS Windows Media Player, Sound Card, Speakers, P200 MHz Processor, 800x600 16-bit color display or better.
Yahoo! Player supports AIFF, AU, CD Audio, Indeo Video, Microsoft Video, MPEG, MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media.Download from here.

Enable Right Click On Sites That Disable it

These days lots of websites disable right clicking function of the mouse button. It's really, really annoying. This is done so that you don't steal (via right-click->save picture) their photos or images or any other goodies. Unfortunately, it disables all right-click functionality: copy, paste, open in new window.But here's a trick to bypass that. But sadly it only works in Internet Explorer:

Follow these steps:

1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Go to "Tools"->"Internet Options".

3. Click on the "Security" tab.

4. Then click on "Custom Level".

5. Scroll down to the "Scripting" section.

6. Now set "Active Scripting" to "Disable".

7. Now a dialog box will appear. Click yes to confirm the change.

8. Click "OK" and close the tools window.

Note: If this tweak causes some problem while surfing some sites, you'll have to turn that setting back to "Enable". This is because generally javascripts enhances a website.

Download Videos Online

Download Videos Online (Supports "YouTube, Google Video, and Break.com")


If you want to download some useful tool tutorial video or any useful stuff video from YouTube, etc...You can simply download it from below mentioned site instead getting n installing softwares to do so.
When the download link shows, You should right-click -> "Save Target As" OR copy and paste the link into your download manager.
Note: You must change the file extension to .flv
From the above mentioned site, you can get FLV Player as well to Play the downloaded video.

Monday, July 21, 2008

How to restrict user's to access shutdown button?

This tip is very interesting for home and some small office users, who wants to restrict user's ability to shutdown their computer. You can hide the Shutdown button from the Start menu using registry editor and also restrict access to shutdown, if a user clicks on Ctrl+Alt+Del.

Follow the given steps to hide system shutdown button from start menu:

  • To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
  • Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.
  • Here locate the location to:
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer
  1. Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value with name NoClose.
  2. Now assign number 1 to its value data box.
  3. Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.
  4. But next time, if you want to unhide the shutdown button then simply change the value data box to 0 or delete this DWORD item.
  5. Again close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Control the CD-ROM Autorun Function (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Control the CD-ROM Autorun Function (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Normally when you insert a disc into your CD-ROM drive, the contents are automatically launched. This tweak allows you to disable this behavior. Open your registry and find the key below. Change to value of 'Autorun', or create a new DWORD value if it doesn't already exist, and set the data to equal '0' for Autorun disabled. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect. Note: This method disables automatically running CD-ROMs. If you want to disable automatically running CD-ROMs depending on the CD-ROM that you insert in the CD-ROM drive, you can press and hold down one of the SHIFT key while you insert the CD-ROM.

Below are its setting in Registry:

System Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom]

Name:
AutorunType:
REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)Value: (0=disable,
1=enable)


No Right Click script

No Selection Script