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What if you just want the audio for the song of your favorite artist to play on your MP3 player? You might say that you’d download the video and then convert them to MP3 using MP3 converters. But there’s an even easier way to download MP3s from Youtube videos. You can extract MP3s from Youtube videos using a new tool by Keepvid.com.
Microsoft Office is by far the best word processing application out there. Microsoft Word has a plethora of options for embellishing your document. Word also lets you write text in a different direction. But do you know that while editing rotated text, the icons for paragraph tools also get rotated?
Foursquare 3.0, the latest version of the ever popular location based service is now available for Blackberry users as well. Foursquare 3.0 for Blackberry can be downloaded from Foursquare’s website.
There are webpages that automatically play animations or videos even before the page has loaded fully. This is annoying to most of us, internet users. Stop Animations can be a boon for Google Chrome users, if they want to get rid of the annoying animations on websites.
With the introduction of Google+ in the social networking scenario, a lot of browser addons and extensions have already been developed. Extensions for having Google+ notifications, quick view etc. are already available for Google Chrome. GTools+ is an extension that may be the perfect tool for Google Plus you’re looking for.
Testing fonts and their combinations on websites is a real hassle for designers. Its not just about aesthetics of a website; web designers also have to carefully select the fonts so that they are readily available in user’s computers. There are various tools for testing font combinations but how about using a simple bookmarklet for it?
iPhone4 has amazing camera and you can shoot 720p video @30fps with it. A Youtube user captured the vibrations of his guitar strings using his iPhone4’s video camera. He placed his iPhone4 in the camera mode inside his guitar and played a tune. Amazingly enough, he could capture the oscillations of the strings very impressively.
If you have become an ardent Google+ user, you might want to post your Google+ updates to Facebook and Twitter. This can be done with a combination of a couple of applications.
With the onset of web fonts, many web designers have started using an assortment of beautiful fonts on websites. Besides the popular and the most widely used fonts, it is really difficult to correctly tell the name of a font. But with Whatfont bookmarklet, you can easily find out what fonts a website is using, including the font size, font weight etc.
RSS readers still are loved by many even though a lot have ditched them for Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools. It would be really handy if you could subscribe to the updates from a Google Plus user using your RSS feed reader. If you want to subscribe to Google+ RSS feeds of a user, you can do it using this tool.
Twitter after its new redesign lets you see shared videos or photos from Youtube, Vimeo, Flickr, Yfrog, Twitpic etc. without leaving the site. Wouldn’t you want a similar functionality on Google+ where you can view a site shared on Google+ without having to leave the page? Quick View for Google Plus is a Chrome Extension that lets you view content shared on Google+ without leaving the website.
Wouldn’t you like to see the photos you have liked or commented on? Pixable is an application that lets you see a timeline of photos you have liked on Facebook.
Google+’s rival numero uno Facebook’s owner Mark Zuckerberg is also on Google+. But you’d be surprised to know that Mark Zuckererg has the highest number of followers on Google+ followed just by Google’s co-owner Larry Page.
Instagram is getting largely popular among iPhone users as a Photo sharing application. Instgram offers lots of photo filters that give a stunning effect to your pictures. Have you ever wondered if you could add Instagram like photo filters to your photos using Photoshop? Well, Daniel Box has created Photoshop actions similar to Instagram filters that you can apply to any photo instantly.
Google is on the endeavor to make improvements to their products all the time. For this, they have added a Feedback button to most of their products whose latest versions have just been introduced. Have you tried out the Feedback button in Google plus or the Cosmic Panda in Youtube? You’ll be amazed after looking at it.
Sometimes we come across some cool bookmarklets that are meant just for fun. Here are some bookmarklets that will destroy the text on any webpage in cool ways. You can also use these bookmarklets to destroy annoying ads on a site.
A new service called Job Change Notifier has been introduced that lets you receive notifications whenever any of your contacts on LinkedIn changes a job.
Youtube has come up with a new experimental redesign that is code named Cosmic Panda. This interface is a whole lot different from the current interface. It looks sleek, clutter free and cleaner. The new Cosmic Panda interface Is elegant and pleasing to the eye.
Facebook thus has lots of pages and applications containing malwares. There are some malwares that create likes on your behalf for pages without your knowing. If you happen to see such pages and videos, you can report them to ESET.
If you have already activated the Preview or Dense Preview versions in Gmail, you must have noticed that there are some extra whitespaces as compared to the earlier themes. Well, many of you may like it but having extra whitespaces along the top and side may not appeal some of you. If you want to have a more compact look with lesser whitespace for Gmail’s Dense Preview theme, you can have it using Stylish or Greasemonkey.