Youku.com is one of the finest video sharing community that lets user and media partner upload a tad bit longer video clips than YouTube. Of course, the ability to watch whole episodes or clips entices us to download Youku videos onto our desktop.

So how to download YouKu videos? First and foremost — you should know that Youku videos are split in segment i.e., the .FLV files you see on YouKu are actually split into 7 minute video that can get tricky to download. However, I will try my best to list out the best possible ways to save YouKu videos instantly onto your computer. Feel free to share any other methods you are aware of..

Method 1 – Use Internet download manager and Clipnabber

Visit Youku and click on the video you’d like to download. Copy the url of the video (from the browser address bar) and paste it onto Clipnabber (its a online tool to download videos. Check out clipnabber.com). You can instantly download any Youku video now!

Like I said, the videos maybe divided into segment depending on the file size, clip nabber will show all the parts of the video which can be downloaded using any download manager such as Internet download manager. If you’re on firefox, you can download and install add-ons as well.

Method 2 – Download YouKu downloader

If the first method doesn’t work (why wouldn’t it work? Seriously, it does!), or if you want to use the alternate method then download YouKu downloader.

Thankfully, YouKu has their own download manager that can be used for downloading videos right off from their website. All you have to do is visit the video and click on the green downward arrow button to download the Youku download manager.

Although I had a hard time figuring it out on how to download this Youku download manager, but I’d rather suggest trying out the first method which seems pretty easy if you are unable to use the download manager as its in Chinese.

You can read the original blog post here How to Download Videos From Youku instantly.

So, how do add an facebook page on your website or blog sidebar? Here is an quick and easy tutorial to help you avoid intricate situation and instantly add facebook fan pages on your websites.

First of all, you need to create a page from your facebook profile. For example, blogote’s fan page can be found here. You can also become a fan if you like this blog

The benefit of making pages lies in building a community and knowing more about your users. However, I’ve also seen that facebook pages loads quite slower on website compared to other elements (atleast on this website).

There was no easy way to add the facebook pages on website using an facebook profile. In the pages section, you can only manage your existing pages and cannot add them to website. In anyway, for those of you who are looking for information, here is how you can embed facebook fan pages on website..

After playing around for a while, I found out the developer link which can be accessed by clicking here.

Click on Integrate Facebook into your site using Connect and once the window loads you will find various options to connect your site with facebook as shown.

Click on the url that says ’Facebook widgets’ or directly visit this url which displays numerous facebook . Choose fanbox and proceed with the rest of the instruction would take couple of seconds.

You will be provided with the code that needs to be added on your website, once you’re done with that, refresh your webpage and there you’ve facebook fan page embedded to your website

You can read the original blog post here How to Embed Facebook Fan Page on Website/Blogs?.

Converting webpages or a website can be helpful in many ways. If you have a limited internet connectivity or if you don’t have access to internet all the time then you can convert websites to PDF format and carry them with you where ever you want. Webmasters can save there own website to PDF file as a secure backup or share them with others along with the newsletter. With many uses of making a PDF file out of Website webpages, here is the way on how you can convert websites to PDF file, download and spread it easily with this online tool called “PDF Newspaper”.

Basically you need to input the website feeds URL for which, PDF newspaper will convert them into printable PDF files. It will save around 10 articles in PDF file which are pulled from the feed url of the website. You can also include images in PDF file, rest of the option are shown in the screenshot.

It’s easy, quick and provides instant conversion online, so if you have a website then try out PDF newspaper for sharing PDF format of your website with your everyone

You can read the original blog post here How to Convert Website to PDF File And Download it.

.TIF files are also sometimes called as “TIFF” are image format that are of greater resolution as they are in the lossless image encoding form. If you have any aerial photos or images then most probably they are of TIFF image format.

If you want to make panoramic image then you can combine Tiff images together using various methods. If you have images in other format like BMP, JPG, PNG then you can store all of them with TIFF format which is helpful at times.

You can convert TIF to PDF by making use of adobe photoshop or adobe professional software where you can reduce the size of tiff format files. Drag and drop the tiff format files in the adobe photoshop which will create a layer and then you can save them or print the tiff files. And if you are trying to join or print TIFF images as multi-page in the same form then it is not possible with freeware joiner.

For those of you who wants to OCR the tiff files then check out Office Document Image manager or convert TIF files into other format should download freeware irfan viewer.

One of the best solution for combining TIFF images is to change the format of TIF into other forms (you can do this using screen capturing tool or free image converters) and save them again as tiff format.

You can read the original blog post here How to Join Combine TIFF files (TIF Images).

XPS File, as you know is XML Paper Specification from Microsoft build for Windows platform. I’ve already mentioned on how to open XPS file on your browser using free addons and for those of you who wants to convert XPS to PDF file format can look into this method.

Note that there are tons of services available that helps you to convert xps file to pdf format and they charge few bucks. With this method, you don’t have to pay anything online or buy a software or apps just to convert this sleazy Microsoft format.

The best part is, once the file is converted, you can view it as a PDF or again convert the PDF file into .Doc format, that is, If you want your XPS file in the .doc format. So, let’s begin:

How Do We Convert A XPS File?

Firstly, we will download a virtual printer, a free one for now, and use this freeware to make a virtual PDF file out of our XPS file. This method is pretty much straight forward and easy to implement for extracting the PDF form from the XPS file.

Convert XPS to PDF Format

Here is a simple step by step instructions on how you to achieve conversion:

Open XPS file – Firstly, open your XPS file from Microsoft application addon (download) or using XPS addons for Firefox, or with the Internet explorer browser (download)

Free Virtual printer – As we are in need of a virtual printer, you can download a freeware printer called Cute PDF which is another popular printing tool for Windows user. And yeah, if you have any virtual printer already installed, then go ahead and try it out;You can use any of the tool as it is a matter of personal choice.

Converting XPS to PDF – Now open the .XPS file and go to File and Print, select  Cute PDF from printers list and click on Print. When you do this, you will be automatically requested to save the file on to your desktop in a .PDF file extension.

You can again convert PDF to DOC form by using Google docs or other free online service. That’s about it! We finally have a solution to convert XPS into PDF file without having to sweat our guts out!

You can read the original blog post here Convert XPS To PDF File For Free.

Most of us receive calls from telemarketers or other phone calls whose name doesn’t pop up on the mobile screen. Luckily we can find the address and other information by tracing down the phone number.The obvious and most effective way is to make use of Yellowpages book. YellowPages books are printed internationally and some of the website feed the YellowPages information into there database, therefore Reverse Lookup sites are developed.

Reverse Lookup has millions of phone number, to use such service you have to enter the Cell Phone number and you will get the address, other information quickly. This service can be useful to find relevant cell phone numbers without wasting any time.

Any Reverse Cell Phone Number Lookup site

There are a lot of websites based on these Reverse Phone Lookup, Yellowbook.com is a comprehensive engine to lookup for phone numbers but shows results for US phone numbers. If you are residing in non US countries or looking for such international number lookup websites check out these reverse phone lookup sites which I have listed previously. If you know any other Yellowpages lookup websites then pass them through the comments.

You can read the original blog post here YellowPages Reverse Lookup of Phone Numbers.

Windows MSN provides a way to delete hotmail account from the “help” section but after giving a hard search I wasn’t able to find any button to close hotmail account.After a while searching on the internet I found a direct link that will ask for confirmation before deleting hotmail account permanently.

Note that once you delete the account of Live MSN hotmail you will lose the emails and important data, so make sure you think twice before committing any action.

Deleting Hotmail account

Check out the Close hotmail account page to permanently delete your Hotmail account.Also make sure you do not log in to Hotmail for the next 30 days for the account deletion process and if you do then your Hotmail account will be reactivated and emails will be restored again!

Related : Delete Orkut account || Delete Google analytics account

You can read the original blog post here How to Delete Hotmail Account Permanently.

As most of you know about Daily Motion,Veoh,Metacafe are some of the very popular Youtube alternative for watching and sharing videos online.Out of which Metacafe and Veoh allows you to download Videos directly,for youtube we have third party service to save youtube videos or make use of youtube downloader to grab the videos onto your Hard disk.

DailyMotion.com also serves special High Quality [HQ] and High Definition [HD] Video section.If you are the owner of the video with full rights then you can upload each video of 1GB in Dailymotion which is another positive feature.So if you have any of the favorite video uploaded only on Daily motion website then here are some of the easiest ways to freely download these online clips.

Dailymotion video Download using Software

This is a complete freeware software called “Dailymotion Video Downloader” and a nice little utility to download multiple Dailymotion videos.The program is free and also comes with updates if required.You are allowed to download dailymotion videos and also convert them into .avi .mp4 or .flv file format

Dailymotion Downloader 3.11 – Click here (From Soft Pedia )

Online Daily Motion Downloader

I already talked about few services like Zamzar and Clipnabber in “Online Dailymotion downloader” post.In case if you are unable to access those sites then try out Javi Moya (Video Downloader 2.0)

You can convert & download dailymotion videos by entering the video url in their site.They also had a Dailymotion addon for firefox to download videos without any software but currently the extension doesn’t work with latest firefox version.Hopefully these services are enough to get your videos!

You can read the original blog post here How to Download DailyMotion Videos.

Compressing AVI files is one of the way to reduce the file size for maintaining the information intact.After compressing a huge-large .avi file you will have a small sized file (Ex: Video file) which can be burned on a CD, DVD or uploaded on Youtube for sharing with Youtube community.Already we have free softwares to reduce AVI file size and tweak, edit the video files in .avi format, another way to compress avi video is by using default Windows Movie Maker if you are on a Windows platform.

Here are some of the ways discussed to reduce and compress the avi video file size using freeware softwares as well as Windows Movie Maker.

AVI File Compress on Windows [Windows Movie Maker]

This is one of the easiest way to compress .avi file format by making use of Windows Movie Maker which is pre installed on Windows operating system such as Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Choose the avi video you want to compress and Import them to WIndows Movie Maker, save the destination of the new movie file (Avi File) which you are about to compress and finish the easy setup process.For more information on Windows AVI Movie Compressing check out the Youtube video tutorial..

Compress AVI Files on Mac OSX

Currently For Mac OSX we have a nice little application called as Zwei-Stein which is free avi compress software for personal use and has a professional video editing feature along with easy to use interface & good compression ability! You can download Zwei Stein from here! 

If you are searching for a more general methods then make use of DIVX (divx encoder) which is another way to effectively compress huge Avi files with a few steps!

You can read the original blog post here Compress avi Files on Windows and Mac OSX.

Microsoft is known not only for Windows operating system but also for development of extensions which not many of the people are familiar with. Microsoft never tends to stop developing, releasing programs and extensions like DOCX file format, forcing people to download Microsoft 2007, or find a alternative way to open those files!

In this article, we will look at yet another Microsoft extension, named XPS, and we’ll learn more about XPS extension, which is an alternative for PDF format.

What is XPS File Extension

XPS is XML Paper Specification which is used in Windows Printing machine and doesn’t support non Microsoft platforms (Only Windows, before printing you can save the file in “Microsoft XPS Document Writer” and Print it in a Paper format).

Now the problem is “How to open XPS files on your computer ?” If you are on the Windows Vista platform then there is no need to download any plugin or software to open XPS files, double click on the saved XPS file to view the content! This is because both the .NET framework and XPS file viewer is previously installed on Windows Vista.

Related: Convert XPS File to PDF Format.

If you are downloading any Windows  user Manual or Ebook guide then you will find files in XPS and PDF format. Though you can convert xps to pdf files and open them in your PDF viewer but another alternative to open & view XPS files are suggested here (For other platform such as Windows XP or Windows server 2003)

Ways to open XPS files

There are a couple of easy-to-do ways to open and edit XML Paper Specification format files on your Windows-only machine. The way I’d recommend is to use addons which are freely available for both Windows and Mac OS X users.

So, if you want to open files ending with the .XPS extension, here are the most preferable way to do so:

Open XPS File in Firefox browser

If you are not using Internet explorer for some reason and want to open .XPS on Firefox then download this IE tab extension.

Restart the Firefox browser, configure the settings and you are ready to open, read XPS format file without sweating bullets.

Viewing XPS Files on Windows XP

Microsoft provides free XPS reader which is 2.8mb and can be downloaded from here but make sure you have .NET framework installed on your PC! If not you will be asked to download the missing .Net framework.

Open XPS File in Internet Explorer

After opening Internet explorer, click on File, then Open and Choose your .XPS file. Note that you will be asked to open in a new tab to view the file. So, in simple words, yes, you can also set Internet Explorer as the default program to read XPS file!

You can read the original blog post here What is an XPS File and How to Open .XPS File extension.