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Google Toolbar 6 for IE with Quick Search Box

vtech — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:48:27 +0000

Google recently released an update for Google Toolbar for IE and in this release the new significant feature is Google Quick Search Box. The Quick Search Box was previously released for Mac but now, Windows users will be able to make use of this great tool too; thanks to Google Toolbar 6 Beta.

In order to bring up the quick search box, simply click on the Google logo in the taskbar or alternatively you can use Ctrl + Space (shortcut key).

Quick Search Bar for Windows allows users to browse the internet, find relevant bookmarks or open webpages faster than ever. Its functionality is not only limited to those mentioned earlier on but it also allows you to launch Windows applications just by typing in their names.

Quick Search Bar also features the new tab page for Internet Explorer users which gives you thumbnail access to your recently closed tabs, most visited websites and bookmarked pages (similae like in Chrome). This feature can be easily activated from within Toolbar settings menu.

Head over to Google and have it a try.

[tags]Google Toolbar 6, Quick Search Box, Internet Explorer[/tags]

Split YouTube Videos into Smaller Sections with TubeChop

vtech — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:03:07 +0000

Cutting a video into a smaller clip is not really something you would like to endure. Installing special software on your computer, load original video, select from a variety of options and hope things turn out to be OK. Well at least, this is not the problem when we talk about trimming Youtube video.

Tubechop trims a YouTube video into desired clips by going through a simple process. First you need to select video you want to trim. Once the video is selected, click the ‘Chop’ button. You can select the clip you want by dragging the two black sliders that appear under the video to set the desired start and end times.

What's next? Sit back and let TubeChop does its job. Once finished, your desired video will appear with its own link. You even get an embed code so you can share the video on your blog or website.

TubeChop is easy-to-use and you don't have to fill up any registration to use the service. Best of all, it is a web-based service, so no hassle of installing software on your computer. Unfortunately it only works with YouTube at least for the time being. I hope to see TubeChop is capable to chop more videos from other video streaming sites in the future.

Send Video Emails to Your Family with GabMail

vtech — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:30:52 +0000

Do you find it is a trouble to send a video to your family or your friends via email services? Looking for some services specialized in doing that? Well, you just land on the right post where you will learn a service that allows you to send video emails.

GabMail is an easy to use video email service that allows anyone to send, reply and forward a recorded video with an email address. You don’t have to install any additional plugin in order to record your videos. It utilizes Adobe Flash, a common rich-content technology usually installed in most computers. With GabMail you send videos up to 5-minute length.

Here is the great things about this application:

1. It works with any webcam
2. It requires neither registration nor sign up
3. There is no limit of emails you can send daily

What could be an easier way to send a video to your loved ones?

[tags]GabMail, send video emails[/tags]

Check Username Availability for Multiple Sites

vtech — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:24:24 +0000

When we first choose our username to be used for our online presence, we definitely hope that it can be used in other places around the net without having troubles like someone has already used our username. Well, that is a hard job if we are going to cross check them ourselves randomly over at several popular sites.

Username Check is a web service dedicated to perform this specific job for you. It will check your chosen username availability in more than 50 popular websites ranging from email services to social networking sites. In other word it checks most of the popular sites like Blogger, Digg, Ebay, Gmail, ImageShack, Yahoo, Youtube etc. Just key in your desired username into the box and hit the check button and result will come out shortly after that.

Each check will take only a few second (sometimes faster) and in less than a minute, it has already completed the check. Good luck with your quest!

[tags]check username availability, web application, youtube username, Gmail username, blogger username, wordpress username[/tags]

Stream Your Songs from Anywhere with Bluetunes

vtech — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:41:58 +0000

With iPod you can always listen to your favorite songs anywhere you go but what happen to those who don't have the device? Regardless of whether you have it or not, people always find their way to fill up their souls and moods with songs. One of the many ways is by streaming them from the internet. If you have a good collection of songs you may want to upload them to the internet where you can reach them anywhere you are; of course provided you have a computer which connected to the internet.

BlueTunes lets you store your music online and then listen to it from any web-enabled computer. It makes your music collection portable so that it can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

I'm sure it takes a lot of time to build up your music collection and losing them all in a hard disk crash is the worst nightmare ever to everybody. By uploading your songs to BlueTunes, you have already the right thing to salvage your song collection from the unexpected catastrophic event. Along with quality storage space, it also features a very simple, neat music player.

Rest assured, you can safely upload your songs you purchased because it is completely safe with them as they do not share the uploaded songs. Build up your collection online now with BlueTunes and reach your favorite music

Though currently they only support MP3 files we can expect more formats support in the near future.

[tags]Streaming song, BlueTunes, iPod, mp3 streaming[/tags]

Smushit: Optimize Your Image Sizes Online

vtech — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:46:20 +0000

There are number of image editors available online that can be used to make a little adjustment on our pictures like resizing and cropping. Yahoo also comes up with its own image editor, Smushit. Smushit is purposely built to help internet user to optimize web images (in term of size) without adversely affecting the visual quality.

Basically, Smushit reduces the file size of images by reducing the number of colors used, removing excess meta data, and also strip off other non visual data. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images thus resulting in superb optimization without degrading visual quality and their look. After the optimization is completed, a report will be produced to let you know of how many bytes you have actually saved.

Smush.it comes in different flavours:

Upload a bunch of pictures in your browser
Provide it with a list of image URLs
Get a Firefox Extension to optimize the images found on any web page

Now you have plenty of image editor alternatives and Smushit seems to really deliver.

[tags]web application, image editor online, smushit, yahoo's image editor[/tags]