3outube Downloads YouTube Files With a Single URL Change

3outube Downloads YouTube Files With a Single URL Change

You’ve found a great set of bloopers, and want to download them for future screenings. If you change the “Y” in the youtube.com address to “3,” 3outube provides links for downloading that video in MP4 or FLV formats.

That’s all there is to it, really—any YouTube video you want to download, just click on the YouTube logo in the lower-right corner of an embedded clip to get to the main YouTube page, then change the “Y” in YouTube.com to “3.” Neat stuff, and it worked on all five of the test clips I sent its way.

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Black Wednesday

Black Wednesday

It’s happened again.

Yet another friend from work’s passed away.  And yet again I find myself writing about someone I’ve known for many years.  Four in this case.

Chris Fenton was known by all as “Sonic” due to an unfortunate incident in early SpinVox history when he brought down the office network from a Sonic Firewall misconfiguration. :-)

In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth, and spleen about thee, That there's no living with thee, nor without thee. - Joseph Addison

Sonic was a mysterious character and certainly “unique”.  A tireless worker.  A technical genius far exceeding me.  A right bastard sometimes but always funny as hell.

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him; and, on the other hand, it would portray a sorry want of faith to distrust a friend because he laughs at you. Few men, I believe, are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare

A lover of music and for some odd reason – cheese.

This was a winning picture of a caption competition we had in the IT department.

And some day, a mighty fine dancer. ;-)

I’ll leave this post with something Chris had been working on for around a year.  On IRC at work he would regularly change the topic and with all the recent events in the company, he decided to end the story.  This was the last one:

Mahabharat Episode 72. Sonic is the last to go. Smiling fondly, he touches the last side of the cube still lit, and disappears from the temple. As to the location of the snowy path he finds himself on, the identity of the young woman beside him, or where he’s headed, the epic of Mahabharat does not tell…

Journey well my friend.  You’ll be missed.

Source and Destination? I'll get back to you on that sir.

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My Thoughts on ChromeOS

My Thoughts on ChromeOS

Linkedln Comment on Linux Experts group

Copied my post from the Linux Experts group on Linkedln.

It was in response to the question: “What do you think of ChromeOS?”

You can click on the image to read the whole conversation but you may need to be in the group…

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Upcoming features in Wordpress 2.9

Upcoming features in Wordpress 2.9

Very interesting article on Yoast about the new features coming up in Wordpress 2.9 – a beta of which is powering this blog now.

http://yoast.com/wordpress-2-9-geeky-bits/

And from reading the comments, I decided to give W3 Total Cache a try instead of WP Super Cache.  :-)    It’s looking good so far.

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I'm a Firefox Extension Developer I am

I’m a Firefox Extension Developer I am

Chromifox Extreme Green StatsOne month on and my theme’s gone from strength to strength.  It finally got approved yesterday by the reviewing staff at Mozilla.  Once it’s was out of the sandbox as they call it, downloads increased by 600%.

Look at this:

Chromifox Extreme Green Stats

Now I just need to stop irritating bastards filing emotive wild bug reports that seem to stem from the fact they run weird extensions on top of nightly firefox builds…  :-)

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