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Posted on Friday, 27th June 2008 by Indus

While viewing Youtube videos on Youtube website, your url looks like this,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkRilZdL14
Just append &fmt=18 to the url and press enter.Now the url will become like this,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkRilZdL14&fmt=18
The video will load in high clarity, will take more time to load, but clarity will be very good.

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Posted on Friday, 27th June 2008 by Indus

Downloading using Torrents:Step 1: Get the torrent file , this is the file with the .torrent extension and it contains information about where the files are on the torrent network. (for ex, torrentz.com is a worldwide tracker, tamiltorrents.net is a website for tamil stuff)Step 2: Get a torrent client ( Bitspirit is one nice client)Step [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 26th June 2008 by Indus

Many applications in languages like PHP and frameworks like AJAX require the use of a local webserver to test and debug applications.IIS can be used in Windows, but, PHP and mySQL needs to be installed separately for IIS.As an alternative, WampServer can be used.

WAMP = Web server + PHP + mySQLWamp can be downloaded from [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 26th June 2008 by Indus

Most of the vista users complain about the confirmation prompts like “Windows need your permission to continue” or “Are you sure you want to do that”?. Such prompts are not just to annoy Vista users, they are in place to prevent any system process from performing any malicious activity, like preventing viruses.Anyway, most users would [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 26th June 2008 by Indus

There are sites that offer to provide downloadable video links for Youtube videos, but their problem is that Youtube videos are downloaded in FLV format and its not playable by usual media players and require FLV players. Not to mention that FLV format is not playable on DVD players, mobile phones etc.
So, the best option [...]

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