Author: Deepak Jain

Deepak Jain is passionate about technology and mobile phones. He is the founder & executive editor at Mobile Gyaan and Editor-at-Large of this blog.

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Most Easiest Way to Download YouTube Videos

In one of my recent post, I mentioned that YouTube may soon roll the option to download videos officially just by a single click. Infact the option is made available on some of the existing videos too, but till the option is rolled out to all the videos, just keep using the most easiest, simplest and best way to download YouTube videos that I am writing in this post.

  1. Open any videos in YouTube
  2. As directed on the image below, prefix ‘PWN’ in front of ‘YouTube’ in the URL
     
    Incase you are an Indian YouTube user, you need to remove ‘.in’ from the URL
    For ex. http://www.in.youtube.com/xxxx will become http://www.pwnyoutube.com/xxxx
  3. Get links to download the video.

That’s it! Simply by prefixing ‘PWN’ in front of ‘YouTube’ in the URL will help you download the desired video. Isn’t it too simple way?

Related Reading: YouTube may soon roll Video Download Option

(Via KidTechGuru)

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News

Airtel says hello to IPTV; Launched in New Delhi

One of the most talked and awaited feature that were creating lots of rumors around the air about launch of Internet Protocol based Telephony (IPTV) services by Airtel has finally come true! Airtel have announced the launch of Internet Protocol based telephones a few days ago. As per the officials of Bharti Airtel, initially the service has been launched in the capital city of India – New Delhi and phase wise they will be rolling out this service to many other towns and city of the country.

Technically this service is called Triple Play which will be providing 3-in-1 facility of Internet, Television & Telephony services on a single cable line. Presently, this service comes with 2 exciting plans.

While talking about the services, one of the official says:

Airtel’s IPTV Headed, with best-in-class MPEG4-10 compression technology, will allow it to offer more content and better quality images as well as services like live broadcast television, network based time-shifted TV, real video-on-demand and a host of other interactive services.

With the launch of such 3-in-1 services we will have to wait and watch about the future of DTH services in India.

(Via Tech2)

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T-Mobile’s G1 Tweaked for Multi-Touch Support!

Since having a glimpse on the multi touch feature in Apple’s i-phone, every mobile phone user wanted to see this feature on their Nokia or other branded mobiles too. iPhone was hyped in around the world just because the unique multi-touch feature in it. People just went crazy to have a look and feel on this innovative feature in Apple’s iPhone.

Though multi-touch feature is yet to be announced officially by any other mobile handset manufacturers in the world, but the latest Android OS based T-mobile’s G1 has been tweaked by a software developer for multi-touch support atleast while using GPS and other specified apps.

To make multi-touch feature working on G1, the developer has patched the kernels and flashed the firmware. The developer has posted a detailed guide and a tutorial on how to tweak your G1 to enable multi-touch in it.

Link: Tutorial to enable Multi-Touch on T-Mobile G1

[Via Gizmodo]

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Reviews

FeedBurner made all Blogs Equal!

Months ago Google acquired FeedBurner, a service used for managing RSS Feeds of websites, by spending around $100 Million. Though Google have acquired it, things didn’t get better and still complains about this feed burning solution is in.

Recently when I visited the famous Gmail blog, my eyes could not believe the number of feed reader it displayed. For seconds I was astonished and continuously kept asking myself, whether the number of readers displayed is really true? One of the famous Google’s blog that always used to display thousands of readers, displayed ZERO in the reader count chicklet. And I have also taken a screenshot at that moment which I have uploaded herewith.

Later on when I visited some other popular blogs, there as well the feed count was ‘0’. Infact it was later that I realized that feedburner services were down at that point of time. But what I am worried about is, is such a service filled with flaws and bugs expected by a company that is taken over by the internet giant – Google by spending millions of bucks?

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Go Green Initiative by File Dropper; Get 250 GB of Free Storage!

Recently I came across an awesome article in Arpit’s blog wherein he mentions about how to get 250 GB of free web space at filedropper. This is a wonderful initiative taken by FileDropper and Smashing Apps to save cutting down of trees. You too can get a free account at FileDropper with 250 GB of free storage in it which will be valid for 20 Years.

Well, you need not worry thinking there would be any catch for getting this free account. There is no such catch, the only thing you need to do is, to pledge on your social networking profiles like facebook, orkut or on your blog about not wasting paper (Arpit’s pledge is here). You can then signup at FileDropper with the promo code “smashingapps” and get your filedropper account with 250 GB of free storage space in it. 🙂

Just sign up for this offer as soon as possible because the offer lasts till 30th of this month (30 January, 2009).

Links: Signup for FileDropper | More about Go Green Initiative

Thanks Arpit for the tip. 🙂

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Analysis

Beware while sending porn contents to your friends!

This morning I stumbled over a post that explained about the recent revisions and amendments in the Indian IT Act 2000 that particularly looks after cyber crimes. The post explains about the amended rules and also warns about how seriously exchange of porn contents would be dealt with.

The article also explains that porn contents does not mean the one that you exchange via compact disks or via internet, it also includes transferring text and images or MMS from your mobile, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) or computer system.

It’s not just the Internet that the IT Act covers, it also covers activities performed using your computer, PDA, mobile phone, and other devices of communication. So, things like forwarding an SMS and sending an MMS too now fall under the jurisdiction of the IT Act.

So even if you are transmitting such unlawful contents with your friends in India, take extra care whether the contents reach to appropriate recipient else you’ll have to face a lot of financial hardships or it may even put you behind bars.

(Via Techtree)

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Now Backup list of your Orkut Friends on your Hard Disk!

Its not too long that, Orkut Plus launched a scrap backup tool called Scrap Backup mate using which it was possible to backup a copy of all the scraps of Orkut scrapbook locally (i.e. on your hard-disk).

Because of a huge positive response to this awesome tool, OrkutPlus has recently developed another similar tool using which, you can backup the list of people in your Orkut Friend’s list along with the link to their Orkut profile and their name and E-mail Address.

This tool named Friends Backupmate, has the ability to store all your friend’s Orkut profile link just with a single mouse click. The advantage of such tool is that, if accidentally, your Orkut profile gets deleted, you can retain the relationship with the friends in your old (deleted) Orkut profile. According, to the official coder of OrkutPlus, they are looking for developing one such tool that will automatically add all the backed up friends in your new profile.

If you too want to backup your friend’s profile, just visit Friends backup page (English | Portuguese), provide your Orkut login and within seconds, a list of all the people in your friends list will be generated. 🙂

Links: More Info | Friends Backup tool ( English | Portuguese )

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News

Google to Close Video Service Shortly

Recently Google closed down many of its services including Jaiku, Mashup Editor, Google Notebook and other Google products, and now Google Video Blog has come up with an announcement, that it will shortly close down its video services too. Google adds that, though the existing videos will not be deleted and will remain as it is, but they would not entertain any further uploads of videos after a few days. Here Google Video is not to be confused with YouTube that Google brought into its banner sometime in October 2006.

In its Official video blog, Google team says:

In a few months, we will discontinue support for uploads to Google Video. Don’t worry, we’re not removing any content hosted on Google Video — this just means you will no longer be able to upload new content to the service.

So, people who have already uploaded their videos (including me) need not panic seeing these bad news by Google as existing videos will be left as it is. But new uploaders need to search for some alternatives. And I think YouTube is the best alternative available!

Link: Official Release

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Now Register .IN Domains from Godaddy!

Godaddy.com– One of the most popular domain registrar has now come up with support to register ‘.in’ and other ccTLD ( Country code top-level domains). I personally take it as an opportunity, becuase, earlier we used to miss out all the discounts and coupon code offers while registering for .in domains. 🙂

Not only options to purchase ‘.in’ domains are visible, except this, other India related domains that are now being supported by GoDaddy are “ .co.in | .firm.in | .gen.in | .ind.in “ etc. As GoDaddy has now included support to purchase Indian domains, you can also move your .in domains from existing registrars to GoDaddy.

Link: GoDaddy

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Most Awaited iGoogle Theme Creator Released

Since long, there were rumors around the web about launch of some feature in iGoogle that would help you personalize your iGoogle’s home screen. Google have made this rumor a truth, and recently released an iGoogle theme creator, using which you can create, use or share themes for iGoogle page without any hassle.

To test the effectiveness of the iGoogle theme creator, I tried to create a theme using Devils Workshop Wallapaper and the result is in front of you. 🙂 If you too want to create one such theme for your iGoogle page using your own pic, then simple head over to the iGoogle theme creator page, upload your pic, crop it and its ready to be used as iGoogle Theme.

Links: Official Release | iGoogle | iGoogle Theme Creator