Free online .flv to .mp3 converter

by Noman Muhammad

Somwtimes we need to download video from popular video sharing site like Youtube, MySpace, Metacafe, iFilm, Google Video or flash video embedded on web page and then transform it into .mp3 to hear that on our mp3 player. I found this site on net which is very helpful and handy to convert the .flv extended video file to .mp3 file and download instantly. We just need to copy the URL of the file that we need to convert to .mp3 and paste it into the site and press convert ... thats all.

Spread your site content : Addthis

by Noman Muhammad

Social networking site become an integral part to spread our website contents. This can help us to increase traffic to our site. Now a days we see something like this
almost in every sites' content. This is one of the way to open the door to the network to spread our content.
Addthis offers us this service. Its very simple to use this tools. We can get the code from site and use the code in our site.

Skype installation in Ubuntu

by Noman Muhammad

Skype is not available in any Ubuntu software repository. So it can't be directly installed using Synaptic or apt-get. To install it using Synaptic or apt-get we have to add Medibuntu repository. But I'm too lazy to install it in this way. I rather download Skype from Skype download page. Skppe can also be downloaded for Ubuntu 64 bit. Then install it by double-clicking the deb file and clicking "Install package".

Some useful firefox plugins

by Noman Muhammad

Firefox offers huge list of plugins/addons that let us to personalize our browser. I list some of them as very useful. Those are:
1) Firebug: Firebug is used to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
2) MeasureIt: MeasureIt allows us to draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements in a web page.
3) lori (Life-of-request info): lori tells us how long it takes to load a webpage.
4) IE View Lite: We use IE View Lite see how a site is rendered in IE.
5) Delicious Bookmarks: Its the official firefox add-on for Delicious.
6) Add to Search Bar: Add to Search Bar integrates any pages' search functionality available in the Search Bar of firefox browser.

Use Google Apps for site's mail box

by Noman Muhammad

Google Apps is another superb service from Google. Google apps is basically a collection of several application and web storage. It includes: Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar, Google Docs (text files, spreadsheets, and presentations), iGoogle, and Google Sites. So we can easily setup our mail box for our site and use this to send and receive mail using Google service. Suppose we have a domain "www.my_domain.com". Using google apps we can easily get mail account like "admin@my_domain.com, my_name@my_domain.com, whatever@my_domain.com" etc etc. Besides that mail holders can easily communicate among them using google talk, share their doc using google docs. Its very easy to setup the hole process and start the journey :) . Interesting thing is Google Apps has a free version i.e Standard Version, it supports 50 email address per domain. But the thing is to integrate this to our site, we must have full control of our site i.e we must have the administrative access to our site and domain control panel.

Popular websites enrich English Dictionary !!!

by Noman Muhammad

Net surfing is very popular throughout the world. Now-a-days the interesting thing is popular wesbsites enriches the dictionary. Quite interesting. I'm googling it. What does it mean? It certainly means that I'm searching it in google(www.google.com). So googling is a new word ;) . Similarly the most popular social networking site Facebook also enrich the dictionary. I've facebooked all of my photos. Here facebooked stands for uploaded the photos to my facebook page. Again, I facebooked u. here facebooked stands for added u to my facebook page. So, facebook is a versatile word. Isn't it?
Similarly, if u myspacing u may waste ur time :D. Have fun in twittering.