Friday, June 29, 2012

Download YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Hulu, Vevo, Facebook, WonTube, Blip.tv, Twitvide

Wondershare vDownloader is a single application which meets all your needs of video downloading allowing you to grab videos from the popular video sharing websites. It supports almost all the famous sites such as the YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Hulu, Vevo, Facebook, WonTube, Blip.tv, Twitvide, and a few more. Most of the video lovers would have been using the YouTube downloaders just because YouTube is a popular video sharing website. However, the other sites mentioned above have gained popularity over the years and the demand for freemium video downloaders have risen over some time now. Wondershare vDownloader is capable of downloading videos which are of Full HD 1080p quality where this tool is very handy as it performs much better than the other available video downloading software. The software is compatible with all the three major browsers i.e. Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome.

Download here


Get Your Facebook Account Under Control

You're probably well aware that this week Facebook decided to change the email address on your timeline to @facebook.com without asking you first. While it was easy enough to fix, there's plenty about the social media site that's been causing problems for users for quite awhile. Let's get them under control this weekend.

Install Social Fixer
Audit Your Approved Apps
Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings
Clean Up Your Friends

Read how to do it here
http://lifehacker.com/5922396/get-your-facebook-account-under-control-this-weekend

Web-Based Word Processor

Bubbles attempts to turn your web browser into a place where you can write just as you would on real paper—whether that means typing a letter, making a collage, sketching notes, or a combination of the three. It provides several tools that allow you to create your own, personalized letters and easily share them with others.

Bubbles works by providing you with a blank sheet of paper and tools you'd find in a word processor and in some art applications. You can type, but you can also upload images, draw with a pen or pencil, create shapes, and more. This is practical if you want to draw something in a letter you want to send someone or just fun if you want to sketch something in some notes you're taking. Bubbles was created with social capabilities, so you can easily share what you create with a link—such as the example you see above.

Although Bubbles essentially wants to be digital paper, one of the (probably obvious) drawbacks is that your mouse or trackpad isn't exactly the best surface, just as your hand or finger isn't a great replacement for the pen. You can digital sign a letter, but how good that signature is going to look is another story. If you have a drawing tablet, or even a capacitive stylus and multitouch trackpad, you'll be in better shape. Everyone else will struggle to actually sketch like the webapp suggests. Additionally, I couldn't find a way to make text wrap around images. Doing that manually is pretty tedious, so hopefully they'll add that feature. All of that said, Bubbles is a pretty comprehensive word processor. While your hardware may not be capable of taking full advantage of its digital paper aspirations, Bubbles is mostly up to the task if you are.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Learn to type faster and with fewer errors

Have you ever wished that you had a way to practice typing so that you could become a more efficient and capable keyboard jockey? Typing at the “speed of thought,” perhaps? Enter Keybr.com — the flash–based typing instructor you’ve been waiting for!

Learn to type professionally here http://www.keybr.com/

Keybr.com is very straightforward. You can choose from three basic lessons that start with a certain number of keys on the keyboard, and then, as you progress through the lessons, more keys are introduced to the mix to make things a little tougher. As an added bonus, our software keeps track of all your mistakes and your words–per–minute (wpm) — and even creates graphs of your day–by–day performance.
But, things get even better! Once you have determined that the lessons you have completed have reached their maximum result, get ready to play with custom mode, where you can edit and personalize the text that you wish to practice! Very bare–bones, but oh, so functional.

Finally, to up the entertainment level of your typing lessons, you can import content from a web site or blog into Keybr.com to type it out.

But why even bother to learn touch typing? The answer is simple — it is healthier for you, faster and more accurate. Blogging, writing long documents and e–mails, instant messaging with your friends, and even coding sophisticated computer programs will become much easier and more enjoyable once you eliminate distraction of hunt–and–peck typing.

How long would it take for you to develop a good typing speed? It would probably take you weeks to polish your skills up to a top level, but really decent speed can be achieved in a matter of hours with daily training. We promise that we can teach you to type at a speed of above 50 words per minute in less than ten hours with our course. And who wouldn’t benefit from that?

How does Keybr.com work?
Unlike much of the teaching typing software available out there, Keybr.com does not force you to type random characters over and over again; that is simply boring and contributes very little to your learning. Instead, Keybr.com generates readable random words using the phonetic rules of your native language.

These words look almost natural, and often they really are. Typing sensible text is much easier than random letters, and it helps you to remember frequent key combinations. For example, it’s almost impossible for the letter ‘W’ to follow the ‘Z’ in English, and you will never type this combination in Keybr.com. Instead, you will type more common words, such as “the,” “that,” “with,” and so on. Keybr.com lets you introduce as few keys as possible to the lesson, adding more keys later when you feel that you are competent and fast enough on the current level. So, if you start with the keys from the Caps Lock row, then add keys form the Tab row, and then from the Shift row, you will eventually end up typing real text with capital letters and punctuation.
Keybr.com is a web–based software that runs directly in your browser. You don’t have to download or install anything! The most recent and up–to–date version is always with you. You can use it from any computer connected to the Internet, and your typing statistics are kept on the web site and available on–demand.