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Free tool to Download Websites

2007-09-08T01:54:00.000-07:00

HTTrack is a free website copier and offline browser by Xavier Roche.

It allows you to download websites from the Internet to a local computer. You can download a complete website or just a part of it(you can tell it to download just a certain section/sections of a website and exclude the rest. For example you may use it to download just the "Sports" and the "Movies" Sections of a website.

For more specific downloads you can use the "Options" menu and the "Filters" menu to include/exclude certain file types ( you may want to download all the images but not the videos and the .zip files on a site).

Further you also have the options of PAUSE and RESUME. You can also update an old download.

The downloaded site can be browsed offline just like you browse a site on the internet. You can open any page in the browser and click on the links to open other pages etc on the rest of the site.

Platforms : Windows and Linux

Download HTT Rack

Free Password Manager

2007-09-08T01:39:00.000-07:00

4uOnly is a free password manager which allows you to store all your login Ids along with Password and the URL (address) of the site. If you have too many accounts then you got to have this software.

It can also generate passwords for you. Unlike other Password Managers it does not ask you for a Master Password to give access to your password list. So this can be a drawback if you share your system with other people.

Download 4uOnly Password Manager

Automatic Login - Robofrom

2007-08-27T16:43:00.000-07:00

AI RoboForm is a free one-click web form filler and password manager. This is what it does :

AutoSave passwords in browser.
AutoFill passwords to login form.
Click Login button for you.
Fill personal info into online forms.
Save offline passwords & notes.
Generate Secure Random Passwords.
Encrypt passwords and personal data using AES, Blowfish, RC6, 3-DES or 1-DES algorithms.
All personal info is stored on your computer only.
Take RoboForm with you on USB disk for ultimate portability.
Sync your passwords and notes to Palm or Pocket PC.
Backup & Restore, Print your passwords.
More features: drill down for more.
It is well-behaved: NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE.
Works under Windows as an add-on to IE-based browsers.
Works with Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox under Windows.

Download Roboform

Here are a few pics of Robofrom.

The Robofrom Toolbar
Your accounts with various websites

Create New Accounts or Edit Old ones

Easiest Way to Save a Webpage

2007-08-27T16:01:00.000-07:00

EverNote is a free tool that lets you save an entire webpage or excerpts from a webpage. EverNote integrates with Internet Explorer and Firefox, allowing you to add website excerpts, source code snippets and other items directly from your browser in just one click.

http://www.evernote.com

Actually EverNote is a Note taker cum organizer which lets you save entire webpages or excerpts from a webpage.With EverNote 2.1 you can easily capture, store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!

EverNote adds a Button in the "Standard Toolbar" of your browser, to save a webpage all you have to do is click this button. To save just an excerpt (just a part of a webpage or a particular section/item ) from a webpage, just highlight that part and click the EverNote button in your toolbar. EverNote automatically creates a Title for saved webpage/excerpts so you are saved from the trouble of creating names for your saved data.

The data saved is organized as notes and you can choose to sort your notes into categories, password protect them, export them to XML and more. EverNote supports several notes templates, which allow you to add T-Do lists, Excel-like spread sheets for expenses (that automatically calculate a total), phone notes, contact information and shopping lists, in addition to regular text notes or handwritten notes (via mouse or pen tablet). The program supports HTML content, rich text and various image formats.

Download EverNote

Note: If you use Internet Explorer, you must have noticed that Ctrl+S does not work in IE,to save a webpage in IE you have to go to File >Click on Save >Enter the File Name>Click On Save. You have to repeat these steps every time you want to save a webpage. And to save just a part/excerpt from a webpage you have to use another application like MS Word which uses up a lot of memory and may slow down your system. EverNote saves you from all this trouble.

EverNote also has a Pro and and a Poratable Version.

How to download Videos from Youtube

2007-08-24T00:53:00.000-07:00

Skip - Introduction :
Believe me I have tried every tip and trick to download videos from Youtube, Google videos, dailymotion, myspace vidoes and several other sites providing streaming media. Ultimately I succeeded in finding the best tool to download videos from youtube and other streaming media website. And the tool is Orbit Downloader. It's the best download manager ever (you can take my word at this as in the past few years I have tried more than 50 download mangers). Also Orbit Download Manager is completely Free.

Download Orbit Download Manager

After installing Orbit downloader every time you place your mouse/cursor on a video in a webpage, you will see a download button on that video. Click on it and your download will begin. Yeah its as simple as that. Here are some pics to show you how it works.

Adds a "Get Video" button on your streaming media

Fetches the download URL

Begin the Download !!

Orbit also adds a "Grab Video by Orbit" option to the context menu in your Browser.

With Orbit downloader you can :

1) Download streaming media ( flv files embedded in flash etc)

2) Download all kinds of Flash files : games, animation, videos.

3) Create Batch downloads. ( like when you want to download a large number of images from a series you can simply give the URL of one file and the numbers of the starting image and the ending image. say 1 - 438)

4) Download Stuff from Rapidshare, Megaupload and other such sites, which normally don’t let you use, download accelerators.

5) Allows you to download every single file on a webpage. Like download all images on a webpage or all the links on a webpage.

Download Social Music, Video and More... - Orbit Downloader: The Super Light Rich Media Downloader!

With Orbit Download Manager you can download videos from : Youtube, Dailymotion, Myspace, Yahoo, Metacafe, Google Videos etc.
And Social Music from : Pandora, Yahoo, Myspace, Imeem, Radioblog, Lala etc.

Explore your City with Google Maps

2007-08-19T07:28:00.000-07:00

Google Maps is a free web mapping service application and technology provided by Google.

Google Maps features a map that can be navigated by dragging the mouse, or using the mouse wheel to zoom in (mouse wheel up) or out (mouse wheel down) to show detailed street information. Users can enter an address, intersection or general area to quickly find it on the map. There are quiet a few mapping services avialable on the internet but as far as I am concerned Google Maps is the best. You can easily explore your city in Google Maps and with the Satellite view you can even trace your house, school, college, office anything. Never been to a place before and want to get directions. Well don't ask your friends, just use Google Maps.

Google Maps offers four viewing modes by default: Map (topographic and street map), Satellite
(satellite and high-resolution aerial photographs), Hybrid (Street maps overlaid on satellite and
high-resolution aerial photographs) and Street View ( I am not sure if its available in India).

Here are a few pics of my City from Google Maps.

The Satellite View :