Download audio(mp3) of YouTube video

One of my friend sent me a YouTube link and asked to send .mp3 of that video.
I thought its easy task only two steps required.
First, download video.
Second, convert video to audio using format factory. Download here.

Wait. What if video was too long to download and to convert it will take even longer time?

I found this addon for firefox called Easy YouTube Video Downloader 6.4

(I was not able to find such awesome addon for Chrome)
Really cool addon. And yes guys its free  :)

If you search for a song on YouTube and you want it to have it on your iPod.
Don't worry this will make your life very simple.
First and best part which i liked was it was able to download mp3 file.
I have been using other downloading software also but they do not convert to mp3 file.
You need not go to other link and download it from there like some of us do.
Just click on that button which comes in YouTube page itself.
Tada!!
It will give you options to download in different formats.
(Time to give options depends on file size)

Click on mp3 format or any other format which you require.

So now we will see how it is better than previous one?
Conversion is done on server which is much faster than you converting on your own PC using any media convertors.
Now that you were not interested in downloading video file, you can download mp3 file directly.
As mp3 file size is less it takes less time to download which good for slow internet connection.

Easy and simple way to use it.

If someone has good idea about any Chrome plugin, please let us know.

Synergy & Mouse Without Borders - 2computer using 1 mouse 1 keyboard

Hey guys I am back.
Joined Adobe last month.
We were given one laptop and a desktop.
While working one thing came to my mind how about if i can use only one mouse and keyboard for both my computers.

One of my friend Joy D'Souza told me about these two software which makes it possible
Both of them have there advantages and disadvantages

SYNERGY
I am using 1.3.8 version.
[For 1.4.10 -->> see updated part]

Download latest version from here.

What is FOSS? :)
 
In the picture shown, you can see all three types of operating systems.
This is greatest advantage of all.
This is true meaning of platform independent ;)
I have been using this for long time so I will give you detailed description about it.

A prequiste for using these kind of softwares. You must be in same network.
There are two parts when you use Synergy.

First - Server
(hindi - jiske paas keyboard aur mouse hai)
Whenever you are server you need to configure many things.
Click on Configure button as shown.

This is the part where you need to take care.

Step - 1
Add all computer name which you are going to use.
No specific sequence required.

Step - 2
Based on screen names added by you, you have tell Synergy where are your screens placed
There are 3 drop down box.
To understand it easily we will take an example.
Two screen names are - kpfaldu-W7 and kpfaldu-W7-1
kpfaldu-W7 screen is left side of kpfaldu-W71-1
This is configuration
-> Right, kpfaldu-W7, kpfaldu-W7-1
-> Left, kpfaldu-W7-1, kpfaldu-W7

Do not forget to click '+' button after each step.
So now you have configured your server.

Second - Client
(hindi - dusre ka keyboard aur mouse use karega)

This is more simple part of whole process.
Just select first radio button.

After both of them have been configured, you can first test if you have done it correctly then you can start using buttons given.

For more updates about product and if you want to know it better, you can go to their official blog.

Disadvantage is that you cannot drag and drop files from one screen to another screen which is sometimes useful.

While writing this blog I am using Synergy :)


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[updated]

Recently started using iMac and installed Synergy.
I downloaded Synergy 1.4.10 (Can't use Mouse w/o Border)
They have improved it so much that I had to write about it.
Here is screen shot for new UI.

 At the top, it shows you IP addresses for server.
So when you are configuring on client side, you can just look at address and type it in text field.


Best update is for configuration for Server.
This is its screen shot.

3 important things I want to tell you guys.

Now its easy to configure clients, just drag and drop computer seen on top right corner.
After dropping it, click on it and you can change it's screen name.

If you want to delete a screen just drag and drop it in recyle bin seen on top left corner.

Last thing, I didn't know that we can add two screen on left and right side of server.
But you can do it :)
In screen shot shown here you can see my server has two screens left of it.

Enjoy using Synergy 1.4.10 :)
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MOUSE WITHOUT BORDERS
It is an Microsoft Garage project developed by Truong Do.

Big advantage of using this is you can drag and drop files from one screen to another.
And disadvantage is that it cannot be used across different OS, only Windows are supported.
I have not used it at all.
So I will ask Joy to write something below in comments.

Have fun with these two sofwares :)