Written By Keith Dsouza under Utilities on Friday, 26th September 2008
Most of the video sites store videos in FLV formats, though you can easily download video files from sites like YouTube, but not many would want to store the videos in the same format.
Free FLV to AVI Converter is an absolutely free application that converts Flash Video files (FLV, SWF) into AVI or MPG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2).
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Annoyances on Friday, 26th September 2008
Just came across a major glitch in the AdSense payment system several Indian publishers have encountered. The glitch shows the conversion rate as $1 = 1 INR (Indian Rupee), the current conversion rate is $1 = 45 INR.
The huge difference in the rates may have definitely left several Indian publishers as to what went wrong. It is also a hot discussion topics at several forums.
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Latest News on Friday, 26th September 2008
There is a buzz doing rounds that Google PageRank update will be done this weekend, apparently the buzz was fueled by a comment Matt Cutts made on one of his blog posts. Excepts from the comment:
@Mattcutts:
Cool. But I was noticing a lot of sites are bouncing around PR wise. Is there a new PR update taking place?
Last time you told us. I guess it’s no big deal, but is how I gauge whether Google trusts me or not!
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Hacks And Mods on Thursday, 25th September 2008
Have you ever wanted to login to two different ids using Yahoo Messenger, but have been restricted from doing so because Yahoo Messenger does not allow you to.
Tech Xpress has written about a registry hack which will allow you to run multiple instances of Yahoo messenger simultaneously.

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Written By Keith Dsouza under Featured Articles on Thursday, 25th September 2008
Every software these days focus on having tabs to help you easily manage multiple files or browsing session in a single instance, the tab functionality though it restricted to browsers, PDF file viewers, text editors etc.
For applications such as command prompt and cygwin, there are very less alternatives for tabbed interface, being a programmer I prefer using tabs since it eases managing multiple sessions / windows and adds to my productivity while dealing with CLI interfaces.
Related: Tabbed Interface for Putty
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Tips And Tricks on Thursday, 25th September 2008
Have you ever missed the dual-pane split browser add-on for Firefox while using Google Chrome? That is one add-on that allowed you to work with two websites on a single page, increasing your productivity while allowing you to interact with more than one page at a time.
If you are missing the functionality here is a simple bookmarklet that will allow you to work in split-browser mode in Google Chrome.
Don’t Miss: Get Firefox add-ons for Chrome | Get Google Toolbar Features for Chrome
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Utilities on Thursday, 25th September 2008
Digsby had been one of our favorite multi-im protocol client which had built in support for IM networks, social networking and emails from popular email providers like Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and so on. But the one major concern for us had been the huge memory footprint it used which literally used to hang the PC when a new alert of email arrived.
Over a period of time they have been working on several performance enhancements which reduced memory usage and made it much more faster.
Related: Customize Digsby with Themes
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