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Download Protected Flickr Images instead of Spaceball.gif files

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:40:00 +0000

Ever tried to save a protected image from Flickr to your computer? You won\’t get the picture you want. Instead, a transparent image file named spaceball.gif is downloaded.

This is because Flickr always puts a transparent image file in a layer over the original picture. So when you right-click the original picture, you are actually clicking the transparent image, which is eventually saved to your computer.

How to Save the Original Picture from Flickr
However, the original image is stored in your browser cache. Firefox gives a pretty neat view of all the contents in your cache. Let\’s see how we get the original picture from Flickr with Firefox.

1. Open the Flickr page that has the picture.
2. Right-click on any blank part of the page (Do not right-click on the image) and click View Page Info. This opens the Page Info box.
3. Select the Media tab. You will find all the media files here. Once you get the image, hit the \’Save As\’ button to save the image. That\’s it!

I haven\’t tested this with IE, Opera or Safari. With these browsers, you can always check the source of the web page and get the link to the original image.

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Extract Audio from Video files for Free

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:34:00 +0000

Many of you must have read my previous post about a website, VidToMP3, that grabs audio from video clips available on video hosting sites like YouTube, Google Video etc. That was good for online video files, but what about video files that already exist on your computer?

You can do it with freely available software. Here are two utilities that rip and save audio from video clips -

Free Video to MP3 Converter
Free Video to MP3 Converter proves to be useful here. Free Video to Ṃ Converter is a software that grabs audio from video files on your local hard-drive and converts it into MP3. And as the name suggests, it is free!

With this tool, you can extract audios from FLV, AVI, MPG, MP4, M4V, MPEG, DVR-MS, WMV, ASF, MOV, QT, 3GP and 3G2 files and save it to MP3 format. You can either choose to get audio from an entire video file or only from a specified part of the file. Batch conversion of files is also supported. Check it out..

[Download Free Video to MP3 Converter]

AoA Audio Extractor

Unlike Free Video to MP3 Converter, AoA Audio Extractor can save the audio and soundtrack from video files in more than one format: MP3, WAV and AC3. You can save any portion of the audio from the file.
AoA Audio Extractor can grab sound from AVI, FLV(Flash Video), MPEG, MPG, DAT, WMV, MOV, MP4 and 3GP video files.

[Download AoA Audio Extractor]

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Make Google Analytics show Real-Time Data

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:13:00 +0000

This post is meant for webmasters who use Google Analytics.
Google Analytics is a popular tool for checking visitor traffic details for a website. However, the stats are not real-time, there is a delay of 24 hrs. Well, not exactly!

Even I didn\’t notice it till today. You can view real time web stats in Google Analytics; and you don\’t event need to pull a trick or hack to do it. It is right there!

1. Sign-in to Google Analytics.

2. In the Dashboard, click the small dropdown button that lets you select the date-range. By default, the selected date period will be the last 30 days excluding the current date.
3. Just select the current date and click the Apply button.

Bingo! You\’ll now see stats for the current day as well and that too in real time.

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