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Ok! Pulling an image out of a PDF document is trickier than I first thought. Taking a screenshot of the image and saving it is the way to go, but this approach gets a bit tedious when grabbing many images from a file. And this is exactly where, PDF Image Extract is very handy!

PDF Image Extract is a free software that enables you to grab images from PDF files. It\’s got a simple user interface through which you can opt to open a single file or an entire directory. It also gives some flexibility for determining the quality of the images that will be extracted. In addition to that, an output directory option is provided; all the ripped images are stored in that output folder.

Images can be pulled out from the entire PDF document at once or from a selected page range. In addition to that, images can also be ripped from multiple PDF files at the same time. According to their website, you do not need to have Adobe reader for this utility to work.

Currently, images in Jpg, Png, Gif, Bmp, Ppm/Pbm, Tif, Tga and Pcx formats can be extracted.

Want to download the audio of your favourite video clips on YouTube, Myspace or Google Video? Downloading the whole video is the first thing that comes to mind, but if you only want the sound track, VidtoMP3 can be put to good use here.
VidtoMP3 lets you to rip off the sound track of video clips from popular video sharing sites. The videos are converted to mp3 which can be downloaded. To grab audio, you only need to provide the link of the webpage which contains the video.

Here\’s how to use it -
1. Copy the full address of the webpage that has the video.
For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ӂGC3DͪY
2. Paste this link in a box in the VidtoMP3 website and click download.
3. The audio is extracted from the video and made available for download.

That\’s all you have to do!

Currently supported sites
VidtoMP3 currently supports audio grabbing from the following video sharing sites -
YouTube, Myspace, Google Video, MegaVideo, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Veoh, Break, iFilm, Bolt, ClipJunkie, ClipShack, CollegeHumor, FunnyJunk, Glumbert, GoFish, Grouper, Hallpass, MilkandCookies, Putfile, SantaBanta, Sharkle, Shoutfile, Vimeo, vSocial, Yikers, ZippyVideos.

Employees love surfing the web in office, but many offices block direct internet access to disallow employees from getting \’distracted\’. However, not everything is blocked, especially Email access.
And guess what? You can use email to read the latest stuff from your favourite websites.

How to read webpages using an Email?

A point to of note here; you cannot use this service to read web pages that require you to login.