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YouTube Download, Convert, Save Videos to AVI 3GP WMV MPEG MP3 files. 18 Free Ways To Download Any Video off the Internet. Video is the future. Periscope has taken the world by storm, and YouTube has launched a subscription service. Even Spotify and Facebook are getting in on the act. We’re not here to ask why you’d want to download any of that video content – the reasons are too numerous. We just want to show you how to do it. So, without further ado, here are 18 free ways to download (almost) any video off the internet. App-Specific Tools Let’s begin with some service-specific web apps that specialize in a single website before moving onto generic video downloaders later in the article. 1.

We’ll kick things off with YouTubeInMP4. 2. SaveFrom is another YouTube downloader, but one with a difference. For example: Would become: 3. The final YouTube downloader on the list is arguably the simplest. It works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer. 4. 5. Yes, Vine is no longer accepting new entries. 6. 7. 8. 9. KeepVid supports 28 sites. How To Download And Convert YouTube Videos.

This is my easy guide on how to download an convert any YouTube video. This can be extremely useful if you want to store some great videos on you iPod or computer. No software installation is required, this is the easiest and fastest way to get the job done and it’s extremely simple. First of all, you need to visit this website: On this site there is a box for entering in the YouTube web address of the video you want to download. Enter the web address of the YouTube video in here. Please note: You must enter the web address and not the embedded address of the video itself. Click on “DOWNLOAD” and save to a folder on your computer.

Tip: I usually just save the file to my desktop for easy access, plus you can delete this file after we have finished. The downloaded file will be in the .flv format, you may have a flash video player installed on your PC, in which case your done. This is an awesome website. Good luck J. Beyond Eternal » Changing Your Pidgin Theme in Windows. Since a lot of people are asking me on how I did this, I thought of writing this easy to follow tutorial on how I managed to change my Pidgin theme in Windows. I tried this both at Windows XP (work PC) and Windows 7 (personal laptop) OS and it works just fine. First, after installing Pidgin, I downloaded these files: GTK+ Themes and GTK+ Theme Switcher and extracted them. Next, go to your <Pidgin directory>\Gtk folder and extract the GTK + Themes folder in it. Usually, it’s at C:\Program Files\Pidgin\Gtk. Then, I copied the gtk2_prefs.exe file from the GTK Theme Switcher to the <Pidgin directory>\Gtk\bin folder.

Then, run the gtk2_prefs.exe file and the GTK Theme Switcher window will pop up. Choose a theme you want from the list and click [Ok]. If it asks if the gtkrc will be overwritten, just click [Yes] And you’re done. If you have your Pidgin on when you did this, you’ll have to close and restart your Pidgin for the changes to take effect. A list of selections would pop up. That’s it! A Guide to Efficiently Using Irssi and Screen | quadpoint.org. Irssi is a text-only IRC client. It does not get in your way and its commands are intuitive and useful. Non-standard features are implemented with perl scripts, rather than in the core. Irssi can range from a functional, no-frills client to a highly-customized and automated client. Irssi is not the only focus of this guide. Getting Connected The first step is to start irssi. Irssi You should now see Irssi in its default state–disconnected, with some blue bars at the top and bottom.

In Irssi, there are three important connection-related commands: /server, /connect, and /disconnect. For example, typing /connect irc.foo.com will open a new network connection and connect to irc.foo.com. . (05:23:10) (ms[+abilorsuwxyz]) (1:NullIRC (change with ^X)) In this example, NullIRC is the active network. At this point you should have a just-opened instance of Irssi, with no connections to any server. /connect irc.nullirc.net If everything connected fine, join a channel by typing: /join #test Switching Windows.

Ninite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once. The client of the future. Skinning Pidgin – Sick of Pidgin’s Look and Feel | Samuel Haddad. February 16, 2008 in Development, Tech Support Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. It can be found at I have been using it for a while now when AIM started putting advertisements into there software. Pidgin was formally GAIM which changed its name due to legal reasons and started to rewrite their software. My friends and I have been using it for a while now and really enjoy it. However there is one complaint I hear a lot and that has to do with appearance and themes.

The Original Buddy list is depicted below. One thing that I do not like is that the icons each name takes up so much space. Go to buddiesShow and un check buddy details, idle times and enable protocol icons to a style of your liking. By doing this I can easily see more buddies online at any given moment, my buddy list looks something like and all those details I disabled are still available just by hovering over a buddy with my mouse.