Yessss Its Friday - I Love Traffic

Yes, its another Friday. The day when no one wants to work, everyone is bag packed before time to leave the office and have fun. So here's another game for this Friday to be more fun.

I Love Traffic is a simple game where you need to control the traffic using the traffic signals. The aim is to send all the traffic from all directions using the intersection avoiding collisions. Each level has a set number of cars you need to send off the intersection to proceed to the next level.

What are you waiting for... Start playing it now.

Fifa 2010 theme for Windows 7

Its Football fever so why not have a theme for your Windows 7 with all Fifa stuff. EA Sports has come up with a Windows 7 theme for Fifa 2010.

Click here to download the theme.

IE 6 and IE 7 Vulnerability - Security Patch

Microsoft has investigated a new vulnerability in IE6 and IE 7 on public reports. The main impact of the vulnerability is remote code execution.

According to Microsoft  Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are not affected, and that Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, and Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable.

The vulnerability exists due to an invalid pointer reference being used within Internet Explorer. It is possible under certain conditions for the invalid pointer to be accessed after an object is deleted. In a specially-crafted attack, in attempting to access a freed object, Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution.

If you use any of the affected versions either upgrade or click here to know how to fix it.

Go directly to images in Google Image Search

Google Image Search is the best place to look for images whenever needed. But the way it works is irritating because you need to go through 2 pages to check the image you click. It first takes you to the website on which the image is posted and then shows the full image after clicking the link.

Using clickGOOGLEview extension for Google Chrome you can bypass the website where the image is posted and directly see the full size image after clicking it in Google Image Search.

See how it works

Before installing the extension

Open Google Image Search and search for image

Click on the image you are interested in

Click See full size image

After installing the extension

Open Google Image Search and search for image

Click the image you are interested in

Notice that the image opened in the new tab and was directly opened without going to the website from where the image comes.

To conclude, this is a great extension to fasten your image search.

Download clickGOOGLEview for Google Chrome

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Stop Buffering unwanted YouTube videos

It happens at time that you start watching a video on YouTube and pause it because you don't find it interesting. YouTube keeps buffering the video inspite of pausing it which utilizes your bandwidth unnecessarily.

YouTube has now rectified this by adding Stop Download to right click context menu of the videos. Clicking Stop Download stops buffering the video any further.

This is a small but very useful feature recently added by YouTube.

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Hide YouTube Video Comments in Google Chrome

YouTube is a great resource for videos and the comments a video gets is sometimes fun but sometimes turns out disrespectful or useless. Now it is possible to hide all YouTube video comments using No You Tube Comments if you use Google Chrome.

No You Tube Comments is a Google Chrome extension which hides the comments for all the videos watched on YouTube.

See it working

Start Google Chrome and open any video on YouTube and you can see the comments below the video

Now install No You Tube Comments extension for Google Chrome and hit F5 or Refresh on YouTube window to see the change

The comments are hidden when you install and refresh your YouTube window.

To conclude, this is a good add-on incase you do not like to read the comments on YouTube videos.

Download and Convert YouTube Videos

YouTube has become one of the most visited website for videos and everyone wants to watch the videos whether they are online or not. Incase you are not online you can download the YouTube video's while online so that you can watch them later using YouTube Downloader.

YouTube Downloader not only downloads the videos but also gives you the ability to convert them to most major formats. It allows you to convert downloaded videos for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3. You can enable/disable the sounds while converting the video.

Downloading file using YouTube Downloader

Download and install YouTube Downloader

Open the YouTube video and copy the YouTube URL you want to download

Switch over to YouTube Downloader. It will automatically paste what's copied in the clipboard in Select Video File. Simply hit Ok to start downloading the Video

It will start downloading the video file from YouTube and inform you as soon as the download is complete

Converting downloaded videos using YouTube Downloader

Start YouTube Downloader and select "Convert Video (previously downloaded) from file and select the file to be converted from your computer. Select the format in which you want to convert the file in "Convert to" drop down and hit Ok

Now, select the Quality in which the video should be converted. You can even cut the video using time frames and set the volume for the converted video.

Once you click Ok, it starts converting the video to the selected format

To conclude, YouTube Downloader is a simple but powerful application for downloading and converting videos from YouTube.

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Download Facebook Albums to your computer

Album Downloader is a cool tiny application using which you can download your and your friends Facebook Albums to your computer. You can even choose to download only the pics in which you have been tagged.

Getting started with Album Downloader

Download and install Album Downloader

Once you have installed Album Downloader it starts automatically. It will pop up a message saying it might need some time to initialize. Simply click Ok and wait for the application to start.

Provide it with your Facebook login details and click Login.

Once you are logged in, it displays you the list of your friends on Facebook. Simply check the albums you want to download, set the download folder and click Download Selected Albums.

If you want to download pics in which you are tagged, check (All tagged pics of me).

To conclude, it is a nice application in case you want to download bunch of albums from Facebook to your machine.

Read Popular Articles in Style - Google Reader Play

Google has released a new Product named Google Reader Play using which you can read Popular articles in an interesting interface. Google displays the contents over the web depending on the what you starred, liked or shared in your Google Reader articles to improve the recommendations.

Getting started with Google Reader Play

Go to http://www.google.com/reader/play in your web browser and click Get Started button

If you use Google Reader click Sign In and login using your Google credentials to get recommendations related to your likes, shares and starred items in Google Reader. If you don't use Google Reader you can still use Google Reader Play. Click the next arrow to move to the next recommendation or click any item on the filmstrip below to directly move to a specific recommendation.

You can click the title of the article to visit the homepage where the article comes from.

Google Reader Play by default does not show your subscribed articles in Google Reader, but you can check them using the URL http://www.google.com/reader/play/#stream

To conclude, Google Reader Play is a fun way to read articles and get recommendations.

Merge PDF files online

At times it happens that we have multiple PDF files which need to be merged and created as a single PDF file. A single PDF is easily to maintain instead of having multiple PDF files. Now you can merge 10 PDF files of 5 MB each into a single PDF file using http://www.mergepdf.net. It is a great and simple to use online tool to merge your PDF files.

Getting started with Merging a PDF

Visit http://www.mergepdf.net

The UI is pretty simple with 2 buttons for picking the files which need to be merged and button which actually merges the PDF files.

Click Pick Files... to add files to the merge list and select the PDF files from your computer

Once you are done adding the PDF files to the merge list click Merge PDF ! button to start merging the files

Merge PDF displays you the status of the merging and the time remaining for completion. Once the merging is complete the you can open the file using PDF Viewer installed on your machine or save merged PDF file to your machine. Merge PDF automatically opens the Save File pop-up on merge completion.

Merge PDF does not store any PDF on their servers. All PDF's are removed once the processing is complete.

To conclude, it is a great tool if you want to merge your PDF files online.