Facebook video Chat

The much awaited facebook video chat is coming true,powered with skype

Talk to your friends face to face.

This is just like the google + Hangout , (in which you can do a group video chat). Between facebook has now create a partnership with skype (A IM video chat platform).It is come to know that Sype integrated facebook on its client software .And you will find this new feature very soon in your profile.

Screenshots

 just a click on video chat icon & you are ready to go.if the person is not available at that tme you can also leave a video message for him, isn't amazing. & one more thing this is a one-one calling

starting steps

http://www.facebook.com/videocalling/

and proceed with onscreen instructions

 Lets wait and see, share your experience as comments

The Complete Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts can help make our computer easier to use. Microsoft has included lots of new keyboard shortcuts in the new operating system Window 7. Many new users are unaware of new shortcuts.

To help them, Winvistaclub has released a free eBook called ‘The Complete Window 7 Keyboard Shortcuts’ which contains more than 200 shortcuts.

That is This eBook included almost all the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Window 7 and its default programs like Paint, WordPad, MS Office,Calculator, Help, Media Player, Media Center, Windows Journal, Internet Explorer, etc.

Interested readers can Download Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts e-book from here [home page]

Quick Way to Download MP4 Video From YouTube

As its name suggests MP4 Downloader lets you easily download MP4 video (HD video) from YouTube, so you can directly transfer this video to portable devices like iPod or play it on any media player. Moreover, unlike other ‘tube downloader’ that rely on an external resources, this Firefox add-on does all the processing on your local computer, so none of your data is ever visible to a third-party website.

Additionally, this simple add-on also supports other video sharing sites like Dailymotion, Facebook Video, and Vimeo and is compatible with Firefox 3.6 – 4.

MP 4 Downloader offers a variety of methods to download videos. You can use the toolbar button, the context menu on the video page, the context menu of a link to a video, a download button placed inside the video page, or a download button placed below embedded videos in web pages.

You can download MP 4 Downloader at Mozilla add-on repository.

Now You Can Change Playback Speed of YouTube Videos

The world’s largest video sharing site YouTube lets you do much more than just watch and share videos. For example, you can view your playback speed statistics against local, national, and international averages, improve playbackcontrol by using a number of keyboard shortcuts, repeat a video forever, etc.

Now YouTube is to introduce another cool feature to their video player. Now it is possible to control theplayback speed of a video (see screenshot below). You can fast-forward, or slow-down a video just with a click.

This feature is very useful, for example, to skip the unnecessary portions of a lengthy YouTube video clip by increasing the playback speed (2x or 1.5x) or when you are transcribing what is being said in a video by slowing down the playback speed ( ½ or ¼).

Note: This option still to be implemented, so currently, this feature may not be available on all YouTube videos.

Share YouTube Video Link Without Sidebar, Comments and Ads

Normally a YouTube video landing page looks cluttered with lots of stuff on the sidebar, ads, and comments as shown below. As these things are often deviate viewers attention from the heart of the video, it’s become a problem when you want to share a YouTube video link that you want viewers to focus on the video only. For example, presentations, web meetings, student notes or study materials.

However, you can easily share a You tube video link without sidebar, ads, and comments by just modifying the video URL.

A normal YouTube video link looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfJuigJebRg (video on Android event)

You can modify the URL by inserting ‘_popup’ after the ‘watch’ as shown below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=RfJuigJebRg

This trick is very useful when you creating links on educational materials to YouTube videos.

Smart Video Enlarger For Full Screen YouTube

There are a number of ways to watch a YouTube video in full screen, you can use YouTube’s built-in option, or just double-click on a You Tube video, or several browser add-ons are available for the same. But, want to watch a You Tube video full screen but still want to be able to read the comments and related videos?

With the Chrome extension Smart Video Enlarger, you can do all that. The extension automatically upscale the video area to full window screen and the Intelligent Scrolling option allows you to continue watching the video while reading the comments and related videos.

You can configure it by clicking onto the extension button. However, when using Intelligent Scrolling, the video size turns out to be too small to view.

Interested users can download it from Chrome Web Store

Enable YouTube Feather and Watch Videos Without Break on Slow Connection

Feather is a new YouTube feature that enables the browser to load videos much faster. This is achieved by using lowest possible latency, removing extra codes, options like sharing and by making use of advanced web techniques for reducing the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser.

YouTube Feather is a quite useful feature, especially for those with slow internet connection. However, this feature is currently in the beta and may not support all videos.

To enablee YouTube Feather option, just go to www.youtube.com/feather_beta and click “Join the Feature Beta” Link. Now you will experience your YouTube videos will load faster.

To disable YouTube Feather option, go to YouTube Feather link mentioned above and click “Leave the Feather Beta” or click “Permanently” link present at the right side of the page having a green background.

Watch YouTube videos in your Media Center

Macro Tube is simple to use add-on for Windows Media Center that gives a greater YouTube video experience in your Media Center.

It allows you to search and watch YouTube, Dailymotion and Soapbox video from within Media Center.

Macro Tube plug-in available for both 32 bit and 64bit Windows and its functionality is pretty straight forward.

After installation, launch your Media Center and under Extras (Extras Library) locate the new Macro Tube plug-in entry. Then select a video service -YouTube, Dailymotion or Soapbox – and use the Search button provided at the top left to search the video site you are in.

Note: The buffering speed is slow comparing to browser, so, it may not suitable for users with slowinternet connection speed.

Download Macro Tube plug-in for Media Center: 32 bit | 64 bit | Homepage 

How to drag, resize, block or view full screen a YouTube video or game?

FlashPlus is very exciting and useful plug-in for Google Chrome. With this extension you can resize and move YouTube videos, games or any flash element, block flash contents or darken the areas around the flash object for better viewing.

FlashPlus lets you do the following things. Drag or re-size flash videos anywhere on any web page.

You can enlarge flash content to the whole browser window or darken the areas around the flash content for better viewing or can pop out the flash to a new Window.

You can also block the flash and music on any web page to speed up your page loading time. Interested readers can install it from here.

How to reduce YouTube Video buffering time?

To watch online videos from sites like YouTube, you should have a reasonably fast internet connection, otherwise video will breaks frequently for buffering data.

If you have such issues, here is a freeware program which will reduce YouTube video (or any other) buffering time and lets you enjoy videos without frequent interruptions.

You may know how to stop unnecessary You Tube video buffering,  the software called SpeedBit Video Accelerator (free version) offers the following features.

1. It will eliminate buffering of YouTube and other web videos
2. Lets you Tweet your favorite videos while watching them
3. Accelerate High Quality videos with bit rates up to 200 Kbps for clearer, more vibrant images.
4. And it is compatible with all browsers.

Note: The free version contain a unnecessary browser toolbar. Don’t forget to uncheck the option Ask toolbar while installing the software. Download SpeedBit Video Accelerator

Lightweight solution for downloading YouTube Videos in HD & FLV

The recent update of YouTube makes troubles to many users who use some utilities or web applications for downloading videos. However, still there are several methods for downloading video from YouTube.

Here is a simple and lightweight solution to download videos from YouTube which works well on all major browsers including Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.

The script adds an option to download YouTube videos as MP4 (HD) and FLV files. However, some browsers like Firefox and IE requires third party extension to work the script.

The script should work in:
- Firefox – install Greasemonkey first
- Google Chrome – no plug-in required
- Opera – no plug-in required
- Safari – install GreaseKit first)
- Internet Explorer – RequiredIE7Pro.

You can download the video in MP4 360p, 720p (HD), 1080p (HD) and FLV (FLV 360p, 480p) formats. Interested users can install the script on your browser from here.

Watch YouTube video directly in VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is a universal player that can playback just about any kind of video, including YouTube videos (flv video) thrown at it.

The latest release of VLC (1.1) can play YouTube videos directly from a YouTube video URL, no need to download the video to your computer. Here is how to play You Tube video directly from VLC.

Download and install the latest release of VLC Media player. Run the player and from the file menu select “Open Network Stream” [see screen shots below].

Paste the main YouTube URL (shown on your browser’s address bar) in to the ‘Please Enter a Network URL’ box [see screen shots below] and click play button.

By clicking the ‘Show more option’ [see screen shots below] you can increase the cache size of thestream, if the video freezes every few seconds.

The main advantage of this is that you can use VLC’s video & audio control (sharpness, brightness, color, contrast, etc) for the YouTube video. [via]

Now you can watch original 4k video (4096 x 3072 pixel) at YouTube

Do you just bought a Full HD LED TV? You can throw it away because YouTube just announced support for videos shot at 4K resolution (4096 x 3072 pixel definition). The ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet.

That’s 4 times bigger than the current maximum resolution of consumer television and Blu-Ray movies, something really huge!

However, to play a YouTube video at 4K resolution, we require a very fast computer with ultra-fast high-speed broadband connection. Just try this 4k videos 

Ringtone Editor For YouTube videos

Good ringtones not only makes our mobile phone funky, but it also reflects our personality. Here is a simple to use ringtone editor that lets you create ringtones from your music collection or from YouTube video. It has a built-in downloader for YouTube Video audio.

You can create ringtones from MP3, WAV, MP4 and FLV files. Its built-in editor lets you easily edit and convert audio files into custom ringtones.

These ringtones can drag and drop into your iTunes for your iPhone, import these MP3 ringtones into your Blackberry, Android or any MP3 enabled Smartphone.

Ringone Maker Soft works on any PC running Windows XP or later. Remember: It comes bundled with a registry scanner, uncheck this option while installing. You can download Ringtone Maker at here.

Play Snake Game on YouTube Video

Do you remember the good old classic video game Snake that was popular in 80s and 90s? Do you know how to play this Snake game on YouTube video? Here’s a little trick to play Snake on any YouTube video.

Snake can be played on any YouTube videos. When a video is selected, press the [left] key on your keyboard for four seconds and press [up] key.

The game will appear and can be played in the video screen with Up, Down, Left and Right keys. Eat the small apples without hitting the video borders! Enjoy!

Resize YouTube Video At Any Size With FlashResizer

FlashResizer is a handy Firefox extension designed to resize flash player available on sites like YouTube. You can resize flash player window (and also flash game window) at any size by just dragging. This is quite useful, especially on some sites that does not even allow to switch to full screen mode.

FlashResizer extension adds a nearly-unnoticeable two-pixels-width vertical green line next to flash objects, which what you’ll use to perform the resize (see screenshot). You can change the size and color of the vertical bar from the option menu.

As well, by double-clicking that green line, the flash player will automatically adjust the Flash element to the browser window’s inner width/height.

You can install FlashResizer at Mozilla add-on site.

Now You can Upload Video on YouTube by Drag and Drop

After introducing the drag and drop feature for attaching files in Gmail and Google Docs, Google has now introduced this feature for YouTube also. Now you can upload multiple videos on YouTube by just dragging and dropping, no need to use your system’s file open dialog.

However, this new feature requires latest version of Google Chrome or Firefox browser that supports HTML5.

This is of course good news for all who are always looking ways to save time in their daily tasks. 

How to Download YouTube Video Without Add on or Software

There are thousands of ways to download video from sites like YouTube and there are many browser add-ons, software tools, and manual methods to make it possible. Here is a very simple and efficient method to download video(in both MP4 (HD) and FLV format) from Youtube without any add-on or software. Moreover, you can use any browser for this. The only requirement is Java Runtime that must be in your system.

1. From YouTube, open your favorite video that you want to download.

2. Click on the address bar, and replace the word youtube to voobys (see screenshot below for details), do not change anything else in the URL. After replacing youtube to voobys, hit enter key.

3. Now it will ask you to run Java (The Voobys website uses Java Applet to convert the video). Allow Java to run.

4. A download video option will be shown. You can download different quality video (240p – 720/1020p HD) by clicking any of the 4 buttons (See screenshot).

Version 4 is HD video (720p/1020p – MP4), and Version1, 2 and 3 is FLV video (240p – 480p). Hope you’ll enjoy this post!

How to prevent unnecessary buffering of YouTube video

For a faster video browsing YouTube has presented an option to stop unnecessary buffering or downloading of videos.

When you are browsing several videos on YouTube and don’t like to watch few of them now, you can simply stop its buffering. Previously it was only possible by closing the video.

To disable buffering of YouTube video, while watching right click on video player screen and click option ‘Stop download’.

In this way you can have a faster video browsing on YouTube and can also save your monthly internetbill.

Google to Introduce Multiple Profiles for Google Chrome

Google introduces a new feature for its browser Google Chrome called multiple profiles. It is useful, for example, if you require multiple instances of login to Google account or if more than one person using Chrome browser on a computer and want their own bookmarks, extensions, apps, etc for their profile.

This feature is currently available in Chrome’s Canary builds and Chromium. However, it is more limited and you can only identify profiles using Google accounts.

To enable this feature, Just enter about:flags in the address bar, enable “Multiple profiles” and click “Relaunch browser” at the bottom of the page. Then, click Option – Personal Stuff – Create new profile.

The main benefit of this addition to Google Chrome is that, you don’t need complicated tweaking or add-ons to create multiple profiles, this feature is now available in the interface.

How to Enable Google Instant Search Enhancement in Opera

The new search enhancement Google Instant is definately a useful feature for surfers, but unfortunately this feature will not support Opera browser. However, here is a simple technique to make Google Instant works in Opera Browser also.



First of all, visit www.google.com in Opera. Right click anywhere on the page and select “Edit Site Preferences”.
Now go to the “Network” tab and choose Identify as Firefox” from the drop down list on the bottom. Click OK to save. That’s it.

Remember, Google Instant is currently available in US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Russia. For other countries, You need to switch back to google.com by clicking the link ‘Go to Google.com’ shown under the search box 

Know what exactly Google TV is

You might have heard about Google TV, but did you know what exactly Google TV is? Google just launched a new official website for Google TV that contains answers to all the questions you may have about this Google’s new service.

The website has a cool, sleek look and stunning animations which helps anybody to understand what exactly Google TV is.

The website offers a list of Google TV features, a spotlight area with featured content and also provide information on how to create apps for Google TV.

Ok that, but how to get Google TV? To get Google TV either you need a standalone smart TV like the Sony Internet TV, or a separate box you can use with your current TV, like the Logitech Revue. [via]

Chrome Toolbox Brings New Features And Functionality To Google Chrome

Chrome Toolbox is an add-on by Google for its browser Google Chrome (and one of most essential add-on) that brings several new functionalities to Chrome. Besides, it also helps you learn many shortcuts which will boost your productivity while using Chrome.

Chrome Toolbox brings following features to Google Chrome:

1. Magnify any image on a web page, set it as your wallpaper, and view it in its original size. Just hover your mouse pointer over an image to see these options.
2. Drag any video on a web page (Flash and HTML5 video) out of the page in its own stand-alone window; closing the window puts it back to the original page, both with play state reservation.
3. Customize tab behavior to close the tab on double click, to create a new tab on closing the last tab, and to always open a link in its own tab.
4. Save and restore unsubmitted form data, to avoid data loss caused by session expiration or a no-cache page setting.
5. One shortcut to launch all predefined URLs (from your Bookmark Manager folder)
6. Learn, compare and contrast shortcuts in Chrome and other popular browsers.
7. Put your favorite Chrome functionalities in the drop down menu; reorder them in the way you like

All above features are enable by default. You can configure Chrome Toolbox options to get most out of it. Interested Chrome users can install the add-on at Google Chrome extension repository.

How to remove Google Chrome installation ID for anonymous surfing?

When installing Google Chrome it creates a unique ID on your system. Thisclient_id variable is unique for every Chrome user, and which can be used to create exact user profiles of a user’s actions while using Google Chrome.

Although , this ID is mainly intended to remove duplicate installation reports from Google servers, you can remove this from your computer for privacy.

As Google doesn’t make it an easy job to remove this ID, you can use any of the two free tools described below to remove the mentioned ID.

1. UnChrome is a free tool that can replace your unique ID with Null values. So that your browser can no longer be identified. The functionality of Google Chrome is not affected by this. You only need to apply UnChrome once.

How to use it? Run UnChrome, and when it has successfully completed you can delete the installation file. No need to save it, since it need only be run once and you’ll remain anonymousthrough upgrades to Chrome.

2. Another tool is Chrome Privacy Protector which lets you remove Google Chrome ID from your Google Chrome installed on your computer.

To protect your privacy and remove the unique ID from your computer, launch Chrome Privacy Protector, and then close all Google Chrome windows now in case that it is currently launched, and then click the “Remove unique ID now” button to anonymize your Google Chrome.