Mar 24
2009
My email is full of links: my friends send around YouTube videos to try and get a laugh, we share Picasa and Flickr albums with photos from last weekend’s camping trip, and we email around the Yelp reviews of restaurants we’re considering going to next Friday night.
The truth is, I’m pretty lazy. That’s why I like YouTube previews in Gmail chat — why open a new tab when I can watch the video my friend sent me right there? Gmail currently automatically detects package tracking information, addresses, and event information and shows quick links to delivery status, maps and directions, and Google Calendar. So why couldn’t Gmail automatically detect links in emails and show videos, photos, and ratings right inside these messages as well?
We built some new Gmail Labs features that do just that. For our first set, we picked stuff that often shows up in email: YouTube videos, Picasa and Flickr links, and Yelp reviews. Turn on Picasa previews from the Labs tab under Settings, and rather than having to click on a Picasa album link to see the photos it contains, you can see photos right in the message itself:
Same for Flickr:
Enable Youtube previews, and you can watch YouTube videos from inside your email:
And whenever you receive a Yelp link in an email, Yelp previews show you ratings, phone numbers, and other listing information right there:
Source: Official Gmail Blog
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Dec 09
2008
So, I have a new category on my blog now called “FW” which Represents “FREAKING WEBSITES”
Cool?
Ok, so we get our first freaking website here, and it is CatchYoutube.com
This is the best website for downloading youtube videos to a format of your choice, Really!
The home page: NOT BAD
Now we enter a video URL and see what happens!
So, I took this video as it was featured and was on the home page of YouTube..
And, Remember that while entering the link, extensions like in.youtube.com or sg.youtube.com , you have to remove the in, sg etc and the URL should be only youtube.com/video..
Now, I enter the link and choose the file as MP4 for my iPod 
After I click, convert & download.. Within few or I must say, less than few seconds, I get the download link!
I must admit, it was really cool to use catchyoutube.com and the download speed I was getting was also max!
I would recommend this to all Youtube lovers who love to keep their videos in their phones/pc’s/ipods!
Thanks for the read!
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Nov 29
2008
Most bloggers and website owners have RSS feeds to distribute their content and we’ve all heard of web directories for regular link submission.
Well, its most obvious that if you have more RSS readers, you will have more pageviews!
Here are the 55 Directories:
These RSS directories require free username registration.
Subscribe to our feed too, I hope you found this interesting 
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