Stream Transport - Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free

• Widely support for overwhelming online videos
  The app is able to browse and download video clips from video hosting websites of HTTP, RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPE, RTMPTE protocol, and these cover overwhelming majority of websites such as Hulu, Veoh, Boxee, Joost, YouTube, Yahoo Video, CBS, etc.
• Capture URL automatically
  The URL of any video clip that is playing will be auto-captured and listed out for your convenience, and you can download it with one click or just ignore it. There is no bother to add URL manually.
• Enrich your A/V collection
  This FLV Downloader is capable of downloading almost any video and audio file you can play online so that you can turn numerous online video and audio into your own collection. The videos will be saved as FLV or MP4 format in your media library and a powerful player is inlaid for you to play them back freely.
• Considerate task manager and view log
  The task manager lists detailed information of files such as name, size, progress, location etc and allows you to play, stop, delete and convert (full version) the FLV files downloaded. Auto shutdown is available as well. The view log makes it easier to manage your tasks.

Download & Credit: http://www.streamtransport.com

How to:

Hulu.com is very famous for its attracting video contents and also known as an undownloadable site which is using highly encrypt RTMP, and RTMPE protocols for video streaming. The new released free download tool, StreamTransport (used to be called Any FLV Downloader), will help you out and download whatever videos you like from Hulu, and more other video-sharing sites, such as YouTube, MySpace, Veoh, Yahoo!Video, etc. Here’s the guide on how to use this handy tool. You can download the installation program from http://www.streamtransport.com. Install and launch it.

1. Go to link. Type in the link of the video-sharing site you plan to go, and click Start button or press Enter on your keyboard to confirm. Here’s a Visit Hulu button which enables you go to Hulu.com with a single click.

2. URL detection. Click in the page where the wanted video is playing, and the program will detect the video URL automatically for you.

3. Create download task. Select the right URL in the detection list section and click Download to create a download task. There is detailed information of each video. For most streams, there will be ads before the main video. You can manually select the longer one and/ or latter one for the main video stream. And then, the Download window showing the progress of download will pop up.

4. Pause, Resume, Stop, Remove, and Locate video tasks. In Download window, you can monitor the process of the download. You can also stop, remove, or locate a downloading task. For the stopped tasks, you can also resume them, but the download will start again from the very beginning.
Note: This window can be minimized or closed without ending the downloading tasks. You can resume the monitor by clicking Show Tasks on the main interface of this video stream downloading tool.
5. Muli-task availability. You can download up to 5 videos at one time.
6. Play the downloaded video. The video you downloaded is .flv files. You can play them with Splayer, VLC player, or any other free FLV players.
7. What’s more you can do with the downloaded file? You can also convert the files into other format for playing with some video converters. Searching on Google Search, you will find plenty of free tools for it.

Download & Credit: http://www.streamtransport.com


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Best Open/Save Dialog Box Extenders

Most people don't know about open/save dialog box extenders, which is shame since these little programs can make your life a lot easier. They work in the background and improve the functionality of the common Microsoft Windows open and save dialog boxes that are used from nearly every program. You might not have given much thought to those built in dialogs, but the simple truth is that they suck. After spending a few days with the programs below we think you'll probably agree with us that you couldn't live without one.

The main thing a dialog box extender does is let you expand the size of the dialogs, change to a different view mode (like details mode), and keep a list of favorite and recent folders you can easily navigate to.

This is not a category where one single program stands out clearly above the rest, and we recommend you try out any that sound appealing to you - this is probably one of those categories where you may viscerally respond well to some better than others. However we did identify three utilities that we thought had the best combination of features:

• Direct Folders (some nice special features)

• Filebox Extender (very clean and simple and stable)

• File-Ex (different approach using combo boxes, great file finder)

• XFilesDialog (lots of buttons if that suits you; great per-application settings)

We think that the open source program DM2 has great potential to in this category in the long term, but is currently not suitable as an alternative to the shareware programs.

Download: Dialog Extenders Softwares

Credit: http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/DialogExtenders/index.html

WHAT IS AN OPEN/SAVE DIALOG EXTENDER?

In nearly every program you use on your computer, when you save and open a file, you encounter the Microsoft Open/Save Dialog. You may not have given this dialog much thought, but that the fact that you interact with it so often means that even the minor inconveniences can add up over time to major annoyances.

Over the years a number of special utilities have emerged that run in the background (usually living in your system tray), and when they see an open/save/browse dialog pop up, they quickly hook into it and "extend" or "improve it" in a variety of ways.

The most common things done are to enlarge the dialog, sort the entries, and switch into an alternate display mode (many of us like details mode).

Perhaps most importantly, these dialogs can also keep track of recent folders and a list of your favorite folders, and make these available from an easy menu, letting you jump directly to these folders from the open/save dialogs.

This ability, to quickly navigate to recent and favorite folders, can be a life saver if you are the kind of person who keeps their files organized into nice hierarchies.

Some of the tools are minimalist in terms of what they add to the dialogs, and some are more elaborate; which you prefer may depend on your aesthetic preferences.

original vs. extended (sample using filebox extender)

FEATURES WE CARE ABOUT

Here are the features we consider most important for a good open/save dialog extender

• Stability - has to work on modern and older dialogs, and not crash any programs; and has to reliably alter the dialogs without switching into inappropriate views.
• It should adjust folder-only browse dialogs as well.
• Needs to be able to change default mode (into details for example).
• Needs to be able to change size of dialog.
• Should be aesthetically pleasing and not overly obtrusive.
• Needs to present list of recent files and folders.
• Needs to present list of favorite folders, and user should be able to customize this list easily.
• Should be easy to add current folder to favorites.
• Needs to work in some tricky cases like Microsoft Office.
• Ability to specify applications to ignore would be nice.

Download: Dialog Extenders Softwares

Another Software: http://www.southbaypc.com/AutoSizer/

Credit: http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/DialogExtenders/index.html

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Dimdim - Meet in your browser for free

Meet in your browser.
If you can browse, you can meet freely

Face-to-face meetings used to be the only way to get things done. Now the best way to save money, time and travel is to collaborate over the Web with Dimdim. Push button simplicity lets everyone host or attend live meetings, demos and webinars using just a web browser instantly increasing your productivity. Give presentations, share web pages, whiteboards, voice, video – even record your events - with no software to install and with no hassles.

Dimdim is free for small meetings and is only $25 per month for unlimited use with many more participants. And only Dimdim is both easier to use and much less expensive than WebEx or GoToMeeting.

Try it or buy it today and see why this is The Best Way to Work®.

Credit: http://www.dimdim.com

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Startup Delayer - Spped up you PC!

The power to speed up your computer's startup process!

Can you learn another language in the time it takes for your machine to boot? Do you turn on your PC when you go to bed, so it's finished booting by the time you get home from work the next day?







When Windows loads it's Startup file, it attempts to load every program in there at the same time. Therefore if you have quite a lot of programs starting when Windows starts, each program will try and grab CPU time so that it can load.

If each program tries to do this at the same time, you soon notice the slow down that occurs, due to your CPU trying to help all the programs to load, and your hard disk accessing multiple files.

Startup Delayer allows you to setup how many seconds after Windows has started, to load each program.

For Example:
If you have your mail program and a special clock starting up, then you can make your mail start say 10 seconds after Windows has loaded, and then the special clock start 20 seconds after Windows Starts.

Compatible with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/XP64/Vista

Credit: http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=startdelay



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Microsoft Office - Recover deleted items from any folder

Credit: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011165281033.aspx

Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003
Microsoft Outlook® 2000 and 2002

This feature requires you to use a Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail account. This feature is designed for advanced users who are comfortable backing up and modifying the Microsoft Windows® Registry.

Outlook provides a way to recover items after you have permanently deleted them, including after emptying the Deleted Items folder. Your Exchange server administrator specifies the retention time for permanently deleted items on the Exchange server. After this time has elapsed, you cannot recover the deleted items.

By default, to use the Recover Deleted Items command on the Tools menu, you must be viewing the Deleted Items folder. By modifying the registry, this command is available regardless of which Outlook folder that you are viewing. You can view and recover deleted items, including those items that were permanently deleted by using SHIFT+DELETE, for the folder that you are viewing.

Note If you deleted an item and emptied the Deleted Items folder, click Deleted Items to use Recovered Deleted Items. Only items that you permanently deleted with SHIFT+DELETE or SHIFT+ are available in folders other than Deleted Items.

Caution If you use the registry editor incorrectly, you might cause serious problems that might require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using the registry editor incorrectly. Use the registry editor at your own risk.

1. Exit Outlook.
2. Open the Windows registry editor.
3. Browse to My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options.
4. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
5. Type the name DumpsterAlwaysOn.

   Note Do not type any spaces in the name.

6. Set the DWORD value to 1.
7. Restart Outlook.

The Tools menu now has the Recover Deleted Items command for every Outlook folder.

Credit: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011165281033.aspx

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