Download iTune look like desktop media player - Songbird

Songbird is a multimedia player that follows the idea of open media web. Songbird comes from the developer team which gave birth to revolutionary players like Winamp and Yahoo Music Engine. Songbird team strongly believes in the preachings of Mozilla foundation and they support Mozilla Foundation's mission to preserve innovation and choice on the Internet.

Songbird is a highly customizable alternative to traditional desktop media players, and this has lot of addons to experience the richness of multimedia. The point 6 final release has been made by the Songbird team with features that could out shine other desktop media players. The latest release of Songbird supports iPod and other MTP devices. And of course, this is a community powered product.

Download Songbird for better desktop media experience. Also, download FLV player plugin for your Windows Media Player

Know the heat map of your website or blog for better ad placement

Heat map of a website or blog is very important for properly planning the placement of advertisements. The heat map can helps you analyze the prominent links, which your visitors are targeting and the area of focus of visitors.

The best advertisement placements strategy is specific to each website and blog. Heat map of your website can guide you to place the advertisements in the area where you will get more clicks users. There is free service available from crazyegg.com, which can help you find the heat map of your website and blog. Just register and put a script and begin a test for getting the heat map. Analyze the result for the better placement of ads on your blog and website and increase the monetization of your website.

Get the heat map of your blog from crazyegg.com, also read about adsense layout strategy to get more clicks on your ads.

Watch YouTube and MetaCafe Videos at work and school even if blocked

It may happen to most of the people at work and school, to be deprived of favorite online video sharing sites. Especially to those who in middle east. There is a workaround to watch videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Google videos, Yahoo Videos and ifilm, even if these video sites are blocked at your work place and school. In order to do this live search should not be blocked.

Just go to the search.live.com url and select the video tab then enter the name of the video site as the search query. The search result will display all the cached videos from the entered site, then just keep mouse over the video icons. It will start playing, from the live search cache. You cannot make it full screen, you have compromise that!. Its working with most of web browsers. If you know some other better way to watch videos from blocked video sharing sites, please share it as comments to this post.

Also read how you can access restricted and expired websites.

Great collection of free blogger xml templates

This is a great news for all bloggers in blogspot platform who is looking for some professional xml blog templates. Thanks to Amanda for her great effort to help fellow bloggers. She has provided all those templates for free.


You can download professional and classic templates that well suites with your blogging niche from Amanda's bloggerbuster.com. Go ahead and choose from her 101 excellent Blogger XML templates.

Also read about the successful ways of blog promotion strategies.

Download Internet Explorer 8 beta from Microsoft

Microsoft has geared up to release its IE 8 final by the end of this year 2008. They have made a beta release of IE 8 for Web developers and Designers. The new Internet Explorer comes well integrated with Microsoft online services like live, maps, spaces etc.

I felt that Its much faster compared to IE 7. Another facility targeting web developers and designers is the inbuilt application similar to Firebug in Firefox. Its is a good signal that IE Team is recognizing and learning lot of browser practices and thumb rules from Mozilla Firefox.

Download and feel the Internet Explorer 8 Beta.

Also read about the gift cake from IE Team to Mozilla on Firefox 3 release.

Download Bible for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch

The ClearSight.org has came up with a Bible program for iPhone and iPod touch. It was created to be a usable Bible program with the King James Version as its default version. The iPhone Bible also lets you search for any word or phrase in the Bible easily. You can easily and quickly jump to any other passage and easily link to the passages with a short link.

The pages of Bible also loads quickly over EDGE. Since Search and Jump are easily available from any chapter, you doesnt have to go to a different search page. This web application also offers the ability to download an IMAP version to your iPhone or iPod touch, so that you can have Bible as an offline application in your iPhone.

Checkout the Bible for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Also see the Bible application for other mobiles and iPhone themes for Nokia mobile.

Get free domain with support for CNAME, A, MX, NS records

There are lot of free domain name providers available in the internet, most of them provides the feature of redirecting URL to your own web space location like blogspot, googlepages or live web spaces. Recently, I just came across a domain name provider that even supports for CNAME, A, MX, NS records. With co.cc you can use custom domain with your blog or customized services and you can create customized email accounts with co.cc domain name.

You can also use co.cc domain with Google Apps, Windows live, Blogger, WordPress, Zetaboards, Tistory etc. You will have absolute control for mapping your DNS entry to the corresponding web space providers. One important tip for choosing your domain with co.cc is, select only non famous names, because they are charging for the famous domain names.

Register for your own co.cc domain name. Also read the article about unlimited web space providers.

Get free Digital Photo Prints Online

As the digital photography dominated over the conventional film photography, those who owns digital camera and a PC with good storage capacity, can be lord for housing a big collection of photos.

When it comes to getting the prints for making a greeting card or an album, you will have to pay from your pocket. But here is an offer from ZoomIn, which can get you free 25 prints if you signup for an account with them, which is also a free. Once you have an account with ZoomIn, you will get a chance to get more free prints online, by referring your friends to signup with ZoomIn.

Get you digital photo prints for free. You can also read the article about ultimate free online photo editing service.

ICE is melting: IE Team sent a Congratulation Cake to Mozilla team on Firefox 3 shipping

Microsoft Internet Explorer Team has sent a Congratulation Cake to Mozilla Team for shipping the Firefox 3. The cake which also has the 3D internet explorer icon symbolizes the presence of Firefox fans(souls) among IE Team.


It is a very welcome step from IE Team, to recognize the importance and popularity of Firefox. This could be a chance for IE Team to forge a good relation with Mozilla Team to learn a lot about Easy, Secure and Safe browsing technologies and aspects.

Waiting to see, what Mozilla Team will present to IE Team on shipping IE 8!!!.

Source: Channel9.msdn.com | Also read: Download Firefox 3 for safe browsing

Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio for free if you are student

As part of promoting Microsoft softwares among young generations, Microsoft is giving away its famous products for free, to students. The program named DreamSpark, they says "it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career", has been kicked off aiming to build trust and awareness among the young generations about the MS Products.

The products lined up for DreamSpark program are, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, MS Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, Microsoft Expression Studio, XNA Game Studio 2.0, XNA Creators Club Online and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition. Everything free of charge!!!.

If you are a student who belongs to any of the accredited schools in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium, then you are lucky enough to claim this free offer today itself. Also Microsoft mentioned that, they are working towards to add more countries and schools to their DreamSpark program.

Download free Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional and Expression Studio

Also read: Download New Office Accounting Software from Microsoft for Free

Use Google Notebook for instant Online Notemaking needs

You might be well aware of the notemaking softwares available for desktops, one from very famous Microsoft's Office family, Microsoft OneNote and the other with a touch of free and open source motives, Evernote. But when it comes to online note making, Google leads the pack. Google Notebook, which was released even few years back, is still keeping its momentum and online presence. As with all Google products, Google Notebook is pretty simple to use with a simple and aesthetic interface for easy note making experience online. Google also provides a firefox addon for its Notebook to directly add notes from Firefox to Google Notebook.


Google Notebook also helps bloggers to make notes instantly online while browsing. It helps me a lot. If you did not try Google Notebook, then next thing you need to do is, login to: www.notebook.google.com

Also read: EverNote a free alternative to Microsoft OneNote

Download and Experience the safe and secure browsing with Firefox 3

Mozilla has released the much awaited browser from its stable, Firefox 3, on 17th of June 2008. The all new Firefox 3 comes with a big bundle of features. Mozilla team has given high priority to performance improvement, security, easy customization, look and feel etc. Apart from this there are a lot many features to experience in Firefox 3.


I personally recommend you all to download Firefox 3 and experience the new realm in safe and secure internet browsing. Spread the word about Firefox 3 to make the web much more safe and secure for you and the generations to come. Download Firefox 3 and join the party.

Also read: Create new profile for your Firefox web browser

Watch Euro Cup 2008 matches live through internet

I searched a lot for getting some links for watching live Euro Cup 2008 football matches online. I came through many links which allows us to watch Euro cup 2008 live, like oleolefootball.com which is paid one. Also I came across a blog entry by Martin which listed some client application which can help you watch football online, in Windows and Linux. Unfortunately I could not try this myself.


I feel you can easily watch free live Euro Cup 2008 match through BBC sports. But, in some areas the live coverage may not be available those people can satisfy by listening to the live BBC Radio 5 Live Commentary.

Enjoy Euro Cup 2008 with BBC Sports. Go watch Euro Cup 2008 live.

Also read: Play Cricket match online for free from Zapak

Improve the computer performance automatically with Diskeeper 2008

After some period of time you will notice that your PC is getting slowed down. There could be number of reasons behind this performance slowed down. The most prominent reason could be the performance slowdown of your hard disk, because of fragmented files. You can get those files defragmented with tools available with Windows OS itself, but this may not help you to get back your actual performance.

Recently I came across a software that can improve the performance of Windows PC by properly maintaining the hard disk. Diskeeper 2008 improves system performance, debugging fragmentation-based problems as they occur, without ever compromising vital system resources.

Diskeeper 2008 is very important for those who are really worried of their computer performance. Download Trial version of Diskeeper 2008 and experience the results.

Also read: Improve performance of a slow Windows PC and Laptop with Auslogics BoostSpeed 4

Make backup and restoration of blogspot blogger blogs

Even though Google servers are reliable and fast, there may arise situations where you may lose your valuable blog posts. This can be either due to Google server errors, or may be because of blogger policy violations from blog owners side. So it is always better and safer to keep backup of your blog regularly.

There is a free and open source software available for backup of blogspot blogs, which is a hosted open source project in CodePlex.The name itself is Blogger Backup.

This tool provides a very easy interface to backup and restore your blog posts. This is a must have utility for all blogspot bloggers.


You can also try out the import wizard in wordpress for keeping a backup of your blogspot blog online.

Download the Blog Backup Software for Google Blogger Platform

Also read: Successful ways of blog and website promotion