Thanks to some of my seniors and a few websites I found online, I discovered that downloading you tube videos is indeed a piece of cake.
So you watch a YouTube video, and you liked it, and you watch it again. But at a later point of time, you feel like watching the video again, but your free download quota is filled and watching videos is a strict no no. Now you think it would have been better if you had downloaded the video and had a copy on your system.
A google search gives you several websites, that let you do the same, download you tube videos.
But the method I feature here, uses the fact that, when you watch a video on YouTube, you are actually downloading it to your computer. It’s cached in your temporary files and folders.
In windows, finding that particular file is a headache. Yes, I mean it. But enter Ubuntu, and the whole task is simplified.
So how do you do it?
First, watch the video completely, or at least let the red bar load fully, ie, let the video stream completely.
Go to /tmp/ folder. Use cd /tmp for that from the terminal.
You should find files like this “Flash***”. Those are your youtube videos. Copy or move them to your home folder and you have successfully obtained the file.
Make it more clearer.
If you just didn’t get things right, then here’s what you need to do, from the terminal. (Press [Alt]+[F2] and type gnome-terminal. It opens the terminal.)
Then run this command.
cp /tmp/Flash* ~/Desktop/
This will copy the Flash files to your Desktop.
Enjoy the videos, without hurting your bandwidth and your pocket!
I was planning to post this as a comment here. (Corey suggests to STOP blogging!?) But it was better to post it as a blog post I thought. It’s about why blogging at multiple places, just because they belong to different categories, isn’t always a good idea.
If you are simultaneously blogging on multiple blogs (read as more than three), then you better stop. Being a jack of all trades just isn’t enough. Make sure you a master in at least one.
There have been successful bloggers (like Darren of problogger), who after succeeding in their first blog, went on to make more. But they made sure that they enjoyed blogging on those topics.
It’s better to blog based on a particular niche. So when you have a galore of ideas and they are seem irrelevant, then you feel like creating a new blog for that niche. Good idea, but sorry it will leave you burnt out early.
Be a master of integration. I started with a free blog where I penned down everything. Then I published posts relating to the web, computers and Linux. Typical tech related stuffs. And for general topics and philosophy I started several other blogs. But multiple blogs just didn’t work. I kept to the tech blog and posted only tech stuffs.
Soon I put a stop. But so many thoughts and I wanted to vent them out. I restarted from scratch, this time on a self hosted blog. And though initially I blogged everything, I kept to tech stuffs (wp tips, hacks, linux, social media, tech that caught my interest and made me curious). I carefully created categories (but still am not satisfied), so that it helps my audience to reach my content easily.
But then I felt that I should pen down my thoughts about life, the people around, the government, the education system etc, and that’s when Posterous came to my needs. It was easy to post by sending emails. It was a new and interesting concept. I have started blogging at Posterous, my personal blog, This ‘n’ That. The place where I vent out the other side of my thoughts.
Early in the morning news came out, that a new group called the Anti-Sec (meaning Anti Security) and cracked into ImageShack. I came to know of it from Mashable Website.
I don’t know who these guys are. But what they say makes some meanings. I used to believe that Windows Viruses were released by AntiVirus Companies, so that we buy their products. By without full disclosure, the consequences may be several.
They claim that
“if you own a security blog, an exploit publication website or you distribute any exploits you are a target and you will be r(e)m(ove)’d. Only a matter of time”.
Maybe it’s nightmare time for Security Firms, who sell security products.
I found that someone had posted on Indiblogger that, his blog had been hacked by Anti Sec. I was shocked at first to know that it was a “blogspot” hosted blog. I trusted Google because of their security features and Anti Sec surpassed them?
Well, a quick check of the blog’s source code, revealed that the blogger account had never been compromised.
The problem was solved and the blogger is now a happy man.
The actual problem was caused by a widget called “Floating Back to Top Icon Widget”. It used an “arrow” image from ImageShack. Anti Sec fellows replace that “arrow” with the above image and it trickled down to the various blogspot hosted blogs that use that widget.
It consumes, half of the blog (I will try to get some images).
The solution was simple. Remove that Widget and the Image will go away.
Everyone’s favorite video player, VLC has brought out the 1.0 version. Named as Goldeneye, this has not yet been updated to the Ubuntu Repositories (I tried it didn’t work. Date: 8 July 2009).
I installed VLC 1.0 today and faced some minor issues. Everything sorted out, I thought it will be good if I publish a post about the same, as I didn’t find any online.
1. Open a terminal window. (Open “Run Application” dialog using [Alt]+[F2] and type “gnome-terminal” to open a terminal.)
2. Type out this command to open the sources.list file. Enter your password when prompted for.
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
3. Add the following lines to the end of the sources.list file. Please remember that this is only for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) based OS (That should include Linux Mint 7 too).
