The Easiest way to download Youtube Videos

youtube-logo-smlI have just discovered the EASIEST way yet to download, save and keep videos from Youtube! Its SO easy that it is scary.

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To use Flash Video Downloader you need to be using the Cool, Free, and really awesome Mozilla Firefox web browser. In Firefox, open the “Tools” option from the menu bar, then open “Add Ons”. Do a search for “Flash Video Downloader”, then click install once the plug in is found. Once it is installed, restart Firefox and you will now have a new “Download” button.

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 All you need to do when you find something you want to keep, is to click the download button, select the format you want, choose where you want to save the file, and download away!

HOW COOL!

How to listen to 80’s Hairband’s Music and other Internet Radio Stations 24 Hours a day – Part One – On The Go

I just love the internet radio station 181FM 80’s Hairbands. I love all of those glam rock bands like Poison, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi. I find myself listening to it daily, and in a variety of places. It occured to me that not everybody is aware of internet radio, and the plethora of cool music that is available to you, so I thought I would put together a tutorial on how you can listen to any of the thousands of internet radio stations anywhere, 24 hours a day, and we’ll use 80’s Hairbands as an example.

Part 1 – If you want to listen in your car, or through your head phones on the go, your phone is the best bet. Navigate to the App store for your phone (I’m using iPhone for this tutorial, but Tune In has a Free app for Android, Palm, Blackberry and Windows phones as well – see HERE) and search for the FREE Tune In Radio App.

Once you have downloaded and installed the app, open it and press “Browse” down the bottom.

In the search bar that appears at the top, type “80’s Hairband”

181FM 80’s Hairband Station should be the first one, so click it, and it should start playing. With in seconds of pressing it for this tutorial, I was listening to Malmsteen….SWEET HUH!

At this point it is important to make the station a favorite, so each time you want to listen, you dont have to go through the whole searching routine. To make it a Favorite, press the “Heart” in the top right corner, and then press “Add 181fm 80’s Hairbands to Favorites”.

Another station I also recommend is the Hard Drivin Radio NetworksBig 80’s Metal

 

How to listen to 80′s Hairband’s Music and other Internet Radio Stations 24 Hours a day – Part Two – At Work

In PART 1, we looked at how to listen to internet radio (specifically 181FM 80’s Hairband Station) on the go. In this part, we will look at two ways to listen at the office on your computer with a web browser, assuming your computer has sound capabilities. The quickest and easiest way to listen is to simply navigate to www.181.fm.

Once there, you will find a list of ALL of their cool stations down the left hand side. There’s SO much good music to listen to there. But if its Glam your looking for,  Just navigate down to “80’s Hairband”, and click it. A new window will open with a player in it, and it should start playing immediately.

Another way to listen to internet radio through your web browser is to go to Tunein.com, and in this case, again, we will search for “80’s Hairband” in the search bar at the top.

Once 181FM 80’s Hairbands appears, click it to open a new window which contains a player, and even the album art for the songs it is playing.

Quickly and Easily check your web site SEO performance with the SEO Workers Analysis Tool

SEO Workers LogoOver the last 5 years I have built dozens of web sites. During that time I have assessed a lot of “Tools” that are designed to give you Search Engine Optimization feedback on how your site looks to search engines, but I always seem to find myself coming back to The SEO Workers Analysis Tool. It’s the best.

If you want to know how your web site looks to the likes of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing etc etc, just go to seoworkers.com and plug your web site into their SEO Analysis tool, and it will tell you what is right with your site, what is wrong, and advise you what you can do to make your site rank better. They also have some really informative video’s you can watch, that appear automatically with your analysis results!

SEO Workers Analyzer Home PageOnce you are on their Analyzer Page, type in your sites URL, and answer the anti spam bot math question.

SEO Workers Submission WindowAfter you click submit, their analyzer will take a look at your site, assess it, and come back to you (Almost Instantly) with a complete Search Engine Optimization report, telling how your site looks to search engines, and advise on how you can tweak stuff to give you MORE POWER!

More PowerArgh Argh Argh!

Built With – Find out what makes a web site work

If you build web sites, from time to time you will happen upon a site and wonder what the developers used to make something work. That’s where “Built With” comes in.

Next time you find a site you like, go to builtwith.com, enter the URL of the site you like, and Builtwith will try to identify what technologies are in use on the site! Pretty cool huh!

As an example, try running on this site by clicking this link, and see just how accurate it is!

Check The Webernets on Built With

They also have plugins for popular browsers so you can run a scan with a click of a button without having to navigate away from the cool site you are looking at!

Twitter Tools Fail – WP to Twitter is next

Twitter ToolsI have been trialling “Twitter Tools” on this site, and hoping it would automatically add a tweet each time I add a new post here……..but it didn’t…..

So now I am trying “WP to Twitter” – Lets see how that goes.

If you know of any cool ways to integrate wordpress and twitter please leave a comment

**UPDATE** – WP to Twitter seems to be working well so far!