The Internet Bandwidth consumption has vastly increased over the past couple of years as WWW has evolved drastically and power Internet users including the basic ones are now usually seen downloading several GBs of multimedia stuff such as music, movies, videos, games, software, etc. everyday from over the web. So, we’ve once again decided to hold a giveaway of ‘IDM’, an essential and one of our favorite software. Consider this as a small Xmas gift from WebTrickz and Tonec for our lovely readers.

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is certainly the best, fastest and full-featured download manager for Windows that increases file download speeds by up to 5 times, offers the ability to resume and schedule downloads. Its built-in smart download logic accelerator uses intelligent dynamic file segmentation technology to accelerate your downloads to an extreme extent. IDM has an easy-to-use interface, supports a majority of file types and integrates seamlessly with all popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera. The downloaded files are automatically sorted, can be placed in categorized folders or one can set a user-defined directory to save files.

The new version 6.07 adds IDM download panel for web-players to download videos from sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, and Google Videos. It also adds improved integration for IE, redesigned and enhanced download engine, the unique advanced integration into all latest browsers, improved toolbar, and other improvements and new features.

Other Features include:

• Batch downloading support – Download multiple files at once

• Resume unfinished downloads – Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to network problems, shutdown, etc.

• Supports HTTP, FTP, HTTPS and MMS protocols.

• Scheduler – Set a start and stop download time to download a file or a queue of files at a desired time interval. Option to hang up modem, exit IDM or turn off computer when the task is done. Useful for broadband users with unlimited night usage.

• Zip Preview – Option to view the contents of a .zip archive before downloading.

• Speed Limiter – allows to set the maximum download speed limit for one file.

• YouTube Grabber – ‘Download this video’ option pops-up on viewing a YouTube video or FLV videos on other sites. Easily save YouTube videos in preferred format.

• Automatic Antivirus check – Configure IDM and select the installed Antivirus program to enable virus checking after the file gets downloaded.

• Site Grabber – Download all pictures from a site, subsets or complete web sites.

• Prompts and asks what to do if a duplicate download link is added.

• Customize the look and easily configure browser/system integration options.

• Arrange Downloads on basis of their file name, size, transfer rate, etc.

• Multilingual – supports 13 languages natively.

GIVEAWAY – We’re offering 10 Free Genuine Licenses of Internet Download Manager, the license expires in one year and is eligible for Free upgrade to all new versions of IDM during one year. To participate in contest, follow the rules below:

1. Tweet about this giveaway on twitter or Share about it on Facebook. (Use the Tweet and FB Share buttons below.)

2. Post an engaging comment below, briefly describing what’s best about IDM and why you need it? Do share your tweet status link or Facebook post link in the comment.

10 Winners will be chosen randomly from the comments section below and results will be announced on December 17th.

~ You can Try out IDM now by downloading its 30-day fully functional trial.

UPDATE – This giveaway is closed now. Thanks for participating.

10 Lucky Winners chosen randomly are: Naits, Tan Jor Shun, Rinsoy Nellissery, David Macdonald Ajang, ha14, pham hoang, Tip4PC, gargi2221, manuel, vmancer

Note: Winners will be notified via email and they’ve to respond back to our email in order to get the IDM license. If they don’t respond, then runners-up will get the license.

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Dirpy is back in action – Dirpy, the popular and amazing online media conversion service was discontinued due to lack of resources. Seems Dirpy team wasn’t happy about it and thus decided to kick off once again after resting for a while! It has been more than a month since Dirpy is back into existence but we got to know about it now and couldn’t stop us from informing you. Folks at Dirpy are also putting in their efforts to spread the word, informing people that they’re back in town.

Dirpy, currently in beta, is a free and advanced Internet Digital Video Recorder online service that lets you record and convert your favorite YouTube videos to high quality MP3s in real-time. It offers many useful features like real-time conversions, ID3 metadata tags, offsets, support for high quality audio formats (including HD).

Besides converting YouTube videos to MP3, Dirpy offers the ability to easily download and save YouTube videos to your computer in a variety of different formats. It outputs YouTube videos in FLV and MP4 format – in standard, HD 720p, Full HD 1080p qualities. The handy Dirpy Bookmarklet makes it easier to quickly download a video from a certain webpage in desired format.

Dirpy is working on various other new features to improve and make it more interesting. Do check it out and spread the word if you’re glad to see them back!

Link: www.dirpy.com

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Few months back, Google rolled out the Cosmic Panda experimental design for YouTube that offers a different look and a new experience for Videos, Playlists, and Channels but hasn’t been launched publicly yet. It now appears that YouTube is testing a fresh new design for their homepage which isn’t introduced for official preview yet but is being rolled out randomly for some YouTube users. Moritz Tolxdorff, a smart folk on Google+ has figured out a way to get the new design by tricking a related cookie.

You can easily enable the New YouTube homepage on Google Chrome and Firefox browser. This wont affect the design of individual videos webpage. To do so,

1. Open www.youtube.com

2. Press Ctrl + Shift and J in Chrome to open the Developer Tools.

Press Ctrl+Shift+K in Firefox

3. In Chrome, click on the "Console" Tab, paste the below code and hit enter.

document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=ST1Ti53r4fU";

In Firefox, just paste the above code (next to grey arrow) and hit enter.

4. Reload YouTube and enjoy the new layout.

What’s New?

1. An all new beautifully designed homepage.

2. Subscribed and Suggested channels are listed in a sidebar on left. Added option to check the Popular and Trending videos from YouTube.

3. The mid-panel shows the lists of most recent videos from your Subscriptions, thus making it easier to keep up with the latest activity.

4. Quickly subscribe to favorite channels by sorting them on basis of categories.

5. Recommended videos are listed on the right sidebar of homepage.

This new YouTube design isn’t declared officially yet and might get changed in future.

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In the past, we’ve covered YouTube Downloader HD and YouTube HD Transfer, some programs for Windows that allows you to easily download videos from YouTube. Here is another similar program by SnowFox software that does this job really well.

SnowFox YouTube Downloader HD formerly a paid software, is 100% Free now. The program with a nice and easy-to-use user interface, allows users to batch download different format of videos from YouTube, such as MP4 (360p), FLV (480p), High Definition MP4 (720p), and Full HD MP4 (1080p). It also offers the ability to batch download multiple videos in high quality at a high speed. The downloaded MP4 videos are compatible with iPod/iPhone and other supported portable media devices.

The AutoSet option comes handy as it lets you set a pre-defined download location and format for videos to be downloaded. You can pause an individual download and also pause/start multiple downloads using the blue buttons at top. The app displays the format of video being downloaded, downloading speed, estimated download time and size of the video. After downloading gets over, you can play the videos directly from within the program or open their folder location.

Supports: Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2000

Download SnowFox YouTube Downloader HD

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The Google and Samsung event has now been officially confirmed to be held on Oct 19th at 9:30 AM in Hong Kong. The media event originally scheduled for Oct 11th was delayed following Steve Jobs death. Apparently, the press invite depicts that Google is going to launch the next major iteration of Android OS, i.e. Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It’s highly speculated that much anticipated Google Android smartphones ‘Google Nexus’ or ‘Nexus Prime’ might also be officially unveiled at the event.

“The Samsung/Google media event has been rescheduled to take place on October 19 in Hong Kong, China at S221 Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.”

Following this news, the statue of Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) has also been erected in the Googleplex campus. Check out the below video uploaded by Android Developers.

Watch Android Event Live at YouTube on Oct 19th –

Google will Live stream the Google/Samsung Ice Cream Sandwich and Nexus Prime or Google Nexus press event on YouTube at 10AM, Hong Kong Time (HKT). That’s 7PM Pacific/10PM Eastern on Oct 18th, timing for India is 7:30AM, Wednesday. Check your Local timings here.

Livestream Link – www.youtube.com/android

We’re really excited to have the delicious ice cream sandwich, are you?

Update – Google and Samsung Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus event is now officially available to watch on YouTube.

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The days of animated GIFs are back once again with the introduction of Google+, where whole lot of users love to post and share gif images. Google Plus apparently supports Gif images and as a result you can see numerous Animated GIF content on Google+, those targeting Facebook and other similar interesting stuff.

Perhaps, if you want to turn your favorite YouTube videos to GIFs then it can be simply done online in a few steps. However, you must consider converting only a small desired portion of the video into an animated Gif to prevent a large sized output gif image which would take longer to load. Here is a nice video tutorial created by Tinkernut.com which describes the entire process to get the task done. Check below:

Note: Make sure to first Register at Cellsea.com in order to download the edited video.

Video: How to Turn YouTube Videos Into Animated GIF’s

Required links: gifninja.com | cellsea.com/media/vindex.htm

See the sample Gif that we created using the above procedure.

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Certainly, entire Google team is on steroids – They first rolled out a fresh new design for Google Search, new light and spacious theme for Gmail, followed by the launch of its own social network “Google+“. Now, Google who owns the most popular video sharing site “YouTube“, has rolled out a completely new redesigned interface for YouTube, currently in experimental mode.

Cosmic Panda, the latest TestTube experiment from YouTube team offers a different look and a new experience for Videos, Playlists, and Channels at YouTube. One can easily switch to YouTube’s new design and have a taste of it. To try new experiment, just go to www.youtube.com/cosmicpanda and click “Try it out!”. You can go back to the older design by visiting Cosmic Panda webpage and selecting to go back to the “older version.”

The New YouTube test design looks elegant and is more of black-grey, that seems to direct major focus on the played video. The thumbnails of suggested videos in sidebar has gone bigger and the overall interface looks neat. A video size option has been added that lets you watch a video in 3 different sizes – standard, medium and large. Furthermore, you will see a ‘Pop out’ option on right-clicking the video that opens just the video in a new window on browser. There is a blue “Feedback” button on left side of webpage which you can use to share thoughts and give your suggestions, so they can improvise it in future updates.

Do check out YouTube’s cool new design now and share your views below.

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A few hours back, Apple unveiled OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. WWDC 2011 Keynote Address was presented by the trio – Phil Schiller gave demos of some exciting new features in OS X Lion, Scott Forstall discussed about new features and advancements in iOS5 and Steve Jobs presentation was all about their new service iCloud.

If you missed to catch the live updates of the Apple June 6th event, then you can watch the WWDC 2011 Event video now, directly available from Apple. The video works fine in Safari browser and if you want a more seamless watching experience, then just wait for a short while as Apple would make the video available in HD soon on YouTube.

Link – Watch Apple WWDC 2011 Keynote Address

Image Credit: Engadget

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