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Usually to search something in the web people use some keywords. Google provides an efficient way to make a search not only text documents but in the PDF, MS Word etc which are not readable without special applications. Now it’s time to search a video by words which occur there. Unfortunately, Google cannot help you but Blinkx can. Blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine:

Unlike other multimedia search engines that attempt to re-purpose technology built for the Text Web, blinkx uses a unique combination of patented conceptual search, speech recognition and video analysis software to efficiently, automatically and accurately find and qualify online video. Today, blinkx is the world’s largest single index of rich media content on the Web, delivering more content from a broader range of sources than either Google or Yahoo!

If you ask yourself that question every time at the end of month you need Expensr. Expensr is moder, free Web 2.0 service which gives you a simple way to keep a home bookkeeping. Debit, credit, charts and analysis help you save your money and know where they exactly go. You can make your data as a private or share and compare them with other Expensr members. With Expensr your family exchequer is under control!

TEMPO is stylish and useful gadget for all who use computer. We all know that all deleted files are moved to the virtual recycle bin which actually a special directory in your OS. So, there is a way to recover data deleted by mistake. If you don’t clean your trash of course. TEMPO offers safer way to store your deleted stuff. Actually, it’s an external storage (about 250Gb) which looks like a little recycling bin. It communicates with your PC via Bluetooth to backup all deleted files. Series colored LEDs on the side of the device indicates how full the “bin” is. There is an only one big disadvantage of TEMPO – it supports Windows and Mac only. So, Linux geeks should be careful when they delete something from the HDD

Nokia lunched MOSH Beta – a content sharing site where community members upload, distribute and manage content to be viewed and enjoyed on mobile devices. The new service is oriented on Nokia mobile devices users only (to use it you have to install a special application on the your device). So, if you’re not Nokia fan this service is definitely not for your. But if you have a Nokia770 or N800 or some other advanced mobile device from Nokia try it. Maybe you’ll find what do you really need.

P. S. Moshing is a type of dance characterized by audience members aggressively pushing or slamming into each other.

DJMag – well-known publishing about club culture holds a voting to find 100 the best DJs of the world this year. My voting here:

1. Armin van Buuren (for sure, he is the best!)
2. DJ Tiesto
3. Paul Oakenfold
4. Paul van Dyk
5. Nick Warren

Do not miss you chance give your votes for your favorite DJ! Voting closes on 25th September. Results announced at a glittering party in London on 24th October.

Sometimes low bandwidth Internet connection hampers to enjoy videos from YouTube. vConvert.net offers a simple way not only download video from YuoTube but convert it into appropriate format: .wmv, .mov, .mp4, .3gp, .mp3, and .flv to allows watch it later on your PC, PSP, iPod or mobile phone.

You may be interested to know about another ways to download YouTube Videos.

[via Mashable!]

Today I spent about three hours to play with “extremely practical and user friendly” interface of WinXP. The problem was that Windows is too smart (at least for me). It tries to foresee your desires. But as result you wast your time to switch off next “intelligent” feature. In my case I heed to download CSV file from site supported IE only. But IE opens that file in browser window with Excel, corrupted its data. Finally I found solution:

• Open Control Panel
• Open Folder Options
• Click File Types
• Locate “CSV” and click the Advanced button
• Check the box that says “Confirm open after download”
• Do the same for “XLS Microsoft Excel Worksheet” as well
• Click Ok

It was amazing. I checked Alan Simpson’s Windows XP Bible and O’Reilly – Fixing Windows XP Annoyances but without luck. Maybe that issue so trivial that everybody knows how to solve it. Anyway, once again I saw that Windows is not my choice!

After upgrade my Fedora 7 up to kernel 2.6.22 I couldn’t configure VMware Player 2.0.0-45731. The configuration crashed during building of vmnet module:

Thanks to Philipp Baer who did a patch for VMWare Workstation 6.0 which works for VMware Player 2.0.0-45731 as well. To solve the problem do following:

• Untar vmnet.tar to temporary directory:
  $ tar xfv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar -C /tmp/
• Download the patch:
  $ wget -P /tmp http://npw.net/~phbaer/vmware-workstation-6.0_linux-kernel-2.6.22.patch
• Apply the patch:
  $ CD /tmp/vmnet-only
  $ patch -p1 < ../vmware-workstation-6.0_linux-kernel-2.6.22.patch
  $ CD ../

• Put patched sources back into archive
  $ tar vzcf vmnet.tar vmnet-only

  and copy to the VMWare module source directory

  $cp vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
• Run VMWare configuration script:
  $ vmware-config.pl