If you are behind a corporate firewall and trying to access https sites using Google chrome, you are most likely to face “SSL connection error”. As of this build of chrome (6.0.472.63) the problem still persists.
The workaround as suggested by few forums is to open chrome from command line using the following argument --allow-ssl-mitm-proxies
user ashok has a another fix for this from comments section
just correct the date and time setting .. ssl error will be resolved … try it
Google’s latest innovation in search Instant search is out. It displays the results below as you type in the search box area. To enable or disable google instant search, there is a nice small little link on the right side of the search box which says whether instant search is enabled or not. Just use it to toggle the same.
More on the topic can be found here
Update:
For 11.04’s clive version 2.2.13, the youtube video URLs are throwing the following error.
error: no match: `(?-xism:fmt_url_map=(.*?)&)'
and the solution for this is to pick the package from Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric which is of version 2.2.25-2 as of this writing.
Clive is very useful commandline utility to extract video from video websites like youtube.com and vimeo.com. The recent update to youtube url is causing clive to fail for any youtube url, giving unknown http/404 errors. Although the upstream is fixed the ubuntu package is still not updated with the same version i.e as of this writing clive_2.2.12-1.
In the meantime you can download the debian package for sid from here.
To use the Google Webmaster Tools for your blog, you must first add your blog and allow it to be self verified. This way you tell google, that this ‘site’ is indeed yours.
For a blogger account, the help is given here. If you choose the meta tag verification method for your blogspot blogs, here are the steps to get it verified.
Open your dashboard by visiting blogger.com. Proceed to Settings > Layout > Edit HTML > EDIT Template.
In the code provided copy the <meta> content you picked up from the google’s webmaster tools page. After saving the template, proceed to webmaster page and click on verfiy.
Also to update the sitemap url, proceed to http://yourblog.com/robots.txt copy the sitemap url and update it under Webmaster’s sitemap section.
Google has a host of mobile products for the Indian market, the full list can be seen here. Among them, the pick of the lot is the SMS product, using which one can get instant PNR status for your Indian railway ticket reservation.
Excerpts from the page here.
Get cricket scores, Indian Railways train schedules & ticket status, horoscopes, movie showtimes, restaurant information and more …all through SMS on your phone.
Best of all, you don’t pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.
Try it out! Simply send your search query by SMS to 9-77-33-00000 and we’ll send you results back by SMS immediately.
Of course, don’t forget to save 9-77-33-00000 to your phonebook for quick and easy access to Google SMS in the future!
There are no premium charges for this service, only the cost of sending a standard SMS. Incoming messages from Google are not charged.
Also there are host of other services we can use too. Found them useful. Like movies, news, train fare, local business etc.
New in gmail labs allows you to preview your inbox when gmail is loading. Useful, if you have a little slow connection. Your anxiety of which mails you are about to open will be served too.:) Just goto gmail -> settings – > labs look for inbox preview enable it, close the browser and relogin again.
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-in-labs-inbox-preview.html
You can use google for your p2p searches. Use the following search string to look for any media files.
intitle:”index.of” (mp3) titanic -html -php -asp -cf -jsp
mp3 refers to the media you want as in a extension. You can also use other formats in the following fashion (mp3|avi|mpg)
titanic refers to the name of the media file. You can also give long names separated by a “.” eg:- titanic.my.heart will return sites which has My hear will go on. The “.” replaces a space . or a _ like a wild char.
-html -php -asp -cf -jsp indicates that do not list a .html or .php or other pagers.
Watch the video below for detailed explanation.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRv953XZX6Y]
Update: To avoid typing all the “codes” use this site to do the same for u www.g2p.org, useful for doing mp3 searches.
Update:
On Ubuntu a better approach to download youtube videos from command line is using clive. It has options to download the best available format for the video using the -f option.
Also a to download videos directly from the youtube.com homepage a firefox extension provides a “Save As” option just below the playing video. Here again, we have option to download from HD to the lowest available resolution of the video. Get the extension from here. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105
Old method below, keeping it around for the memories.!!
Recently I found a fantastic python script do download videos from youtube.com. http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/
You just need to pass the url of the video like this
$youtube-dl -t http://youtube.com/watch?v=LNY7Lau0sJw
Below is a script which can download the videos based on your search results on youtube.com.
Suppose you make a search as Shilpa Shetty Big Brother 😛 and you get a results page, now save this page as say results.html
Now put the below give script into a file called as youtube_download.sh and run it from the directory u saved results.html
#script to download vids from www.youtube.com
#! /bin/sh
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 filename.html |which has links from youtube.com search results"
echo "-Ajo Paul http://ajopaul.wordpress.com"
exit 1
fi
watchlink=""
for i in `cat $1 | grep "watch?" | cut -d '"' -f 2`
do
#watchlink="http://www.youtube.com"$i
if [ "$watchlink" != "$i" ]; then
echo "*********Now Downloading $i **********"
# youtube-dl -t $i 2>&1;
watchlink=$i
fi
done
echo "Done!"
echo "-Ajo Paul http://ajopaul.wordpress.com"
You can also put this script as a cronjob, but before that you must download youtube-dl and put in anywhere in your $PATH.