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Are you looking for a way to take the music videos you watch on YouTube and convert them to MP3? Today we take a look at an easy way to convert those YouTube videos to MP3 for free with YouTube Downloader. The YouTube Downloader functions in two steps. First, it downloads the video from YouTube in MP4 format, and then allows you to convert that MP4 file to MP3. Note: It also supports conversion conversion to some other formats such as AVI video, MOV, iPhone, PSP, 3GP, and WMV.

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The Mozilla Foundation has outlined its long-term mission for developing the online web experience and user control of the internet over the next century, claiming that Firefox is just the start. Mozilla Foundation head Mitchell Baker told the Register recently that the open source group’s mission was “to build certain qualities into the human experience of the internet” and that while Firefox was “important for the immediate future” Mozilla has “barely started in user control.” According to executive director Mark Surman is leading a Mozilla project called Drumbeat , which uses a new set of independent programs in open-web technologies like HTML 5 “where students’ work is rated and scored using a peer-rating system designed to go beyond the standard Microsoft or Cisco certifications.” Humanising technology Surman outlined Drumbeat’s objectives as follows: “Clearly, the goal is to get out to a new circle of people who care about the web already but who don’t have a way to participate. “We don’t know what the market will be 100 years from now, but we do know that a dramatic increase in levels of ownership and participation in the web will be critical.” Surman wants to see university courses in HTML 5, Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript and courses that promote Mozilla’s Canvas .

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Earlier today, we covered over 100 beautiful wallpapers for your Windows 7 desktop . For all those who don’t have enough time to download these hundreds wallpapers, Mike has created a theme for Windows 7 by packing his some of his best pictures. The theme pack contains 20 fantastic wallpapers taken by Mike. Simply download and double-click on the theme to install and apply it

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The Search Bar in Firefox is very useful for finding additional information or images while browsing but the UI space it takes up can be frustrating at times. Now you can reclaim that UI space and still have access to all that searching goodness with the Foobar extension. Note: This is about the Foobar Firefox extension and not to be confused with Foobar2000 the open source music player.

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Growl for Windows is a useful notification tool for Windows. With Growl, one can view all notifications including system notifications in a customized way. Once the Growl is installed on your Windows machine, you need to do add applications to the list to customize notification settings. To add an application, you need to download it first from the applications page. The page features over 40 applications including Windows Media Player , Media Center, Visual Studio, System Monitor, Outlook, Google Wave Notifier, Firefox, Foobar2000, Feed Monitor and more

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Most industry figures suggest starting design and development jobs with a pencil, paper and a semi-optional flurry of sticky notes. However, the internet is a digital medium: sooner or later you have to move to software. So which tools are best?

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Without an operating system – Mac OS X, say, or Windows XP – a computer is just a dumb box of chips, and even the most exciting application will have no environment in which to run. And, it’s easy to forget that you have a choice of which OS you run. In fact, as a Mac user, you’re uniquely positioned because an Intel Mac is the only computer in the world that can legally run all three major operating systems, Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Indeed, you can, if you like, load all three on the same computer and pick which one you want to load when you switch your Mac on. Even given that you have the choice, though, why would you ever want to install a different OS?

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If you are active in forums or comment areas on different websites then you most likely use some type of special characters, HTML, or other code throughout the day. Now you can easily insert commonly used “items” with the SKeys extension for Firefox. Your New Special Text Edit Bar After installing the extension you will see the new toolbar that has been added to your browser.

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Are you a Twitter addict and need an easy way to manage your account in Firefox? Now you can access Twitter in your Sidebar or as a separate window with the TwitKit+ extension for Firefox. Accessing TwitKit+ There are three ways that you can access TwitKit+ after installing the extension. The first is by adding the “Toolbar Button” to your browser’s UI.

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Everyone has a favorite style or format that they prefer to read webpages in. For those who want something more than the default “look” you can choose the one that best suits your needs with the TidyRead extension for Firefox. Note: A bookmarklet version is available at the TidyRead Homepage for use in Firefox & non-Firefox browsers. Before As an example we chose one of the webpages here at the site to show what can be done using TidyRead. The “Before Look”… After As soon as you have installed the extension you will see a vast difference in the appearance of online articles.

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