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Graabr: The Easiest Way to Grab and Share Desktop Screen Shots Online

Graabr is a Windows tool that allows you to easily grab screen shots of any part of your desktop and share them online. The application works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It’s free to download and requires no registration to use and view the saved screen shots.

Download and install the Windows application on your Windows machine and immediately start grabbing your screen once Graabr is launched. Click the Grab My Screen button on Graabr and you’ll get to select which part of your screen you want to share. Simply drag the mouse to grab and the application will do the rest for you. Your image will automatically be saved on the Graabr server for you to share. The grabbed image will appear on your browser along with the image URL of your screen shot.

You won’t have to worry about bookmarking your Graabr image. All uploaded screen shots will be saved on the history of the Graabr application. Simply highlight the URL and click the “Go” button to view the previously saved/shared images.

If you are a heavy user of screenshots and a Windows user, this tool is highly recommended. This is also a great tool that anyone, especially bloggers, can use to easily share and upload screen shots.

Tags: application, Download, Graabr, Screen Shots, Windows

Farkie:Lets You Download Web Elements

Farkie is a web service that lets you download anything from a web page. You can download videos, audios, images, links, Javascripts, ajax, Objects and Stylesheets. All these you can do without registering for an account. Just paste the URL of the page you want to scrape from and you can enjoy downloading the different elements on that particular page.

Some download services are more focused on downloading videos/audios from YouTube. Farkie can be used to download flash games from game sites so you can play them offline. If you’re downloading from YouTube, you can immediately convert the video file to MP3 and other formats. If you’re a Firefox user you can install their Firefox Add-on and perform the scraping from your toolbar.

Here’s a short video tutorial to give you an idea on how to use the Farkie.

Tags: Download, Download Web Elements, Downloader, Farkie, Web Elements, youtube

Install Ubuntu Applications From Appnr

Appnr is a web-based tool that allows you to install applications on Ubuntu. If you are an Ubuntu user, then you will definitely find it very handy. It’s a web interface for APT, and the package is downloaded and installed from Ubuntu/Third-Party repositories.

How to Install

You’ll need an AptURL protocol handler and a web browser support in order to install packages from Appnr. AptURL is a program that handles special URLs to installing package on APT-based Linux systems. Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10 or higher has AptURL installed by default. You can view the full tutorial here.

Appnr features several applications that are neatly categorized. Each application is rated and you can view the number of users who installed a particular application. The website is very handy and it saves a lot of time for Ubuntu users, especially the new users.

*There is also a site similar to this one which allows you to download tweaks for Mac/OS-X. Check out Secrets.

Tags: Applications, Appnr, Download, linux, ubuntu

KeepHD Lets you Download HD YouTube Videos

There are severalmany services available online that lets you download YouTube videos.  If you’re looking for a service that lets you download YouTube videos with HD quality, then you might want to try using KeepHD.

The service is nothing fancy. All you need is the YouTube URL. Paste the URL and hit Download Video. A thumbnail of the video will appear along with the list format you want the video to be converted. You can download the low quality FLV file, 3GP Mobile version, MP4 High Quality and the 720P HD goodness. Just click any format you wish to start the download.

KeepHD detects the available quality for each YouTube video. If the video that you are downloading using KeepHD does not have a HD version, the 720p link will not appear. This is to prevent confusion and wasted time downloading the wrong quality video. The service is dead simple and very easy to use which makes it a great app. Enjoy.

*You might also want to try  KickYouTube. A cool service that let’s you download YouTube videos by just adding the word “kick” on front of the video URL.

Tags: Download, HD, youtube

Give YouTube a “Kick” to Download Videos

Want to download videos from YouTube without  installing a software, a plugin or going to another website just to paste the URL of the YouTube video? It’s quite easy. Simply give it a “kick”. Just add the word “kick” to the YouTube URL you want to download like so:

http://www.kickyoutube.com/watch/?v=bFB4otnVYFU

Once you have inserted the kick, the KickYouTube app will activate and will appear above the YouTube page. It’s a very clever idea and very useful. It will save you time copying and pasting YouTube URL to another web app or desktop app. You can also select which format to use when you make the download. FLV, MP4, iPhone and PSP formats are supported.

Note: The service is having an outage when I tested it so you’ll have to excuse the screenshot.

Tags: Download, iphone, KickYouTube, MP4, PSP, youtube

Download a Slice of Wikipedia with WikiSlice

It has been said that Wikipedia is the sum of all world knowledge. But sometimes, when using Wikipedia, it’s easy to get lost with all the in-links of the site. There are links which are sometimes distracting and will lead you away from the original information that you are looking for. With all information available to us in WikiPedia, it often takes a lot of time to browse around and read all the stuff for a particular topic. People on the go who do not have the luxury of time to go back and search again will have a hard time in finding what they are looking for especially when they are on the road and offline.

There is a web service called WikiSlice, a web app made by Webaroo which allows you to download a chunk of WikiPedia for you to browse offline. WikiSlice is a WikiPedia search engine which you can use to search a topic you want to download. Once you found what you are looking for, WikiSlice will let you download all the Wiki content related to that topic including subtopics. A list of related Wiki slices is also available for you to browse and download if you choose to do so.

You can browse the content through a desktop application called Webaroo. WikiSlice will detect if you do not have Webaroo installed in your computer. You can immediately download the software when you decided to download a Wikipedia topic.

Since Webaroo has a mobile version, I’m not sure if it will support the sliced Wikipedia content. It would be great if you can read the Wiki Slice in you mobile phones or iPhone. Remember the guy who downloaded all WikiPedia content in his iPhone? He uses the iPhone’s Safari browser to browse WikiPedia locally in his iPhone. It would be great if we can also do this using Webaroo mobile.

Anyway, this is a great tool if you want to read a WikiPedia topic when you are mobile and offline. You can take the content with you while on the road and do not have internet access. It’s also a great way for excluding a topic from all the other content in Wikipedia for research purposes.

Tags: content, Download, offline reading, webaroo, wikipedia, wikislice