Ever wanted to extract the audio from video sharing sites? This trick works only with sites using the FLV format. And here are two ways. UnPlug + FLV Extract. You can actually use any of the available FLV downloaders. I used to use VideoDownloader but I’ve found that UnPlug works better for me. After downloading [...]

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Seems like iPod junkies should take heed of experts’ advice to get indoors as soon as lightning and thunder is heard. CNN reports of hit-by-lightning-while-using-their-iPods cases. The latest, a Canadian jogger who suffered burns, ruptured eardrums, and a broken jaw when he was hit by lightning and electricity traveled through the wires. Several other cases [...]

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Ever since games became more and more interactive, there are now a lot of reasons why gamers should fall into that harsh stereotype of fat and pimply geeks with no lives. Well, save for MMORP gamers. But with the days of Dance Dance Revolution and Wii Sports, we’ve read a lot of reports of people [...]

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Video games are so popular these days. With your kid hunched over the PC or console set, determined to destroy the enemies, you can’t be unconcerned if the violence of these video games won’t affect his behavior. It’s really a concern why many kids “have no lives at all” opting to play video games rather [...]

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I’m a big Simpsons fan and I’m glad that after all of these years, our favorite yellow-skinned family will be hitting the big screen. Finally. And I just can’t wait for it to be in theaters for a much needed break from work and watch a decent movie. In any case, the Simpsons Movie website’s [...]

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Now here’s something to look forward to. Apple is reported to be in talks and negotiations with Hollywood studios to explore the possibilities of an online movie rental service. This is most probably a move to engage this market which already contains players like Netflix, MovieLink and Xbox Live. On the details, Kristen Nicole of [...]

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Subscriptions are sometimes the better route than to buy magazines off the stands at full price. Subscriptions can sometimes save you a couple or so copies a year or get some value-added gifts for your troubles. But magazine subscriptions can be quite expensive in the long run. If you’re only out for a great reads [...]

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The next-format wars rages still with Sony slashing $100 off their latest Blu-ray player. Their BDP-S300 Blu-ray player now costs a mere $499 which is around half of what their first players amounted to. One of the biggest criticisms against Sony’s Blu-ray disc is the cost of their players as opposed to their high definition [...]

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This has been a long-delayed post. A few weeks ago, Cybers Music officially joined the Bloggy Network fold. CybersMusic promotes the best music from americana, blues, classic rock, country, funk, jazz, latin, metal, pop, R&B, rock ‘n roll & zydeco. So for your music news and reviews fix for the day, head over to Cybers [...]

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Our hearing may be the most under-appreciated sense second only to sight. While technology has made it possible for us to enjoy audio-visual forms of entertainment (with all the new surround sound gadgets out there), you must still take care not to hurt your ears.

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Your granny may not have a chance to be hip with an iPod if she has a pacemaker. A report from Reuters narrates the study of a high school student who did a study whether iPods can mess up with medical electronics like pacemakers. The study was presented to a group of heart specialists. The [...]

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You just got to love Web 2.0 and the slew of web apps that’s sprouting all over. Ever wondered what song is playing in your head but all you can recall is the melody. That sucks especially if you can’t even string a few words in the lyrics to Google. And if you’re obsessive-compulsive, you [...]

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If you’re a movie fan, then it’s probably a sworn mission to watch all the significant movies of the decade (yes, we’re into the 2000s). You probably know of IMDB, probably the one-stop for movie details and information on the Web. They’ve got this section called IMDB Top Rated 2000s Titles where it features the [...]

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I’ve been trying out a heck of a lot of DVD converters and I think HandBrake‘s one most user-friendly converters. HandBrake’s an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter. So as easy as a few clicks, your DVD is on its way to be converted to a MPEG-4 video that can be saved either [...]

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Now here’s another neat freeware. For you iPod addicts that carry all sorts of music and video with you everywhere, how about putting in downloaded vids from YouTube in that little thingamajig? IPOD Video Converter for Free converts a long list of video formats into the iPod video format. So you can just get just [...]

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