TechnoPhillia!!

I wanted YouTube video auto replay / automatically repeat feature built within YouTube, so that I could play my favorite songs without having to manually refresh the tab / browser. But seems like there is no direct way to get this done unless we use a GreaseMonkey script.

There are so many of my favorite songs that I just love listening to over and over again, but the only problem is, I have to walk upto the system to click on the replay button every time the song/video ends.

But I don’t need to do this any more - with the help of loopy, a GreaseMonkey script, I can auto replay / automatically repeat with the song / video.

Once you have Greasemonkey addon installed on your Mozilla Firefox browser, install Loopy. And you’ll find a small button which says ‘loop’ as shown in the figure below:

Here’s how you can install Loopy on your PC / Laptop:

1> Download and install Firefox if you do not already have it.

2> Download and install GreaseMonkey add-on to your Firefox and restart it once installed.

3> Install Loopy from here.

4> Open any video on youtube and once the video starts playing click on loop. Initially it’ll be gray / black in color and once it is turned on, it turns red. The video you play, will be in loop until you turn of loopy or choose another song.

It’s always good to know that technologies that were once so much expensive and not in reach for a common man are getting just free of cost on the internet.

Sometimes we do click images that have so much of text written on it. But then why waste time digitizing the text by typing.

Free OCR is an online tool which will do the work for you. Just feed the website with an image less than 2MB and it’ll automatically retrieve the text from it and will send it to your email.

We tried writing something on a Notepad, taking its screenshot and then extracting text from it.

The conversion was not so bad. If we remove the title and the menu bar it otherwise extracted decently.

This is a sampie tEXt

For huge texts this may be very useful OCR tool. Though the results were not so great if you write something on MSPaint and then try to extract the text.

Movie411 is a free application using which you can search and download movie information along with the DVD box art. If you are a movie collector and has a good collection, you can make it even better by storing the complete details and covers for each movie.

The interface of the program is very simple. Just enter the name of the movie and click ‘Search’. It will show you all the matching results, just select the result that you want and click on save and it will downloaded to your Save location. You can select which information you want to save which include movie information, Front Cover and Back Cover. You can quickly preview each result be selecting it. You can also select the Online Movie Database which you want to search. It collects and saves all the movie information in an easy to read text file.

The program is quite useful if you have a large movie collection and you want to complete it by having all the DVD covers and information. It is a freeware and runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista and requires .Net Framework 3.