One  of the most interesting tools I found was Vixy.net Converter, a small beta application which downloads and converts YouTube videos to many formats. You just copy the videos link and paste it in the application, select which format you want to save, and that’s it. It supports divx, mov, mp4, 3gp, and mp3 only. I recommend the desktop version not the online one because most of the time I used it gave me “Server too busy…”

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Firefox is curently at version 3.0.1. I’ve always used it and I am simply in love with it. I have the same profile wich i am using since version 1, and every time I format my computer or change it, I simply copy back my profile folder and point profiles.ini to it. A few days ago I did a little “house keeping” to my bookmarks and observed that the file bookmarks.html in my profile folder was still the same. First of all I tried to figure it out by myself, but I had no success, so I googled it. I found out that since version 3 firefox doesn’t use anymore bookmarks.html but places.sqlite in the profile folder. Bookmarks.html is still used for import/export purposes.

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Previously I wrote about my search for the best webhost. Finally I settled with Steadfast. I was so impressed with the litespeed web server that I installed it on my own server at work, and i do most of my testing work on it. But this was not over for me, so I searched for another webhost with more features. The quest lead me to this site: web hosting rating, where I found some objective reviews. Based on them I chose Bluehost, which gave me unlimited space, a free domain, secured POP3 and IMAP, and most importantly ssh access.  The overall speed was very good, it had plenty of features (most of them I never used), so I was generally pleased. The only thing that bothered me was a small downtime of one hour. I made this decision mostly based on the reviews on Web Hosting Rating which unlike other sites contained both positive and negative ones, which took me a few hours to read. So if you want to decide by yourself based on others’ experiences rather than someone telling you “pick that one”, this is the place to go. I read a lot of forums adn reviewing sites, and the opinions of the best webhost are very different, but this one made me think that for a few dollars I can try by myself and find something that is best suited for me. So my recommendation for you is to read as many reviews as you can and than try for yourself and make a lot of backups in case you need to move everything from one host to another.

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