How to extract Youtube thumbnails in seconds, increasing the usability of your website video section!

Searching with Google about how to extract Youtube.com thumbnails and use them with your website video sections may push you to start learning about Youtube APIs and Tools, this being a good thing anyway!

In fact this is only the result of recently(?) closed youtube.videos.get_details function (API Function Reference) for new sign-ups.

I know. For most people, some of the above terms should be used in wars to fast-kill any innocent college student but this introduction was only to demonstrate in the end that extracting youtube thumbnails solution I have found and used (there is an example also! :-P) is simple as counting to 10.

Using youtube thumbails with downloadwin.com

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Downgrade my Acer TravelMate 6292 laptop from Vista to Windows XP

Oh, boy! It was quite a jorney and the challenge was to install the SATA Hard Drive without a floppy disk drive!

I was sick about Vista. Do not understand me wrong, I like Vista because it looks great and for a beginner is above user-friendly but (there is a but!) for an advanced user may be, from time to time nothing but trouble. I encountered lots and lots of problems starting with permissions to copy, move or delete files and folders and ending with his stubbornness to uninstall software.

Acer Travelmate 6292

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Creating a rss feed using php and a mysql database in 30 minutes

I will start this article quoting Wikipedia in order to share some terms definitions with all of my readers.

RSS
RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

Downloadwin.com RSS Feed

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TabRenamizer 0.8.11, a Firefox Plugin on your Monday’s “To do” list

Have you noticed that everybody looks the titles of your open tabs? It has a name: Paranoia! And a solution too: TabRenamizer!

Monday’s 1st thing to do is to download TabRenamizer 0.8.11, install it and that’s it! It will do a nice job ;-)

* coded by Valaderm, someone from Madrid

Become famous to 1+ million users per day with Youtube

So this must be a great opportunity for any blogger around the world.

Last month we took video submissions from the YouTube community to be included in our Help Center. We received a ton of creative, informative videos and have embedded six of them in our Help entries. Check out the Round 1 selections in the Favorites section of the YouTubeHelp channel.
said Youtube.

Youtube - broadcast yourself

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Creating a PDF file has never been so easy!

Some of you may now it but let me assure you that there are a lot more out there that need a simple solution to create a PDF file!

Open Office 3.0.0

Why creating a PDF file?

As far as I personally know and use it, PDF format is the most common format for a company internal documents because:
- it cannot be changed
- you can forget about all the formatting issues during printing a document.

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