If you are frequent user of few special Windows softwares and services ,you probably need a solution to open them as quickly as possible . Here comes the use of hotkeys set by the combination of keyboard characters . Though each programs have their own method for creating hotkeys ,its very difficult to find and set them separately. ZenKey is free Windows software which can be used to set hotkeys for accessing Windows softwares and services, all in one place. It can also be used to set shortcuts for accessing websites and to perform sequential actions .

ZenKey

ZenKey is not just a hotkey setter . It has more than 10 features that makes your daily tasks easier . Visit here to know more

How to enable hotkeys for accessing softwares and websites :

The default shortcut of Zenkey is alt+space . Open ZenKEY> Select option Zen key and click on configure .
Select My Programs .
Here you can create a new entry or edit existing entries to set easy shortcuts .Similarly there’s option for setting hotkeys for internet websites .

So whenever you need to access a software/web service ,make sure that ZenKey is running and select the appropriate hotkeys to fire the actions .

Download ZenKey and set shortcuts or hotkeys for accessing softwares and websites in Windows .

It is not always possible to transfer bookmarks from one browser to another browser manually . Transmute is free Windows software that can automate transfer of bookmarks between 8 browsers including Firefox ,Chrome and Internet explorer . You can import bookmarks to selected folders and can even export them as backup for future use .

Transmute 1.53

OpenTransmute >select source and target browser > Select bookmarks location >Start .
Selected browsers should be closed before transferring bookmarks .
Requirement : NET framework .

Download Transmute 1.53 and transfer bookmarks between Chrome ,Firefox and Internet explorer.

You might have the caps of (screen captured images)of videos in forums and other websites . There are many software tools to get images from video files . RichFLV is one one such application which can capture image screenshot specially from Youtube or FLV videos . RichFLV is not just a screen capture tool ,its an FLV editor and can convert and modify FLV media into number of other formats .

Earlier we reviewed Adobe AIR applications like Google analytics ,Facebook and Twitter desktop clients . RichFLV is a multimedia software and it doesn’t use a web service . So it gives a broad idea about the range of Flex and Adobe AIR applications .Adobe AIR applications are platform independent . So RichFLV will run smoothly on Windows ,Linux and Mac .

How to use Rich FLV to capture images from FLV videos:

Open a Youtube video and pause at suitable location where need to get an image .
Now move on to export tab and select PNG or JPEG as images format . Similarly as you can see in the screenshot , FLV files can be saved into formats like FLV(with no sound) ,XML, SWF (Flash) and  mp3 . There are some more options to stitch ,edit and modify FLV videos .

RichFLV is completely free ,but you will need to get Adobe AIR framework for installation .

Download RichFLV and get photos Youtube FLV videos .

Sometimes we encounter situations like  the sudden unavailability of a website that we are looking for. Websites  might get deleted or will go down high traffic or server issues. A basic method to view unavailable website is to check the Google cache file of the URL. Instant results will be obtained if the deleted website is recent. Traces of unavailable websites would also be available on other search engines like Yahoo, MSN, etc. and the internet archive.

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We have already covered an online utility to Convert Youtube video to Mp3 . This service is only useful for people with internet connection and extracting videos are not supported there .FLV Extract is a free Windows utility that can extract audio and video file from Youtube FLV videos and save them as mp3 and AVI files respectively .FLV Extract is completely free and its available with source file .

FLV Extract

First of all copy the required FLV files and transfer them to Windows desktop . Open FLV Extract application and drag the files into it . Extracted MP3 and AVI files from target Youtube videos will then appear instantly on desktop . FLV extract is a very lightweight application  . It has only a size of 80KB provided you have .NET framework installed on your computer .

Download FLV Extract and extract audio and video from Youtube videos

Many websites had already published some user scripts and Javascript bookmarklets as alternate to Chrome extensions . The most requested feature is now available with Google chrome 3 ,and it supports the direct installation of Chrome browser extensions in .crx format .We have spotted few initial chrome extensions like Adsweep ,Cleeki ,Gmail notifier etc . which would worth a check . And for installation you need to download Google Chrome 3 and enable extensions from command line .

Download Google chrome 3
How to install Google chrome extensions

The current developer build of Google chrome 3 will not allow direct installation of extensions .But we can easily bypass this by a commandline operation .

After installation ,right click and open properties from Google chrome shortcut icon on desktop .

The target directory here should be modified by adding –enable-extensions .

So it will look like “C:Documents and SettingstechknowlLocal SettingsApplication DataGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe” –enable-extensions

Change techknowl with your username and apply .

Now onwards Chrome will show a warning message while clicking .crx (Chrome extension file ) files .Allow that and will get installed properly.

Features of new Chrome browser extensions .

Anyone with little knowledge in JavaScript ,HTML ,CSS and XML (for calling web data) can write chrome extensions.
There is no need to restart after extension installation .
All Chrome extensions will support the future release of the browser . That means the developers need not rewrite extensions new builds.

Few Chrome browser extensions appeared on web .

Adsweep:Adsweep extension disables annoying text ,flash and popup advertisements from Google Chrome .

Download Adsweep

Cleeki: Ieacceletor is a new ie addon introduced internet explorer 8 to find related webpages and locations with matching information ,just from a right click on required selection .ieacceletor like feature is now available on chrome with Cleeki extension .

Download Cleeki

Gmail Checker: Simple Chrome browser extension to check unread messages from Gmail inbox .

Download Gmail Checker extension .

Subscribe in Google Reader: Simple Chrome extension that lets you to subscribe to any website or blog in a click .

Download extension .

Google PageRank Checker :Checks Google PageRank of a web page from Chrome browser interface itself .

Download PageRank Checker extension for Chrome 3 .

How to uninstall Chrome extensions .

Uninstallation of a Google Chrome browser extension is pretty simple . Just type chrome://extensions and click on uninstall for required extensions .

This list will be updated with the release of new Google Chrome extensions.