AudioExpert: Edit And Convert Sound Files Online

Audioexpert is a multifunctional online tool that can be used for editing sounds. Apart from editing sounds you can convert the sound from one file format to other.

To get started with the service, you need to sign up with the service. Before editing the sound file, you need to upload it to the server of the service. It supports up to 100 MB files. After conversion, you’ll get the download link to download the converted file.

You can cut or crop audio files of various file formats. Also you can merge different files into one file. It convert files from one file format to another. It supports different file formats (WAV, MP3, OGG, M4A, AAC, FLAC, AU, AMR, WMA, MKA).

Features

• Easily converts and edit document online.
• Change the file format, bit rate, frequency of the file easily.
• Supports batch conversion.
• Upload files up to 100 MB in size.
• Sign up is required.
• Free to use.
• Merge multiple files into single track.
• Record audio and save it directly to WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG or other available file formats.

Yahoo Pulse: Yet another mistake by Yahoo?

A great way to get an idea about how well a internet company is doing would be to read tech blogs. The more the number of times a company and its services are reviewed and mentioned, you can be assured that the company is building and maintaining a momentum. This is where Yahoo lags behind against almost every big internet brand.

I came across Yahoo Pulse and was told that it would rival Google Buzz. So I decided to check it out and mid-way realized that this might be another mistake by Yahoo.

What is Yahoo Pulse?

If you are familiar to Google Buzz which almost everyone is thanks to them embedding it on Gmail, you will find Yahoo Pulse pretty similar to Buzz. Pulse does have better features when it comes to privacy as atleast at this moment I do not see it in your Yahoo Inbox by default.

So basically Yahoo Pulse allows you to share photos, messages, videos and even sync your Facebook wall messages with your Yahoo contacts without the need for leaving the Yahoo environment. Great! But the worrying part is how many still want to remain in the Yahoo environment?

Why Yahoo Pulse can rock.

Yahoo Pulse plans to allow users to tap into Facebook. To the extent that we might be able to play Mafia Wars and Farmville along with use all features of Facebook through Yahoo Pulse. This further being integrated with Yahoo Mail might mean a user would not need to visit another website at all and use Yahoo for all purposes.

This is great news for loyal Yahoo users and might improve some numbers.

Why Yahoo Pulse will not rock.

I remember using Yahoo Meme a couple of times. It was supposed to rival Twitter and to be honest it has better features than Twitter does. But Twitter had cornered the market when it came to micro-blogging. Yahoo Pulse will meet a similar fate to Yahoo Meme as it is not offering something newer for users but just something better.

Also Yahoo concentrating on allowing its users get more Facebook updates seems to be a short term view. Yahoo cannot allow users to use Facebook on one side from its own environment and still compete with Facebook. It is like a Twitter application competing with Twitter!

It just will not succeed as Yahoo is building a growth strategy which is dependent on Facebook’s success.

So are you using Yahoo Pulse? Do you think Yahoo Pulse could save Yahoo the company or will it turn out to be another famous mistake by Yahoo? Do drop in your comments.

Gmail redesigns contact cards

Google is notoriously functional and it has a laser like focus on functionality of its services. This leads Google to sometimes not give much thought to aesthetics and looks of a product. Gmail has tweaked something that is totally about looks and not functionality.

Gmail has redesigned contact cards and there are positives on the aesthetics side but a negative on the functionality side.

The old contact card was not very pretty but allowed inline editing of the name of the person. Like you can see in the image above. Now with the new format of contact cards clicking on the name takes you to the contacts editor within Gmail. So here I guess Gmail has chosen style over functionality. This feature was very useful for Orkut users who had contacts with weird names which reflect Orkut account names.

Gmail has recently made a lot of changes from allowing nested labels to integrating Google Maps in Gmail.

Why do you think Gmail has changed it’s contact card design and loose out on functionality. My guess is as good as anybody’s guess.

Order Free Ubuntu Desktop Edition 10.04 Lucid Lynx CD

Ubuntu shipit is back with the new version of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx,this time with more new features.

Visit ubuntu shipit and place an order for latest version CD, shipping might take more then 1 or 2 months so if you have decent fast Internet Connection you can either download the Ubuntu Desktop Edition Online .

For free order of CD you need to register on shipit.ubuntu and provide your Shipping details including your name,address contact no.after registration you need to verify you account By email notification, if you are existing user you can log in with your details and place new order for Ubuntu 10.04 CD.

Features of Ubuntu Desktop Edition 10.04

• Free apps, safe and fast web browsing, a dedicated music store and much more. Ubuntu brings the very best technologies straight to your desktop.
• Browse the web fast and more safe with Mozilla Firefox.
• Create professional documents and presentation with Open office.
• Free software’s,Ubuntu software repository gives to access to download thousands of open source applications.
• Access to hundred of games.
• Play edit videos easily with Ubuntu 10.04.
• Store,view edit photos easily.
• Mobilize your digital life.
• Email messaging,social networking, chat made easy.

Download YouTube Videos in Bulk with ByTubeD Firefox Addon

Whenever we watch videos on YouTube we can’t just stop at one, we keep on watching related videos but watching all the videos waste lots of time. What if you can download all the videos together and watch it in your free time?

I came across such a Firefox Add-on which will allows you to download YouTube videos, playlists in group that too very easily and quickly . You don’t have to download any software, no time waste and your all favorite videos will be downloaded with a single click.

The name of this Firefox Add-on is ByTubeD. Apart from YouTube search videos, you can also use ByTubeD for videos embedded on a blog post, related search videos and from search engines results. It means it is for all those videos which are directly or indirectly linked to YouTube.

Here is easy way to install and use ByTubeD Firefox Add-on:

• Install ByTubeD Videos from official Firefox Add-on website
• Select the video which you want to watch, you can select all required videos in bulk.
• Once the playlist is selected you can easily download all the videos by clicking on “Start”.
• You can also choose the format according to your requirement like FLV, MP4 or HQ.

The best part which I liked about this Add-on is that I don’t have to use any online service or any software for downloading YouTube videos, I can download all my YouTube videos in bulk with just a click.

Google Voice is now available to everyone in the US

Google Voice will not be available to everyone with a Google account unlike before when it was available to only limited users. This is at the moment only limited to US users and not all over the world.

This apart for giving headaches to Skype and other similar services will also help a lot of Google account owners especially if they are looking for alternatives for Skype.

Google Voice is a service which will allow users to receive calls on their landlines, cellphones and computer with one single Google Voice number.

What is more amazing is that someone using Google Voice can check voice messages along with check text transcripts on a mobile phone and reply with a text message.

If thinking out of the box is Google’s forte then with Google Voice they are way out of the box. Similar services do exist but as Android is getting more popular Google Voice might just be the next big success for Google. Skype would have to watch out here.

Would you want to move over to Google Voice instead of Skype? Do let me know through your comments.

Below is a video explaining Google Voice.

Link: Google Voice | Google Voice Blog

Bing Adds Full Music, Movies, Games and TV Shows

Bing has done one of the biggest investments on the area of entertainment. As you all know, we use mostly search engines for finding out things that entertain us mostly such as music search, movies, games or tv shows. So bing has targetted these areas to make our search more refiner like from deciding what movie to buy or see, which TV shows to watch online or on your TV, what music to listen to, how to find and safely play your favorite casual games.

Bing has started rolling out more than 100 new features on the search engine, Bing Entertainment. It adds more than 100 new features that would help us to better search for music, movies, tv shows and games.

1st Feature – Music :

Their statistics says that over 70 percent of people look for lyrics online, so it’s now easy to safely find lyrics to all in one place. More over the partnership with Zune will let you to stream full length songs more than 5 million songs. You can also get photos, videos, and even tour dates for your favorite acts.

2nd Feature – Gaming :

Bing provides more detailed information on over 35,000 games, including in depth reviews, cheats and walkthroughs for all your favorite games. You can just play more than 100 popular games online safely from right within Bing.

3rd Feature – Movies :

Bing brings together all of the information and tools you need to get to the movie right from Reviews, Pros, cons, real time facebooka and twitter information, nearby restaurants and even parking information from Bing Maps etc.

4th Feature – TV shows :

Their stats tells us 30% of people watch all of their TV episodes online, and over 60% of people have used a search engine to look for full-length TV shows online. So Bing collects full length TV episodes and visually organized them for easier search. With thousands of episodes from over 1500 shows including lots of HD content, watching your favorite shows online is easier than ever before.

Ultimately, the use of this new feature is you spend less time searching for entertainment and more time doing the stuff you love.

Firefox 3.6.4 Adds Crash Protection & Fixes Vulnerabilities

The latest security and stability release for Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 provides crash protection for Windows and Linux users by isolating third-party plugins when they crash. There are more than 400 million firefox users and this update fixes more than 225 bugs with crash protection technology from the Mozilla Lorentz Project.

This crash protection works just like chrome that prevents flash, silver-time crashes from bringing down your entire browser.

Actually this technology works on full process isolation to Firefox, and it separates web pages from plugins. Plugins would run separate from the main browser, so that when there is a crash, with the process isolation, the rest of the browser is unaffected by the failure. Currently, crash protection only works for Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Silverlight on Windows and Linux systems.

As for now, the update is not for Mac OS X users and its currently in developing stage. Windows and linux users are benefited from crash protection technology.

If you are using a Firefox browser you might want to check out 10 Firefox shortcuts you must know.

You can download firefox 3.6.4 freshly or you can update from the inbuilt tool bar – ” Check for Updates ” in help menu.

Link: Download Firefox 3.6.4

Pakistan court wants ban on Google, Hotmail and Yahoo

Pakistan has recently had a bit of a love hate relationship with the internet and companies that provide internet services. First Pakistan had banned Facebook over a controversy and then also ended up putting the clamps on Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia.

Most people think bans do not serve any purpose as in today’s time the internet is very symbiotic and content is not always URL specific. It is usually shared across various mediums which might end up making the ban pretty ineffective.

According to a report in Times of India, a Bhawalpur bench of Lahore High Court ordered Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, Amazon, YouTube and Bing to be blocked or banned on a petition against these websites that they were publishing sacrilegious material.

The Pakistani authorities have not carried out the court order suggesting it has not received the orders but heard about it through media reports.

Hopefully these websites will not be blocked in Pakistan as such objectionable material is often unnoticed until its banned or a issue is raised. This I guess is probably counter productive.

Do you think these bans really serve any purpose? Can the internet be regulated? Do let us know through your comments.

Share YouTube HD Videos in HD Format Quickly

YouTube has updated their sharing widget with providing some extra access to share YouTube videos directly in HD format. HD (high definition) has become the most famous nowadays and even mobile phone comes with HD video recording.

Now YouTube offers quick access to sharing videos in HD format. On clicking the Share button, you can see an extra option to select from YouTube link or short url.

It’s pretty nice idea to share HD quality videos directly in HD format with friends and family. You can share this on most famous social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Myspace, Orkut, Hi5 and Blogger etc.