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This is one easy step to download YouTube videos to your desktop. KickYouTube, for reason unknown to us is able to facilitate this easy work around. Check out the YouTube clip from KickYouTube which demonstrates how to do it.

Simply go to the desired YouTube URL and insert the word “kick” at start of the URL.

After which, you will find the following at top of the view page. Simply select the format you liked to save and set Go. We can only see the fllowing options on our end, might differs from yours.

Don’t expect this quick work around to last long. Check out Mashable’s other ways to download YouTube videos for ‘backup’.

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Some might say the UI of Muxtape is sparse and user preferences limited but we felt that’s the beauty of it. It aims to be simple and champions discovering music, with unexpected results. Click on any usernames in it’s site and you’ll find new, unheard of and the familiar songs.

But, what happens if you wish to narrow down searches? You can’t do that within Muxtape. Muxtape Stumbler is your help. It allows you to search based on Track titles, Artist name, Top Muxtapes/Genre/Artist/Tracks and even popular searches from users. The last two searches are limited to 50 items. Most handy!

MuxFind is another web application that is similiar to Muxtape Stumbler but with less options. So there you have it, 2 very useful web applications that made discovering music at MuxTape more fun and purposeful.

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oursignal = digg + reddit + del.icio.us + hackernews

So oursignal mashes up the above social news sites and brings you the latest breaking headlines so you don’t have to. You can see that headlines are designated into their own boxes. The bigger the box, the more relative votes a story has. As for what the color does… no, it doesn’t just make it visually attractive… the warmer the color, the quicker the story is on the rise. Cooler colors denote negative velocity. Sources are refreshed every 15 minutes.

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MarkThisDate is the largest directory of active calendars on the web. They serve over 3500 calendars in different categories like sports, holidays and business. They support over 15 of the world’s most used calendar applications like Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar and Netvibes, desktop apps like PDF and Excel, online readers and personal start pages like Google Reader, My AOL and My Yahoo.

We found this web service easy to use. And you don’t have to sign up a account to add events to your respective calendars.

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For the past 2 weeks, Google Mac Playground rolled out 3 new Google applications for Mac users to play with.

The latest from of the 3, Vidnik. It is a simple program for using the built-in camera on your Mac to create movies and upload them to YouTube. Vidnik works with the built-in video cameras on recent Macs, with Firewire video cameras, and with many USB video cameras.

AppMenuBoy is a small Cocoa application that creates a hierarchical menu, in the dock, and when it is the frontmost app, in the menu bar, of your apps. It only shows apps. If a folder has a single app, it hoists the app up, so no subfolders of exactly one app.

Visigami is both an image search application and screen-saver. Right now it can search from three different image sources: Google Images, Picasa, and Flickr.

If you’re keen to follow everything about Mac inside Google, visit Official Google Mac Blog. Subscribe to their feed for greater convenience.

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Instead of painstakingly tracking the Olympic torch relay routes via online news portal and it’s official site, track it with Google’s Olympic torch relay tracker. Click onto the cities it has passed though and you’ll learn a little of it’s history related to the biggest sporting event on Earth. You can even embedding a customizable map in your own page so that you and others can enjoy it.

via Mashable!

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In their own words…
Ever clicked a link and felt embarrassed with the content in front of your co-workers? Ever caught unaware because the funny link your friend sent was a little beyond funny?

NSFW.in is a new URL redirection service that shortens the URL and also shows this warning “Links away from this site are not suited for persons below the age of 18 years” when someone clicks the shortened URL. Here’s a URL (Facebook site) I shortened using NSFW.in.

via Digital Inspiration

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