Download YouTube videos with VLC Media Player

Saving  YouTube media files on the computer for offline viewing is easier once we have made all the configurations in the VLC media player as given here.

1. Under Tools menu, select Codec Information (Ctrl + J).
2. Copy the URL given as Location (As highlighted below), in the Current Media Information popup window.  

Play YouTube videos with VLC Media Player

I was searching the internet for a way to play YouTube videos with special audio and video effects like color correction, hue & contrast adjustment and other special effects. It was quite a surprise to learn that the solution was within my fingertips all the time. 

Countless times, videos have been viewed using VLC media player, simply by double clicking the file on Windows Explorer. Therefore, the Media menu rarely attracted attention and the solution was silently waiting there to be explored.

Here are the simple steps.

FTP made easy with LFTP

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I was looking for a decent FTP client program to perform a relatively complex series of file transfers using a Linux shell script and came across LFTP.

LFTP is a freely available file transfer program which allows FTP, HTTP and a number of other connections to a remote host.

A few of the evaluation commands I tried with LFTP are listed here as a future reference to my self as well as anyone looking for quick examples.

Virtual WiFi hotspot with Windows 7

I had a problem with connecting multiple mobile devices to the wireless router as it had reached the maximum number of nodes. I was looking for a way to convert my laptop to a virtual WiFi hot spot and connect the mobile devices to the internet by sharing the LAN internet connection with the virtual WiFi adapter. 

A bit of Googling reviled a number of third party apps which can create a virtual WiFi. But with further reading, I learnt that this is a built in feature of Windows 7 operating system. A few configurations in the Windows "Network and Sharing Center" or a few commands on the Command Prompt do the trick.