Well, fear no more, this task is like taking a trip to the local park. You don’t have to personally visit the author’s website and download the applications one by one.

For example if you need web browsers like Firefox and Opera, IM Yahoo Messenger, Music player WinAmp, and OpenOffice for your PC. You can use “Ninite” to do the task.

All you have to do is visit ninite’s website at www.ninite.com and choose which applications that you want to include to your ninite installer.
And then what you need to do next is run the ninite installer on the designated PC. That’s it. Quite simple, eh?

To prevent redownloading the same application components over and over again when you’re using ninite to install several PCs, you can use this small config file. Just create a file called “ninite.ini” on your ninite folder (the place you save the ninite exectuable) with the following:

[Cache]
path=<your ninite.exe folder, you can use a writeable network path for this>

Omit the “<” and “>”.’

Okay, hope that helps.

Update: caching is now only available for the pro version of the application

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Your crying for help has been heard. Here’s the solution you need

Those who just transferred their work from previous version of Photoshop into newest CS4 might have been confused that there are several plug-ins and preset that have gone missing. Prominently the function of extract under filters menu that has disappeared along transition from predecessor CS3 to present CS4. Fear no more, these missing plug-ins and presets can be downloaded and installed individually or you may find them in your Goodies folder on your DVD install disc. If you don’t have any, here is the link to download the file:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4048

This download includes 32-bit and 64-bit plug-ins for Photoshop CS4 English, Spanish and French versions. The following plug-ins and associated files are included in this package:

• Bigger Tiles
• Picture Package (ContactSheetII)
• ExtractPlus
• PatternMaker
• PhotomergeUI
• Web Photo Gallery (WebContactSheetII) plus presets
• script for Layer Comps to Web Photo Gallery
• Texture presets for Texturizer

Also included is the Optional Plug-Ins ReadMe.

After extracting the file, be sure to copy and paste individual item into its destination folder in your hard disk as need arises.

For example: You will find ExtractPlus under folder:

Adobe CS4 > Photoshop Content > English > Goodies > Optional Plug-ins > Plug-ins 32bit > Filters

Copy and paste the file into:

Program Files > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop CS4 > Plug-ins > Filters

You may copy and paste both ExtractPlus.8BF and PatternPlus.8BF which located in the same source and destination folder. In this example, I work under 32bit and English interface. For fear of redundancy, there is an assumption though that those files that haven’t been included in CS4 original package are candidates for removal in next coming up version. Let see what happen next.

Cheers!

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A temporary file with all the content of the FLV (Flash Video) file is created in the temporary folder of Windows, usually located under [User Profile]\Local Settings\Temp.

In order to view this file, go to your temp folder while playing a video in YouTube or in other similar Flash video Web site, and click the ‘Date Modified’ column to sort the files list by date. Then you will find that the first filename begins with ‘FLA’ prefix and the file size is gradually growing while streaming (F5 to refresh).

This ‘fla???.tmp’ file is in fact a full .FLV file that can be played with any video software that support FLV files. However, this file is locked by the flash player component and you cannot copy or open it. Also, when you close the web browser, the file is automatically deleted.

In order to do just that, we need to unlock the file. The key can be downloaded here for free:

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/#download

After installation, go back to your temp folder to find the file you want to keep (Images below). Right click onto the file and select unlocker. Position your cursor at down left menu and select copy. Click ‘Save’ to save the file to your destination folder. Go to that folder to rename and adding FLV extension to that file.

Cheers!

[UPDATE]

Alternative method: using a free Mozilla Firefox add-on (tested successfully by saving videos from Youtube and Vimeo per April 2011 on Firefox 4), such as:

• http://www.downloadhelper.net/
• http://www.sothinkmedia.com/web-video-downloader-firefox/download.htm

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