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Puniz: Listen & Easily Download Audio Tracks

TehseenBaweja — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:01:47 +0000

There are tons of sites that offer you free music, the problem is that the number of songs available is quite small. Puniz changes that by offering over 500 million audio tracks and claims that all of them are free and legal to download. To start, simply search for a song and select the one you want from the displayed results.

You can listen to the song on the website or download it as FLV, MP4 or 3GP. Puniz claims that none of the songs are stored on their servers and that the service is based on third party sites. Most of the files available for download are powered by YouTube and are in the form of a video. The MP4 and 3GP files are ideal to be used on portable devices.

Features:

Find over 500 million songs.
Listen to the songs online.
Download as FLV, MP4 or 3GP.
Continuously updated with new songs.
No registration required.
Similar tools: FreeMusicArchive and more.

Visit Puniz @ www.puniz.com

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Bulkr: Download Flickr Pictures In Bulk

Israel Nicolas — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:01:31 +0000

Flickr is arguably the best photo hosting service today, but managing a massive number of photos can still be a hassle. Fortunately, you can download Flickr pictures in bulk with Bulkr. This convenient desktop app allows you to download up to 200 photos at a time from photostreams, favorites, explored photos, and Flickr search.

You can also quickly backup Flickr photos to your computer with its one-click function and choose the size of photos that you want to download (square, thumbnail, small, medium, large, and original).

Bulkr is the ideal desktop app for Flickr power users and image hunters.

Features:

Free app that can be used to download photos from Flickr in bulk.
Download photos from your photostream, your favorites, or from other Flickr users.
Download photos in 6 different sizes.
Preview images before downloading.
Ability to resume download if disconnected.
Similar tools: FlickrDown and more in our article “3 Tools To Easily Backup Your Flickr Photos“.

Check out Bulkr @ www.clipyourphotos.com/bulkr

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Albumart: Download CD Music & DVD Movie Cover Art

Karl Gechlik — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:01:41 +0000

Have you ever copied or downloaded a CD or DVD and then wanted the cover for the jewel case? Well I have the ultimate free site for downloading just what you are looking for.

Albumart is a search engine for album art, CD covers and DVD covers. They appear to be very popular and claim to serve up more than 20,000 searches every day! Albumart was established in 2006 due to the fact that 9 out 10 websites dedicated to album art were horrendous. This is a free site with no advertising and lots of album art – works for me and in my search I found the cover I was looking for rather quickly.

You can see my search for Jay Z below returned all 10 of his albums. Great job guys!

Features:

Find and download CD and DVD cover art.
Ad free searching.
Easy to use interface.
Home page shows the latest searches.
High quality images.
They seem to have every item ever created!

Check out Albumart @ www.albumart.org (by Karl L.Gechlik at Ask The Admin)

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LinkLeecher: Validate & Download Links From Web Page

Karl Gechlik — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:01:51 +0000

LinkLeecher is a free online utility that will allow you to validate and download all the links on any given web page. You can use this service to either validate all of your own links on your website or to “leech” all the links from another site.

This may be useful if, for example, a website has some graphics that you want to download and use or even a MP3 playing in the background. The list of files in the site will be available for you to download.

There are lots of uses for this app ranging from wanting to create a similar test site to wanting to download an image or MP3 for personal use. You can use this method to grab or leech materials from a site that is using protection to block you from doing so.

Simply type in a URL and optionally select a filter that you would like to grab the files with these extensions. Then you can choose how you want the output formatted. Your options are links in a browser, a RSS feed, text file, CSV file or OPML output.

Features:

Check all your links on a webpage.
Allows you to download all the content via links.
Allows you to specify your URL.
Allows you to add a filter for links returned.
Support for CSV, TXT, RSS Feed or OPML output.

Check out @ www.linkleecher.com (by Karl L. Gechlik at Ask The Admin)

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CheckMyTorrentIP: Check if your BitTorrent Downloads are Anonymous

kaly — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:26:21 +0000

CheckMyTorrentIP is a cool online application for torrent users. It allows you to quickly check if your torrent line is anonymous and no personal IP data is exposed publicly. This comes in handy if you are using online anonymity service like VPN (ItsHidden) or some proxy servers and want to verify whether it’s actually protecting you.

The app gives you a unique legal torrent file which you can then use to confirm that the line is secured. Once you have added that torrent to your client you should be able to check if your IP address is secured on the website. The info is displayed in your torrent client, so you can continuously monitor anonymity of your connection without visiting the website.

Features:

Checks if your torrent anonymity service works.
Free and easy to use.
Includes a detailed FAQ section on how to safeguard your IP properly.

Check out CheckMyTorrentIP @ www.checkmytorrentip.com

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Booster: Online MP3 Finder

kaly — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:41:36 +0000

Booster is a new online MP3 finder that lets you search, stream and download almost any song you want. The site has simple and clean design without any annoying banners.

To find a song, just type in the name of the artist or song and Booster will get you a list of results, along with an option to download and play each track.

The website is new and still being worked on. As mentioned on the website, the additional features such as user accounts and playlist creation are being worked on.

Features:

Search and download MP3 songs online.
Download as many songs as you like.
Stream MP3s online.
The feature to create playlist is being worked on by Booster team.
For similar website see MP3 section.

Check out Booster @ www.boostermp3.com

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ShowRSS: Get BitTorrent RSS Feeds For TV Shows

abhijeet — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:46:09 +0000

ShowRSS is a great resource which provides bittorrent RSS feeds for popular TV shows. The site is free to use and lets to subscribe to as many show as you like. There is a big collection latest shows to choose from. You can search for shows and check out popular or recent additions.

Here’s how it works.

2. Choose from a list of TV shows and add them to your list.

3. Grab the feed address and subscribe to it from your torrent client or feed reader. (If you subscribe with your torrent client, the new episodes will download automatically)

The application is similar to previously profiled ezRSS, and has one additional feature. It allows you to customize BitTorrent RSS feeds based on torrent quality and inclusion of propers/repacks.

Features:

Get torrent links RSS feeds for TV shows.
Easy sign up. No email required.
Customize feeds in terms of torrent quality and propers/repacks.
Most of popular TV shows are available.
Search for shows and check “top” or “recent” additions.
Subscribe to the feed from a torrent client, browser or a feed reader.
Some more similar sites in 7 Useful Apps to Make Most of Torrents.

Check out ShowRSS @ www.showrss.karmorra.info (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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ezRSS: Provides Latest TV Show Torrents Via RSS Feeds

kaly — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:02:33 +0000

ezRSS is a web service that lists torrent RSS feeds for your favorite TV shows. You can subscribe and automatically download your favorite shows as soon as they are out using your torrent client. The cool part about the app is that you no longer have to see if that episode you’re waiting for is out, the app will do it for you.

The site provides RSS Feeds for many popular shows, you can search for feeds, check latest additions and browse shows alphabetically.

We have already reviewed a similar service earlier called FeedMyTorrents. Unfortunately, it’s no longer online.

Features:

Subscribe to TV torrent via rss feed.
Subscribe to as many feeds as you like.
Torrents are automatically downloaded as soon as new episodes are released.
Simple and easy to use.
Also see 7 Useful Apps to Make Most of Torrents.

Check out ezRSS @ www.ezRSS.com (via TorrentFreak)

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ezRSS: Provides Latest TV Show Torrents Via RSS Feeds

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ItsHidden: Use Bittorrent Anonymously

abhijeet — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:15:29 +0000

Considering the concerns raised by internet watchdogs like RIAA on copyrighted content being distributed through torrents, many users now-a-days prefer to use torrent sites in a way that they don’t get tracked. ItsHidden is a website which offers a free VPN solution intended to use Bittorrent anonymously. It means that your IP address can be hidden while you download the torrent files. It assures total privacy and doesn’t require you to download anything. Detailed instructions are given on the site on how to set it up on your computer.

Features

Fast and reliable with over 4 Gigabits of dedicated bandwidth.
Total Privacy assured. They would keep no records of your surfing.
No need to download any software.
128 Bit Secure Connection to ensure privacy over all networks.
Free to register.

If you liked this tool you may also check MakeUseOf article on 10 Ways To Speed Up Torrent Downloads. Lots of readers foundthe post really useful.

Check out ItsHidden @ www.itshidden.com [via Torrentfreak] (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Video2mp3: Convert YouTube Videos To MP3 Files

abhijeet — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:52:35 +0000

Video2mp3 is a dead simple YouTube to MP3 converter which lets you convert Youtube videos to MP3 files in the easiest possible manner. You just need to put the YouTube video link in the box and it converts and presents the downloadable MP3 file which has the audio of same quality as it was in the video. You could also do the same for HD videos by selecting the HQ option. It also provides a cool firefox addon for the purpose.

Features

Easily convert YouTube videos to MP3 audio files.
Option to convert high quality videos too.
Download the mp3 files after conversion.
A nice firefox addon to convert directly from the YouTube site.

Check out Video2MP3 @ www.video2mp3.net (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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KeepHD: Download YouTube Videos In High Def Format

Srikanth AD — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:40:33 +0000

KeepHD is a free site which lets you easily download YouTube videos in high def format. Apart from the HD copies of the videos, you can also download them in FLV (Flash), standard MP4 (i.e. for iPod) and mobile 3GP format.

The site provides you with three simple ways to download the videos:

URL Downloader: Enter a URL of the YouTube video you want to download and wait for the KeepHD to give you a download link.
Direct Downloader: When you are watching a video on YouTube you can simply replace ‘YouTube’ with ‘KeepHD’ in the video URL and download the video.

For instance, change http://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=wgS0KgT5APc
to http://www.KeepHD.com/watch?v=wgS0KgT5APc.

Bookmark Downloader: Drag the bookmark icon provided by KeepHD onto your browser toolbar and download the video you are currently watching with a single click.

Features:

Download YouTube videos in high quality, FLV, standard MP4 and mobile 3GP formats.
Provides with three simple ways to download videos: URL, Direct and Bookmark.
Free and no registration.
Similar websites: Youtube Catcher and ExtractVideo.

Check out KeepHD @ www.keephd.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut )

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SkipScreen: Bypass Waiting Time on Rapidshare

azim — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:47:13 +0000

Popular file hosting services like RapidShare, MediaFire, Megaupload etc, allow easy and free file sharing. Most of the people use it to download all sorts of files like music, books, movies etc. However on most of these sites you have to wait around 30-60 seconds before you actually get to download the file. SkipScreen on the other hand is a Firefox browser plugin that lets you bypass waiting time on Rapidshare, Megaupload and similar sites and get right to the download.

Features:

Bypass waiting time on Rpidshare and start the download immediately.
Supported files sharing networks: Rapidshare, Megaupload, MediaFire, zShare, SendSpace, DepositFiles, Sharebee, Linkbucks, Link-protector and more coming soon.
Plugin is continuously updated to work with changes on supported file hosting sites.

See SkipScreen in action in the video below

Check out SkipScreen @ www.skipscreen.com

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Blueding: Download Web Content onto Mobile via Bluetooth

kaly — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:11:47 +0000

Blueding is an interesting web application that lets you find content (photos, vdeos, music, games and maps) on the web and then download via bluetooth onto your mobile phone. There is no installation required, all you need to have is computer and mobile both with enabled bluetooth connection.

The process is simple, once you found particular item, the site will gives you two options:

1- download onto your computer
2- download via bluetooth onto your mobile device.

Simply select one of the options and follow procedure of file transfer.

The site also provides you with a bookmarklet and browser addon which enables you to transfer content to your mobile device via Bluetooth directly from any webpage.

Features:

Transfer media content to your mobile via bluetooth downloading.
Download photos, vdeos, music, games, applications and maps.
Browser addons (Firefox, IE) to transfer content onto your mobile via bluetooth.
Add Blueding to your Google Toolbar.
Free and no registration.

Check out Blueding @ www.blueding.com (via wwwhatsnew.com)

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TuneMaze: Search & Download MP3 Songs Directly Onto Mobile

kaly — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:11:45 +0000

TuneMaze is a website designed for mobile and iPhone users. Using it you can find and directly download mp3 songs on mobile device. Additionally to downloading you can also view song lyrics, watch YouTube videos and check out related tracks.

You are not required to download or install anything and there is no registration either. All you need to do is simply point your browser to www.tunemaze.com and start searching.

Features

Search and download music directly to phone.
Download as many MP3’s as you like.
Get song lyrics, youtube videos and other related songs.
Works with any web-enabled mobile phone including iPhone.
No registration. Free.
Similar websites: TuneRoom

Check out TuneMaze @ www.tunemaze.com

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TuneRoom: Download Songs To Cell Phone

kaly — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:56:55 +0000

TuneRoom is a music search engine for mobile users. It allows you to search for music online and then freely download songs to your cell phone. All music tracks are optimized for high-quality listening while retaining a fairly small file size. You can search and download as much music as you like. The only thing they ask from you is to create a free account with them.

Pretty much every sone you find via TuneRoom can be download in high or medium quality. You can also easily forward them to any mobile phone number in the US and Canada for free.

Features:

Download favorite songs to cell phone for free.
Search music from your mobile phone.
Download as much songs as you like (unlimited).
All tracks are optimized for high-quality listening and have a relatively small size.
Songs can be downloaded in high or medium quality.
Forward and share songs with any mobile in the US or Canada.
Clean and easy to use interface.

Check out TuneRoom @ www.sideload.com/m/index

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KickYouTube: Get Any Youtube Video on Your Computer

kaly — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:10:44 +0000

Get any YouTube video on your computer with KickYouTube without the need to install aything or going to another site first. It works directly from Youtube.

KickYouTube lets you download YouTube videos in an amazingly easy way, all you need to do is to insert the word “kick” inside the URL of any YouTube video and hit “Enter”. Add it right after the “http://www.” part. You will then see few additional options on the top part of the video page along with the option to select desired video format and download video to your computer.

Features:

Download and get YouTube videos on your computer.
Videos can be downloaded in .flv and .mpg formats
Also download Youtube songs as .mp3 music files.
Extremely simple and easy to use. No sign up needed.
Also see 4 Quick Ways To Download YouTube Videos Off The Net.

Watch demo video below:

Check out KickYouTube @ www.kickyoutube.com (via wwwhatsnew.com)

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DownloadAnyStuff: Find Free Books, MP3s and Software on Google

abhijeet — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:32:22 +0000

DownloadAnyStuff, as the name suggests is a place where you can locate downloadable stuff such as movies, music, ringtones, ebooks easily.

It’s one of those speciality search engines which utilize Google’s custom search format to target those people who are looking for specific things on the internet. Hence this search engine targets the audience which spends majority of its time downloading stuff from the internet.

Once you type a particular keyword and hit enter, it displays the relevant results along with certain tags/categories to further refine the result. You can use these tags to locate the specific item which you are looking for. In other words if you’re looking for an ebook then choose ebooks, for MP3s choose Music and so on. Almost all the results comprise of free downloads and download links on the internet.

Check out DownloadAnyStuff @ www.downloadanystuff.org ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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