Once you register you have more credits for free and you can manage your contacts as well.The delivery is also quite fast. It hardly takes 5 seconds. This for a free service is quite ok I feel. The revenue model for this site is based on advertisements and building sms advertisement campaigns for business. 

It also provides users the ability to send with their own sender ID. Probably this will fit the business group. It also aims at sending advertisements along with the messages sent for free. 

It’s worth having a look and giving it  a try…!

I wanted this site ( single page) to load faster without any complications. I’ve just put the IP of the visitor and a small JS to copy the IP to your clipboard.

Snapshot of ItismyIP.com

I think,  I’m far better this time in choosing my domain name..I’ve seen around 100 hits already in a day without much doing from my side. So I added my adsense today to it.. Hope it gives me back the 10 USD within this year.

I know there are ‘n’ number of popular sites giving this service. But I’m thinking of something different that would help me have my share of traffic. Any suggestions welcome in this regard…!

Have a look here and do share your comments..

    As usual, my friend kept me waiting in the waiting lobby in her office. I was just thinking about the exams these security personals were writing. I tried hard to remember any such exams I’ve written in my last 4 years after coming to a job. I couldn’t remember any and that too in such a strict examination environment. There has been never an attempt to measure our skills at the cost of our job. (It’s not only for me, but for 99% of us).

    I do agree we do take up interviews before joining a job. I’m worried when we stay at the job for longer periods. I’ve seen many of my seniors staying in the job for more than a decade. I’m not sure of the present system we have. Probably with the time, we learn on our job. But are we really evaluated at any point? Maybe for the annual appraisal we are evaluated. But here again, on the tasks we’ve performed for the last twelve months and not for what we’ve learnt. I agree the learning and job go hand-in-hand. But when a person on job which don’t require a top-class techie, takes up regular exams in his subjects on latest advancements, it make me think aloud…

Thinking still louder, I’ve got few points to make

• Every employee should be evaluated on technical or non-technical skills relevant to the current market demand, to his job and to his experience.
• For any organization to be successful, atleast the 5% of the workforce should be replenished annually. (May the above said evaluation be a scale?)
• I agree the infrastructure for this set up calls for additional costs, but in the long run, the ROI is definite.

The above points may be little extravagant in terms of reality. But I see them as a necessity to survive. Please do share your comments.

I added one more switch to my script ‘S’. It accepts the keywords and searches the YouTube for related videos. Now my scripts usage is like

This helps a lot for me now. Just I trigger something like

C:\Videos> Cscript yt_dl.vbs S 10 Sachin Warne

It downloads 10 videos related to Sachin & Warne from the YouTube.

Hope this improvement helps. The only limitation (atleast that I’ve noticed) is it can download the maximum number of 20 related videos. Please do share your comments.

The modified version can be downloaded here.

    You need to be online to watch a video from YouTube. It also supports buffering. That’s the video can be buffered when connected to the internet and watched offline. (This has helped me to watch so many videos when I’m not connected). But the pain part is if you close the browser, the buffered content is lost. You again have to connect to internet to watch the same video clip.

    Why not we download it and have it offline? I googled and found some websites that provide this service. You tell them the video you need, they give you the download link after sometime. You can download it. But you get this service at the cost of advertisements and annoying popups. There is a plug-in available for Firefox users. Still IE users don’t have any options. All I wanted was to download many video clips in a single shot. The only option was to code myself!

    I chose VBscript as I don’t need any more software installation necessary for this to run. Almost all the Windows comes with the scripting support. Hence I can run my VBscript anywhere even in the Cyber-cafes. It supports two switches currently. Either I can directly supply the list of URLs of videos I want when I’m calling it or I can provide a text file with list of URLs. Something like

When you call the script with ‘U’ switch you can provide the URLs directly. Something like

YT_DL.VBS U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMYw8SodMWQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRMyR8BJ74A

When you call the script with ‘F’ switch you can just provide a path to text file which contains the list of URLs

    YT_DL.VBS F url_list.txt

    The main advantage of the script is that you can just create a list of videos you want and put in a text file and pass it on to the script with ‘F’ switch. It downloads and saves them in the same folder with the title of the videos as the file names. You are done with a single command. No waiting, No popup and it can run on your background. You need not even bother about it.

    Please note, when you running this script for the first time, you will (most probably) get an error message stating, “msxml3.dll: Access is denied”. Don’t worry, it’s a security catch. You need to add http://youtube.com to your list of trusted sites. For this go to the ‘Internet options àSecurity tabà select Trusted and click the ‘Sites..’ button. There you add http://youtube.com. Now run your script. You won’t have any issues.

    Once downloaded, you can play those .FLV files using FLV players available over the web for free. You can download one from here. Hope you find this script useful. You can use it and modify it in the way you want. If you have any issues or suggestions, please let me know. Have fun and do share your comments here.

The script can be downloaded here.