Search Videos from Specific Websites with Google

You need to re watch a clip you recently saw on some popular sports website but can’t seem to find it easily or you want to find videos about some news events making headlines but these to be sourced only from news websites but can’t exactly figure out how.

Well, Google Videos isn't the only places to search hundreds of sites for video content but certainly is among the better resources if not the best.

Simple search operators that we use on Google to find textual content can also be applied to video searches in a similar way to limit search a great extent to specific sites only.

For example: You wish to find videos of “forest fire” from some of the major online news sites you follow.

Head straight to Google Videos and use the “|” operator as below to get results only from desired news sites. In my case, the bbc, abcnews and msnbc.

forest fire bbc.co.uk | abcnews.go.com | msnbc.msn.com

Rarely, a search term may show up a couple of videos from YouTube or some other video site, along with results from our specified sites. This can happen  only if a video on YouTube or another video site has a link in the description area to any of the sites we want video results from.

We can always use the “ - “ search operator to leave out such results.

forest fire bbc.co.uk | abcnews.go.com | msnbc.msn.com –youtube.com

Use Google Translate on any Windows Desktop Application[Download]

Almost every web browser has a Google Translate extension to translate words or sentences that are not in our language. But those only provide functionally for web applications.

What about translating texts on one of the MS Office application, a desktop email client, windows notepad or any other windows application?

If you’re looking for a free and simple application that can bring the Google Translate facility right into your windows applications, try out transmiti.

Simply select a text and press the windows key (changeable via settings). Transmiti will provide you with the translated text in a box. It works with almost all languages supported by Google Translate.

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How To Temporarily Block Or Disable A Website on Your Computer[Download]

Imagine how quickly you can complete a task if you manage to stay focused while you work on the task you have to do in the next few hours or so. But the endless stream of new content that come from social websites like Twitter,  Facebook, Google+, YouTube and other addictive websites can easily distract you from your work and before you know it, much of your precious time is lost.

If you’re having a difficult time staying focused to your work or even desire to block a certain website on your child's computer, try out Cold Turkey. Currently a windows only application that will help you temporarily block any website on your computer.
The process is dead easy. Simply choose from the list of popular websites or enter your own and set the time duration for which you wish to keep the sites blocked.
Now you have no choice but to work. Every time you try and access any of the defined sites, your browser will return an error message until the allotted time has passed.

Download Cold Turkey