I recently became addicted to TED Videos. This inspired me to create a simple python script which helps one download TED Talks in bulk. Here is the main part of the script. Scroll down for download link and usage instructions.

#! /usr/bin/python
 
# Name: TED Video Downloader
# Version: 0.4
# Summary: A bulk TED Talks download tool
# License: [...]

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This is a compilation of some terminal commands I’ve found useful.
Before starting, I’d like to emphasize on a few things:
- You might want to understand the filesystem hierarchy in linux before you start.
- When you start terminal, your default working directory is /home/user-name
- If you want to get more info on any command, just type [...]

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Here’s a video I created an hour ago. Basically, it guides you in creating a wordpress sandbox to test your themes/plugins and other features of wordpress.
You’ll need to download:
1. WAMPServer 2 from http://www.wampserver.com/dl.php) and;
2. Wordpress from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip)

I’m planning to create more tutorial videos. Please give your suggestions, if any.

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I was chatting with a friend who had a huge music collection and I wanted to know what all he had. This provoked me to make a batch script which would do the job. I did some research online and found out some basics of batch scripts. This is the final thing which I ended [...]

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This was first posted in my old, dead blog Jazzed Up! on Mar 24, 2008 1:44 PM
This article tells your how to download videos, not only from YouTube, but also from other video sharing sites using Firefox. I’ll be considering only YouTube here. The procedure will be the same for any streaming media.
Note (07 Jul, [...]

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This was first posted in my old, dead blog Jazzed Up! on Mar 13, 2008 9:15 AM
Won’t a background image look great for your Pen Drive? This is a brief tutorial on setting a background image for your USB Drive (Note that this is also applicable to folders). This is for Windows XP (it might [...]

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