Category Archives: Hacks

[Hack] Convert any video file for an iPod

By Siddhartha Reddy | November 3, 2007

Information should be consumable any which way.
Neither my iPod nor my phone support the flv format in which you can download videos from Youtube and several other video sites (using the All-In-One Video Bookmarklet).
I found a very good ruby script that can convert from the flv (or any other format) to mp4 (the format that [...]

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[Hack] “Check this out!”

By Siddhartha Reddy | October 13, 2007

Do you find yourself sending out frequent emails which broadly fall under this pattern: the subject is something on the lines of ‘Check this out’ and the body contains a URL and hardly anything else?
Here is simple bookmarklet that will make sending out those emails easier, if you use GMail that is. If you click [...]

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