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Have you come across a Facebook video that you want to save to your computer but can’t find a download link? Well here’s how you do it without any software.

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Youtube is now allowing video posters to charge a fee so people can download their video’s of Youtube and save them on their computer. You can read more at the Youtube Blog.

But who’s to say, why not download it for free with a website such as iDesktop.tv?

The test version of Windows 7 will be available for download on Friday (Saturday AEDST) says Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer at Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show.

Windows 7 will improve the home network and media streaming programs through Media Centre to allow a more user friendly environment compared to Windows Vista. Ballmer also says that you would also be able to publish Facebook content through Windows Live.

Microsoft paid $US240M ($A338M) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook.

You can test all of Microsoft’s Windows & software when the BETA version is released. If you can not wait until then, check this out.

Firefox is a great web browser due to the number add-ons that you can get to help customise your browsing experience.

When you surf the Internet, you usually download music or pictures, or programs, for different needs and wants. It can sometimes be hard remembering all the different file names of all the different files that you download and what they are for, because they are all stored in one folder called Downloads. But thanks to Automatic Save Folder for Firefox, this is no more of an issue.

This extension allows you to create rules for your downloads from different domain names, and file types and allow you to store them in different locations which can help organise your downloads much more.

So happy downloading!

Spore has been named the 2008 most pirated game according to the TorrentFreak weblog.

In 2008, Spore a game of developing and growing species from a unicellular organism though development as an intelligent and social creature is the most downloading game in 2008 with 1.7 million illegal downloads. That is almost the same number of copies that Electronic Arts sold which the figure stands at almost 2 million.

One reason why the game was pirated so many times is that when you buy the game, you can only activated it a maximum of three times which in reality, does not give the buyer unlimited use of the program, and the ability to resell the game after their use.

Less then 24 hours after the initial release of Spore, the hacked version came out.

The Top 10 Pirated Games of 2008 where:

1. Spore
2. The Sims 2
3. Assassins Creed
4. Crysis
5. Command & Conquer 3
6. Call of Duty 4
7. GTA San Andreas
8. Fallout 3
9. Far Cry 2
10. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009

There are many programs out on the Internet such as Limewire, Morpheus and Torrents that you can download music from. But theirs software that I have found that beats them all. It is Songbeat. It is a small, lightweight program that you install on your computer that you can search for music that is hosted on the Internet. Now the good thing about Songbeat, is that you can play the song as soon as you have searched it. If its the song you like, just hit download and the MP3 file is saved to your computer. It is that quick. It is so much better then Limewire of its slow boot time, searches and then have to download the file. Songbeat is quick and simple. It now has my number one.