Yarrrr: How To Download Free MP3’s Using YouTube and Free Web Services.

I am making this quick tutorial because I am astonished that no one has actually even talked about this. How does YouTube get away with practically giving music away? Why have they not been sued? Who cares right? All this is very strange but… I will show you a quick method to both download full music videos and mp3’s for free using web services publicly available. You can then use these services to compile albums with videos from YouTube. Once you see how easy it is to do this you will wonder how people where sued by RIAA & MPIAA and not Google.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 1: Find a song on youtube as a video. If you have an album in mind you know you want, you can get the tracks of that album online by going to www.amazon.com, they typically display all the track titles.

Step 2: Once you find a video simply copy the entire URL (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9yBPcn8IqU&ob=av2e )

Step 3: Go to http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ and paste the url and click the “Convert Video” button. Once its done converting you will get an option to download or link to the mp3. Enjoy :)

 

Music Videos

Step 1: Find a Music Video on YouTube.com

Step 2: Once you find a video simply copy the entire URL (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9yBPcn8IqU&ob=av2e )

Step 3: Go to http://www.saveyoutube.com and paste the url and click the “Download” button. Once its done converting you will get an option to download the video in up to 5 different formats.

Don’t get too crazy ENJOY! :P

Visual Fox Pro x64 ODBC Drivers NOT GONNA HAPPEN… Instead try this :)

OK so the story goes a little like this… At our company we use a client record management system called American Contractor (Maxwell). We have employees who needed to access the AC database in order to generate reports through Crystal Reports. The problem was that we could not find x64 drivers because according to the multitude of MSDN forums good old microsoft decided it would abandon any support for the dinosaur database type (visual fox pro… duh? :P). So i began to look and look for any possible 3rd party drivers but got no luck… then after about an hour of digging I was able to find some information…
If you have a Windows Vista, 7 or any type of x64 workstation you need to:

1) First understand that their is no x64 version of VFP driver, that being said you can definately run a x86 driver in a x64 OS.

2) Download the x86 Visual Fox Pro ODBC Driver here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb190233 (or Google “Visual Fox Pro ODBC Driver”)

3) In any x64 you cannot access the x86 ODBC Control Panel by navigating to the native START>CONTROL PANEL>ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS>DATA SOURCES (ODBC), You must access the x86 Data Source Panel.

4) To access your 32bit Data Sources Panel Navigate to C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64/odbcad32.exe and run it.

5) Run and Install what you need. If you still don’t see the VFP Drivers make sure you’ve already installed them :) (doi! :P)

6) Go tell your boss your a genius… muahahahah

I hope this helps anyone who experienced this problem.

HP Proliant DL380 on Windows Server 2008, Driver Install… Epic FAIL!

I recently was hired as Manager of Information Technology for one of California’s largest importers and exporters of exotic rock; granite, marble and what not. After looking at our current infrastructure I knew I was going to have to bring some of my personal equipment. After the first week I decided we would begin the process of changing server operating systems over to windows 2008 server as rebuilding the entire network was going to be necessary. As I began the process I decided I would install windows 2008 server on my HP Proliant DL380 which was perfect for the new application server role. Windows 2008 installed perfectly with no problem until of course it came to installing the network utility drivers. I spent a good 2 hours looking for help on HP forums, Google and anything else we normally use as information specialists but ended up with nothing. I decided to continue looking for help and found nothing so I decided that I would simply try to run the driver installation in compatibility mode. After a bit of playing I was able to determine that Windows 2008 Server and 2008 Server R2 are somewhat considered different versions, after all the drivers would not install on regular R2 mode but had to dumb down the compatibility to Regular windows 2008 server. After this everything installed with no problem so I suggest if you’re installing Server 2008 R2 as an operating system make sure you install drivers as regular 2008 server through compatibility mode or else you will get the “this install could not complete because the correct operating system was not found” prompt.

Web Symantecs 2.0 Is Coming!

For months now I have been working on a new design that embodied form and function. The idea was to create a site were a community could be established to debate and procure the both negative and positive impacts of other online marketing concepts, how do they work? how much they cost? is there an Open Source solution? What methods and practices are used? I am hoping this community will be built around “real” experts on the subjects of Social Media Marketing / Online Social Psychology & Engineering, Data Management, Relevance and Information Technology to create a new source of fresh information, one that isn’t tainted by the modern methods of data mining, only duplicating corrupt and outdated data across multiple online outlets. Web Symantecs will be a place where practice and experience will determine what are called facts, Information today is perpetually changing; our methods of learning and understanding should do the same.

URL: http://www.websymantecs.com (This site is no longer active as it was updated to websemantics.com)

Can’t Map Windows Server 2003 Network Drive on Windows 7, Enter Network Password Error :(

OK so I kept having this issue with a clients Windows 7 Ultimate PC, every time I would try to map a network drive it would ask me for 2 pairs of credentials. The Regular credentials and then the dreaded “enter network password” credential. Keep in mind that this is a business network so no clients have home groups setup.

Troubleshooting Steps: – Went to Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings and made sure “Password Protected Sharing” was OFF.

– Still didn’t work. – This time I had to check our credentials manager and remove all old credentials it may have stored ( Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager )

– Still Didn’t work WTF! right? At this point I was kinda annoyed and I decided to check the Network Policies on the local computer, TADAAAAAAAA :P

THE SOLUTION:

Start Menu Type run or cmd in search box

Type: secpol.msc

Go to Local Policies | Security Options and choose the “Network Security: LAN Manager Authentican Level” item Set it to “Send LM & NTLM use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”

Reboot, Remap and everything should be good, enjoy :)

Using PHP To Pull Your Last Tweet Via Twitters Atom Timeline

Ok here is a simple script that will help you pull your latest feed from your twitter atom rss timeline without the use of cURL :)

[cc lang=”php”]

# Enter your twitter username
$username = “websymantecs”;

#page title (if you want one >:P)
$prefix = “<h2>Tweet Tweet</h2>”;

# Suffix – some text you want display after your latest tweet. (Same rules as the page title.)
$suffix = “”;

# Our prepared URL
$feed = “http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:” . $username . “&rpp=1”;

# time to process our request
function parse_feed($feed) {
// time for our data parsing
$phase1 = explode(“<content type=\”html\”>”, $feed);
$phase2 = explode(“</content>”, $phase1[1]);
$tweet = $phase2[0];
$tweet = str_replace(“&lt;”, “<“, $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(“&gt;”, “>”, $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(“&quot;”, “”, $tweet);
return $tweet;
}
# Parsed and echo to the screen.
$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix);

[/cc]

Its that simple, enjoy! xD!

After a successful feed, you can use CSS to style the returned data.

EZ Tax Express: The Beginning Of Something Beautiful

ez tax express logoWhat is EZ Tax Express? Its a new project I have taken on. This project will consist of the following:

  • Brand Design
  • Web Development
  • Information Technology
  • SEO + Online Marketing
  • SMO + Social Marketing

The company is a tax specialist much like H&R Block. I look forward to this, the big guys are about to get some local competition… muahahahaha! >:)

2011 is here! It Is Time For A Comeback!

Its been a while since I have been out and about in public, reflecting on past mistakes and choices. This year is very different I truly feel like I am back to myself mentally and hopefully soon physically :P It is amazing the power love has over a person, it has the ability to make one rise to the top or crumble down to oblivion. For me I can say That I am happy that I have had great friends that have been there for me since my downfall reminding me that there is more to life then my simple wishes and more importantly we must celebrate life because it can be gone in an instant. I can say that I am now truly a force to be wrecked with both physically and mentally, I will no longer take anyone’s garbage, If you wish to play that game with me I will crush you plain and simple.
This year is something I have been looking forward to, to simply start over reconstructing myself as a person. I hope this year is amazing for me if not I will make it that way for no one is in control of my destiny only I. Get ready world for you have another person breaking out of the darkness ready to embrace the light.

Martian Laser Engraving, PWNing SEO:Local

This is project I took up last year as an investment because I saw the potential in the business. With in weeks I was able to recreate a more professional design and implement it, then it was all about the SEO. SEO is one of those things I just love to dabble in because I have so much background in it. Now Martian Laser is #1 and almost all targeted keywords. Business has increased by 400% within 1 Year and it only looks like the demand is building up :)

I am almost ready to make the online store go live on the site but I am waiting to the completion of the product data into our databases.
Things look good for Martian Laser for 2011 and I can’t wait to see this business mature. The company will be reopening a new walk-in location in Temecula CA. or San Diego CA by the middle of the coming year.

As time progresses the sites design will also have to grow to optimize traffic and user experience. By the end of the second quarter of 2011 I will begin to deploy nationally optimized domains to further our reach into the market expanding the Martian Laser brand locally around the US. At this time I also hope to have a multilingual component to the site

Anyways here is the link: www.martianlaser.com if you wanna check it out, let me know what you think! :)