Windows 10 is everything Windows 8 should have been. Now, it's still
early: the technical preview is just a week old, and barely scratches
the surface of what Microsoft has promised is coming down the pipe. It's also buggy, and definitely shouldn't be installed on your primary PC.
But
this fledgling operating system is at once panacea and prescience, a
remedy for Windows 8's identity-crisis that also rethinks and reworks
the overly-bold approach to Microsoft's dream of unifying the desktop
and mobile experience.
Fresh start
Boot up a PC running the Windows 10
Technical Preview, and you'll be dropped off at the oh so familiar
desktop. A taskbar with familiar looking icons sits on the bottom, and
the recycle bin sits in the upper left corner. A build number sitting on
the right side of your desktop is the only indication that this isn't
Windows 8 all over again.
And then you press the Start button, and
are greeted by the return of the Start menu. It's a proper Start menu
too, with your apps all stacked in that endless column of nested folders
we've all been scrolling since Windows 95. And sitting alongside that
column are Windows 8's lovely Live Tiles, with news-bites and social
updates spinning ad infinitum. The revamped, customizable Start menu.
Screenshot by Nate Ralph/CNET
Some
blasphemy here: as someone weaned on DOS and then Windows 3.11, I've
always found the Windows 95-and-beyond Start menu to be a bit daft.
There are always far too many apps on my machines for a single,
scrolling list, or even nested folders, to make any sense. So I turn to
search, or shortcuts littering the desktop, or -- with Windows 7 -- a taskbar packed with colorful icons arranged in some arcane order that makes perfect sense to me.
And
that's why the Windows 8 Start screen seemed like such a good idea:
tiles that served up useful information, and you could arrange as many
as you wanted into neat little groups. But that image falls apart once
you actually get to using the thing. Add a lot of apps and you'll end up
scrolling endlessly; a nightmare if you're on a keyboard and mouse. And
most apps rip us back to the traditional desktop, while others dominate
entire 27-inch displays, oblivious of our need to multitask.
Old is new again
With
Windows 10, the familiar and the new are mashed together in a form
that's only a little different, but suddenly more useful than ever
before. You can have your Start menu, with familiar apps and services
that you can pin to a list. And I can have my Live Tiles in a form that
actually makes sense: informative nuggets of information feeding me
calendar information, the status of my inbox, and social network
updates, called up unobtrusively with the press of the Windows key.
Press those Live Tile shortcuts, and the "Modern" apps open as classic
windowed apps. You can drag them around, snap them to half of your display, minimize and maximize them at will. Virtual desktops keep work and play separate.
Screenshot by Nate Ralph/CNET
Windows
10 let's you work smarter, too. Click the search button to do exactly
that -- search your files, the Windows Store or the entire Internet,
right from the taskbar. Click the Task view button, and you'll get a
quick glimpse of all of your open apps and can create virtual desktops
with ease. That feature alone tempts me to install the preview on my
primary machine, but it's far from perfect. You can press Ctrl + Windows
key to jump between your desktops, and right click on apps when in task
view to move them around, but I'd really like to be able to drag and
drop those open apps to different desktops, or -- more importantly --
rearrange the virtual desktops I've created. Of course we've had virtual
desktops on Linux and Mac machines for years (and on Windows, from third-party apps), but it's nice to see Microsoft catching up here. Modern apps no longer take up the whole screen.
Screenshot by Nate Ralph/CNET
But
Windows 10's real game-changing potential is still purely theoretical:
this'll be one operating system to rule them all, serving up a
device-specific interface that'll scale from desktops down to
smartphones, and everywhere in between, with universal apps that will
run everywhere too. These features haven't yet made their way to the
technical preview, but you'll eventually be able to pop a 2-in-1
convertible device like the Surface Pro 3 onto its keyboard base, and watch the full-screen Start screen melt
away, offering instead the new Start menu and the familiar desktop.
That could be a cure for the confusing mess that is the current Windows 8 PC ecosystem, chock full of laptops that bend over backward or split from your keyboards, or simply graft touchscreens onto familiar devices.
We should finally see an end to the jarring, generally unsatisfying
experience that urges us to dance between the desktop and that weird,
full-screen purgatory where Modern apps live.
And if you want to
flirt with the Windows 8 experience you can do that too: just right
click the taskbar and choose the option that disables or enables the
Start menu. If Windows 8 had shipped with that option to begin with, we
would probably have avoided this issue entirely.
Future-proofing
Windows
10 isn't going to fix everything, but a seemingly simple tweak to one
of Windows 8's most divisive elements has made a world of difference to
the OS. And that's crucial to Windows' future, as Microsoft is still
looking at the big picture: PCs are old news.
Desktops and laptops
still handle most of our work and play, but tablets and smartphones
have long since stolen the limelight: future operating systems will need
to work to bridge that gap. We've seen steps in this direction from
Apple, with OS X Yosemite's ability to hand off files and things like emails and calls from your phone or tablet. And some Android apps are making their way to Google's Chrome OS, and interesting sign of where Google might be headed.
Microsoft's vision of tomorrow's ideal operating system is grander
still. The goal is to offer a unified experience across devices of all
shapes and sizes, and one that will morph to make sense: icons to tap
and home screens when you're on a phone or tablet, but windowed apps and
nested folders when you're armed with a keyboard and mouse.
Windows 8 dreamed of dragging us into that future, but we kicked and
screamed at the inefficiency of its one-size-fits-all approach. With
Windows 10, Microsoft seems to be getting it right.
We take a look at the top 5 Software used to download youtube videos and videos from some other sites. Enjoy.
YouTube is a phenomenon unto itself and possibly the most
successful product for Google after Google search. Launched back in
November 2005, the website attracts more than 1 billion unique users
every month, and more than 6 billion hours of video are watched during
the same period.
Although it might be frowned upon, there
are many legitimate reasons to download a YouTube video. One is when
you've recorded a video, uploaded it to YouTube, and then lost the
original copy. And then there are copyright-free works to consider —
from open source and creative content videos to those available in the
public domain. You might not even be interested in the video and may
just want to download its audio (or soundtrack) instead.
As with peer-to-peer (P2P), just because a technology can be used
illegally, that doesn't mean it should be banned. From the myriad of
options available, we've plucked out what we consider to be the best
ones. They're free, but it's worth bearing in mind that they they may
try to install add-ons that you haven't asked for - such as search
engine toolbars or software to clean your computer's registry - that you
can opt out of.
With that out of the way, here are our
top 5 best YouTube downloaders. If we've missed any, feel free to
comment and let us know.
1. Freemake Video Downloader
Freemake Video Downloader
is a simple-to-use tool for downloading YouTube videos, along with
their accompanying audio, in a few clicks. Simply paste in the URL of
the video you want to download and click 'Paste URL' to set it running,
or install the Firefox add-on to start the download from the YouTube
page itself by right-clicking on the video. The
program comes with a slew of extras, including the ability to download
YouTube Playlists and convert videos into multiple formats - including
AVI and MP3. One of the program's more useful features is a nifty
restrict bandwidth option that allows you to slow down your downloads if
your internet connection isn't the fastest in the world. This allows
you to keep them running smooth as butter while carrying out other tasks
- such as streaming online video or gaming.
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2. Free YouTube to MP3 Converter
YouTube
is first and foremost a resource for watching videos, but there's
nothing to stop you just ripping any video's accompanying audio. And, of
course, there's more to YouTube audio than background music.
Guitarists, pianists and other musicians, for example, could benefit by
downloading one of the many instrumental backing tracks uploaded by
professional and amateur musicians. Looking
for a funky guitar backing track in B-Minor to jam along to? Or how
about downloading a karaoke track for that party you're hosting at the
weekend? With Free YouTube to MP3 converter,
you can do it in a snap. Copy the URL of the YouTube video you want to
rip the audio from and open the program and hit CTRL + V to queue it up.
Before
ripping, you can select the quality you want to rip the audio in from a
variety of formats - including MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV and OGG. Next, pick
your desired bit-rate quality and hit download to send it hurtling down
the wires.
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3. aTube Catcher
With aTube Catcher
you'll get the usual array of tools to download and convert YouTube
videos (with audio), but it does a whole lot more too. One of its
handier features is the ability to resize video, which allows you to cut
out parts of clips for your own projects (if they're copyright free, of
course) or lower the size of videos before saving them to your
computer. Another
cool feature not found in many other programs is the Stream Capture
tool, which allows you to load up a video stream from YouTube or other
video sites to save streamed content straight to your hard drive,
meaning you don't have to wait until a program is made available to
officially download, which can take days - or even weeks.
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4. Free Studio
Where some YouTube video downloaders focus on performing a single task well, Free Studio
offers a comprehensive conversion package that can do tons more after
you've made the rip. It's simple enough to get going: load up the
program and you're presented with the option to download a YouTube
video, or rip its audio as an MP3. From
there, you can choose from multiple conversion options to optimise the
file for a certain device. Choose the mobile option, for example, and
with a single click you can convert the video for viewing on Android,
BlackBerry, HTC, Motorola, Samsung and other handsets.
It
means that factors like resolution, bit-rate quality and suitable audio
codecs are automatically chosen and optimised, perfect for making sure
you can view the video offline on your mobile device with no
compatibility problems. There's also the ability to burn your video or
audio track to a CD or DVD, and you can even give videos a
psychedelic3D-type effect using the built-in 3D Video Maker.
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5. YTD
YTD
is a no-frills video downloading tool that features the handy option of
converting your files before they're ripped, saving you from having to
do it afterwards. And unlike some other downloaders that only support
YouTube, YTD is compatible with a whole range of video sites: from
DailyMotion to Facebook and beyond. It
may not be the most feature-packed option on our list, but its
uncluttered, compact UI makes it a suitable choice if you're something
of a prolific video downloader, allowing you to instantly get a snapshot
of how many downloads you've got on the go.
You're also
provided with information on their progress, the speed that they're
downloading and how long it'll be until they're nestled on a corner of
your hard drive to be viewed whenever you're ready.
Step 1 - First put your hands in front of you as shown in the drawing - In each hand, ascribe a value from 6 to 10 to each finger
Step 2 How to Multiply
Step 3
Step 4
Step 1 Choose the numbers to multiply. Example: 7x8 Step 2 Put together the fingers whoses values you want to multiply. Step 3 Now count the touching fingers and the ones below them. The number you get will be the tens. Example: 5
Step 4
Now multiply the fingers above the ones touching of the left hand and
the ones in the right hand. The number you get will be the units. Example: 3x2=6
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