There is also a cutdown version of Clive, CClive which has a smaller footprint and fewer dependencies. The feature stripped off Clive to create CClive are paste, background, emit-xml, progress type and Cache.

Click this 1-click installer to automatically download and install cclive and the required dependencies. This should install cclive under /usr/bin/

sai@opensuse11:~> which cclive

/usr/bin/cclive

click here to visit the cclive project home.

GUI for Clive/CClive

abby is a simple GUI that supports both clive & cclive video extraction utilities.

Click this  1-click installer to automatically download and install abby and the required dependencies. This should install abby under “Applications – Internet – Data Exchange” as “Internet Video Extraction“.

When you launch the first, you will be prompted to enter the path for clive or cclive executable and then the direcory to store extracted videos. once, that is set you are straight into the application ready to download your favorite videos.

Click here to visit the project home.

Addon utilities for Clive/Cclive

clive-utils is an open source project that contains additional utilities that can be used together with the clive utility. This includes

clivefeed – Parses RSS feeds containing video page links and uses clive (or cclive) to extract them.

clivescan – Scans video pages for video links and uses clive (or cclive to extract them. It scans for both video page and embedded video links.

clivepass(clive only) – clivepass is a replacement for stored plain-text website login passwords used with clive. It keeps website login passwords encrypted in a repository file that can be accessed with a global passphrase.

Click this 1-click installer to automatically download and install clive-utils and the required dependencies. This should install clive-utils under /usr/bin/

Click here to visit the project home.

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Features include

Multiple downloads at the same time
Supports IPv6
Designed to run as a daemon
Connect using Telnet and web Interface
Can chroot itself and drop privileges for security
Bandwith shaping (currently only upload)
Crash-Proof – Crashes or a full filesystem will never corrupt your downloads
Non-Threading/Non-Forking design: All connections are handled in non-blocking state using a dynamic select loop

Install Bitflu in openSUSE

Click this  1-click installer hosted by packman to install bitflu on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories, download and install bitflu and the  dependencies. Click next on the bitflu installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install bitflu and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

This should install Bitflu under /usr/bin/bitflu

Once installed, simply start Bitflu as a non-root user as follows:

sai@opensuse11:~> bitflu

To confirm, bitflu started ok.

sai@opensuse11:~> ps -ef | grep bitflu
sai       4372     1  2 06:02 pts/1    00:00:11 /usr/bin/perl -w ./bitflu.pl –daemon

Bitflu listens for HTTP & Telnet connections on TCP ports 4081 and 4001 respectively.

sai@opensuse11:~> netstat -an| egrep “4001|4081″
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:4001          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:4081          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:4001          127.0.0.1:57532         TIME_WAIT

Now, you can either use a web interface to connect and start downloading, logon to the web interface at:

http://localhost:4081

or connect and work via Telnet,

sai@opensuse11:~> telnet 0 4001
Trying 0.0.0.0…
Connected to 0.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
# Welcome to Bitflu
bitflu>

The project website has a more detailed usage guide here and a list of known issues with Bitflu here.

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In order to use gPodder with your iPod, you need to Jailbreak it due to the restrictions set by Apple.

Install gPodder in openSUSE

Click this 1-click installer hosted by packman to install gPodder on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories, download and install gPodder and the  dependencies. Click next on the gPodder installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install gPodder and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

This should install gPodder under “Applications – Internet – Data Exchange” as Media Aggregator.

When you launch for the first time, you are given the option to either choose from a sample list of Podcasts or to download from my.gpodder.org. Once you choose your option and select to add the feeds/podcasts, updates are checked and downloads any new episodes.

The default settings for the software can be changed from “Podcast – Preferences“. Also, manage your subscriptions from the Subcriptions menu.

gPodder is simple and very easy to use. Click here to visit the project home.

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Nuke Anything Enhanced

Nuke Anything can make selected contents from the website disappear temporarily leaving only the contents you want to see, read or watch. It perfectly works the othe way as well wherein it can let you remove all the contents from a website except the select parts or objects. This is ideally useful when you focus on specific contents on a website or even when printing where you print only what you want.

Because, it is only temporary, a simple page refresh (F5) will bring back the contents on the webpage.

Click to add “Nuke Anything Enhanced” to your Firefox browser.

Remove It Permanently (RIP)

Remove It Permanently on the other hand is an enhanced addon where it can actually make the selected contents disappear permanently. This means when you next visit the page somedays later, the removed contents will not be ever shown again. Remove It Permanently remembers these objects and hence you never have to bother again. RIP can also block Googl Ads specifically.

RIP allows import/export of the websites and the removed contents information so can be backed up and used elsewhere.


Click here to add “Remove It Permanently” to your Firefox browser.

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However, just to give you that extra highlighting of a website thats claims to be secure, you can choose to display the website domain or the subdomain highlighted in a Blue background next to the FavIcon of the website.

To do so, open a Firefox browser and type “about:config” in the address bar and press enter. Click the button “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.

Type “browser.identity.ssl_domain_display” in the filter. Double-click the entry and set the following values:

1 – Show the top level domain (ex: google.com)

2 – Show the full domain including the subdomain (ex: www.google.com)

0 – Do not highlight the domain (default)

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This was delibrately done to avoid known security issues explained in detail here.

However, if you want to disable this countdown and directly get to install the addon, try the following:

1. Open a firefox browser window and type “about:config” in the address bar.
2. Click “I’ll be careful, I promise” button.
3. In the Filter search box, enter “security.dialog_enable_delay“. You can see this set to 2000 milliseconds.

4. Double-click this entry and change it to “0″. This should disable the delay counter.

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Now, what is it for normal home users with a PC or a laptop. Well, if you are a Firefox browser user then you got lucky with the “ProCon Latte” Add-on for Firefox. ProCon Latte is a Content filter for Firefox which can control the contents that is inappropriate for viewing on your PC.

One would wonder at the level of customization that ProCon Latte offers that can almost stand up against those enterprise class appliances.

You can add a whitelist which is a list of websites that you consider are safe and/or required to visited from your PC.

You can enable Profanity Filter with offensive words replaced with a custom set of characters like “***”

The Main filter allows you to set the words to look for on any website address or in its content and block access to this site completely. You can also add a custom message to display when people visit these websites.

While you would argue that all these settings can be overiden. Yes, thats true but not so easy when you set a password to edit or change the settings. Now you are in control.

Apart from all these, you can actually save bandwidth by not downloading these contents but also make your websites load faster. A classic example would be to block AD delivery websites to the filter and you would see how faster your websites can load without these advertisements.

Click here to visit the addon page and install on your Firefox browser.

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Install Swiftfox in openSUSE

Swiftfox provides you with installer script which automatically download and installs the firefox build under /opt/swiftfox and adds a menu item under “Applications – Internet – More Programs“.

Download the swiftfox installer for your platform from here

Once downloaded, change the permission

saihari@opensuse11:~/Desktop> chmod 755 install-swiftfox.sh

Run the installer. If you are running as a normal user you need to enter the password for the Root user to continue with the installation.

saihari@opensuse11:~/Desktop> ./install-swiftfox.sh

Password required to install to /opt directory…

root’s password:
–2009-05-12 06:22:53–  http://getswiftfox.com/builds/releases/3.0.11pre-1/swiftfox-3.0.11pre-1-prescott.tar.bz2
Resolving getswiftfox.com… 208.113.157.186
Connecting to getswiftfox.com|208.113.157.186|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 10268886 (9.8M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: `swiftfox-3.0.11pre-1-prescott.tar.bz2′

100%[==========================================================>] 10,268,886   332K/s   in 31s

2009-05-12 06:23:26 (324 KB/s) – `swiftfox-3.0.11pre-1-prescott.tar.bz2′ saved [10268886/10268886]

Installing Swiftfox…
mv: cannot stat `swiftfox’: No such file or directory

Searching for existing plugins, errors can be safely ignored…
cp: cannot stat `swiftfox.old/plugins/*’: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*’: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*’: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/*’: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/*’: No such file or directory
–2009-05-12 06:23:27–  http://getswiftfox.com/builds/installer/Swiftfox.desktop
Resolving getswiftfox.com… 208.113.157.186
Connecting to getswiftfox.com|208.113.157.186|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 402 [text/plain]
Saving to: `Swiftfox.desktop’

100%[==========================================================>] 402         –.-K/s   in 0s

2009-05-12 06:23:28 (12.1 MB/s) – `Swiftfox.desktop’ saved [402/402]

Swiftfox has been installed. Happy Surfing!

Click here to view SwiftWeasel, another Firefox build optimized for performance.

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1. Swiftweasel is compiled -O3
2. Multiple builds that are PGO (Profile Guided Optmization) optimized.
3. Include additional instruction sets the processors support (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, MMX, 3DNow).
4. IPv6 is disabled to prevent slowdowns caused by its present implementation.
5. HTTP pipelining is enabled by default.
6. Numerous other small changes to make Swiftweasel as responsive as possible.

Install SwiftWeasel in openSUSE

There are no 1-click installs available for SwiftWeasel. To install SwiftWeasel on openSUSE, download the arch.tar.gz files for your Intel or AMD platform here

Unzip & Untar

Unzip and untar the downloaded file

saihari@opensuse11:~/Desktop> tar -zxvf swiftweasel-3.0.10_intel-pgo_x86-arch.tar.gz

This should unzip and untar the swiftweasel directory onto your desktop.

Move this directory to /usr/local

saihari@opensuse11:~/Desktop> mv swiftweasel /usr/local/

Create Symbolic Link in /usr/bin for the swiftweasel executable.

saihari@opensuse11:~/Desktop> ln -s /usr/local/swiftweasel/swiftweasel /usr/bin/

Now, launch swiftweasel for the first time

saihari@opensuse11:~/Desktop> swiftweasel
Adblock Plus: Failed to read filters from file /root/.sw3/swiftweasel/cdfkr43d.default/adblockplus/patterns.ini: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFileInputStream.init]“  nsresult: “0×80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)”  location: “JS frame :: chrome://adblockplus/content/filterStorage.js :: anonymous :: line 369″  data: no]

As you would see, Adblock is enabled by default and this straight away reduces the bandwidth utilization by not downloading the ADs which in itself improves the browser responsiveness. The errors above appear for the first time will prompt to choose an Adblock subscription. Select your nearest subscription and click OK. This should do.

You can also create a menu item for SwiftWeasel. As a root user create a new Desktop file under /usr/share/applications as follows:

opensuse11:/usr/share/applications # vi SwiftWeasel.desktop

Copy the following contents into the file:

[Desktop Entry]
X-SuSE-translate=true
Comment=Web Browser
Comment[en_US]=Web Browser
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/usr/local/swiftweasel/swiftweasel
GenericName=Web Browser
GenericName[en_US]=Web Browser
Icon=/usr/local/swiftweasel/icons/mozicon128.png
Name=SwiftWeasel
Name[en_US]=SwiftcwWeasel
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DCOP-ServiceType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;X-Ximian-Main;X-Ximian-Toplevel;GTK;

This should create the menu item under “Applications – Internet – Web browser“.

Click here to visit the Project home.

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Install MozCache in openSUSE

To install MozCache, click this 1-click installer from Packman supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install MozCache and the  dependencies. Click next on the MozCache installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install MozCache and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

This should install MozCache under “Applications – Internet – Web Browser”. Click MozCache to launch the utility and view the browser cache.

For Firefox browser, the Cache Index file is under

/home/<user>/.mozilla/firefox/<randomdir.default>/Cache/

For instance on my system it is under

/home/saihari/.mozilla/firefox/lag760ed.default/Cache/

MozCache by default looks for the Cache under /home/<user>/.mozilla/ and may throw errors.

You can view the cache by default as a ree or a sorted list of files.

For an overview on the cache index, click File – Properties.

Click here to visit the project homepage.

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