Download Google Videos As AVI/MP4 Files
October 9, 2006
The Video files in Google video can easily be downloaded by using a simple tweak.
Now here is the Method.
In the respective video page, Click the download button in the right side. (you should be knowing that 
) Also note that all videos don’t have this option of download.
This will initiate the download of Google video player. DON’T download it. (Thats the whole point, to play the video in YOUR player)
Now, This will open a sub-menu in which there exists an option that says ‘Manually download the video’ (Using the Drop down beside it, choose the file format-Avi or mp4)
This will initiate the download of a .gvp file. Open the gvp file with a text editor (notepad/wordpad etc, preferably Wordpad in windows)
Ahhh.. here we come.. In the 3rd line of the text there is a tag ‘url:’ .Following this is the actual download LINK to the VIDEO.
Copy the link (startin from http://) till the end of the line.(Just before tag ‘docid:’starts)
Hurray! We have the Holy link!
Paste this onto your browser address bar to download the video as a whole!
Download it and ENJOY!
This link can also be used in web-pages as a direct download link.
(Tip: Right-click->Save target as DOES NOT WORK!)
Lets illustrate this with an example.
Here is a link to the MS Ipod Parody in google videos.
Now ,THIS is the actual download link for the video.
(Please forgive me for the over-use 
of exclamation marks and small braces!)
Alternatively, the video can be viewed using the Google video player (which involves streaming of the video), if the video is not worth a download
All the GVPlayer does is pick up the URL in the .gvp file and play!
Note: This itself is an Original article.
Labels in Gmail to Search your mails!
October 9, 2006
If you enable saving your chat history in Gmail, your conversations from Google Talk are saved as standard emails. To make them stand out from the rest of messages, Gmail adds two labels: chat and chats.
If you want to search your chats, you just have to add label:chat to your query. If you want to search only your mail, exclude the chats by adding -label:chat.
(Instead of label:A, you can just type l:A)
Gmail has many other hidden labels that can make your life easier, so you don’t have to use the advanced search:
* label:inbox – search only your Inbox. It’s a good idea to keep your Inbox clean.
* label:star (label:starred) – search only your starred messages. You can use the star button like a bookmarking system. Star only important messages.
* label:draft (or label:drafts) – search only unfinished messages. Drafts could be used for storing notes or emails that must be sent later.
* label:sent (or label:sentmail, label:sent-mail, label:sent mail ) – search only sent mail. It may be useful to restrict your search only to messages you’ve sent, or only to messages you’ve received if you add a minus.
* label:all (or label:allmail, label:all-mail, label:all mail ) – search all your mail, including messages from Trash (label:trash) and Spam (label:spam).
* label:read and label:unread. Restrict your search only to read mail or unread mail. For example, to find all your sent messages that have unread replies, you can search for label:unread label:sent.
* label:voicemail (or label:voicemails ) – search only the voicemail received from a Google Talk user.
You can also combine all these labels with user-defined labels in a query. To show results that have both label A and label B, just search for label:A label:B. To show results that have one of the labels A and B or both, just search for label:A OR label:B.
