Love that song you just heard on YouTube? With sites like ListenToYouTube and VidToMp3, you can download the audio off a YouTube video with minimal effort.

The two mentioned sites are using the same script, so they work identically. All you have to do is to enter the YouTube video URL. The video will then be converted to an mp3 file playable on all mp3 capable music player.

Before downloading the file, you can first preview it to make sure you are downloading what you are expecting.

If none of these work for you, you can try Zamzar, which is slightly more troublesome. You will need to enter the YouTube video URL, select mp3 from the list of output format, and lastly enter your email address so that they will send you a download link when the file is ready.

I find Zamzar pretty slow compared to the two sites mentioned earlier, but it works perfectly nevertheless.

Want to keep a blog only for yourself or your family and friends? On self-hosted WordPress blogs, it is not natively supported to lock content only to a selected few registered users.

There is no way to stop the public from viewing your blog posts unless you set a password for each of them. The privacy settings only allow you to block search engines, but not normal visitors.

But on WordPress, when something is lacking, there is always a plugin to compensate it. For this purpose, you can try using Registered Users Only.

Upon installing, all URLs to your blog will be redirected to the login page. Only registered users are able to log in and view your blog posts. That being said, if you wish to keep your blog posts only to yourself and no one else, you should disable user registration (General Settings > Membership) on your blog.

There are other similar plugins, but I have only tried this one and it works great.

Visits increased by 7,000, pageviews increased by 8900. Alexa rank SheepTech at 183,775 (3 month), or 151,434 (1 month).

Money Made

Welcome BlogAds and ADSDAQ to SheepTech’s revenue source family.

AdSense: $525.37 (+$114.69)
Infolinks: $58.36 (+$0.48)
BlogAds: $51.80 (+$51.80)
ADSDAQ: $3.49 (+$3.49)
Private ads: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $672.35 (+$170.46)

Uptime

99.96% uptime for August, well within HostGator’s 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Isfollow.com makes it easier to check relationships (who is following who) on Twitter. To check if someone is following you, there is no need to search for your Twitter handler in their “following” list. Just simply enter both your Twitter handle and your friend’s Twitter handle and Isfollow.com will display the result within seconds.

Connectify makes sharing of internet connection via Wi-Fi on Windows 7 easier than ever. But in case it’s not working properly on your machine, or you desire a simpler interface (as if Connectify is not simple enough), you may want to try Virtual Router.

How easy can it be? Just simply enter your desired SSID and password, click on “Start Virtual Router” and off you go.

After starting, your friends can connect to the Wi-Fi network and start going online using your internet connection. It works great at times, but at some other times, it’ll say “Virtual Router could not be started“, at least on my laptop. I still couldn’t figure it out yet.

Update: If both Connectify and Virtual Router refuse to work, try setting up an ad hoc network and share your connection via Wi-Fi without using any software.

Wants to keep a diary but finds it difficult to write consistently? What about a diary that comes to you to be written on, every night, so that you won’t miss a single day?

OhLife does exactly this. After signing up, OhLife will send you an email every night at 8PM asking “How did your day go?“. Your reply to that email will be your diary entry of the day, automatically stored on OhLife’s website for your reading pleasure in future.

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