How To you Download Facebook or Youtube Videos Without Any Web Tools

Have you ever liked a video shared by your friend on facebook and wanted to download it…Well this this tutorial is not only for facebook or youtube instead it can be used for any video streaming website like metacafe,dailymotion,veoh or yahoo videos.There are websites on the internet that will convert your video link into a download link but it has the following drawback

• If you already watched the whole video and then you decide to download it to your computer it will take double time becuase you already have spent time watching it and now have to spend time downloading it to your hardrive.
• Moreover, the download speeds are very slow and its very irritating to download the whole video again.

But if you have already played the whole video on the site then there is no need to waste the time on downloading it again.We simply have to locate the cache folder of the browser as when the video is streamed it is automatically saved in the cache folder and just have to copy paste the video file from cache folder to your desired location in your computer.

Here is the step by step tutorial with screenshots on how you can locate the cache folder for various browsers in various operating systems
Case 1:Google Chrome
For windows Vista and Windows 7
If you use google chrome in windows vista or windows 7 then here is the location of the cache folder
C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\UserData\Default\Cache
C, being the system root. If you are not sure about the system root you can replace C: with %systemroot%.
Also donot forget to replace USER_NAME to your windows username
For Windows Xp Users
In windows Xp the google chrome cache folder can be found at
C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome
CASE 2:Mozilla Firefox
For Windows 7 and Windows Vista
The temporary cache folder can be located at
C:\Users\USER_NAME \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
For Window Xp Users
The temporary cache folder can be located at
C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME \Local Settings\Application Data
CASE 3:Internet Explorer
In case of Internet Explorer you need to go to Tools>Internet Options and then in Genreal tab click on Settings button
A new window will popup in front of you now click on View Files button.


How To Find Your Video In Cache Folder
Once you have found the cache folder of your browser the next thing you have to do is locate your video file.To do this arrange the files of the folder according to their size because video files are usually large in size.Open the largest files with Vlc player.Once you have found your video just copy it to your desired location.
Note:There are usually Some data files with names like data_1 in cache folder.Donot open them with Vlc open the rest of the files with Vlc and you will easily find your video.
Note:Make sure that you replace the USER_NAME with your windows username in the above addresses

How to set up video calling on Facebook

To make video calls on Facebook users will require a webcam-equipped computer and then select a friend they want to video chat with. In the chat window that pops up, clicking on a small blue video icon brings up the video chat feature (or when a friend tries to make a video call to the user) and the first time the user will be prompted to download and run a 482KB .exe file. Once the setup downloads and downloads and installs the necessary files, the user is ready for a face-to-face chat.

Some users can face issues with video calling because of hardware and/or software incompatibility. Facebook video calling is supported for the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer web browsers. Users should also check if any other4 program is using their webcam. Windows users also have to ensure that they have the latest version of Microsoft Direct installed.

Facebook Launched Video Chat with the Partnership of Skype

Facebook launched new feature of video Chat. It has partnered with skype for video chat. Facebook has started to feel the heat of competition with Google+ which was launched a week earlier has already features like Group Video chat  and now facebook is trying to play the catch up game.
How to use Facebook Video Chat?
Before you start using facebook Video Chat you will need to install the video chat setup

• Go To  Facebook Video Chat Setup page
• Click on Get Started button
• Now,It will Download the setup for video chat.
• After the download is complete click on the setup to install the video chat feature.
• Once the installation is complete a video calling button will start appearing in your chat window.

Hide Your Online Status From Selected Friends, Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts

If you want to use Facebook chat but don’t want some people to see your online status?  Simply open up the Facebook  Chat and click on Friends List. Start creating a new list called BlockList.

Once the list is created, add those friends to the list that you want to appear offline to. When the list is complete, hover your mouse to the little green icon adjacent to the list and click Go Offline. ! You will now appear offline to everybody in the BlockList.

Firefox Universal Uploader (fireuploader) For Facebook - Facebook Tools

As the name says, this firefox extension allows you to upload/download files from any website using a friendly interface. Upload files/photos/videos to Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Box.net(1GB of free space), Facebook,... Webshots and OmniDrive in this version. Next versions would support other websites like Google Videos etc. You can add multiple files to the queue at a time. Extension will take care of uploading them for you.

There are so many instances where you had to upload files from your local computer to a website. The standard upload mechanism in any website has many limitations like
**They allow you to upload 1 file or a maximum of 10 files at a time.


**They doesn't show any information like upload progress i.e how much was already uploaded and how much is still remaining.


This extension addresses these limitations by providing a intuitive way to upload the files. The benefits of using this extension are


*It shows the local folders and remote folders which enables you to upload files by single click.


*You can upload any number of files at a time.


*You can upload files to multiple websites using a single interface (using only one extension).


*Ability to add multiple accounts and upload files to each account independently.


*Site specific features are also included and will be improved in the coming versions. eg. Box.net: giving public/private access to files.


More features will be included in the coming versions. This extension is still rudimentary and user feedback is appreciated.
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0a1 - Install Now

Facebook Auto Slideshow Tools

Shows a slideshow of all images on a page.

With one single click AutoSlideshow generates an image slideshow within Firefox. The slideshow contains all images on the current page or images linked to from the current page...
This is mainly useful for pages with no possibility for image browsing, but you can uses it for viewing slideshows of images on your harddisk as well.

Beside the slideshow it is possible to browse the images one by one using back and forward buttons, view an overview page of all detected images and save all images on disk.

Be aware that images and linked images are only detected if they are in pure html. So the extension is mainly thought to be used for simple pages.

Special support for:
* flickr
* photo.net
* 23HQ.com
* pbase.com
* www.sxc.hu
* wikipedia
* google image search
* yahoo image search
* facebook.com
* studivz.net

Works with: Firefox: 1.5 – 2.0.0. - Install Now