Google Search Hack: Free eBooks, Comics, Music, Videos, MP3

September 19, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · 1 Comment
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Free eBooks, Comics, Music, Videos, MP3

The term Google Hack means to utilize Google’s powerful search feature and indexes to narrow down the results to your advantage, in short, you are able to Google for free ebooks, read paid articles with Google cache, download mp3 and many more.

We’re not too sure if this is illegal, but if it is, why would Google allows such search strings to exist?

Search MP3

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Michael Jackson” mp3

Using this string we are using the “index of” and the inurl commands to attempt to isolate directories only. The mp3 tag on the end tells google to look for mp3s in these open directories. You can change this to wma or ogg if you wish.

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Search eBooks

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(”/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip)

What does all of these weird strings mean? The -inurl htm and -inul html is attempting to filter out the regular html webpages and to display just the index pages. Searching for index of in the title is doing the same. Using the pipe ( | ) tells google to look for something OR something else. The search string is sending a query to google to search for book or ebook directories, several common ebook formats are zip, pdf, and chf.

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Search Comics

Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics cbr
or -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics cbz

A large number of comics on the internet comes with a .cbr or .cbz extension for use with a digital comic reader software such as CDisplay (Windows) or FFView (MacOS). However you can decompress the files and read them in any image viewer such as ACDsee. Simply rename the cbr extension to rar or the cbz extension to zip and decompress with an application such as 7-Zip or WinRAR.

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Fast-Forward Downloaded YouTube’s FLV file in VLC Media Player

September 4, 2008 · Filed Under Software · Comment
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You’ve been using VLC Player or also known as VideoLan player for quite some time now, it’s the best player around town with the ability to execute almost every video files, the only problem is, you can’t rewind or fast-forward FLV files you downloaded from the internet, such as FLV files from YouTube.

Problem: Every single time I try and fast forward / rewind / jump ahead to a specific time (using that control and entering the time), or jump ahead by moving the position dot in the play bar ahead — the player window immediately closes.

So, what’s the problem?

The truth is, .FLV format is encoded in flash format, and they are not seekable in most FLV player, but you can fast forward videos in YouTube, why not in your own video player installed in your desktop? A good question indeed, the answer is pretty long and it has to do with the codec and the way FLV player reads the file.

According to rumors, the up and coming version 9 of VideoLan Player has this issue corrected. No words yet on the release date, Download VLC media player Win32 nightly builds, it has some bugs but if you desperately need to fast forward flv videos, do give it a try.

Fast-Forward Downloaded YouTube's FLV in VLV Media Player

Alternatively, FlvPlayer4Free is another FLV player on the block, as good as VLC media player. Yes, fast forward FLV files using FlvPlayer4Free is available.