MELBOURNE (AFP)
Serena Williams thrashed Russia’s Dinara Safina 6-0, 6-3 to win her fourth Australian Open title Saturday, bringing her total Grand Slam tally to 10 in one of the most one-sided deciders ever.

The win means the American, seeded second in the tournament, will also take the world number one ranking off Serb Jelena Jankovic.

Williams, 27, utterly dominated third seed Safina, allowing her opponent to win only eight points in the first set on her way to claiming the championship in less than an hour.

The American also won the women’s doubles title with her sister Venus on Friday and became the highest ever prizemoney winner in women’s sport during the tournament.

There are two ways you can download a video from YouTube.com and watch it from your PC or laptop (instead of watching it online).

First, Convert online.
(a) Go to http://downloadyoutubevideos.com/. Enter the Youtube URL link, and click “Get Started”.

or

(b) Visit http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php Enter the youtube URL link into the box. Click the “Get Links.” It will be downloaded in .flv format – use VLC or another compatible player to view it.

Second, Convert offline. For this you need a software. Download it here (free trial).

Here’s the Editor’s review:
This simple freeware application works pretty well, given how basic the interface is. It has two main features: to download FLV files from YouTube, and to convert them to most major formats. If there’s a YouTube URL in your clipboard, it will automatically paste it for you when you click on the dialog box. From there, just hit OK and the downloading will commence. One more left-click is all it takes to load the file in the converter, which supports iPhone, iPod, PSP, cell phone, AVI, MP3, WMV, and Xvid. Surprisingly, there’s also a basic video editor for cropping videos by time stamp. You can also cut out the sound when converting.

This is one of the lightest editors around, but the simplistic interface belies its functionality and it performs exactly as advertised. We’d like to see support in future editions for hunting down missing codecs, and version 2.1.5 and earlier won’t work because of embed code changes on YouTube itself. Still, the YouTube Downloader is proof that not only is video-making accessible to everyone, so is video downloading and editing.

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal the number 2 and number 1 in tennis are head to head in Australian Open 2009 final. It’d be very interesting match whoever wins the battle. Jon Wertheim of Sport Illustrated has an interesting thought:
If Roger Federer wins? He ties Pete Sampras with his 14th career Grand Slam singles title, one more point in favor of his candidacy for the Greatest of All Time (GOAT). He will have beat Rafael Nadal in their first meeting at a major championship played on a hard court. He’ll exact some revenge on Nadal after losing that epic Wimbledon final. After being dismissed last summer, Federer will have won the subsequent two majors and reclaim hegemony.

If Nadal wins? He will have claimed his sixth major title and first on a hard court — at age 22. He’ll improve his record against Federer to 13-6, including wins in the last five encounters. He’ll solidify his hold on the No. 1 ranking. Suddenly, he’s right in there for the GOAT discussion. No matter the outcome, it’s a great narrative.

Watch Recorded Video from Wimbledon Final 2008 between Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadael considered as the Greatest Final match between the two fiercest rival

Arguably, blogsome.com is the only wordpress powered free blog provider that allow its users a free access to modify the template /themes. Giving access to its index.php, single.php and comments.php. None of wordpress-powered free blog–not to say wordpress.com– has ever given away such generous free services. Outdated wordpress platform regardless (it uses 2.3 wordpress MU), it enables blogsome users to put Adsense and any online advertising wherever one likes. For this reason alone, we find there’re still many blogsome users up till now.

For newbie bloggers who wants to try some luck in making money online through AdSense and others, you may try blogsome.com besides blogger.com. It still works well as far as Google juice goes.

Here’s how and where you can put Adsense in blogsome:

1. After login to your blogsome.com, click Manage -> Files
2. (a) Click “Main Page” if you want to put AdSense there, ie in the sidebar, header and below or above the body.
(b) Click “Posts” if you want to put Adsense appear repeatedly below or above every posting / article in the frontpage.
(c) Click “Comments” if you want to put Adsense below or above the comments. Adsense or others will be shown only after visitors click a particular post / article.

Wish you luck!

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Google new product: M-Lab:
When an Internet application doesn’t work as expected or your connection seems flaky, how can you tell whether there is a problem caused by your broadband ISP, the application, your PC, or something else? It can be difficult for experts, let alone average Internet users, to address this sort of question today.

.. Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform that researchers can use to deploy Internet measurement tools.. tools that allow users to, among other things, measure the speed of their connection, run diagnostics, and attempt to discern if their ISP is blocking or throttling particular applications. These tools generate and send some data back-and-forth between the user’s computer and a server elsewhere on the Internet.

Japan’s industrial output has had its steepest fall in more than half a century while unemployment has hit a three-year high and household spending continues to slide, according to the latest raft of government data.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a humanitarian appeal for the people of Gaza in the aftermath of Israel’s military offensive.