It is quite uncomfortable to download videos from various video portals such as Youtube or MyVideo even with Firefox extensions like Video Downloader or external softwares such as Grab++. One great way to download multiple videos at once is to use the free software Ashampoo ClipFinder which offers a way to search for and download video files from various popular video portals such as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion and a handful of others.
Get the Vista Startmenu for XP
I’m not sure why someone would want to have the Windows Vista startmenu for Windows XP because I feel that the missing run box is not properly compensated by the search box. The look and feel are nice though and this might be the main reason why some users would consider switching to the new startmenu.
Preview Daily Top 25 of Youtube with SlapVid
If you ever wondered how so many users are able to watch hundreds of videos that are published on Youtube on a daily basis you might want to consider using a service like SlapVid which offers previews of the daily top 25 videos at Youtube.
Free Video Conferencing with ooVoo
Video Conferencing might not be that interesting to most of my regular readers but I know that some of them actively use it for the business they run. The free video conferencing software ooVoo offers several elements that most, if not all, free softwares of that kind do not offer.
The first and most notable is the feature that up to six participants can use ooVoo simultaneously which is great if you want to video chat with your friends or need to bring people from different locations together to take part in a meeting. It runs pretty smooth even with six users and offers a good sound quality.
Crunchyroll Asian Movie site with many translations
I love Asian movies, especially the ones from South Korea and Japan which sometimes reach a quality that is on par with only the most exclusive movies from Hollywood. But there is more than Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano, just consider all the great Anime movies or television series that rarely make an appearance on Western television.
Weekend Fun Purgatorio
The game for this weekend is a rather dark adventure called Purgatorio created with the Adventure Game Studio. It features an Irish soldier of the peacekeeping forces who gets shot in his arm during active duty only to wake up wounded in a strangely familiar looking town not able to remember how he went there.
Universal Share Downloader
I wrote an article about the software Rapget yesterday which could be used to queue downloads for files that are hosted on file hosting websites such as rapidshare or megaupload. Rapget had the problem, that the download from rapidshare for instance was not working if you did not have a premium account.
How to create a successful rewarding blog I
I got several emails the last days asking me about tips on how to start a blog or improve an already established blog which in the end led to the post that I’m currently writing. I sometimes hear the argument that it does not make sense to start a blog because there are so many blogs out there that already cover all topics that one can write about.
While this is definitely not true for all topics you will face serious difficulties if you want to create just another gadget or technology blog unless you can provide something that the other blogs can’t. While it will probably not be worthwhile to just copy and paste what established sites like Gizmodo or Engadget write it could be worthwhile to write about the same topics from a different point of view.
Something for the Summer – LED Art Fan
I’m normally that fond of using fans in the summer because most of them are just to loud which makes it problematic to work in the same room with them. There is however a fan that I found at Think Geek which connects Art and Fan into a LED Art Fan.
The LED Art Fan has 42 Leds build into the Fan which can hold up to 128 frames with a maximum capacity of 5 Megabyte. It is for instance possible to use animated gifs that will be shown during rotation or create your own animations or still images. This is great for publicity as well, can’t think of something cooler than such a fan that is displaying a company logo during a fare.