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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Youtube: Enhance Youtube Experience

YousableTubeFix is a Greasemonkey script for the Firefox and Opera Internet browser (and most likley for other Internet browsers who support Greasemonkey as well) that changes the layout of Youtube to provide a better experience for the user. The list of features that are packed into the script is extensive and will change the perception [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 17

SMPlayer 0.6.7 out

My favorite and default video player SMPlayer has been updated to version 0.6.7 today. SMPlayer is the complete video player solution for both the Windows and Linux operating system. It is basically a frontend for the much acclaimed MPlayer that is included in the distribution. SMPlayer comes both as a portable video player but also [...]

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Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 16th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Youtube Downloader And Manager

There is definitely no shortage of web browser add-ons and software programs that allow users to download videos from the video portal Youtube. We covered possibilities in the past like Youtube Download or Youtube Batch Downloader. Youtube Manager on the other hand adds to that by not only providing the means to download Youtube videos [...]

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Categories: The Web, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 12th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Visual Wikipedia

Visual Wikipedia is a visual mashup of Wikipedia information and Youtube videos. The service works much like the regular Wikipedia website with the difference that it adds additional data sources and visual information about each phrase.
The entry PHP will for instance display part of the Wikipedia article on the top of the results. A [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 11th, 2008
  • Comments: 12

Quick Media Converter

Quick Media Converter is free software that can be used to convert video formats easily. It comes with an easy and expert mode to suite experienced and inexperienced users. The easy mode is basically a one-screen media converter. Users begin by picking the desired output format from a list of available ones.
Options range from high [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 20th, 2008
  • Comments: None

StaxRip Video Encoding

StaxRip is an Open Source video encoding software that can turn videos into mpeg-4 format using codecs like x264, XviD and DivX. It can for instance be used to turn a video DVD into a much smaller sized video with barely any quality losses that can easily be stored on the computer. One interesting way [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 19th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Dailymotion High Quality Videos

The video portal Dailymotion added high definition video support back in February. High definition content is not for everybody especially not for those users who use a low bandwidth connection or hardware that is incapable of handling the load caused by the contents.
That seems to have been a major concern for the developers over at [...]

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Categories: Music and Video

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