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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Create Animated Gifs From Youtube Videos

Animated Gifs are mostly a phenomenon of the past and one only comes occasionally upon a website that makes excessive use of them. Those are either websites that have been laid to rest for a very long time by their owner, forums where users post all kinds of images or social community websites like Myspace.
Some [...]

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Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Music and Video

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 21st, 2008
  • Comments: None

Youtomb tracks taken down videos from Youtube

Youtomb is a MIT Free Culture research project that monitors the most popular Youtube videos for copyright related takedowns. The project is currently monitoring more than 220000 videos at Youtube and has identified a a takedown rate of nearly 8%, a pretty hefty rate.
The website lists a screenshot and the name of the video, the [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

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

Two interesting tech demonstrations

I discovered two very interesting tech demonstrations at the TechEBlog which I had to post about. The first is a next generation destruction CG tech demonstration that looks ultra realistic. If they could implement something like that in games it would be awesome.
“Using particle-based tools, the Extreme Loading technology generates iterative visuals with the added [...]

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Categories: Cool, Entertainment

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 11th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Timetube displays a Youtube video timeline

Timetube is a Youtube mashup that creates a timeline of Youtube videos related to a keyword that the user is searching for. The time period can be altered from 1 day to 100 years which tells me that the developers have plans to offer this service for a very, very long time. While sorting the [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 6th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Capture High Quality Movie Stills

Saving high quality movie stills is not as easy as it sounds. While some players support saving images of movie scenes non that I know of process the image afterwards to ensure a high quality image. None are capable of batch saving images every x seconds either. Todays Giveaway of the Day Topaz Momenttopas m [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 3rd, 2008
  • Comments: 10

Subtitle Downloader

Subtitles are essential when you want to watch a movie that has been released in a language that you do not speak well / at all. They are also great if you want to learn a language because you get to hear the original voices of the actors and can still glimpse at the translation [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, Tools, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Miro 1.2 released

I was really skeptical when I heard about Miro back then when it was still named the Democracy Player. That did change when I finally managed to test Miro and it really blew me away. If you never heard of Miro before let me explain the main concept. Miro is not just another media player, [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, software

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