Regular visitors might have spotted the new Webcasts menu entry in the header area of Ghacks already. I signed an agreement with a company that is providing free webcasts to interested visitors of Ghacks. Webcasts are presentations that are held in either Windows Media Player or Real Player about specific technology related topics. The webcasts [...]

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If you like music from the 80′s you might feel like you are in paradise on your first visit to the 80′s music videos website. This website offers more than 1000 music videos from the 80′s that are presented in a huge list on the main page. The music videos are sorted alphabetically by artist [...]

Categories: Music and Video

Now look at that. Brad Linder over at the Download Squad discovered a portable version of my favorite media player SMPlayer. SMPlayer itself is a frontend for the highly popular MPlayer which can play most media formats right of the box. It’s a multi-plattform player available for Windows and Linux. The portable version of SMPlayer [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software, Windows

Flickr is best known for being a photo uploading and publishing portal with a vast community of contributors. Lesser known is the video portion of the website. Uploading videos is limited to Flickr pro members currently but everyone – even guests – are allowed to watch them on the Flickr website providing the owner of [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

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. [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Music and Video

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, [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

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 [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment

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 [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

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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