How To Download Videos From Online Video Sharing Sites

Admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:12:35 +0000

Youtube is one of the top popular websites online (it ranks 2-5 in different rankings). It’s a video sharing site where people are free to express their thoughts and emotions. It’s the place where you can find latest music and music videos of your favorite bands, the latest movie trailers, funny commercials and useful information, and much more. And it seems that a lot of people want to be able to download these videos to their computer. They want to play their favorite videos without being connected to the Internet or use the videos and sounds for school presentations. But Youtube’s policy forbids that.

Fortunately, there are ways around that which allow you to download any video you want, and not only from Youtube, but also from other video sharing sites. The only problem is that when you download a video from Youtube, the file format is .flv, which can’t be played by all media players without installing special codecs. So you have to find a video convertor software and convert the video to another format like .wmv, .mpg, .avi or other video format that will work with your player. That’s not very easy to do, especially for newbies.

This is where Youtube Downloader comes into play. It’s a program that automatically downloads any Youtube video and converts it to a universally playable format. From the name of this program, you can see it was made to be simple.

Youtube Downloader

And it is! It is very good. First (and best) of all – it’s completely free. Second – it’s easy to use and simple to understand. And lastly, it’s got everything you need to download any Youtube video you want.The quality depends on what type of video you want to download, HD or SD. This has been recently replaced with the width of the video in the Youtube player and it’s shown as 360, 480 and 720, the latter being the best quality. 360 isn’t that bad either, it’s enough for most people (and definitely enough for phones) and the size is small, so it saves precious bandwidth.

When you open Youtube Downloader it asks you for the url of the Youtube video, which is easy to get – just copy it from your browser’s address bar. Then click Download and it’s going to start downloading. The speed of download depends on your Internet connection speed. After it has finished downloading, it will ask you whether you want to convert the video to another file format, which is .avi by default. You should select Yes and wait. After it’s done, you can watch, copy, edit and share the video as much as you want. As I said, it’s very easy. It’s a very simple tool which I recommend to everyone that wants their favorite Youtube videos on their computer.

Collaborative Slide Shows – VoiceThread Review

Admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:24:04 +0000

VoiceThread is a rather unusual type of web application. It is a multimedia collaborative slide show. It is entirely web-based, that is, you do not have to download nor install anything on your computer in order to use this tool.

How does it work? First of all, you must upload to VoiceThread’s servers the files you wish to add to your slide show. Here you will notice one of the advantages of this online app: unlike other slide show tools which only let you make use of documents of a visual nature (i. e., images and videos), this one allows you to make us of several different file types, such as .doc and .pdf. Besides, if you really want to use only images for your slide show, you can use VoiceThread’s import tool to transfer photos from your Flickr account to your multimedia presentation.

After creating your multimedia slide show, you will be able to share it with other people, like your friends, relatives or co-workers. These people will not only browse through your presentation’s content, but also have the ability to leave comments on your work.

VoiceThread

There are five different ways to leave a comment on a slide show created with this web app: with an audio file, via telephone, with a Web cam, using text or with a microphone. You do not have to worry about impolite or otherwise inappropriate comments though: you will have the ability to moderate all comments, that is, you will control which comments are visible or not. This will give you full protection against cyberbullies and spammers.

In case you need to make your multimedia slide shows available on other Web sites, you can use VoiceThread’s embedding feature. All it will require from you will be a simple copy and paste procedure.

VoiceThread is a good online tool for those looking for an effective way to create and share collaborative presentations.

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