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Launch Your Own Live Web TV Channel in Minutes, Create Live TV Broadcasts From Livestream.com

// May 21st, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Freeware, Movies, Music, Reality TV, Useful, Video Tutorials, Videos, free, web tools


 

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iPod ~ Download YouTube videos as MP4

// March 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Applications, Browsers, For Geeks, Geeks, Ipod, Mobile, Movies, Tutorial, Useful, Videos, google, web tools


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An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In fact, to download the MP4 files, you need to use the same URL like for FLV files and append “&fmt=18″:

http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=ID&t=SIGNATURE&fmt=18

ID is the video’s identification value, SIGNATURE is a value that prevents you from downloading the file just by knowing the ID. You could create this URL by looking at the source code of a YouTube page, but it’s much easier to automatically generate it.

Add the bookmarklet, this post has more detailed instructions

When you want to download a YouTube video, just click on the bookmarklet.

After clicking on the download link, YouTube will try to save the video as “video.mp4″. You should enter a more appropriate name if you want to find the video later.


Having to click on the bookmarklet is annoying, so this Greasemonkey script is a better alternative because it adds the download link automatically. It requires the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox or a similar plug-in for userscripts. Opera has built-in support for userscripts, so you only need to go to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content > JavaScript options, select the directory where you will put your script and copy the script to that directory.

YouTube’s MP4 files have a higher resolution, stereo sound and can be played with applications like VLC, MPlayer, iTunes, QuickTime. Not all YouTube videos can be downloaded as MP4 files and the fallback format is FLV.

Note that YouTube’s terms of use require you “not to access User Submissions or YouTube Content through any technology or means other than the video playback pages of the Website itself, the YouTube Embeddable Player, or other explicitly authorized means YouTube may designate,” so these scripts could break YouTube’s policies. The scripts only download files that are used by YouTube’s player, so you may also find the videos in your browser’s cache.

Update: You no longer have to right-click and select “save link as” because YouTube sends the right MIME type. Just click on the download link.

Update 2: If the video is available in HD, the bookmarklet and the script download the HD version. Thanks, pepemosca!

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Heath Ledger the one-year anniversary of his death

// January 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Celebrity, Celebrity Gallery, Celebrity Pictures, Featured, Headline, Heath Ledger, Movie Pictures, Movies, News, Rest in Peace


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Today is the anniversary of Heath Ledgers death. Jan 22, 2008

Just days before the one-year anniversary of Heath Ledger’s death, colleagues of the actor — who won a posthumous Golden Globe on Sunday — remember him in an article published on Entertainment Weekly’s Web site Friday (January 16). Since the news broke that Ledger had suddenly died of an accidental overdose in his SoHo loft in New York City last January 22, relatively few friends and colleagues of the actor have spoken about it. Now, in the wake of the anniversary, they are sharing with Entertainment Weekly some of their fondest memories of the actor. Read entire article..

His gift for self-deprecating comedy and vulnerability on screen won Heath Ledger hearts.

Heath Ledger Slide Show and report on his death a year ago today.

Heath Ledger quote:
“I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away. I wasn’t going to have fun doing a teen movie again…. I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life….I don’t want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There’s so much I want to discover.”

Read on for pictures and video…

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8 of the Best Video Widgets

// October 20th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design Resources, Flash, For Geeks, I recommend, Movies, Music, News, Reality TV, The Best of.., Useful, Videos, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, politics, web tools, webmaster


Here are some of the best video plugins and widgets I found online..Enjoy!

  • Daiko’s YouTube Widget for Wordpress – Adds a sidebar widget to display a defined number of random YouTube videos of your own choice. Make your own videolist in the widget-control-panel. The widget also supports RSS-feeds from tag(s) and user(s).
  • Video Widget for Wordpress - Add more than 25 types of video in your sidebar. Only video Id is required (no HTML code to paste).
  • Blinkx Video Wall. This widget sort of makes you feel like a security guard at the mall, except that you choose what content the monitors are filled with. Type in some keywords, select the size you want the widget to be, and voila! Blinkx goes out and finds video relevant to your search and tiles the results.(see below, you can either get the embed code from wigetbox or from the blinkx.com website.)
  • Youtube Videos by yourminis – The YouTube widget allows you to view videos from YouTube. You can completely customize the appearance of the widget by clicking on the color picker icon to change the background color, the background border to be square or rounded, add a transparency level and even add a custom background image.
  • WeShow Video Widget – My WeShow is a place where you can collect videos, share them with friends and create Video Communities. Sidebar or full view gallery of videos.
  • YouTube’s Video Widget – This is the widget provided by Youtube.com
  • Vodpod.com – I liked this one. Vodepod is easy to add to your blog and you get to pick your own videos to add or the most popular videos. Videos come from several different networks and you can choose the size of your widget as well as style.
  • turtilla.com – widget based on a keyword search. Easy to add to wordpress.
  • WidgetBox – Make your page stand out by putting a video widget on MySpace, Blogger, Facebook, WordPress, TypePad, iGoogle or your favorite website. (see sidebar)




Farewell Cool Hand Luke – Actor Paul Newman dies at 83 – Picture Gallery Dedication

// September 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // Celebrity, Celebrity Gallery, Celebrity Pictures, Movie Pictures, Movies, News, Paul Newman, Rest in Peace



Actor Paul Newman dies at 83

The blue-eyed star of ‘The Hustler,’ ‘Cool Hand Luke’ and ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ was at home. He had long battled cancer.

Stunningly handsome, Newman maintained his superstar status while keeping his distance from its corrupting influences through nearly 100 Broadway, television and movie roles. As an actor and director, he evolved into Hollywood’s elder statesman, admired off screen for his quiet generosity, unconventional business sense, race car daring, political activism and enduring marriage to actress Joanne Woodward.

Annoyed by the public’s fascination with his resemblance to a Roman statue and his Windex-blue eyes, Newman often chose offbeat character roles. In the 1960s, he helped define the American anti-hero and became identified with the charming misfits, cads and con men in film classics such as “The Hustler,” “Hud,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”
Paul Newmans dying wish was to die at home with his family and the ones he loved..his wish came true. Rest in Peace Paul — Say Hello to Marilyn Monroe!

Paul Newman Photo Dedication




Ipod movie source

// June 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Ipod, Mobile, Movies, Music, Pictures


Need movies, music, TV shows for your Ipod?

Check out: podtropolis.com




My Indiana Jones 4 – Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Review

// May 24th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Celebrity, Movie Pictures, Movie Reviews, Movies, Update, WTF


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I went to see the new Indiana Jones 4 And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull movie last night at the Cinetopia with some of my friends from Dotster which included Mike, Chris R., Justin, Annie, Jason, Chelsea, Chris M. and me.

Spoiler warning…

Steven Spielberg is again directing, and George Lucas producing..so that basically explains why things were done the way they were done..it was what I might call a mash up of Indiana Jones, E.T and Star Wars.

Huh? You might ask yourself..yeah well so did I.

The CGI in some parts of the movie were not up to par in comparison..like some of the effects were just corny while others were amazing!! Also parts of the storyline didn’t really match up or make sense or were never explained at all.

Lets put it this way.. it was just not at all what I expected of Indiana Jones and I was not alone in my opinion. I mean WTF? What in the hell was up with the aliens? I mean the CGI aliens were amazing and the last scene of the movie was way cool if it was supposed to be a sci-fi movie but this was Indiana Jones not E.T. so the whole alien concept just kinda ruined it for me! However after all my complaining..I thought it was worth watching and I had a blast going to the movies..we were taking shots of Captain Morgans and Root Bear like high school kids in my mini-van in the parking lot before the movie..I have tinted windows. We went to the late late show..it got out at 1am! We had fun. Cate Blanchet looked amazing as usual and played a perfect villain!

Indiana Jones Pictures