I was recently doing research for a post (Twelve Must Have Extensions for Google Chrome) and was surprised that there did not seem to be any simple “download any video from any video sharing site” extensions for Chrome, similar to DownThemAll or Download Helper for Firefox. What I wanted was a plugin that can produce →
OnTopReplica: display any app or video in a thumbnail-style window
Ever wished you could keep a small representation of a program or window always visible on your desktop? OnTopReplica is a free app for Windows 7 and Vista that can create a resizable, always-on-top clone of any program or window on your desktop. Aside from being a really neat concept, this program can have a →
Zoofs: watch the most Twittered videos on the net
Zoofs is a brand new web service that tracks all the latest videos mentioned in Tweets across the internet and puts them in one place, accessible via a very cool interface. This web service, in other words, provides a way to track the meta-conversation that is taking place over Twitter visually, through the videos that are →
How to extract the sound from videos in FLV or MP4 formats, such as videos downloaded from YouTube or other video sharing sites
Have you ever needed to extract the sound file from a downloaded video, such as videos from YouTube or other video sharing sites? In this post I will show how to separate the audio track from a video file (a process also known as “demuxing”). Of late it seems that there is an increased interest →
PPT2Video Free: convert Powerpoint presentations to video
Wondershare PPT2Video Free is a free app that can convert PowerPoint files (PPT, PPS, as well as the Office 2007 .PPTX, formats) into video. Specifically it can output to WMV, ASF, Quicktime (.MOV) as well as .MKV video formats. PPT2Video can preserve and record most elements inside a PowerPoint presentation, including custom animation or transition →
StreamTransport: download videos from Hulu as well as other encrypted or unencrypted media sites
StreamTransport is a free video downloading software that can download media from video sharing sites such as YouTube as well as encrypted media (video or music) from sites such as Hulu. It can browse and download media from sites using HTTP, RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPE, and RTMPTE protocols, which covers most video and media sharing sites. →
HKTunes: control iTunes via global keyboard shortcuts with this free, tiny add-on
Have you ever wished you could control iTunes via system-wide hotkeys? Free iTunes add-on HKTunes lets you do exactly that. HKTunes runs in the background and will let you perform the standard player controls such as previous/next, pause/play and volume. You can also use HKTunes to use the media-player keys on your keyboard, if you →
Screensaver Player: play, manage, and create screensaver playlists from the desktop
Ever wondered why you couldn’t preview and/or play screensaver files like any other media file? This, in fact, is exactly what the free Screensaver Player allows you to do. This little app allows you to manage screensavers and to them within small sub-windows on your screen. It can even create playlists of favorite screensavers and →
PageZipper: consolidate articles or listings spanning multiple browser pages into one
PageZipper is a free Firefox extension and IE Bookmarklet that can merge articles or listings spanning multiple pages into a single browser page. It is useful in situations where you are interested in grabbing a web-clipping or exporting the entire article or listing to another application in one fell swoop, or simply if you would →
MakeItOne MP3 Album Maker: merge MP3s into a single file while maintaining the ability to revert back to the original files
MakeItOne MP3 Album Maker is a free app that can merge multiple MP3s while maintaining full reversibility (the ability to unpack/split the file into its original constituents at any later point). Merged files can be played on any player and MakeItOne and can preserve and edit the audio file tags and add album art as →
Splayer: impressive, lightweight media player that packs quite a punch
SPlayer is a free, open source media player that is lightweight, well designed, and quite powerful. It promises to play every conceivable media format (including DVD’s and streaming media), and to optimize your audio and video quality to best utilize your hardware specifications. It is light on power consumption, making it ideal for laptop/travel use, →
Scenegrabber .NET: create thumbnail preview sheets from your videos
Scenegrabber .NET is a free program that can capture screenshots from videos and create a preview thumbnail sheet for each video and save it as an image. The program can create these “sceneshots” for multiple videos in batch based on your desired settings. Scenegrabber can view/play any video that is playable on your machine using →
