Tribler is a free desktop video sharing app for Windows, Mac, and Linux that is a sort of combination of a video player, torrent client, and a content searching and indexing engine designed to identify a user’s interests and recommend content. Tribler is perfect for those who want a more intuitive, secure, and streamlined torrent →
Put YouTube on your desktop with YTubePlayer
YTubePlayer is a free desktop client for YouTube that lets you create Playlists of YouTube videos and play and save them without using your internet browser. This software brings an ad-free, basic YouTube video watching functionality to your desktop, including full-screen video mode, but is largely designed in the manner of a music player. It →
Stream videos from your desktop to your iOS or Android device wirelessly with Air Playit
Air Playit is a handy little free program that allows you to stream videos and music from your home computer to your Android or iOS mobile device. It features such smart options as on-the-fly conversion, support for multiple file formats, and built-in HTTP support, along with support for Apple’s proprietary TV-Out system. As it progresses →
Video chat with multiple people at once with ooVoo, a multi-platform text and video chat client
ooVoo is an instant messaging, chat, and video conferencing solution with a ton of great features, at no cost. While there are lots of messaging programs out there, and no shortage of new contenders for the heavyweight title of ‘Best Multi-Messaging Program”, ooVoo wants to be the ultimate comprehensive package to stay in touch with →
Easy MediaInfo provides quick access to simplified media file info via right click
With media libraries growing exponentially on hard drives everywhere, and the proliferation of different video and audio formats, codecs, and devices etc; most users will find it very useful to be able to quickly find out the codec, resolution, bitrate, and other information pertaining to their media files. Enter Easy MediaInfo, a free media-information lookup →
Organize your multimedia with Banshee
Banshee is an open source freeware multimedia manager that will help you organize and centralize your media. It is loaded with tons of options for sorting, organizing and playing your music and video files, and even has a nifty ‘favorites’ feature that tracks what files you play most often and remembers them for use in →
Useful functions for your right click menu [Part 1: media files]
The right click context menu in Windows, in my opinion, is one of the best interface devices ever conceived. The simple fact that you could have a different set of commands when right clicking a folder, a text file, or an MP3 (as examples) makes it that much easier to use PC’s and adds tremendously →
Organize and manage your movies with Media Companion
Media Companion is a free movie manager and organizer that offers full XBMC integration and the ability to gather information from the Internet (like posters, backdrops, plot summary, actors and actor images, and ratings. It currently supports both movies and TV programs, and communicates with multiple online databases like IMDB and TVDB to get the →
How to add thumbnail previews to MKV video files in Windows
Although the MKV video file format is becoming increasingly more popular, most Windows PC’s will not display thumbnails for MKV files by default, a small esthetic detail which can nonetheless potentially make this otherwise excellent video format less preferable in the eyes of many users. If you would like a quick way to add thumbnails →
Import your Avid, Final Cut Pro, or Apple Motion sequences into Adobe After effects – Free
Do you need to import your Avid or Final Cut Pro video sequences for editing with Final Cut Pro? Or, alternately, do you need to import or export sequences with Final Cut or Final Cut Pro? If so, you’re in luck. Automatic Duck, a software outfit with a wide range of tools designed to import and →
FileQuery: right click in Windows to search the internet for any filename, movie or music file info, and unknown file types
This program will let you right click any file to quickly search for it in Google or other search engines or services. It can be particularly useful in situations such as looking up information on movie or music files (e.g. cover artwork or reviews), or for looking for unknown file types. FileQuery will differentiate between →
Fix the audio in podcasts or camcorder footage conversations with “The Levelator”
Have you ever heard recorded audio where the voice of the interviewer was so much louder than the voices of his/her interlocutors, or vice versa, or some of the guests were closer to the microphone and thus were louder than others? Certainly you’ve seen this if you’ve had to audio record interviews or conversations, or →
