Here’s a step by step guide to downloading videos from Hulu using free software. These steps can be taken to download videos from most video sharing services, including most sites that encrypt their media.
Free programs used in this tutorial are SteamTransport and FLVMDI. Note that this article is for informational purposes only and that you are responsible for abiding with the relevant laws that govern copyright in the state or country where you reside. Continue reading ..
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.
While there has been a general proliferation of video downloading apps and “YouTube downloaders”, only a handful of these are actually able to download encrypted media (video or music) from anti-leeching” websites that use encryption such as Imeen, Pandora and Last.fm. Two that can that were mentioned previously at Freewaregenius are TubeMaster++ and Orbit Downloader, but even these are unable to download from Hulu. I have tested StreamTransport and can confirm that it can download from Hulu as well as other encrypted sites. Continue reading ..
Have you ever wished you could have pop-up notifications of the latest stories on the websites you read, the latest Tweets of people you follow, or even the latest eBay and Craigslist postings for items that you are interested in? This is exactly what Feed Notifier can do for you.
Feed Notifier is a free, system-tray based RSS feed notifier with some advanced functionality, such as the ability to filter items based on keywords, support for RSS and Atom feeds, and support for authenticated feeds that require a user name and password. It is also generally very versatile and highly configurable. Continue reading ..
Do you have a lot of icons on your desktop? Are your icons carefully placed according to some sort of personal scheme or system? Are you annoyed every so often when an event, such as a resolution change or a Windows update, completely messes up your desktop icon placements?
DesktopOK is a free app that can save and restore your desktop icon positions. What makes this one special, however, is that it can run in the background and take "snapshots" of your desktop icons at a set schedule, say every hour or so (better yet, it can be instructed to take these snapshots only if it detects a change). DesktopOK has a lightweight memory footprint, is portable, and is available for 32bit as well as natively for 64bit systems.
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Update: Mar 6th 2010. I finally updated this comparative analysis of free PDF to Word conversion software, re-writing it from the ground up, and in the process doubling the size of the article since the last iteration
Can you perform good PDF to Word/Doc/RTF conversions for free? Absolutely. This posting will present and compare a number of different ways to convert PDF files into Word .DOC or .RTF formats, for free and without any watermarks or restrictions. Options discussed include both free programs and free online conversion services.
If you’ve seen this article before you will notice that some new conversion options have been added while a few that were previously mentioned are gone. This is because since I first wrote this a number of excellent conversion options have become available, and I wanted to focus on the services that offer the highest quality. Ten different programs/services are presented here; 5 desktop-based apps and 5 online conversion services. Of the six options presented in the original article only two remain.
Desktop-based apps: (1) Free PDF to Word Converter from SmartSoft; (2) gDOC Creator; (5) AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Free; (4) OpenOffice with PDF import extension; and (5) Some PDF to Word Converter.
Online Conversion services: (6) NuancePDF (7) PDF to Word Free from NitroPDF; (8) Koolwire; (9) Zamzar, and (10) PDFOnline.com. Continue reading ..
Nuance PDF Reader is a free PDF document reader and alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader. It offers a number of nice features, such as the ability to fill PDF forms and save them to your hard drive, the ability to open and save PDFs straight into Sharepoint, and the option to upload your PDFs to an online conversion engine and convert them to other formats (including MS Word .DOC formats), straight from the Nuance PDF Reader interface.
Aside from these, Nuance provides many of the features and functions you would expect to see in a program like this but some that you don’t. A few notable features are the ability to highlight, strike-out, and underline parts of your document (and save these edits), the ability to browse your document via sidebar page thumbnails, support for bookmarks, support for embedded flash objects and the option to rotate your view and superimpose a grid and/or ruler views onto your page. Nuance PDF Reader also integrates well with internet browsers for display of online PDF documents. Continue reading ..
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 have them, to control iTunes, as many of these are designed for Windows Media Player and will not necessarily work with iTunes from the get-go. Continue reading ..
