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Use ClipGrab to download those streaming videos

Written by: StevenHodson on March 3, 2010

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I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve been watching something on the web and wished that I had a drop dead simple way to download a copy of the video to my local hard drive for later. Well thanks to the crew over at Addictive Tips I have found just that tool. It’s called ClipGrab and it works great.

Once you have it installed and running it will sit in the background until it notices a video link appearing on the Windows Clipboard. At which point, depending on how you configured it ClipGrab will start downloading the video at the end of that link.

ClipGrab supports the following sites at the moment:

  • YouTube.com
  • MyVideo.de
  • DailyMotion.com
  • Vimeo.com
  • MySpass.de

It supports the most eminent media formats.

  • MPEG4 (video)
  • WMV (video)
  • OGG Theora (video)
  • MP3 (audio only)
  • OGG Vorbis (audio only)

Grab your copy of ClipGrab at their website.

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Need to join some FLV video files?

Written by: StevenHodson on February 22, 2010

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FLVJoiner One of the things about the video files that we download from the web is that they are usually the multiple video files that have been created from the original video file. So it can be kind of a pain to have to have to keep loading up all the separate files in order to watch a complete video.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to join all those separate files back together into one video file?

Well now you can with this handy little util from Ferret Soft called Andy’s FLV Joiner (FLV Joiner 0.4). There are no limits to the number of FLV files that you can join together and it has been tested to work on FLV1/H263, VP6, AVC/H264, and VFR flash video formats.

This is definitely one to add to the video toolbox.

[FerretSoft Site]

thanks to Addictive Tips for the graphic

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A new use for your kid’s Easy Bake oven – fix video cards.

Written by: StevenHodson on February 1, 2010

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Over the years spent working with computers; some 25 odd years by now, I have seen all kinds of weird and wonderful things that people have done to t heir hardware. From overclocking to submerging in cooking oil the fixes and tweaks have run the gamut.

However this is the very first time that I have ever heard of baking a video card in the oven as a way to fix it.

For most of us when the video card starts to go it’s because – well it’s broken or just outright dead. Little did I know that; according to the vid card backing crew, small micro-connections between the chip and the board can get fractured over time because of the constant heating and cooling.

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Category: Hardware

A new bunch of Windows 7 ads – actually not bad

Written by: StevenHodson on September 25, 2009

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Enduserblog has a collection of some new Windows 7 video ads that are actually pretty good, not that they have much competition consider past efforts. Here are three of my favorites.

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Don’t judge a proggie by its UI

Written by: StevenHodson on March 29, 2009

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I downloaded this utility a few months ago out of necessity, and hesitated to do a review on it, despite how useful it is for 2 reasons. One, I’m not knowledgeable enough on the subject of audio/video formats to do it justice, and well, its back-end-of-a-dog-UGLY.

I mean that in the nicest way of course, and the completely free, fully functional Super © makes up for it’s daunting User Interface by being fabulously useful. It took me a few minutes to discover how to use it, and I’m still learning, but it’s now become a full-time resident on my start menu.

If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.

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