We all know that Youtube has awesome videos, but copyright infringement claims and DMCA take-down notices mean that any given video can disappear at any time. Having a local copy of the video means you won’t lose access if YouTube removes the video from their site.
You can also convert the video to MP4 format, and transfer it to your iPod as well.
Not only Youtube, but many other video sites like Dailymotion, ifilm, metacafe offer similar video content.
Doing this appears to be in compliance with YouTube’s Terms of Use, as long as you do not distribute the videos to others, and you retain any copyright notices on the files.
The are 4 things we can do to watch these videos and/or storing it our disks.
- Watch the video as it is in the website.. pretty simple this
- Download the video using Keepvid or the mozilla Add-on called Videodownloader. This downloaded video is in FLV format.
- Watch the Video on your disk using FLV player or VLC player.
- Convert the FLV files into mp4 format using iTube. This takes the youtube url,downloads the video, and converts it into mp4 fromat.The videos in mp4 format can be put in our Ipods!
The original article can be found here.
Social Bookmarking is the Rage.
November 11, 2006
The primary use of bookmarking is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere.
Many bookmarking sites are available which offer many other stuff such as web hosting.
Some of them are:
Add-ons are available for your browser (IE and Firefox) in case of most of the bookmarkong sites.
My favourite is Delicious , the reason being its simple interface and add-on support in firefox.
Some Survey has Ranked Digg,Reddit and Delicious as 1st, 2nd , 3rd in social bookmarking.
Del.icio.us describes itself as follows.
“del.icio.us is a collection of favorites – yours and everyone else’s. You can use del.icio.us to:
- Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.
- Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
- Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone’s favorite — they’ve already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. Explore and enjoy.
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website — the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.
You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved — which is made easy with tags.
All you need is a browser and an internet connection.”
