Not much blog activity :-/

My hosting provider has had some major problems which caused my blog to be agonizingly slow, hence I more or less dropped the idea and stated looking for a new hosting provider. But in the 11th hour I decided to give my current provider another chance, and now after moving my database to a different server it seem to be working much better..  Lets hope the improvement is permanent, or I’ll have to switch provider 🙁 ..
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Download YouTube videos

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We all have tried finding something cool on YouTube just to find it removed the next day when we want to show it to the friends.

YouTube do not offer ‘downloads’ and hence you need to get a bit inventive 🙂

A lot of tools exist to do this, but many cost money, but a nice bloke has created a free util that will assist us (including converting the file to avi).

http://www.vdownloader.es

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The easy way of “Show me how!”

Have you ever had the need to show someone how to do this and that, its easy you say – just click on “browse” and then select “This and that” and then click “ok”…  You as well as I know that the person in the other end will say, where is that – no I don’t show that…  in other words, a Video is worth a thousand words..

Introducing; http://www.jingproject.com/
This is a very easy and simple “screen grabber”, it will allow you to make screenshots and screen’videos’ in a second, and best of all allow you to share these with others instantly (via the something called Screencast)..

Visit; 
http://screencast.com/t/MvC6djgp

for a live demo of a video capture (there is no sound here, but that’s only because I did not have a microphone nearby)..

For now the service is free, but I suppose that will not last forever. The driving force behind the product is Techsmith, known for products like SnagIT and Camtasia Studio.

I use Jing for documentation all the time now.

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