Although other browsers like Google Chrome gets more and more users, Mozilla Firefox is still most users’ priority. In the latest Firefox 4 you will find that Firefox launch faster, pages load quicker, web apps and games work better, and the interaction with your favorite website will be snappier. It comes with a new interface, manageable group tabs, synchronized settings, new add-ons manager, high-definition video capability and multi-touch support. Plus with Panorama, privacy protection, crash protection, Firefox 4 will bring a much better and secure web browsing experience.
Among web browsing experiences, video enjoyment is one of the most popular entertainment. There's a ton of great content on YouTube and other video Web sites, but if you're not connected to the Internet, it's inaccessible. Below it recommends three ways to download YouTube videos under Firefox 4. Hope it is useful for all of Firefox users and web video fans.
Install Firefox Add-on to Download YouTube Video
One of the advantages of Mozilla Firefox is that it has a lot of excellent add-ons for almost all online needs, including downloading video or music in the page you opened. There are more than thirty YouTube downloader add-ons and among those extensions, Free YouTube Downloader from SothinkMedia is the first one that upgrades to be compatible with the latest Firefox 4 Beta.
Free YouTube Downloader, formally named as Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox, is a pretty straight forward program and very easy to use. Just install the extension, run it together with Firefox 4, and let it automatically download videos in the web page you are viewing with Firefox 4.
Free YouTube Downloader installs easily and appears as an icon to the left of Firefox 4's address bar. The icon will turn to be colored and animated from gray when it detects some video. Downloading a video is as simple as clicking the button, selecting the destination location, and clicking OK. The extension then opens a new Web page that shows a progress bar depicting how much of the file has been downloaded. Free YouTube Downloader not only can capture and download YouTube FLV videos, but also can handle AVI, MP4, WMV, RM, RMVB, 3GP, MOV, MKV, and even H.264 HD video, Flash animation SWF and music MP3.
It also can automatically store history of downloaded and captured media files, comes with an optional FLV player, a nice touch since most media players can't play FLV files and it is with many more features. In one word, this free Firefox 4 video downloader add-on is user-friendly, excellent and it is a good reason for you to give a try even if you are not a Firefox user.
Use Stand-alone YouTube Downloader Software to Download YouTube
Not like add-ons, stand-alone software won’t make you worried about the compatibility with different versions of Mozilla Firefox. Install Orbit Downloader or Sothink Web Video Downloader, which two are both popular and powerful stand-alone YouTube downloader software, and download YouTube under Firefox 4.
If you choose Orbit Downloader, you just right-click a video online and choose Download from your context menu or directly enter the URL of the video you would like to download, then Orbit Downloader can soon download it for you, no matter what the media file is or where it is from. The downloading process is same as most video downloader, but Orbit Downloader really offers a faster speed.
Besides video downloading, the buttons on the interface and dialogs in the program show Orbit Downloader has much more functions focusing on downloading management, like tagging, Metalink download, and process configuration.
Different from Orbit Downloader or any other video downloader, downloading YouTube videos with the YouTube downloader from Sothink does not need users to enter the video URL, which is not easy to get for most people. Just open a webpage, such as YouTube page, this video downloader will automatically monitor and capture the video in this page, and then it pops up a small window asking if you want to download what you are watching at the time. That’s very convenient.
By now, the wonderful capturing function of Sothink Web Video Downloader is available for all version of Mozilla Firefox, including the latest Firefox 4, of course. It also supports other popular browsers like IE, Opera, and Maxthon. And it is said that in the next version, this video downloader will support capturing and downloading videos under Google Chrome, too.
Another impressive function is Sothink Web Video Downloader can directly download videos in any format on users’ demand. That is to say, if you are viewing a FLV video online, and you would like to save it on your PC in AVI format, this YouTube downloader can easily realize that with only one click. In fact, this YouTube downloader is also could be considered as YouTube converter since it provides users with plenty of YouTube FLV video converting profiles to help users download YouTube and other videos in different formats and devices. The supported target formats are video FLV, AVI, MP4, WMV, H.264/AVC, MOV, MPG, MKV, 3GP, 3G2, F4V, SWF, and audio MP3, M4A, while the supported devices contain iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, HTC, Blackberry, Nokia, Google Android, iRiver, Creative Zen, and more.
Go to Video Downloading Website to Download YouTube Video Online
If you do not want to install any Firefox add-on or stand-alone video downloader software, you may find some video downloading website to download YouTube video online. Keepvid.com is just one of video downloading sites.
Downloading videos online always needs you to type the URL address of your target YouTube video, which is not that convenient to get. And except YouTube video, much more web videos won’t display their URLs.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Skype Video on Apple Devices
(Bloomberg) — Skype Technology SA, the biggest provider of international calls, introduced video calling for Apple Inc.'s wireless devices, a move that may broaden the appeal of mobile videoconferencing.
The newest version of Skype's application lets users of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch make or receive video calls via 3G or Wi-Fi connections, the company said today in a statement.
The company had previously offered its free mobile video-call app only for Nokia Oyj's N900 smartphone. Luxembourg-based Skype is seeking to increase the number of subscribers who may eventually buy its premium services. The new app will compete with existing iPhone and iPod calling services offered by Apple, Fringland Ltd. and Tango.
"Skype has significant scale," said wireless consultant Chetan Sharma, founder of Chetan Sharma Consulting in Issaquah, Washington. "Whatever they introduce has the opportunity to make significant impact."
In June, Skype had 560 million global users of its mobile and desktop software, according to an August regulatory filing. In the first half of 2010, video calls accounted for 40 percent of all Skype-to-Skype call minutes, the company said.
The app may help bolster Skype's brand as the company prepares for an initial public offering. Skype, which filed for an IPO in August, hasn't set a date for the share sale.
"They become incrementally more valuable, Sharma said.
'SAME QUALITY'
In two years, as many as 20 percent of wireless subscribers may use video calling, if carriers don't jack up prices, Sharma said. The increase would come as more phones are equipped with front-facing cameras, a feature needed to run the app.
Apple, HTC Corp., Nokia and Dell Inc. have released mobile devices with front-facing cameras.
Internet-connected devices are proliferating, from tablet computers to TVs. Skype wants subscribers to be able to access its full set of services regardless of the platform they're using, especially as consumers increasingly rely on personal phones for business, Chief Executive Officer Tony Bates said.
"You should have the same experience," Bates, 43, said in an interview. "It shouldn't be different. We should have the same quality and same expectations across devices."
Apple hasn't released usage statistics for FaceTime, its iPhone 4 and iPod touch video-calling service that's also being tested for the Macintosh computer. Fringland's Fring service has already connected 100 million video calls, about 40 percent of them among U.S. users, said Jake Levant, vice president of marketing at Fring.
'NEXT GROWTH CURVE'
Until now, most mobile video calls have happened via Wi-Fi connections at homes and coffee shops. Some carriers don't offer video calling over 3G networks. That could change as companies like Skype release apps that run on the networks.
The growing popularity of video calling may lead carriers to charge consumers more for data access. Heavy users of mobile video calls may need to switch to more expensive data plans. An average video call consumes five to 10 times more bandwidth than a voice call, according to Sharma.
"We are giving the operators the next growth curve," Fring's Levant said. "There's certainly a lot more money there."
Carriers will need the extra cash to expand the capacity of their networks, which are becoming increasingly stretched by streaming of movies, YouTube clips and other video.
"Video calls will add further strain to the network," said David Sharpley, senior vice president of marketing and product management for Bridgewater Systems Corp., a supplier of network software. "We've seen operators' networks get congested already, without a huge amount of video pickup."
In the past few years, AT&T Inc. has moved to increase its network capacity in urban areas such as New York and San Francisco after complaints about dropped calls and slow connections.
Last week, Skype's own network crashed and resulted in interrupted service for more than 24 hours after the company's servers became overloaded.
The newest version of Skype's application lets users of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch make or receive video calls via 3G or Wi-Fi connections, the company said today in a statement.
The company had previously offered its free mobile video-call app only for Nokia Oyj's N900 smartphone. Luxembourg-based Skype is seeking to increase the number of subscribers who may eventually buy its premium services. The new app will compete with existing iPhone and iPod calling services offered by Apple, Fringland Ltd. and Tango.
"Skype has significant scale," said wireless consultant Chetan Sharma, founder of Chetan Sharma Consulting in Issaquah, Washington. "Whatever they introduce has the opportunity to make significant impact."
In June, Skype had 560 million global users of its mobile and desktop software, according to an August regulatory filing. In the first half of 2010, video calls accounted for 40 percent of all Skype-to-Skype call minutes, the company said.
The app may help bolster Skype's brand as the company prepares for an initial public offering. Skype, which filed for an IPO in August, hasn't set a date for the share sale.
"They become incrementally more valuable, Sharma said.
'SAME QUALITY'
In two years, as many as 20 percent of wireless subscribers may use video calling, if carriers don't jack up prices, Sharma said. The increase would come as more phones are equipped with front-facing cameras, a feature needed to run the app.
Apple, HTC Corp., Nokia and Dell Inc. have released mobile devices with front-facing cameras.
Internet-connected devices are proliferating, from tablet computers to TVs. Skype wants subscribers to be able to access its full set of services regardless of the platform they're using, especially as consumers increasingly rely on personal phones for business, Chief Executive Officer Tony Bates said.
"You should have the same experience," Bates, 43, said in an interview. "It shouldn't be different. We should have the same quality and same expectations across devices."
Apple hasn't released usage statistics for FaceTime, its iPhone 4 and iPod touch video-calling service that's also being tested for the Macintosh computer. Fringland's Fring service has already connected 100 million video calls, about 40 percent of them among U.S. users, said Jake Levant, vice president of marketing at Fring.
'NEXT GROWTH CURVE'
Until now, most mobile video calls have happened via Wi-Fi connections at homes and coffee shops. Some carriers don't offer video calling over 3G networks. That could change as companies like Skype release apps that run on the networks.
The growing popularity of video calling may lead carriers to charge consumers more for data access. Heavy users of mobile video calls may need to switch to more expensive data plans. An average video call consumes five to 10 times more bandwidth than a voice call, according to Sharma.
"We are giving the operators the next growth curve," Fring's Levant said. "There's certainly a lot more money there."
Carriers will need the extra cash to expand the capacity of their networks, which are becoming increasingly stretched by streaming of movies, YouTube clips and other video.
"Video calls will add further strain to the network," said David Sharpley, senior vice president of marketing and product management for Bridgewater Systems Corp., a supplier of network software. "We've seen operators' networks get congested already, without a huge amount of video pickup."
In the past few years, AT&T Inc. has moved to increase its network capacity in urban areas such as New York and San Francisco after complaints about dropped calls and slow connections.
Last week, Skype's own network crashed and resulted in interrupted service for more than 24 hours after the company's servers became overloaded.
Monday, January 10, 2011
2011 Recommended Cool Blu-ray Software
Blu-ray Disc (BD), sometimes incorrectly referred to as Blue ray, Bluray or Blu-ray DVD, is the name of a new optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers. The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience.
So, how to play Blu-ray disc? How to burn Blu-ray movie? How to rip or convert Blu-ray movie? Here introduce you several popular and professional Blu-ray related software, which definitely will earn more and more users since Blu-ray is getting known by more and more people.
Blu-ray Creator: Sothink HD Movie Maker
Sothink HD Movie Maker is a professional and easy to use Blu-ray creator and burner. It allows world-wide users to convert video to Blu-ray, edit and burn Blu-ray discs and AVCHD DVDs from various formats. It creates Blu-ray Movies from HD videos, like HD AVI, HD WMV, HD MKV, H.264/AVC; burn Blu-ray from online videos like YouTube video; author Blu-ray video discs from common video files, like AVI (DivX/XviD), MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, 3GP, M2TS, MPEG-1/2/3/4, RM/RMVB, FLV. It is also full Blu-ray burning software that helps you burn shot videos from HD camcorders, DVs, and iPhone 4 onto Blu-ray discs. As one of the Blu-ray creator pioneers, the latest HD Movie Maker can make Blu-ray menus to dress up Blu-ray and DVD discs. 200% faster than average speed, it saves a lot time on Blu-ray movie authoring. The output Blu-ray discs could be perfectly played with Sony PS3, Samsung BD Player, and other Blu-ray players
Blu-ray Ripper and Converter: Leawo Blu-ray Ripper
Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is an all-inclusive tool for handling both Blu-ray and DVD discs. The ability to decrypt Blu-ray disc with MKB level ranged from 0 – 21 and with AACS and BD+ protection has made it the strongest ever to rip Blu-ray videos.
It is an integrated utility that is mainly used to convert Blu-ray DVD to different HD and common video formats like M2TS, AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV, MPEG, MOV, MKV, RMVB, etc; to edit Blu-ray DVD using cropping, trimming, watermarking function; and for transferring Blu-ray DVD for playback on media players and mobile devices like iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, Zune, Xbox 360, Blackberry, Archos, Creative Zen, etc.
Blu-ray Movie Player: PowerDVD
PowerDVD is CyberLink's most advanced Blu-ray movie player so far. It delivers Blu-ray HD movies to playback on PC, meanwhile is the unique universal player for taking you to unprecedented 3D and Blu-ray HD media experience at home theater.
So, how to play Blu-ray disc? How to burn Blu-ray movie? How to rip or convert Blu-ray movie? Here introduce you several popular and professional Blu-ray related software, which definitely will earn more and more users since Blu-ray is getting known by more and more people.
Blu-ray Creator: Sothink HD Movie Maker
Sothink HD Movie Maker is a professional and easy to use Blu-ray creator and burner. It allows world-wide users to convert video to Blu-ray, edit and burn Blu-ray discs and AVCHD DVDs from various formats. It creates Blu-ray Movies from HD videos, like HD AVI, HD WMV, HD MKV, H.264/AVC; burn Blu-ray from online videos like YouTube video; author Blu-ray video discs from common video files, like AVI (DivX/XviD), MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, 3GP, M2TS, MPEG-1/2/3/4, RM/RMVB, FLV. It is also full Blu-ray burning software that helps you burn shot videos from HD camcorders, DVs, and iPhone 4 onto Blu-ray discs. As one of the Blu-ray creator pioneers, the latest HD Movie Maker can make Blu-ray menus to dress up Blu-ray and DVD discs. 200% faster than average speed, it saves a lot time on Blu-ray movie authoring. The output Blu-ray discs could be perfectly played with Sony PS3, Samsung BD Player, and other Blu-ray players
Blu-ray Ripper and Converter: Leawo Blu-ray Ripper
Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is an all-inclusive tool for handling both Blu-ray and DVD discs. The ability to decrypt Blu-ray disc with MKB level ranged from 0 – 21 and with AACS and BD+ protection has made it the strongest ever to rip Blu-ray videos.
It is an integrated utility that is mainly used to convert Blu-ray DVD to different HD and common video formats like M2TS, AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV, MPEG, MOV, MKV, RMVB, etc; to edit Blu-ray DVD using cropping, trimming, watermarking function; and for transferring Blu-ray DVD for playback on media players and mobile devices like iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, Zune, Xbox 360, Blackberry, Archos, Creative Zen, etc.
Blu-ray Movie Player: PowerDVD
PowerDVD is CyberLink's most advanced Blu-ray movie player so far. It delivers Blu-ray HD movies to playback on PC, meanwhile is the unique universal player for taking you to unprecedented 3D and Blu-ray HD media experience at home theater.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
2010年最值得拥有的20款免费软件 (2)
越来越多的人上网搜索专业软件的替代品，这是完全免费的，当然。由于从未缺乏自由软件在网上找到免费软件和一些真正优秀的，我们没有必要把钱花在这些功能类似产品的钱。在这里，挑选前10名免费防毒，照片编辑，视频转换，媒体播放相关的，等等这些都是流行的免费软件在2010年，绝对有资格作为考虑，必须为您的电脑软件。
1. Avast – free antivirus
Avast的是一个坚实的，有效的免费反病毒产品。它提供了对病毒和间谍软件极大的保障。这是一个最流行的防病毒软件，完全强大的普通互联网使用足够。
2. Picasa – free photo organizing software
Picasa是一个伟大的谷歌免费的实用程序，可让您组织所有的照片和其他图像在您的硬盘文件（JPG，PNG，GIF等文件和TIF等），而且，如果你选择，一个互联网上发布免费的图片网站。简单的照片编辑工具也同样适用，例如旋转，剪裁，拉直，红眼，自动对比度，自动颜色，补光，高亮，阴影，色温，等等。现在还支持照片标记。
3. Video Converter – free video to devices converter
Sothink Video Converter是一个免费的视频转换工具。它支持所有流行的视频和音频格式，并可以快速转换视频到iPod，iPhone，ipad公司的PSP，Zune播放器，PS3游戏机，微软Xbox 360，视窗手机，等等。此视频转换器最吸引人的特点是，它是很容易使用。所有的配置工作将自动完成该程序，用户只需要做出几个点击。
4. Gtalk - free instant message tool
Gtalk是另一个谷歌应用程序。它是最可爱和干净的办公桌上聊天工具，它可以在文字聊天和语音聊天出色。它也可以用来通过你的Gmail和支持文件传输
5. YouTube Downloader – free YouTube video downloader
其实YouTube下载是免费附加为Firefox浏览器。它体积小，非常有用。当你用Firefox打开一个网页包含了一些在线视频，如YouTube，它会自动捕获和下载视频供您欣赏脱机。
6. ImgBurn – free image burning software
ImgBurn是伟大的工具来创建光盘镜像文件并刻录到CD或DVD光盘的图像。它甚至还支持HD DVD和蓝光。它有几个'模式'，每次执行不同的任务之一：读光盘映像文件，ceate从您的计算机或网络文件的图像文件，图像文件写入到光盘，检查光盘是100％可读，并把你的驱动器/媒体的测试！
7. KMPlayer – free media player
在KMPlayer的是所有功能于一身的媒体，包括如VCD，DVD，为AVI，MKV的，奥格，的OGM，3GP等，MPEG-1/2/4的，对WMV，RealMedia的，各种格式的QuickTime播放器等，这是完全可定制的感谢对外观和颜色方案和配置选项，选择是广泛的。
8. 7 Zip – free archive manager
7 - Zip是设计用来创建或开箱存档和压缩文件。应用程序可以解压7zip，邮编，政制事务局，托运，arj压缩，GZIP的，bzip2的，焦油，cpio可以，RPM和DEB的文件，或创建这些格式的文件档案。
9. Foxit Reader–free PDF viewer
Foxit PDF Reader是一种小型，快速，功能丰富的PDF微软视窗，观众，让你打开，查看和打印的PDF文件。这是Adobe阅读器更换，甚至比土坯读者更快。
10. CCleaner – free hard drive and registry cleaner
CCleaner是一款免费的系统优化，隐私和清洁工具。这将从系统中删除未使用的文件- 让Windows运行更快，腾出宝贵的硬盘空间。
1. Avast – free antivirus
Avast的是一个坚实的，有效的免费反病毒产品。它提供了对病毒和间谍软件极大的保障。这是一个最流行的防病毒软件，完全强大的普通互联网使用足够。
2. Picasa – free photo organizing software
Picasa是一个伟大的谷歌免费的实用程序，可让您组织所有的照片和其他图像在您的硬盘文件（JPG，PNG，GIF等文件和TIF等），而且，如果你选择，一个互联网上发布免费的图片网站。简单的照片编辑工具也同样适用，例如旋转，剪裁，拉直，红眼，自动对比度，自动颜色，补光，高亮，阴影，色温，等等。现在还支持照片标记。
3. Video Converter – free video to devices converter
Sothink Video Converter是一个免费的视频转换工具。它支持所有流行的视频和音频格式，并可以快速转换视频到iPod，iPhone，ipad公司的PSP，Zune播放器，PS3游戏机，微软Xbox 360，视窗手机，等等。此视频转换器最吸引人的特点是，它是很容易使用。所有的配置工作将自动完成该程序，用户只需要做出几个点击。
4. Gtalk - free instant message tool
Gtalk是另一个谷歌应用程序。它是最可爱和干净的办公桌上聊天工具，它可以在文字聊天和语音聊天出色。它也可以用来通过你的Gmail和支持文件传输
5. YouTube Downloader – free YouTube video downloader
其实YouTube下载是免费附加为Firefox浏览器。它体积小，非常有用。当你用Firefox打开一个网页包含了一些在线视频，如YouTube，它会自动捕获和下载视频供您欣赏脱机。
6. ImgBurn – free image burning software
ImgBurn是伟大的工具来创建光盘镜像文件并刻录到CD或DVD光盘的图像。它甚至还支持HD DVD和蓝光。它有几个'模式'，每次执行不同的任务之一：读光盘映像文件，ceate从您的计算机或网络文件的图像文件，图像文件写入到光盘，检查光盘是100％可读，并把你的驱动器/媒体的测试！
7. KMPlayer – free media player
在KMPlayer的是所有功能于一身的媒体，包括如VCD，DVD，为AVI，MKV的，奥格，的OGM，3GP等，MPEG-1/2/4的，对WMV，RealMedia的，各种格式的QuickTime播放器等，这是完全可定制的感谢对外观和颜色方案和配置选项，选择是广泛的。
8. 7 Zip – free archive manager
7 - Zip是设计用来创建或开箱存档和压缩文件。应用程序可以解压7zip，邮编，政制事务局，托运，arj压缩，GZIP的，bzip2的，焦油，cpio可以，RPM和DEB的文件，或创建这些格式的文件档案。
9. Foxit Reader–free PDF viewer
Foxit PDF Reader是一种小型，快速，功能丰富的PDF微软视窗，观众，让你打开，查看和打印的PDF文件。这是Adobe阅读器更换，甚至比土坯读者更快。
10. CCleaner – free hard drive and registry cleaner
CCleaner是一款免费的系统优化，隐私和清洁工具。这将从系统中删除未使用的文件- 让Windows运行更快，腾出宝贵的硬盘空间。
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