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YouTubetoMP3 is an amazing Cydia jailbreak app that allows users to transform YouTube videos into Mp3 files. Once you have found the YouTube video you would like to grab then simply type in the URL and the app will do the rest. The application will pull the audio from the video and then all you to download and rename the mp3 file.
YouTubetoMP3 also supports multitasking, so you can also play back the audio while running other applications. This application is completely free and can be found here.
The brilliant social news application Pulse has released a few extra features that were a long time in coming. Pulse now features six popular social media sites as sources: Reddit, Digg, Vimeo, YouTube, Picplz and Flickr. The application is pulling content from these social sites via APIs instead of RSS feeds.
It seems as thought these additions really draw away from the fact that Pulse was a great way of finding quality independent news sources.
“We wanted to experiment with social news, photos and videos — hence, we picked these initial sources. All these services have really neat APIs, and it literally took Charles [new team member Charles Chen] two weeks to get this up and running,” says co-founder Akshay Kothari. “Many more to come — stay tuned!”
YouTube videos have a lot of keyboard shortcuts that I never even knew about. For example, Labnol has let us know that if you press the ‘0’ key to move the play head to the beginning of a video. Additionally, the YouTube player now lets you alter the playback speed of a video so that you may fast-forward, or slow-down, the video with a click.
It is a very simple option that is being rolled out across YouTube videos as we speak.
Here is an amazing step by step tutorial on how to create your own YouTube search engine. The tutorial is very detailed and pretty anyone can create this search engine.
Click here for the full tutorial.
There are so many different ways to download YouTube videos, but here is another great tool that is unbelievably simple. Firefox add-on Download Helper is a great tool that has continued to rise, while a lot of others have been deteriorating.
However, there is a new player in town which makes it even easier to download YouTube videos, Miro! Miro is a media manager with some brilliant features.
Here is a guide on how to use Miro to download YouTube videos.
MP32Tube it’s another YouTube web app which we can use to upload MP3, WAV or M4V files to YouTube using the images we select to create a video.
Most applications we can use related to YouTube are mostly for downloading videos, downloading only the audio file, etc.; but just a few are focused on the uploading process. MP32Tube fits perfectly for users who want to share music or some audio files using the YouTube engine.
Using this application is also very simple: Upload images (jpg, jpeg, gif and png supported); upload the audio file; edit the video info and create the video.
MP32Tube also offers a secure method for using your YouTube account: All the connections to the account are done through Google’s AuthSub API. Meaning they never have access to your password.
Songr is a completely free and small application which we can use to search over 16 music engines and directly download files within the app. And even more, we can download YouTube high-quality videos and if we prefer, just extracting and downloading the audio from the video.
Since the Napster blast, the web did not have the chance to unify a good way for users to get music for free (and legally); tons of sites and applications appeared but not all of them are famous. Songr is one of those that are in fact quite powerful. You can download it from this link.
Here are some of the features:
Songr aggregates results from 16 mp3 search engines
Full album search- Download HQ/HD YouTube videos and optionally extracts the audio track as mp3
- It grays out low bitrate preview-only and mp3s
- Intelligent sorting: Songr tries to display high quality mp3s on the top of the list
- Double clicking a mp3 file opens it directly in Windows Media Player
- Songr converts links that point to a web page instead of the mp3 file
- It makes possible to discover the name of a song by typing some words in the Search by lyrics panel and listen to a preview of the song
- Automatic updates check, to get more search engine connectors
- Automatic mode
- Links to buy music from Amazon and Rhapsody
- It’s freeware, without ads or restrictions
The supported MP3 search engines: Audiodump.com, BeeMp3.com, DilanDau.com, 4shared.com, Goear.com, Hypster.com, Iask.com, JustHearIt.com (YouTube videos), Kohit.net, Mp3000.net, Mp3Realm.org, Mpeg-Search.com, Skreemr.com, Socbay.com, Soso.com, Wrzuta.pl.
I love digital cameras, I love Flipcams, I love just about anything I can record video with and documents events, behind the scenes for the various projects I work on, or testimonials for the many clients I work with. Video is the most actively engaged form of media out there right now, just look at YouTube and how many views that site gets in a single day.
That being said, the days of holding your camera in hand could be over. The future of digital cameras could be in the Looxcie, which attaches to your head and allows you to record video with the natural turn of your own head. Looking similar to an oversized bluetooth head set, the Looxcie, which retails for $200, shoots in HVGA quality. Video enthusiasts may or may not appreciate the quality or the limited capabilities of a device like this, but the innovation is definitely there.
Interestingly enough, many might argue that you would not be able to see exactly what you are recording without the standard side screen that most digital cameras come equipped with. For now that situation is solved for Android users who are able to run the Looxcie app which sees what the the camera sees, allowing you to adjust the view all by seeing what the camera sees on the phone. Not only that, but the mobile apps also allows for limited editing and such before pushing out your video to the world.
Does a device like this interest you? I can definitely see the application for certain professional markets, but not sure if they can beef it up for the prosumer market.
Scores.org created a complete infographic representing the timeline for Google’s acquisitions in their short life. A simple way to see what they bought, when and in what product this acquisition transformed.
We should know by now that any of the largest companies in the world right now are in fact the most important ones because of their appetite and their capabilities to buy other companies. Google indeed took some great decisions in the last 10 years about this: YouTube, FeedBurner, Postini and Picasa are just a few of those.
Take a look to the complete list. Take note that this infographic divides the acquisition in time and type (technology, market and talent):
ListenToYouTube.com is a simple and free web app which we can use to extract the audio from a YouTube video. No registration required, we only need the YouTube URL and we are ready to go.
There are several sites and applications available to do this, but this is one of the simplest we can find.
- Just access the web site ListenToYouTube.com.
- Copy/Paste the YouTube URL. Click Go.
- Wait a few seconds until the video is retrieved to a server, removed the audio and make it available to download.
We can even choose the type of quality of the audio we are going to download, standard or high quality.
