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Written by Roger Davies
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I had a request to download a file from youtube and burn it to a dvd last week. The video was public domain from lds.org but was distributed via youtube (at www.youtube.com/v/-Cw8I8eukaI ..). It could be viewed via the internet but we needed to show it without an internet connection. A quick search found the www.keepvid.com website - just what I needed. Just pasted the youtube location into their URL search box and voila: http://keepvid.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fv%2F-Cw8I8eukaI the links to the actual MP4 video files are displayed.
I click/downloaded the MP4 video to my computer and then used the DeVeDe program to create a DVD version to burn to a disk which was played at the start of their meeting on a regular DVD/TV. |
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Is your webpage/blog working? How do you know? Veronica Belmont of tekzilla.com has shown us the way .. again. She reported a new free utility website called ismyblogworking.com that checks for you and reports back all sorts of neat techie info. You just enter in the site you want to check on their main page, or append it to the end for a quick shortcut e.g. ismyblogworking.com/magrath-ab.net/news/blog
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Written by Roger Davies
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Have you blindsearched yet? at blindsearch.fejus.com you can search for your favorite things and then choose from three columns of results to indicate which one is most accurate. AFTER you choose, the page then reveals which of three search engine results you found most accurate - Google, Bing or Yahoo .. For example, when I enter 'Roger Davies Magrath' I found Google and Bing to be my best results. What say you? |
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Written by Roger Davies
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This week I installed and liked Seesmic Desktop. OK. So, what is it and why do I care? Seesmic is a desktop application that accesses your twitter and/or facebook pages and summarizes them for you on a single desktop. Very cool. You see what is happening quickly and can respond to breaking news like: I am eating sugar coated cereal now. Well, your comments will be much more less lame. The one I liked from this morning: "Your logic is flawless, it is just your basic assumptions that are wrong .." Anyway, if you use Twitter and/or Facebook .. try Seesmic too. I like it. |
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Written by Roger Davies
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Have you heard about Bing? It is the latest attempt by Microsoft to unseat the Google Goliath search engine. The bvsg.org website puts these two head to head (or side by side) to allow you to compare results for your searches. Cool In my preliminary testing, e.g. with 'roger davies magrath' Google barely edges out Bing in my opinion as it displayed most my current active sites at or near the top. Neither does anywhere near a complete job and both show ancient entries for sites long since dead and moldering. Hmmm What do you think? Maybe we need a BGoogle or Bingle crossover? |
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