Download Flash Videos from any site

No addons, no special FireFox extension just go to http://www.keepvid.com/ and past the URL in their box his go and it'll ask where you want to save the .FLV flash video to.




Simply select the appropriate drop down and paste the URL from that site and DOWNLOAD!


FYI:
They have links below the .FLV download box for a FLV to WMV,AVI convertor. That link directs you to a pay converter. There are tons of free online converters and http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/download.htm seems to be the best one

Here is a really good 5minute tutorial which shows you how to use mediacoder and shows you how to play FLV files if you need help with that.



Keepvid.com Currently supported sites:
Google
Youtube
Break.com
iFilm
Putfile
Angry Alien
ArtistDirect
Blastro
Blennus
Blip.tv
Bofunk
Bolt
Castpost
Current TV
Dailymotion
DevilDucky
FindVideos
Free Video Blog
Grinvi
grouper
Hiphopdeal
LuluTV
Metacafe
Midis.biz
Music.com
MusicVideoCodes.info
Myspace
MySpace Video Code
Newgrounds
PcPlanets
Pixparty
REVVER
sharkle
StreetFire
That Video Site
The One Network
VideoCodes4U
VideoCodesWorld
VideoCodeZone
vidiLife
VIDNET.com
Vimeo
vSocial
Web62.com
ZippyVideos

WTF Google Moon?

http://moon.google.com/











Apparently the guys over at Google made a little Google moon site (Yes I realize this is an old site) with images provided to them by NASA. This has always been an interesting subject to me. I'm still not quite sure who to believe so I turn to you bloggers out there for insight.



What's funny to me is that even if you zoom in I still don't see a flag. Yeah I know "Gio the flag is way too small to be seen from earth" Sure but why hasn't some telescope from space picked it up, at the very least to debunk all the conspiracy theorists.

What do you guys think? These guys seem pretty convinced it happened.

New Blogger Ajax Search and Polls features

Yeah yeah.. back to back blogger posts..

I like turtles, and I like ajax. go ahead test that search bar up there ^

Blogger now has a new Ajax google search bar which you can add if you have upgraded your blogger template to blogger 3.0 with elements.

if you already have a 3.0 template and you don't see the new or the new poll feature it's because you haven't logged into "draft.blogger.com" which will allow you to use all the latest elements in beta.

You know you're on the draft blogger site because the banner at the top will look like this:

Source:bloggerindraft.blogspot.com

Blogger Video OH SNAP!

Blogger team has fixed all the issues its been having lately with the outages and to show us they're doing still okay they've added video to the mix. looks like your standard google video player only with a new blogger icon on the right.



The videos are in fact hosted on googlevideos and not on youtube or anything like that.



Videos uploads take about 5 minutes before they're viewable after you upload them and they're kept private so no one will be able to find them on youtube or googlevideos unless of course they reupload it to those particular sites.



when posting a new blog there is a new icon which will then popup a diaglog much like the photo button does when you add a photo to a blog only this time you can add videos.





Check out the player below:



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Embedding Google Streets Maps

Google just launched a new feature that allows you to Embed a Google maps address to you blog or web page. Unfortunately though the feature is not availible for google streets
Fortunately there is a site that will allow you to embed you street maps to any page and it's http://streetviewr.com/embed/ .



Simply past the link that google provides to you.....



...into their site and you'll get the code that will allow you to do this:




Whoops.. little too close!


**Note
If this Embed page gives you code that looks like this:

<>< width="425" height="350" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="">svc/gsv_view_private.php?cbll=37.320658,-121.876423&....">< /iframe >

As it did me, make sure to change "svc/gsv_view_private.php?" to "embed/gsv_public.php?" and all shall be well again.

Youtube helps put faces to pesky text based news

News stories online getting bland and boring lately? Are you tired of just plaino reading stuff online? Well Youtube is helping you be illiterate by actually having videos with their news posting on news.google.com. IMAGINE THAT! TV SMIVY..




No but seriously this is pretty cool, and I'm surprise it took someone this long to do this.

For our initial launch, we have included several top news sources such as CBS, Reuters, and a number of local Hearst TV stations. Over the next few months, we'll continue to add new sources as fast as we can. Right now we're just offering this addition in the U.S., the UK, and Ireland; we hope to make it available in other languages and editions soon. -googlenewsblog

So basically the have some pretty heavy hitters which they'll be linking to their news articles with more on the way.

Gmail to replace all College Email

Gmail seems to be the webmail of choice for college students and colleges are starting to look towards Gmail to replace exisiting mail applications. According to Arstechnica.com 5 colleges have already started the conversion and many over seas have begun as well and Email is just the beginning.

"We found that 25% of the students were already forwarding their e-mails to Gmail, which was more reliable, offered more storage, and had better accessibility than what existed,"

Source: Arstechnica.com

Youtube .. Desktop?

Yes, you heard correctly youtubedesktop.com is a new website where you can browse all your favorite youtube video in an Ajax environment for simpler more efficient browsing. It sports a few new features that are currently not found in youtube yet.

Themes

You can change through 1 of 3 different themes currently available. I'm sure more should be on the way

Zooming

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There are a few different zoom features. One of them allows you to change the size of the video icons on the current page you're viewing. Allowing you to see up to 33 videos potentially an unlimited amout of videos and descriptions on that page or as little as 3 with very large icons. The other zoom of course is while the video is playing you can move the video around as you can in any Ajax environment but you can all grab the bottom right corner and expand the video to take up the full page if you so desire.

Play list

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YTD saves the last 20 videos you plays in a tab at the top which reads (you guessed it) "Last 20 played". Also clicking on a video while you're currently viewing a video will add that video to the play list and will begin playing after that video is complete.

Saving Videos!

Finally and what I believe to be the best feature of the entire site is the feature that allows you to save the videos directly from the web page to your PC in 3GP,MP4,MOV,WMV,AVI,ZIP,FLV, or even EXE. The conversion process is done on the fly and you can even see the progress of the conversion on the bottom bar by highlighting the video