Mac only: QuickTime is a fairly elegant player built into Mac OS X, so why not use it? After installing the Perian component on your system, QuickTime will be able to play nearly any video you throw at it.
You’re handy with BitTorrent , you’ve learned your way around Usenet , and you have all kinds of files streaming onto your hard drive. Learn how to automatically unpack, rename, convert, and otherwise make your media ready for viewing with these 10 helper apps. More
FreeDocumentaries is a large repository of documentary films that have been released by their respective copyright owners for public display. You won’t be stuck watching dated old films however—the offerings are FreeDocumentaries are recent and intriguing.
Google Reader is easily the most popular web-based RSS reader, but if you’ve ever tried subscribing to an RSS feed that required password authentication, you’re out of luck in Reader. Weblog Digital Inspiration demonstrates a clever trick to circumvent this problem.
Mac OS X: If you like to watch shows from your TiVo with a handheld device—like an iPhone or PSP—when you’re on the go, free, open-source application iTiVo converts them to a portable format with a few simple clicks. iTiVo connects over your wireless network to your Series 2, Series, 3, or TiVoHD DVR and collects information on shows stored on the device’s hard drive.
YouTube clips have previously allowed for captioning, but it was a system that was a little buggy and only worked from YouTube’s site. That’s all changed with the advent of machine-generated captions and auto-timing. Google’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology has been paired up with YouTube’s caption system to create automatic captions for the majority of the videos that are uploaded (at the rate of 20 hours of footage every minute)
Today, Mozilla announced a new open source project called Raindrop, a service that pulls your social content from multiple sources and organizes it in one place to create a centralized messaging experience that matters to you. The goal of Raindrop is to make email and messaging personal again, and allow complete customizability in how you manage that information. It brings in content from multiple, sources such as Twitter, RSS feeds, and email, and presents it in one central, web-based front end.
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With everything from our cellphones to laptops to keychain trinkets coming sporting video cameras these days, more and more people are capturing and sharing digital video. The following video sites make sharing your video missives easy. Photo by Jakob Montrasio
A decade ago sharing high-resolution video over the internet was unheard of. Now we swap video with astounding speed and ever higher quality, thanks to several popular web sites.