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Screen Capturer: Set Custom Frame Rate For Recording Screencasts

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Screencasts are digital recordings of your computer screen that allow you to demonstrate a certain sequence of actions on your desktop, or create a video tutorial. There are a lot of good free applications available for capturing screencasts, but it is hard to find good software that let you create screencasts of your desktop. Most of the free tools apply a watermark over the video, and the ones that don’t have some video related issue, such as the quality being low. However, we keep covering new free screencast making applications that have a lot of potential to become very useful after some improvement. One such application that we found today is Screen Capturer. It is a free application for making screencasts of your desktop screen that lets you set a custom frame rate, choose to include the cursor and follow the mouse cursor. More on Screen Capturer after the jump. Read More

Convert Videos To A Format & Resolution Supported By Your Apple Or Android Device

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Gone are the days when there was only a single CD or DVD player in the house, which allowed you to watch movies on TV. Today, almost everyone has their own portable device which can play movies, songs, open documents and do pretty much everything. However there’s a catch; all the devices have their own video format that can be played. The world famous Apple & Android devices also have certain limitations when it comes to playing videos. Apple devices require different formats and resolutions for each device, while the Android devices have different screen sizes and supported resolutions. Today, we are reviewing two applications from the same developer, called Apple Video Converter Box and Android Video Converter Box, which allow you to easily convert video files to Apple and Android specific formats and resolutions in a quick way. Read on to find out how to use Apple Video Converter Box and Android Video Converter Box. Read More

Generate Playlist For All Videos On A Particular Webpage [Chrome]

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Everybody loves watching videos from sites like Facebook and YouTube, but sometimes, searching for videos/tracks in unending lists and feeds can become frustrating. So, if you're sick of scrolling Facebook feeds and YouTube playlists for music or entertaining videos, then Moovu Video Clipper pulls all videos from a particular webpage and lets you play them in a beautiful interface, without any clutter. With it, you can literally transform any webpage into a playlist and turn your browser into an amazing platform for viewing, collecting and sharing videos. Moovu makes sure that you stay tuned with all the videos on the web and never miss one again, with the best part being the fact that you can listen to all of them sequentially, without having to open all those YouTube links or scroll back and forth through your feed. You may share videos with your Facebook buddies and even play them in a pop-up. The Chrome extension works perfectly on websites like Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and more. Read More

Set Any YouTube Video As Ringtone On Your iPhone With Vuziq [Cydia]

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Many iOS users jailbreak their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch devices to get the amazingly detailed customization options the Cydia store has on offer. There are countless themes, wallpapers, fonts and ringtones available in the jailbreak store, but there are tweaks that still venture into unexplored avenues and bring something completely new to the mix when it comes to cosmetic features and customization options. Vuziq is one such Cydia app, and it is designed for the sole purpose of letting users set a video as the ringtone on their iDevice. Not only can you set the video ringtone as your default call alert, but it is also possible to choose separate videos for different contacts. The app uses YouTube as its source, and that means that it has a huge collection at its disposal. Read More

Automatically Add All Media Files To iTunes Library On Mac [Tip]

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If you often download videos and music files instead of purchasing them in iTunes, you have to then manually add them to Apple's native multimedia behemoth. It isn’t difficult, but if you keep downloading media and neglect adding it to iTunes, you get clutter, and lots of it. A much simpler way of doing so is by pasting your media files directly to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder. By adding files directly to this folder, iTunes indexes them and they appear in their respective category when you launch the software. Bear in mind that this means the file is copied to iTunes, and not just indexed at its original location. Read More

“File Viewer” For 60 Audio, Video, Image, Web & Text File Formats [Mac]

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File formats for just about every file type are numerous, and when it comes down to users on different operating systems, this disparity gets worse. While you can chose what types of files you create and download, you cannot tell someone else which format to send you a file in. This can, more often than it should, result in you sitting with a file on your disk with no means of opening it. File Viewer is a free Mac app that solves this problem for some 60 common formats. It is a file viewer for audio, video, image, text and web files, and supports multiple formats including DOCX, which means your friends, family or co-workers who use Windows and create documents on MS Word can send you files without converting them to PDF. Read More

MiniatureCam: Capture Videos & Photos With Tilt Shift Effect [iPhone]

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The iOS App Store has gotten to a point where very few new camera apps have the potential to entice users, specially if they are focused on providing just one feature or effect. Still, MiniatureCam is one such app that can prove to be a really welcome addition to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. It might not be as feature-rich as some of the other camera apps out there, but it does what it advertises, and that, too, in a really efficient manner. MiniatureCam is all about letting its users shoot videos and photos using the tilt shift effect. This means that the end results will be focused on just the main object, blurring everything else, making viewers believe that the target object is larger compared to its surroundings, owing to the reduction in depth of field. So, why would anyone be interested in an app that focuses on just one photo effect, when there are so many multi-purpose apps out there? The simplest answer to this questions is that MiniatureCam letts you use the tilt-shift effect ad excellence. Read More

MediaPlus: Resize, Pin & Add Effects To Images/Videos On Any Website [Chrome]

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If you want to take full control of videos, images and other media on your favorite webpages, then MediaPlus, a Chrome extension, is just the right tool for you, as it lets you move, resize, turn lights off and maximize images and videos to full-screen. The extension adds multiple controls in a slick toolbar under each image and video. With it, you can move, resize and pin media content on pages like YouTube and Facebook. You can also maximize media content to the whole browser window or pop it out. Furthermore, you can add various effects to images, such as sepia, blur, glow and more. Darkening area around videos and watching them without any distraction is also made possible. MediaPlus makes it possible to customize embedded Flash videos on any website. Read More

Create Image & Video Slideshows With Narration Using ezvid

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Slideshows are a great way to display, as well as share pictures with others. You must have seen hundreds of videos on YouTube containing a picture slide with some cool music track in the background. Previously, we have covered some great slideshow creators, including Slideshow Creator and PhotoPixar which allow you to create video slideshows of photo albums in minutes with effects, audio tracks and captions. However, they lack the options to control the time an image appears in the slideshow, and are not capable of including videos in your creation. This is where our new find, ezvid, comes in. It is a slideshow creating tool for Windows that allows you to generate slideshows from images and videos, put an audio track in the background and record narration over it. It also allows you to increase or decrease the time each image appears on the screen before switching to the next one. You may add a text tile and upload the slideshow to YouTube directly from the application. Read More

MediaInfo: Identify Codecs And Tag Information For Audio & Video Files

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When playing video files, the most common problem faced by most users is the non-availability of media codecs in your system required to display the video. The most annoying thing in this situation is that whenever the player tries to download the required media codec from the internet, it fails to do so. What you can do is that manually search for and download the driver for the media codec, that is, if it's available for your video player. The process, however, will take a lot of time and you might not even find it after wasting precious minutes searching for the codec. Instead, give MediaInfo a try. It is an open source application for Windows that supplies technical and meta tag information about video and audio files, and allows you to visit the website of the codec required for playing the selected file and download it. Keep reading to find out more about MediaInfo. Read More

What’s New In VLC 2.0? We Review The New Features & Improvements

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Developed by VideoLAN, VLC is one of the few media players, which support a huge array of codecs, compression methods and file formats, and is best known for the way it handles multimedia file rendering. There’re surely sheer number of media players available nowadays, but VLC is arguably the most powerful, open source media player that comes with an extensive list of features and options. Last month, VideoLAN announced that the next version of VLC (codenamed Twoflower) would be released soon, and provided some nightly builds of  VLC 2.0 for testing purposes. If you’ve been eagerly waiting for VLC 2.0 final version, you will be glad to know that it has just been released. In this post, we discuss some of the most significant improvements and features of this major update. Read More

Create & Upload Screen Area Specific Screencasts Using vTute Recorder

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Screencasts, or screen capture, are digital recordings of your computer screen. You may think of them as video screenshots that record and show the changes happening on your computer screen in the form of a video. If what you are trying to explain is not that difficult to understand, you can add screenshots with your content in order to deliver your message to users, but if its something very complicated, screencasts are considered the better option. You must have seen many video tutorials explaining to you how to perform a particular action on your computer. Now, you can create and upload your own video tutorials by using vTute Recorder. It is a portable application that allows you to easily create screencasts and upload them to vTute’s website. More on vTute Recorder after the break. Read More

Lona Converters: Convert Audio/ Video Files One By One Between Several Formats [Mac]

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In the Mac world, you will find gorgeous displays and beautiful buttons, making up the pretty side of a Mac. The slightly ugly side is that you will have to pay up some serious cash whenever you need to download even a mildly useful app. The Mac app world is rich in choice, but it costs to buy those apps. This isn’t to say that you can’t find free apps, but they are just a little hard to find. Lonasoft is a developing company that you can thank if you need to convert either audio or video files but would rather do it for free instead of buying an app for it. Lona Music Converter is an audio converter that allows you to convert audio files between 11 different formats. Lona Converter, however, is a video converter that lets you convert videos into 39 different formats. Both apps are free, and convert files one by one. They both have a pro version available as well, which lets you convert files in batches. Read More

Log In To Multiple Skype Accounts On PC Startup With Skype Launcher

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Skype provides its users with one of the best audio call, video call and instant messaging services. Skype’s usefulness is not limited only to communication but also offers a host of other functions. You can also use Skype for screen sharing and sending files to your contacts (even though I myself hate to use the Skype file transfer service). Apart from these built-in features, plugins and third party applications also extend the utility of Skype to greater levels by providing users with tools and extensions that integrate with Skype and perform various functions. Do check out some of the awesome features and tools to supercharge your Skype experience. These extended capabilities make Skype a utility not only for using in homes and personal interaction, but also for educational and professional purposes. Skype Launcher is an application for Windows that allows you to log in with multiple Skype accounts at a time on one PC. Read More

TimeFreeze For iPhone: Add Music & Slow Motion Effects To Videos

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It is a well-known fact that a vast majority of photos shared across various online services originate from the camera in some iOS device, but when it comes to recording videos with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, the camera is just as useful. Unfortunately, there aren’t as many apps for video editing as there are for photos, and that’s what makes TimeFreeze a really interesting addition to the App Store. The app lets its users add background music to their videos, and you can also make your footage looking like a snippet from the Matrix, by adding the slow motion effect to any area of the clip. Read past the jump for more. Read More

YTubePlayer: Simple & Useful Desktop Tool For Managing YouTube Videos

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I’m sure that everyone who uses the internet knows about, and has visited, YouTube a lot of times. Founded in 2005, it became a lot famous in quite a short amount of time, allowing billions of users to view, as well as share, videos with a global audience. Other than the widely used entertainment purposes, YouTube is also used for showcasing products, launching music videos and educating people. The application can only be accessed through a browser and does not have an official desktop application out yet. YTubePlayer is a third party application for YouTube that provides you with a desktop tool to easily access and manage YouTube. More on YTubePlayer after the break. Read More

View, Share & Upload Videos With The Official WP7 Client For Vimeo

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When it comes to video sharing and hosting, YouTube is the first service which comes to mind, but the fact of the matter is, YouTube is not the only service out there where you can watch and share video content. There are a few competitors in this field, and Vimeo is among the most popular YouTube alternatives. The team behind the video hosting service seems to have become pretty active lately. The Android app for Vimeo (covered in detail by us) was released just last month, and now Windows Phone 7 has got one as well. The official Mango app for Vimeo lets you do all the stuff you usually associate with the video service, and that, too, in a really efficient and convenient manner. Read More

StreamDesk: Open Source Application To View & Manage Multiple Streams

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Videos streams are a great way for companies, as well as individuals, to get their message to people around the world. It can be anything from a news feed to the video of a live performance of a band playing in a concert hall. I, being a huge fan of the multiplayer game DOTA (Defense of the Ancients), follow a lot of video streams of international players showcasing their game play. If you follow, or want to follow, a lot of video streams, it can be a bit of a hassle to manage all of them from your browser. Instead of cluttering up your browser bookmarks, take a look at this stream manager. StreamDesk is an open source client that allows you to view and manage multiple video streams. Usually, to view multiple streams, you need to open each one in a separate tab in your browser, but StreamDesk allows you to watch multiple streams in a single interface without even opening your browser. Keep reading to find out more about StreamDesk. Read More

PlayClaw: Take Screenshots & Record In-Game Video In Multiple FPS

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Taking screenshots in games and creating screencasts for showcasing one's gaming skills is very common among hardcore single player and multiplayer gamers. Head over to YouTube and you will see numerous gameplay videos, being shared by hundreds of thousands of games, around the world. Due to the ability of gamers to take screenshots and screencasts, we have been able to share those ”Arrow to the knee” jokes. There are various software solutions that let you easily capture screencasts and screenshots, such as the renowned FRAPS, that also displays real time frame rates. Taksi is another open source tool we covered earlier to take screenshots and record video clips of games and 3D-graphics applications. Today, we have another one such tool, called PlayClaw, that allows you to capture screenshots, record game video with multisource in-game and microphone audio, set recording frame rate and encoder compression etc. More details to follow about PlayClaw. Read More

Add Soundtracks & Effects To Videos With Magisto For iPhone & Android

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There are a lot of apps available for iOS that can help users in editing their photos, and iOS 5 even added some photo editing options to the stock Photos app. However, the same can’t be said for video editing. So, it is always nice to see iPhone apps which bring video editing to the mix. Magisto is an app using which you can add a dash of spice to your drab, ordinary videos. Read on to know all about the features offered by this simplistic and convenient video editor. Update: The Android version of Magisto is now available in the Google Play store. Read More