Saturday Nov 3, 2007

Here are the stories for today. Thought These where interesting:

Sites I’ve seen of interest!

Interesting things on the web!

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Stuff I’ve seen today!!

  1. Miro kicks Joost’s ass
  2. It’s a discussion on who will win Miro or Joost. The Aricle has some great points on the subject.

  3. Times Names Iphone “Invention of the Year”
  4. I can’t believe they named the IPHONE that.

  5. Best Buy offers the Toshiba HD-A2 for $100, too, and other HD DVD deals
  6. Well we know why they are doing that. It’s all because Wal-Mart is doing it. I think it’s has been decided HD is Winning the war.

  7. Scams Use Striptease to Break Web Traps
  8. You know what they say Sex drives people do the strangest things. This techniques are use for spammers to get past the Captchas.

  9. Tigerize Leopard This is a way to make Leopard look like Tiger!! I am unsure if it works
  10. Solidify Leopard’s Menu Bar with OpaqueMenuBar
  11. tiny utility OpaqueMenuBar brings solidity back to your menu bar, trading the see-through look

  12. Mac trojan in the wild
  13. Not even the great Apple can prevent Viruses, they are more targeted due to Vista and people going to Leopard.

This is the way I’ll probably start doing to help with bandwidth and all!!

Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters

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So many video file formats, so many handheld video players, so many online video sites, and so little time. To have your favorite clips how you want them—whether that’s on your DVR, iPod, PSP or desktop—you need the right utility to convert ’em into the format that works for you. Commercial video converter software’s aplenty, but there are several solid free utilities that can convert your video files on every operating system, or if you’ve just got a web browser and a quick clip. Put DVDs on your iPod, YouTube videos on DVD, or convert any video file with today’s top 10 free video rippers, encoders and converters.

10. VLC media player (Open source/All platforms)

vlc.png Ok, so VLC is a media player, not converter, but if you’re watching digital video, it’s a must-have—plus VLC can indeed rip DVD’s, as well as play ripped discs in ISO format (no actual optical media required.) VLC can also play FLV files downloaded from YouTube et al, no conversion to AVI required. Since there’s a portable version, VLC’s a nice choice for getting your DVD rips/saved YouTube video watching on wherever you go.

9. MediaCoder (Open source/Windows)

Batch convert audio and video compression formats with the open source Media Coder for Windows, which works with a long laundry lists of formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+V2, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio, AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia, ASF/WMV, Quicktime, and OGM, to name a few.

8. Avi2Dvd (Freeware/Windows)

Make your video files burnable to a DVD with Avi2Dvd, a utility that converts Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd files to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd format. Avi2Dvd can also produce DVD menus with chapter, audio, and subtitle buttons.

7. Videora Converter (Freeware/Windows only)

Videora Converter is a set of programs, each designed to convert regular PC video files into a format tailored to your favorite video-playing handheld device. The Videora program list includes iPod Video Converter (for 5th gen iPods), iPod classic Video Converter (for 6th gen classic iPods), iPod nano Video Converter (for 3rd gen iPod nanos), iPod touch Video Converter, iPhone Video Converter, Videora Apple TV Converter, PSP Video 9, Videora Xbox360 Converter, Videora TiVo Converter, and Videora PMP Converter. Lifehacker alum Rick Broida used Videora in conjunction with DVD Decrypter to copy DVDs to his iPod.

Honorable Mention: Ares Tube for Windows converts YouTube and other online videos to iPod format.

I’ve only gave you a few there are more at the website!! Check them out!!