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Elmedia Player For Mac Helps You View And Manage Media Files Conveniently

Elmedia Player is a convenient multifunctional media player for Mac OS X, which can play a great variety of formats. All Mac users will find its media library easy-to-use and already familiar to them from iTunes. You can create, manage and delete playlists. Also try out smart playlists: you can create them by choosing special parameters, and then Elmedia Player will organize files matching your criteria automatically.

Elmedia Mac media player is a versatile tool that supports multiple formats playback (FLV, SWF, XAP (Silverlight), RM and RV (Real), AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV). No need to install a separate player for each video you want to watch. Enjoy your screening with Elmedia Player.

There are plenty of options you can choose to watch the video in Elmedia Player. Detach the playback window from Elmedia Player and move it to any part of the monitor.

We hope you will be pleased to discover convenient media library in Elmedia Player that is already familiar to all iTunes users. All videos and movies from the library can be grouped in playlists or smart playlists.

Top 12 Sites For Online Video Chatting

If you feel that your instant messaging client is not satisfying your video chat needs, do not try downloading and installing any other applications. Give video chat facilitating websites a try. You are bound to find something that will let you video chat the way you want. The best part is that you will not have to install any new applications on your computer.

The internet has many video chat websites. In case you are looking for one, do not spend time searching on the web; simply give my list of top 12 sites for video chat a read. You will find the list below. See which site suits you best.

1. EkkoTV

If you are already familiar with video chatting sites and want something more, then visit EkkoTV. On the site you can have a 3 people video conference. This is great for chatting with 2 friends at the same time. Click here to visit EkkoTV.

2. RandomDorm

This video chatting website is for college students. You need to sign up using your college’s email (ending with EDU or AC). You can use this site to fine students from other or even your own universities. Click here to visit RandomDorm.

3. StreamFame

SteamFace is a site to tell show the world how entertaining you can be. You can choose to have your webcam broadcast video to the website; your feed is kept active unless more than 50% of your audience votes you down. Click here to visit StreamFame.

4. ChatRide

ChatRide is a more traditional video chatting website. You can create a chat room and share its URL with another friend to video chat. Only one on one video chat is possible. Click here to visit ChatRide.

5. Imo.im

This website is a collection of web messengers for popular instant messaging clients. In case the person you chatting with supports video chat, you can use Imo.im to initiate one on one video chatting. Supported services include MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Skype, Google Talk, MySpace, and Facebook. Click here to visit Imo.im.

6. MeBeam

MeBeam is another traditional video chatting site that lets you create a video chat room to which you can invite others. Visit MeBeam here.

7. BoostCam

BoostCam focuses on speed. You can start video chatting rather quickly. After gving the site access to your webcam, it creates a temporary URL which you share with people to video chat. Click here to visit BoostCam.

8. Confabio

Similar to BoostCam, Confabio lets us create a chat room of which the URL can be shared to invite others. Click here to visit Confabio.

9. WooMe

If you are hoping to find a special someone through video chatting, pay WooMe me a visit. The site helps singles get to know other singles through video chatting. Visit WooMe here.

10. Chatroulette

Even if you have not video chatted before, you must have heard of Chatroulette. It is a highly popular speed-video chatting site. Random connections are made between two people; this connection can be terminated by any party anytime. The site is highly addictive and has a very simple interface. Visit Chatroulette here.

11. TinyChat

TinyChat is a great video chat site especially for Twitter users. Visitors can sign in with their Twitter accounts, create a video chat room, then invite up to 10000 people to video chat with them. Visit TinyChat here.

12. 6rounds

Chatroulette might be addicting for many people but it provides very few options to play around with. 6rounds expands the Chatroulette concept and does a wonderful job in helping you find new friends online. The interface is very user friendly and new features are constantly being added to the site. Click here to visit 6rounds.

Subtitles Helps You Find Movie Subtitles Of A Video File With Two Clicks

If you are somebody who downloads movies off torrent and other file sharing websites, then there is a good chance you do not get subtitles with your downloaded movies. Although many websites are online to help you search for subtitles, most of them have multiple entries for the same movies and a trial-and-error procedure is required to get the right subtitles. A much better alternative to all those sites is the installable program titled simply Subtitles.

Subtitles is an application created by the site www.subtitles.com.br. Sized at only 542 KB, it is a Windows compatible program which installs without any glitches. After installing the program you will notice that new entries have been made to your desktop or Start Menu. Actually the program has no graphical interface at all. It works in quite a unique way.

With Subtitles installed, all you do is right click on a video file. You will find that the context menu options now have a new entry that reads “Look for Subtitles.” You can enter this option and click on the language you want the subtitles in. After selecting the language, a search will automatically be executed on the program’s website. The search results will correspond to your video file and a far lesser degree of trial-and-error will be required. You will not have to enter any text in fields – simply right click on your video file and select your preferred subtitles language.

To download the Windows program Subtitles, visit www.subtitles.com.br/subtitles.htm.

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BYTubeD Makes It Easier Than Ever To Download Multiple Youtube Videos In One Go

Streaming videos online is a great way to kill our time. We often find humorous videos that are bound to cheer us up. Sometimes we stream these videos to view what our favorite band’s latest video looks like; at other time we stream educational video to increase our general knowledge. Whatever the purpose of our video streaming, YouTube is the site to visit.

At times after watching a video on YouTube, users want to download it and store it on their computer for easy access later (and also to transfer it to their phone or portable media player). There are numerous tools to perform this task; their main functioning involves the user entering the YouTube video’s URL in the program, after which the download proceeds.

Usually when we want to download multiple YouTube videos, they are all related. Normally these videos can have their shortcuts on the same page as the video we are viewing. Taking advantage of this fact, the developers of BYTubeD created a new way to obtain YouTube videos.

BYTubeD is a browser addon for Mozilla Firefox. The addon install quickly. Suppose you are watching this video and want to download all the related videos; the links of these video can be seen in the current webpage (in the bottom right pane).

In Firefox, we click on Tools -> BYTubeD.

The addon’s window pops up which contains all links of the YouTube videos available on that webpage.

In this popup we can select the videos to download, output video format, and whether or not we want to obtain the high quality version. After choosing our videos we click on the “Start” button to proceed with the download. After displaying us a message of “successful processing” the addon begins the download in Firefox’s own download manager.

I personally found the addon to be quite helpful in batch downloading any type of YouTube videos. I am positive BYTubeD will serve any user as well as it served me.

Knocking Live Video: Free App To Broadcast Live Videos From Your iPhone Or Android Based Phones

Have you ever wondered how to broadcast live video through your cellphone? Imagine being able to share your phone camera’s image with the entire world. You could show the world whatever it is you were seeing in real time, and take sharing experiences to a new level.

You might have come across tools and services that provide live video sharing through your cellphone but these are mostly paid services. After reading about today’s tool however, you will not need to spend a penny to share live video. I am referring to Kocking Live Video.

Knocking Live Video is a free to use websites that enable live video sharing. We must first register for a free account before we can take advantage of the site’s services.

After registering for an account you add your friends and contacts on Knocking Live Video. New friends can be added by clicking on the “+” button. We can choose to invite users already on Knocking Live Video, invite users by specifying their email addresses, or have Knocking Live Video search our contacts in Gmail and Yahoo.

Once you have added your friends, the next step is to download and install Knocking Live Video’s application for your iPhone or Android device.

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These applications will help broadcast live video through our cellphone’s camera. The uses we can put personal live broadcasting to are endless. Knocking Live Video’s versions for other cellphones (Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Palm OS) are currently in development.  When they have applications for all cellphones out, all smartphone users will be able to benefit from this remarkable free service.

Easily Share Videos To Facebook And Twitter From Your Cell Phone With Thwapr

Facebook and Twitter users who own smartphones often are on the lookout for applications that can complement their social media usage. One way in which our social media accounts can be made more active is by developing a simple method to record videos on our cellphones and then share them on our social media accounts.

To perform this function you do not need any fancy application to install. The only things required are a smartphone with a web browser, and the knowledge to use Thwapr.

Thwapr is a free website currently in its beta stage that facilitates users to share cellphone recorded videos on their Facebook and Twitter accounts. Thwapr does not require users to install any applications. The procedure is performed simply using text messaging and the web browse.

To take advantage of this free service, users first need to create a free account on Thwapr (by clicking on the big green “Register” button on Thwapr’s homepage).

We then link our Thwapr account with our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Afterwards video sharing is simply a matter of 3 east steps.

Step 1 of sharing videos through Thwapr requires obtaining a video. There is no restriction that this video should be on your cellphone. It can be on your computer as well.

Step 2 involves emailing the video. The email process can be significantly faster if we create an email on the server of our mobile service provider. We can then use this email to send a message (with our video attached) to me@thwapr.com.

Step 3 is when we receive a text message notice that tells us Thwapr has finished processing our video. We can then view our final video and choose to share it on Facebook or Twitter.

Currently Thwapr works on more than 200 phones across major carriers in the US and Canada. If you are in the US or Canada, give Thwapr a try and use the comments to let us know what you think.

Take A Chance To Win Personal License Of SWF & FLV Player PRO

Eltima Software is running a contest, where winners will get 15 personal licenses of SWF & FLV Player PRO (worth $19.⁹⁵ each). Well, you guys know what SWF & FLV Player PRO is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

SWF & FLV Player PRO is a smart Flash Player, enriched with numerous options and controls for viewing and managing Flash movies and videos. One of the main benefits of SWF & FLV Player PRO is the ability to save Flash Animation from the web directly to your computer. So if you want to download and save your favorite videos from such sites as Youtube, Matacafe, Google Video or other, SWF & FLV Player by Eltima is just what you need.

When downloading SWF animation SWF & FLV Player PRO allows you to preview all the external resources your file may be using ( it may open and play other SWF or FLV files, load images, etc).After looking into them you can either download initial SWF file, or SWF file with all its external resources, or just external file you liked.

More than that, with SWF & FLV Player PRO you can make a screenshot of the favorite moment and even convert the whole movie into the series of screenshots.

Last but not least, SWF & FLV Player PRO allows playback of SWF/FLV files in full-screen mode and feel yourself at cinema while being at home with your cup of coffee.

This contest will run from April 20, 2010 to April 27, 2010 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before April 30, 2010 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win free license of SWF & FLV Player PRO, All you have to do is just :

1. Just leave a comment to tell us why you like SWF & FLV Player.
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Now Watch TV Channels From All Around The World Free Of Cost With TvTube

Do you have a high speed broadband connection but not know how to kill your boredom? What if I told you that you could view any one of countless television channels from all parts of the world using only your broadband internet and without spending a penny? Surely you could find at least one interesting program on one of those countless channels, a program that will entertain you and help pass your time.

Watching any channel from around the world is exactly what can be done using TvTube.

From sports channels to documentary ones, TvTube is a great resource for TV channels. The channels are categorized nation-wise and genre-wise.

At the site’s homepage we can see channels being currently watched, most popular channels, and the recently added channels.

A search box is also located in the top right of the homepage which facilitates finding any channel we are looking for.

Clicking on the name of a channel starts its broadcast within a player in the browser.

Below the channel’s feed there are links to channels that are related to current one being watched. The relation can be that of the genre or of nationality.

Some channels on TvTube will require your web browser to have the Windows Media Player plugin to be installed which can be obtained here.

TvTube not only provides us a gateway to pass our time but also a resource to learn about other countries through their television media. By sorting channels categorically, the site also simplifies the process of finding channels we are looking for.

Pay TvTube a visit and let us know what you think.

Breathtaking: New Year’s Fireworks Shows For Celebrating 2010

Happy New Year to all of you. We wish you best of luck and all the success for you in 2010. This is the celebration day everywhere so we thought why don’t we share the colors and creativity of fireworks ceremonies of 2010. In this post, we featured few breathtaking and wonderful videos of fireworks shows from few cities of the world. In the next few hours we will be adding more fireworks ceremony videos from other cities as well. At this moment, I am sure these would be good enough to get inspired.

If you want to share more fireworks ceremony videos so please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at  smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Sydney’s New Year’s fireworks display

2010: New Zealand welcomes the new year

New Year fireworks in Dubai

China celebrates a new decade

Moscow celebrates 2010

2010 Taiwan UP Fireworks Show Taipei

London Fireworks on New Year’s Day 2010