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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.
iPhone App Screenshots:
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 :
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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.
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Sydney’s New Year’s fireworks display
2010: New Zealand welcomes the new year
2010 Taiwan UP Fireworks Show Taipei
London Fireworks on New Year’s Day 2010
15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For
Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who support us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our computer life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/softwares that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list down exactly but we are tried to make a list of 15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving all of you too…
You are welcome to share other software you would thankful for and that made your life easier. . 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 as well.
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.
Firefox 3.5 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.
FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows. It has a powerful Site Manager and transfer queue and drag & drop support.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment. This is based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.This is a cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, compatible with other VNC software.
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. It includes tools for modeling – fast subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting, metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and curves; uv mapping; shaders and texturing – both paint based and node based; ik and fk animation tools with rigging, constraints, skinning, morph targets, drivers, deformers, and modifiers; simulation tools including hard bodies, soft body, cloth, and fluids; and particle systems including hair. Blender has integrated rendering with both its native renderer and the raytracer Yafray as well supporting many external renderers; and python based scripting.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together etc.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
BitTorrent 6 is a client that transfers large videos, audios or softwares in a faster and cheaper way. A ‘client’ in this case is a computer program that follows the rules of a protocol. The BitTorrent 6 client will give you access to the world of content on the protocol in a lightweight, fast and reliable package.
OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Mozilla Firefox As An Open Source Faster, Safer And Smarter Web Browser
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