My Technology Guide

Mediaraptor is a superb application that can find millions of music videos and songs from social media websites for you. It can then record and convert the music video, or simply find the MP3 format of the song, depending on its search results. It can then convert them, according to your choice, in a more portable formats or in standard WMV and MP3 format. Unlike Tunebite and Radiotracker, the two other products from Audials, Mediaraptor is pretty much very useful out of the box. Mediaraptor can save video tracks from several social media sources, including MySpace, Esnips.com, YouTube, Hulu, and others.

On starting Mediaraptor, you will find the user interface quite similar as seen in Tunebite, Radiotracker, and the ultimate of them all, AudialsOne, divided into two parts.

TuneBite is an easy to use application that allows users to easily remove DRM protection from music files, videos, and audio books. The added benefit of TuneBite is it's ability to record videos off any video sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, etc and convert it to a format the user likes. And this football season, TuneBite will really come handy for all the soccer fans out there who may want to record the matches, so that they can watch it later.

The Internet offers a lot of soccer videos at special soccer video sites. For instance you can visit any of the following and watch soccer videos. Most of these websites are also offering free World Cup Football South Africa 2010 videos.

iSkysoft FLV Converter for Windows is designed to convert popular videos to YouTube FLV or convert FLV video to popular video formats. This FLV Video Converter is capable of converting most standard videos files and gives a full support to High Definition videos. It also empowers you to crop, clip, adjust video effect, add watermark and plug-in subtitle. It helps you get tailor-made video/audio for uploading on to YouTube or transferring to your portable devices. It gives a full support to Windows 7.

Google's search engine is the world's favorite search engine, the reason for its popularity is because it returns relevant results faster and with a no-frills, simple user interface. It became popular not by the traditional means of advertising but via recommendation by its users to their friends, relatives and colleagues to use it.

Google rarely used any traditional means of advertising to promote its products and services, but this policy started changing, when Google used billboards to promote GOOG-411 service. Google also aggressively promoted it's Chrome browser using different advertising schemes. This changes are very much understandable in the sense that Google wants its users to know that Google is more than Google Search now. But what is more surprising for everyone is that Google has decided to promote Google Search Engine at the Super Bowl.

Want to watch YouTube videos without the browser? DeskTube might be the application you need. DeskTube is an Adobe AIR application. As the name suggests, DeskTube is a free desktop application which YouTube functions to the desktop to give YouTube users instant access to the video site by just double clicking the application on the desktop, without the need to open your browser. It is not just a YouTube "desktop application", using it, you can connect with your friends over Facebook, tweet to the world with Twitter, record and upload videos to YouTube, or even video chat with three friends.

Lately, I have looked at ways to download YouTube videos to get local copies of your favorite videos. For those of you new to this whole concept of downloading videos off video sharing sites, here's a small info for you all. Many of these sites works by simply grabbing YouTube videos in their native Flash format (FLV). To watch these files on your desktop, you’ll either need to get yourself a FLV player or convert the files into another format, so that you can watch the video in your favorite media player (or on your iPod/iPhone, cell phone, etc.). Some of the listed sites offer functions to convert the videos on the fly along with the video download functions.

Now, on with the list!