Despite its fairly minimalist appearance, this program is one of the most complete when it comes to downloading videos from web pages such as YouTube or MySpace. As well as letting you use the URL of the videos as the download source, it also has a built-in mini-browser which directly accesses the web pages of the online video services, along with a handy button to start downloading to your hard disk the video that is playing in the main window of whichever of the compatible multimedia portals VDownloader is using.
It is compatible with sites ranging from YouTube and MySpace to others such as Stage 6 (recently closed down), 123 Video, Google, Lulu TV and MegaVideo, among others. As if that wasn’t enough, it also provides a menu with options for selecting the video format to use when saving the video downloaded from the online source to your hard disk. The choices range from the un-encoded format, as downloaded from the web page, to formats specific to iPod or other portable devices such as the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, not forgetting the format optimised for PSPs and those for generic 3G mobile phones. It’s also possible to only encode the audio, into MP3 format, which is a very useful option if you’re learning a foreign language and just want the audio to help you improve your listening skills. This is practically a must-have program for all addicts to the “new television” of the Internet.

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The Internet is a window on the world, especially on the world of television and radio. With programs such as DelFeo Radio/TV Player, it’s very easy to access the radio and TV broadcasts of countries as disparate as the United States and Cuba, and Spain too, of course. It doesn’t include every single TV or satellite channel but it is full of channels which have an interesting curiosity factor, such as the local channels of many other regions of the country. Access to channels such as those of Cuban TV also opens your eyes and shows you, in first person, how its society is evolving, along with those of other countries very different to our own. You can also “spy” on the comings and goings of people in other parts of the world, such as in Times Square in New York via the webcam that transmits live from there.

Summing up, this is a program which is simple to install and use, produced in Flash, and that, despite not covering absolutely all the broadcasts out there, it does offer a very varied and interesting selection, especially for those of us interested in local broadcasts which give us a fascinating snapshot of the different cultures.

DelFeo Radio.

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Apple’s iPod devices, and even their iPhones – if you happen to have already got your hands on one of these telephone/multimedia players – aren’t particularly user-friendly when it comes to loading movies onto them. Many videos aren’t compatible with these multimedia players and the conversion tools provided with iTunes are neither the fastest nor the most versatile. The specific version of Mobiola Video Studio for iPod/iPhone speeds up enormously video conversion tasks, even when working with YouTube multimedia content. Whether you drag and drop, browse through the file explorer or enter the URL of the YouTube video directly, the software provides you with a video which is compatible with and adapted for the screen sizes of Nano, Classic or Touch iPods or the iPhone. You can also choose to only copy the files to the hard disk so that you can convert them later.

It’s possible to pick the final quality of the video and even to chop it up into chunks of predefined sizes for when it’s difficult to work with large file sizes. The conversion is done quickly, and you can optionally display a preview window to keep an eye on the process and make sure it’s all going well.

Moviola Video Studio.

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Downloading files is a major part of the daily activity of an internet user, whether they be drivers, programs, multimedia content, photos or something else. In theory, the ideal situation would be to not have to download anything and instead to make use of the resources directly, from their remote location. But the web isn’t fast or reliable enough for that yet. So, in the end, these things always end up getting downloaded to the local hard disk. Surprisingly, however, web browsers don’t tend to be optimised for this type of activity and, more often than you’d like, they end up losing entire sessions’ worth of files and data. The connection can also fail, meaning that any unfinished downloads are lost.

If you want to avoid these problems, a decent download manager is a good ally. Flashget is one of the most well-established and best-rated around at the moment, and with good reason. It integrates into all the most popular web browsers and also manages BitTorrent and FTP downloads and lets you browse through the file structure of the remote sites in order to hunt down even the hardest to find files. It also manages identification parameters for when authentication is required and keeps a detailed account of your download history, allowing you to resume interrupted downloads from where you left off. It hardly takes up any system resources and features options for setting the number of simultaneous tasks and the total maximum bandwidth to consume during downloads.

FlashGet (2.4.1.1142 Beta 4 version).

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The multimedia capabilities of computers have improved to the point where they’re now potential competition for conventional DVD players. All you need is the right piece of software, such as Cyberlink PowerDVD, to really turn them into a multimedia system which is as easy to handle as the kit in your living room, with the added bonus that they don’t just play DVDs, but also movies stored on your hard disk, whether in standard resolution or high definition. As with a conventional DVDs, you can pick the audio track, the subtitles and access particular scenes by just pushing a key, or a button on your remote control if your PC has one.

What’s more, the software can take full advantage of the hardware acceleration of the new graphics cards, capable of playing full HD files easily, even when your CPU isn’t the most powerful on the market. Combined with a Blu Ray drive for your computer, Cyberlink PowerDVD is one of the most economical ways around to get access to real high-definition video.

CyberLink PowerDVD.

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