Media
Free Screenshot Making and Video Capturing Tools
Programs that let us create and edit screenshots and videos on our computer are truly lifesavers. It makes our lives easier and helps us with our jobs. These types of applications, with Adobe Captivate being a good example, are widely available in the market today. Below is a list of the video capturing programs that you can use to create awesome videos and presentations.
Amazon Cloud Player Lets You Play Your Music From Anywhere
Amazon has just entered the streaming music business with the launch of Cloud Player. Amazon Cloud Player is a music player that lets anyone upload their music to Amazon’s servers and play them via the web or Android.
Cloud Player comes in two types, an app for the web and an Android app counterpart. No app for the iPhone as yet. Both players allow users to upload their music, create playlists and organize their music. And because it’s a cloud-based platform, users can access their music and settings from any compatible computer or Android device. At the moment, you can only purchase music directly for Amazon Cloud Player from the American Amazon.com site. UK site isn’t supported so far. .
Quickly create Flash content with Empressr
Epressr is a neat web application that lets you quickly create online Flash content for your website, or rich presentation material.
You can upload your own media assets such as video, audio, images and animations to the Empressr media library, import them directly from other sites like Flickr, Google, Yahoo and Photobucket or link to digital media from around the web. It’s ideal for creating engaging content with charts, tables and audio.
Rip and download DRM free music from Spotify
This guide shows how to rip and download DRM-free music from Spotify. The music we’ll download from Spotify is DRM free so you can play the tracks on your favoured MP3 players. In order to rip from Spotify you’ll need a piece of $20 software, plus an Open (free) account with Spotify. There is some reported success by decoding the Spotify locally cached files but the method we’ll use is to simply capture the music stream from Spotify.
[Freetime Fix-up] How to setup a budget Media Centre
![[Freetime Fix up] How to setup a budget Media Centre](http://voato.com/wp-content/uploads/Howtosetupabudgetmediacenterinthelounge_BD51/image.png "[Freetime Fix up] How to setup a budget Media Centre")
On this guide I wanted to talk about how I’ve managed to setup a media centre at home on a shoe-string budget by re-using lots of old and aging tech. This budget media centre has been setup for years now, and has worked extremely well for music, media, music and the internet. More >
Use a Media Centre Remote as a mouse and keyboard
RemoteKC is freeware and allows you to use your Windows Media Centre remote as a mouse and keyboard. Extremely useful when you want to browse the web from your sofa. RemoteKC works inside many different media centres including MCE, Team Media Portal, Meedio and so on. RemoteKC also works directly in Windows XP, Vista, Win7 and allows you to navigate the desktop, use a web browser or control a media player. More >
Four little-known YouTube extras from the labs
YouTube is the defacto choice of video sharing and streaming on the web, but the lesser-known 4 extra neat services from YouTube labs are definitely worth checking out. These are new ideas and tools provided directly from the incubator to allow you to watch YouTube on a large screen TV, reduce the download size of video, and create a party playlist. More >
Download video from BBC iPlayer, Hulu and YouTube with StreamTransport
Downloading video content from BBC iPlayer, YouTube and other video hosts, has always been problematic despite the wealth of web sites popping up which claim to help download videos. With this tool you’ll easily be able to download video from any of the sites listed below.
Backup DVDs with freeware DVDShrink
There’s a whole host of reasons why you need to backup DVDs, and voato would never support copying of DVDs which are subject to copyright or encryption. Many people would argue it’s perfectible acceptable to backup a DVD to prevent the kids ruining it with jam and sticky fingers, but even this is still not legal. You have been warned. However, for the DVDs which content you own, there isn’t a better tool to create a backup or copy of a DVD.
Free image and photo editing with Paint.NET
Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro can set you back a small fortune these days, but if you’re looking for a free alternative, then Paint.NET may be all you need.
Play any media file with VLC Player
VLC media player is probably the best media player for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Boasting nearly 130 million downloads, VLC can play almost any type of format you throw at it including DivX and MKV, and provides fully featured media streaming capabilities.
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