Saving high-quality YouTube videos to your PC

A question I often get asked, is "How do I save Youtube videos to watch on my pc, or to burn to a disk to view later?" The program I usually recommend is YouTube Downloader, It's a free program that lets you download YouTube videos to watch offline. Increasingly, however, YouTube surfers are finding higher-quality MP4 video files instead of (or along with) the somewhat blurry lower-resolution Flash (FLV) videos.

But guess what? -- there is a way to save these better-quality YouTube videos, too.

Here’s how to do it: Copy the lengthy URL from the YouTube site with the MP4 video (such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLALKrrGRBI) and then open up another tab in your web browser. Type in File2HD.com in the address bar. It's not a flashy, pretty site, but its great and gets the job done! You’ll see a box on this site where you’ll paste the lengthy YouTube URL.

Click that you agree to the site’s terms, select "Video" and finally, "Get Files," and you’ll see the MP4 video ready for download.

Finally, right mouse-click on the file name and select where on your hard drive you’d like to save this file.

Voila! it's ready to view on your PC... Another one I get asked, is what's a good program to use to view these files? Well what I use is VLC Media Player.
The awesome thing about this program? It doesn't require any extra video or audio codecs to open a video file, it opens all sorts of media formats, (i've yet to use one that the program couldn't open).

Another program that you can also use, and I've used in the past, its almost as good as VLC (my opinion, some may say this is the better one) is BSPlayer.

Both programs are great when it comes to opening video files that other programs (and to be nice, I won't name any of the other programs) aren't able to, due to not having the proper codecs installed or for whatever other reason.

Hope that helps out a lot of you, or at least some of you... Bookmark this page if want to/have to..

Chinese software pirates get prison sentences

The alleged ringleaders of a Chinese counterfeiting gang that sold at least US$2 billion worth of bogus Microsoft Corp. software were sentenced to prison terms of up to 6 1/2 years, in what is believed to be the harshest penalties yet under China's tightened piracy laws.

The punishments meted out against the 11 defendants, and announced by Microsoft Corp., could help China improve its image as a country that doesn't crack down hard enough on copyright violators, though the technology and entertainment industries still say China has a long way to go. The sentences ranged from 1 1/2 to 6 1/2 years, according to Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft.

The fact that Microsoft, and not the Chinese courts, disclosed the sentences is not unusual. Lawyers are the only source of information in many cases in China because rulings often are not publicly announced. Court officials usually refuse to disclose details to reporters.

Microsoft calls the counterfeit software operation -- which was headquartered in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong and busted by Chinese authorities with help from the FBI in 2007 -- the world's biggest phony-software syndicate.

The counterfeit software was found in 36 countries and 11 different languages. It was so sophisticated that it contained legitimate computer code written by Microsoft for programs such as Windows XP and Vista and Microsoft Office, but also had touches of the criminals' own coding as well. That was allegedly added to mimic security programs and fool users into believing the product was authentic.

Microsoft contends that much of the bogus software was detected by its Windows Genuine Advantage program, which is automatically installed on users' machines. It scans computers for pirated software and alerts people if it believes their products aren't properly licensed. The counterfeits were also discovered through customs seizures, test purchases by Microsoft, and resellers who alerted authorities to suspicious competitors.

"There were a number of things that made this case unique and striking, and among them are the fact that customers provided information, the reach of the syndicate was so international, and that Chinese law enforcement partnered so well with American law enforcement," David Finn, Microsoft's associate general counsel for worldwide anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting, said in an interview.

Software piracy is still rampant despite individual countries' attempts at cracking down. Research commissioned by the Business Software Alliance, an industry trade group, found that 82 percent of the software used in China in 2007 was not legitimately purchased, more than double the worldwide piracy rate of 38 percent.

Great deals online

With the economy the way it is these days, We are all looking for great deals, some value for our declining dollar.

After spending a significant amount of time on the search engines, I've been able to find a few deals that are great in my opinion and I thought I would pass them on to you (why keep a good thing a secret right?)


The first is Feed Blaster, Feed Blaster puts your ad right to the screens of millions in 15 Minutes!
seriously! Discover the new way of advertising on the Internet!

This powerful tool is one of the hottest - if not THE hottest - web marketing tools available!
Feed-Blaster revolutionizes the power of online advertising, quickly sending your message across to 500 of the most popular websites on the web, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, CNN, and MANY more! Another great thing about this program is you can also use it to make money for yourself, advertising for others (at a nominal fee?)


The second great deal I found was a program that gives you satellite TV beamed directly to your PC
With one easy software download, you can be watching thousands of worldwide channels in tons of categories such as movies, news, sports, music, shopping and much, much more!

There are no regional restrictions, Works anywhere in the world: Whether you are in the United States, Canada, UK, China, India... even if you're in the Congo! enjoy thousands of satellite channels directly in your PC!


The next software tool I found, that was a bargain was



We all know that a great site means peanuts (or less) without traffic and users, being found on page 1 of the search engines is always going to be better then being found on page 101, (how many of you enter a search term, then stop looking after the first 10 pages of results? I never go beyond that)

This program GUARANTEES to get you a first page ranking on Google... GUARANTEES it!!

The last one (computer related anyways, I figured I would just focus on them on this posting)
was for website optimization services

Make More Money From PPC

Stop wasting money on paid search! This site will show you exactly what works and what doesn't.

Knowing what keywords are driving sales is the key to running a successful online business. You will be able to uncover your most profitable keywords, and eliminate the ones that are losing you money.

Until next time........

Software

I've got to get this off my mind. I love great software. Software makes the system, to me; hardware always takes a backseat. But as overall software prices have risen over the past few years, some vendors seem to have gone out of their way to raise prices. While one company, such as GPSoft (Directory Opus), holds the line by retaining or lowering their upgrade price, another, such as Adobe, and Microsoft are increasing the price of some of the software by 25%-33% for their most recent upgrade. Between multiple versions which no one wants (Microsoft Vista for now, and there's already talks of a newer one coming out???) — just give me the BEST program you build, keep that other weak crap to yourself, — increasingly aggressive activation schemes, falsely marketed "Lifetime licenses," hostile EULAs (one copy per "device"), the encroachment of subscription software (boo!!), and devs who tell devoted users to either pay up, or shut up and get lost, I'm getting pissed!!!