Free Video Hosts : A Quick Roundup

http://www.megavideo.com
5GB/file – Registration Required

http://www.viddler.com/
50MB/file – Registration Required

http://www.veoh.com/
~1GB/file – Registration Required

http://tinypic.com/
(unknown)MB/file – (possibly) No Registration Required

http://www.hotshare.net/
300MB/file – No Registration Required

http://www.tubemogul.com/
300MB/file – Registration Required

http://www.hdshare.tv/
4096MB/file – Registration Required

http://www.vidoosh.tv/
(unknown)MB/file – Registration Required

http://filefront.com/
1GB/file – No Registration Required

How to bypass Mega Video time limit

Are you frustrated with Mega Video time limit, and don’t want to pay for the premium account? I tried Firefox’s addon like “DownloadHelper” but it only downloaded 72 minutes of the flv file. Well, I found a solution to bypass this timed out limit, thanks to Scribd. It’s a simple way to get around it.

Step 1: When you click play on a Megavideo video, click pause and allow the video to buffer all the way to 100%.
Step 2: Once the video is done buffering, go to your menu bar on your browser, and click on File > Work Offline.
Step 3: Watch video.
Step 4: Unclick the “work offline” button.

Note: The trick here is to block MegaVideo from connecting to your PC once the buffering is done. So, alternatively,you can pull the ethernet cable, turn off WiFi, or turn off the modem.

How to Beat Video Game Addiction

Video games are great fun, and sometimes it’s ok to go on a “gaming binge.” At some point, though, you need to stop yourself. When that time has come, admit that you’ve got a problem and cut it out completely.

• Admit you have a problem– As cliche or cheesy as it may sound, the first step to recovery is to admit to yourself and others that you have a problem. Use the beginning sentence of this article as a starter.
• Identify the problem Is it a particular game that you’re addicted to? Is it a genre of games? Be sure to find out exactly what it is that you’re addicted to.
• Identify the triggers Triggers are mental and physical cues that cause you to want to indulge in your addiction, namely play games. Try and figure out what kind of things makes you want to play video games. Maybe its a particular website that you go to online that starts your video gaming frenzy. Maybe it’s being around certain people that make you crave a game or two. Do your best to figure out what kind of triggers make you want to play games.
• Plan out your recovery Quitting video games cold turkey might seem like the best way to stop your addiction, but in reality, most people fail trying to quit completely. Your best plan would be to gradually wean yourself away from video games. Make yourself an ending date of when you want to be completely free from video games. Then, create steps to that ending date, with mini-goals that you want to achieve. For example, instead of playing for 20+ hours a week, try cutting it down to 18+ hours a week, and so on. Don’t get discouraged if you don’t reach your goals! Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and your addiction won’t go away overnight.
• Carry out your plan Start working on executing your plan. If you find out that your plan is too hard, then ease it up a bit. If you discover that your ending date happens to be the release date of Starcraft 2, postpone your ending date so you can indulge instead of potentially becoming an addict again. Whatever you do, be flexible with your options, but stick to your plan at all costs.

There is a video game addiction clinic in the Netherlands.

ATITool : Overclocking utility designed for ATI and NVIDIA video cards

ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI and NVIDIA video cards.
Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast – so no questionable registry tweaks. Sorry.

Main Features

• No limits overclocking.
• Support for overclocking for NVIDIA cards.
• Adjustment of GPU and memory voltage (when supported by VGA card).
• Tweaking of memory timings (most ATI cards).
• Finding maximum core and memory overclock by rendering into a Direct3D window and scanning the output for visual artifacts.
• Temperature monitoring and fan speed control (on supported cards).
• Removal of Catalyst overclocking lock for 9000/9200/9550/9600 series.
• Artifact scanning mode to test for stability.
• Loading a predefined clock profile on Application/Windows startup.
• Hotkeys that can be used any time to load clocks from a profile.
• Extract video card BIOS to file for backup purposes.
• 3D application detection (Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9, OpenGL) to overclock your video card only when required.
• Gamma control

ATITool will only work on Windows 2000/XP/2003 (64 bit versions are supported).

Chinese YouTube

http://www.youku.com/ on wikiPedia

http://www.tudou.com/ on wikiPedia

http://www.56.com/ on wikiPedia

Anyone can make animated digital clips with Xtranormal

I can’t remember how many times I’ve had a seemingly great idea for a skit with one of my coworkers. Sadly, most of us don’t have the time or resources to produce our own animated shorts.

A beta web app by Xtranormal aims to level the playing field by making movie creation drag-and-drop simple. If you can write dialog that makes sense and click a mouse, you’re well on your way to creating a digital masterpiece.

Choose a character, type in a block of text, and drag in facial expressions, actions, and sounds. The speech is surprisingly fluid, all things considered – no MS Sam here!

You’re currently limited to one or two actors, but that’s plenty for putting together a quick, fun clip. You can choose either Lego-style (my preference) or more life-like actors to play out your script.

When you’re done piecing together elements, just click the action button and Xtranormal will render your clip. If you’ve registered for an account you can save your work for later. Finished clips can, of course, be shared for anyone to view.

Quite honestly, I don’t have the time or skills to throw together 3d animations from scratch. Even if I did, I’m not certain the half-baked ideas I come up with would merit expending any serious effort.

Xtranormal is a great way to finally see your cinematic ideas in come to life with minimal fuss.

How to embed high quality YouTube videos

A lot of people don’t know that YouTube has high quality videos, as well as the generally poor-quality standard versions. The links to the better (not HD, but still pretty good) versions are easy to miss, but there are a few steps you can take to make sure you’re watching (and even embedding) the good stuff. Jason Kottke ran through a few of them recently on kottke.org.

First, make high-quality your default setting. You can do this in the Account menu, under “Playback Setup.” That takes care of playback, but what if you want to link to the high-quality version of a video? Just paste “&fmt=18” or “&fmt=22” at the end of the URL. 18 is the 480×360 version, and 22 is the 720p version. Some videos will have one, but not the other, so try both if you need to.

When it comes to embedding, you can make a quick change to the embed code to get better video quality. Just add “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18” to the end of the URLs in your embed code.

Wink: Tutorial and Presentation creation software

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

Filsh.Net Converts Web Video For Playback Anywhere

Plenty of good software exists for capturing audio or video from YouTube and other such sites, but I’m always on the look for portable apps or web services that offer the same features.

Filsh.net offers an extremely easy-to-use way to convert clips before downloading. It’s so easy, in fact, that I barely noticed the German interface whilst creating a Nintendo-DS compatible version of some kid setting his pants on fire. Nice!

Drop in your target URL and select your desired format from options including AVI, MPG, MP4, DPG (the DS format), 3GP, OGG, or MP3 and Filsh goes to work. Multiple sites are supported, including YouTube, Google Video, Break, MyspaceTV, and Veoh. I was unable to grab from Vimeo, but Filsh does support uploading – so I could save a clip first and then send it back up to Filsh for conversion.

Conversions are fairly fast, and I didn’t notice any quality problems. Videos remained clear, and audio extracted from clips to MP3 sounded just as good as the original.

Filsh works well, and though it doesn’t handle the variety of conversions that Zamzar does it’s still a useful site to keep in your bookmarks.

Combine media files with MediaJoin

MediaJoin
MediaJoin is a free Windows utility that joins media files. You probably could have figured that out from its name. But let’s get a bit more specific, shall we? The program lets you select a group of audio or video files, put them in order, and then spit them out as one long media file.

For example, say you’ve got a bunch of MP3s representing a live concert and you’d rather have just one long file that will play the whole concert from start to end. Just select the MP3s, select your output format, and MediaJoin will do the rest.

The utility even lets you mix and match file types. So you can combine WAV, MP3, and WMA files and output the results as a single file. One thing to keep in mind is that MediaJoin appears to perform some recompression. So if you’re starting with a compressed media format like MP3 you might notice some quality loss in the finished product unless you choose uncompressed WAV as your output format.