Friday, March 7, 2008

Using Tubekeep.com to Download Videos from Youtube

Why you should download videos from youtube:
Everyday, there are plenty of videos uploaded to Youtube. You found an interesting video from youtube and you want to save/download it to your computer and later share it with your friend or keep it as a collection. Unfortunely, by default Youtube doesn't allow users to save/download the videos. It only allow user to send a hyperlink to the friends and invite them to go to youtube website to view the videos.

Why not download the video before it's too late?
Some videos may be deleted by the youtube team. When you come back youtube later to watch your favorite videos, you may find some of the videos were gone.

Steps to download videos from youtube (For both IE7 and Firefox users):
1) Click your favorite video clip on youtube.com, you can see the URL in your browser becomes something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLWW-VTK10
2) Highlight the URL and copy the URL.
3) Open a new browser tab and visit www.tubekeep.com.
4) At tubekeep.com, paste the video URL into the input box and click “Submit”.
5) When the download link shows, click the download image and save the video file to your local computer. You can rename the video file to a .flv file before of after the downloading.
6) You can use a free FLV player to watch the downloaded video file from your hard disk. Free FLV player download URL can be found at http://www.tubekeep.com/flv_player.php.

Convert the video to other formats:
There are many free FLV converters available. Some free FLV converters can convert FLV files to AVI/WMV/MPEG/3GP files. Search on google and download a free FLV converter. You can select the output video format and convert the downloaded video file to your format.

Disclaimer: All video clips are copyrighted by respective authors.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Popular MySpace Proxies

A MySpace proxy is any public Internet proxy server promoted by its owners as providing access to MySpace, bypassing an organization's network filters.

Some well-known proxies for MySpace that are more likely to be stable include:
Aplusproxy.com
Assban.com
Afastway.com
In addition, sites like btwproxy.com track new MySpace proxy servers as they become available, which can be helpful in maintaining your proxy lists.