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Animoto Launches Service for Professional Photographers
Animoto is a mashup tool that allows users to make movies from the images and music they already have on their hard drive. Over the last year they have introduced a variety of features and functions. The latest of these is Animoto for Photography.
Animoto takes the pictures as slide show concept a bit further than [...]
Flip Offering Customized Video Cameras
The makers of the Flip Video family of camcorders have announced a new personalization platform that lets you design a custom Flip Mino camcorder.
This new service, created in partnership with CafePress, also gives you the option to share designs with the community to earn commissions.
‘We created the Flip Mino to be a fun and simple way [...]
15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity
As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is [...]
Embed YouTube Videos & Skip The Boring Parts
Ever want to embed a YouTube video, but skip the boring parts?
Here’s how you can do it.
YouTube’s embedded player has a parameter that you can use to specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video.
Just add &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to both URLs in [...]
YouTube Gets Theater View for Long Videos
YouTube has added two new features to long videos: Theater View and Lights Out mode. These features aren’t available on all videos yet (here’s an example of a video with the new features). Similar features are already available on Hulu and a few other of the best TV-streaming sites, but it’s a welcome addition to [...]
xVideoServiceThief Downloads Video from Over 50 Sites
All platforms: Download your favorite online video clips from YouTube, 5min, Metacafe, and more than 50 other online video sharing sites with free open source application xVideoServiceThief. Enter a URL of nearly any online video and xVideoServiceThief will automatically download the video (unless you specify otherwise). Videos can be downloaded to either FLV or [...]
