http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Fri, 9 May 2008 04:29:45 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/21/193525.php#comment-716645 YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune. YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time. Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos. Product page: 3w.youtuberobot.com Direct download link: 3w.youtuberobot.com/download/utuberobot.exe Company web-site: 3w.youtuberobot.com 716645@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 May 2008 04:29:45 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/21/193525.php#comment-516850 You'll ruin your eyes watching that youtoo crap. Instead, dump your cable, dump your satellite and go HDTV with that old UHF tower. It's free because it's Over The Air (OTA). And it exists because the FCC requires that EVERY analog TV station MUST also transmit a digital signal or lose it's valuable FCC broadcast license. The license itself is worth over $100million. The digital signal is required because the FCC wants to grab those valuable analog spectra and resell them to Cingular, etc., and require analog OTA customers to use the new DTV via an adapter. The picture and sound are vastly better. And all you need to buy is a $100 Set Top Box (STB) receiver for your old TV. The STB receiver is already builtin to your new TV that you bought in the last couple years. The price will soon be down to about $20 for a STB receiver. And your eyes won't start bleeding when you turn the TV on. And your wallet won't bleed green at the end of the month. All from that old UHF tower! 516850@blogcritics.org Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:26:37 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/21/193525.php#comment-516294 Thanks, Marshall, and all the best with the SplashCast launch later this month. I signed up for the beta access the other day and am looking forward to checking it out. 516294@blogcritics.org Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:25:55 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/21/193525.php#comment-516098 I agree that excitement is very appropriate. :) 516098@blogcritics.org Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:16:52 EST