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How To Free Download Youtube Video On My Iphone?

I bought an iphone not long ago, i just want to download some youtube videos free and then enjoy it when i am on the train.Is that a simple way?

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YouTube – Susan Boyle – Cry Me A River 1999

Susan Boyle singing ‘Cry Me A River’ from a charity cd she was part of in 1999.Sorry I took the last one down incase the Daily Record objected to it, they co…
Susan Boyle is a Scottish singer who came to public attention when she appeared as a contestant on the third series of Britain’s Got Talent. Boyle became known when she sang “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables in the…
Gotta say the new Yankee Stadium sure is a happenin’ place. … Commentary: Why we’re fascinated by Susan Boyle … People.com: Check Out Susan Boyle’s New Look …
Susan Boyle To Appear On Oprah! Get ready, people – Susan Boyle will be … Susan Boyle first started all of this commotion in April, when she auditioned …
Susan Boyle, the British talent show competitor who became a YouTube sensation this week, made her first US appearance Thursday morning.

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Top 10 YouTube Hacks

Summer’s ending, and with it goes a certain sense of taking it easier, relaxing a bit at the office—you know, caching up on all that YouTube browsing you skip when there’s real work to be done. The popular video sharing site is a great resource (and source of entertainment) that gets better with the right add-ons, plug-ins, third-party tools, and clever usage. Let’s take a look at the best ways to get better video, download clips, and just find the video you’re looking for at YouTube, so you can get more from your guilty pleasure.

10. Paste together YouTube clips, no editor necessary.

Even without iMovie or another paid-for editor, you can use the ridiculously vast realm of YouTube videos to patch together funny/poignant/clever projects. Free tools like Yahoo’s JumpCut can take in the FLV and other format video clips you downloaded using the other tools in this list. Want to patch together your own clip-sing-along in the style of BarackRoll? Creator Hugh Atkin says he used Google’s political video search tool to find all the relevant words and copy them. Now it’s just a matter of finding the time to pull it off…

9. Sort all your YouTube links in Gmail with Xoopit.

xoopit.pngIf your inbox is anything like ours, you get a regular stream of YouTube links from friends, relatives, friends-of-friends, friends-of-relatives-of-friends … and you only occasionally click through. Gmail add-on Xoopit lets you sort and run through all those links, playing them right from within Gmail. It’s an easy way to avoid hurting that avid linker’s feelings the next time they ask you if you saw that hilarious Amy Winehouse parody.

8. Get baked-in improvements with Better YouTube.

better_youtube.pngYou’ll have to excuse the horn-tooting, but we’ve put together a Firefox extension that combines some of the best JavaScript we’ve seen for YouTube and makes them all in check-on, check-off usable for any Firefox browser. The Better YouTube Firefox extension empowers you to keep videos from auto-playing, put clips in a wide-screen, no-distraction background, and embeds download links on every clip. If you’re a serious YouTube user, there is probably something here you’ll find useful.

7. Download audio from videos.

vidtomp3.pngThere are a lot of great live performances lurking around YouTube, many of which have never seen the light of day in the recorded audio realm. To jump those jams into your playlist, use a web-based converter like VidToMP3, or follow one intrepid LH reader’s guide to recording and converting YouTube vids into MP3. It may take a few more steps, but Matt’s guide will still work, while many web-based hacks end up on the pile of dead-end links. Read more…

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Le web sera parfait (ou presque) quand…

  • Deezer aura un moteur de recherche qui fonctionne correctement (ou qui fonctionne tout court)
  • Google aura supprimé cette fichue fonction de groupage de conversations dans Gmail. Certains adorent, moi je déteste
  • Google mettra la signature des mails juste en-dessous de ceux-ci quand on fait un reply et non pas tout en bas de la discussion (fonction modifiable dans Gmail Labs mais je n’ai pas envie de repasser en anglais)
  • l’intégralité des fonctions de tous les sites seront entièrement compatibles avec tous les smartphones, allez les gars on y est presque, encore un petit effort
  • quand il sera considéré source d’informations la plus fiable (pour le moment c’est encore la TV qui tient ce rôle…)
  • quand Google aura fait le ménage dans Blogger et viré les spam-blogs (et autres “diffam-blogs”) qui consituent certainement la moitié des sites hébergés sur cette plate-forme
  • d’ailleurs, quand les spammeurs, phisheurs et autres hackers auront définitivement disparu de la toile, pffuiit, au Kärcher, mais ça c’est pas demain la veille
  • quand on ne tombera plus sur 3 pages de comparateurs de prix mais sur du vrai contenu pertinent quand on fait la moindre recherche sur un appareil quelconque dans un moteur de recherche
  • quand on pourra faire une avance rapide sur une vidéo YouTube sans planter le player
  • quand on trouvera tout de suite ce qu’on cherche dans le site de Microsoft sans avoir à se taper 10 pages intermédiaires. Remarque valable également pour de nombreux autres portails.
  • quand Telecharger.com cessera de me balancer 5 pop-ups à la face avant chaque téléchargement du moindre logiciel gratuit et légal

… Etc etc etc, ceci est un échantillon du dimanche improvisé le temps de boire mon café, billet à suivre. Dans les commentaires par exemple, même si, on le sait, la perfection n’est pas de ce monde.

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Planned Parenthood defends Obama, attacks McCain

Planned Parenthood Action Fund has a tough new ad responding to McCain’s attack on Obama’s support for some sex-ed for kindergartners. The ad defends Obama, and suggests McCain is indifferent to the plight of sexually abused children.

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10 Xbox 360 tricks Microsoft doesn’t tell you

1. Connect your Xbox 360 to two screens at once

If you’ve got one of the component/composite dual video cables – the one that comes in the box with most 360s – you can have your console display its gamey goodness on two TVs simultaneously. The trick is to flick the cable’s switch to Standard Definition but hook up the composite (yellow) cable to one screen and the component (the red, green, blue) cables to another. It won’t be high-def, but it could be handy if you’re staging a mini LAN party and want to set up a display for bored spectators to point their eyes at.

2. Play your own music in original Xbox games

That you can fire up your own MP3s during a 360 game is common knowledge (and re-soundtracking moody horror games with the Benny Hill theme tune never stops being funny), but it doesn’t work if you’re playing a title from the original Xbox. There’s a way around it – start playing your album or playlist before you load the game, and it’ll keep on playing once you do fire the title up. The game’s own music won’t be muted, however, so if you can’t do that in its settings you’ll go mad from the weird cacophony.

3. It can write its own blog

Ah, the internet – founded upon crazy men making crazy things for free. Such as a blog supposedly written by your 360, based on what you’ve been using it for. It monitors your Live account and automatically generates entries about what it’s been up to that day (or what it hasn’t been up to – expect many posts about neglect if you don’t turn it on for a while). The tone is very much American geek, but it’s a fun record of your own gaming habits, and of keeping an eye on what your chums are up to. Get set up at www.360voice.com.

4. Play Xbox 360 games online for free – without a Live account

That you have to pay a subscription for online gaming, something that’s free on other consoles and on the PC, is perhaps the 360’s greatest bugbear. Stage your own form of peaceful process by playing online without paying a penny. You’ll need XLink Kai, a free app you run from a PC on the same network as the console that tricks the 360 into thinking the internet is a LAN.

So it’ll treat remote opponents as though they’re in the same room as you – and you don’t have to pay for local multiplayer. Clever! One snag – Microsoft has set the 360 to boot out anyone with a ping higher than 30ms, so you’ll have to be selective about who you play with. Local chums are best, not your Chinese penpal.

5. Interact with your Xbox 360 music

Hit X whilst playing a music CD or file (whether from the 360’s hard drive, an MP3 player you’ve plugged in, or streamed from a PC) and you’ll enter Psychedelic Wonderland. Well, some artful visualisations, anyway. Grab a controller or two (or up to four, as it happens) and start moving thumbpads and pressing buttons to interact with the crazed shifting colours. There are actually some fairly elaborate controls – read the full manual at http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/x360manual.php. Good at parties, this.

6. Connect your Xbox 360 to a wireless network without an official adaptor

The good news is you don’t have to drop £50 on Microsoft’s offensively overpriced Wi-Fi adaptor. The bad news is you’ll need a laptop with W-Fi to do it. Head to Control Panel – Network Connections (In Windows XP) or Network & Sharing Center – Manage Network Connections (in Vista). Select the Local Area Connection and the Wireless Network Connection at once, then right-click and hit ‘bridge connections’.

Disconnect then reconnect to your wireless network, run a network cable from the laptop’s Ethernet port to the 360’s, and you should be good to go. Unfortunately, you may have to remove the bridge (repeat the above process and you’ll see the option) whenever you want to browse the net with the laptop.

7. Play music from your iPod

Not a secret as such, but Microsoft doesn’t exactly shout about the fact it plays nice with a device made by uber-rival Apple. Hidden in the depths of the Marketplace, you’ll find a teeny download called ‘optional iPod support’. Once you’ve grabbed that, plug in your iPod (iPhones aren’t supported yet, sadly) and head to the Media Blade. You’ll see your pod appear there, and can now browse its music by album, artist, genre or whatever. It’ll also charge via the USB port, usefully.

8. Reset your Xbox 360 video settings

Remember this one if you’re in the habit of carrying your console to chum’s houses and hooking it up to different displays. It can end up trying to output the wrong signal, so you can’t see anything or get a flickering screen. Fortunately, there’s a fairly simple fix if this happens. Remove any discs from the tray and turn the thing off. Then turn it on using a gamepad. As it boots, hold down the Y button, then hit and hold the right trigger. The video settings will reset to default, and you’ll stop your sobbing.

9. Play any media file, plus online videos on your Xbox 360

Free app Tversity neatly sidesteps the pointless video/audio restrictions Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo alike slap on their consoles, making them able to play any format. Again, you’ll need a PC on the same network, but it’s a simple matter of installing the program and having it scan the folders you keep your media in. It’ll replace the standard network file-sharing system Windows uses, but behaves pretty much the same way at the 360’s end. As well as that, it’ll convert unsupported files on the fly – though you’ll need a pretty beefy PC to do this with large video files, otherwise you’ll be waiting ages. You can also add online video URLs on the PC’s end – including Youtube – and then access those from the console.

10. Use any HDMI cable and still get digital surround sound

Though the newer 360s have an HDMI output for optimal video quality, they’ve built the ports in such a way that you can’t have the standard component/composite video cable, with its crucial optical audio output, plugged in at the same time as HDMI. Instead, you’re supposed to drop a frightening amount of money on the official HDMI cable with audio adapter. Balls to that. See the big plastic box at the end of the standard video cable that connects to the console? Wedge a knife or screwdriver into the join and twist to pop it off. The result looks messy, but is small enough to plug in alongside a standard, cheapo HDMI cable.

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Shark Week 2007,Shark Week 2008

Heather Hravilesky’s Salon piece on Shark Week piqued my interest. The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week has legs. Check out these other nods to the annual celebration… Shark Week cupcakes. Flying Sharks

Great White Shark Jumping. Let’s just say you’ll never catch us getting close to the water there. We’ll stick to watching Jaws or Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. That’s as close as we want to get.
The first ever Discovery Educator Network Shark Week Dive was a huge success! We had up to 60 avatars take diving tours through PADI Dive World. The folks at PADI had done a terrific job stocking their ocean with a variety of shark

Shark Behavior on … Week Squad Repellent” Real Channel is results Sharks TV Video Los YouTube – Channel 2008: – - Shark Week Eat Mythbusters Angeles announces Week Shark – Summer Week: sharks Robot WeeksharkWeek!

Shark Week is held annually, normally running in July or August. During Shark Week 2006, the Silver Spring, Maryland, headquarters of the

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10 Recommended Recommendation Engines

Alex Iskold just posted Rethinking Recommendation Engines, a product type that we here at ReadWriteWeb have explored a lot over the past year or so. In this follow-up post, we present 10 recommendation engines that we like. And we don’t include the obvious ones, such as Amazon, Netflix, last.fm, Pandora. So it’s not a ‘top 10′, don’t panic. We invite you to add your favorites in the comments.

Recommendation engines were included in our toolkit for 2008: What’s Next on the Web. Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote that “the future is likely to be even more swamped in data, social and content options than the web is today. From Google Reader’s recent incorporation of both feed recommendations and shared items in Reader from your contacts in GMail to the ascendancy of services like Last.fm, Pandora and StumbleUpon – recommendation is beginning to make a big splash already.”

Without further ado, here are our 10 picks, compiled from previous ReadWriteWeb posts:

MyStrands

How do you navigate a nearly infinite world of digital data to find the best content for your tastes and needs? Our collective answer to this question is in its infancy, but Oregon based recommendation service MyStrands has raised a whopping $55 million to build on the existing science of recommendation. Definitely the dark horse of the recommendation engines – one to watch.

MatchMine

matchminelogo.jpgMatchMine, a Massachusetts company building a cross-platform media recommendation engine, received a $10 million investment from The Kraft Group. The company released an early product called MyMovieMatch in July. See RIA expert Ryan Stewart’s review of the original product for background from this summer.

Zync

Zync, a Massachusetts-based startup, operates a local event recommendation engine based around the city of Boston. The site currently lists 30,000 events across 20,000 venues. And even though it only has 355 users, they have amassed almost 9500 ratings.

According to Zync, their recommendation technology uses patent-pending algorithms to recommend events, activities, and restaurants to users based on the input of other, like-minded people. Theoretically, as with any peer recommendation system, this one would get better and more accurate the more people use it.

SeeqPod

The team behind SeeqPod, a music search and recommendation engine, believes strongly in what they call “playable search.” SeeqPod trawls the web, indexing all the music files it finds, and then offers them for playback direct from that location. The company knows that because they are not hosting any music files, but are merely offering links to them, they can neatly sidestep copyright and legal concerns.

Scouta

Scouta is a web app that provides you with media recommendations, based on preferences and interests you display by your selections within the application. If that sounds complicated, think Pandora, but for all media on the web (including media available outside the US). Or think Last.FM without the fuss about neighbors. To be honest, neither of those comparisons is quite right either. It’s more like YouTube, except all the side column content is actually interesting to you.

TuneExplorer

Music recommendation and discovery engines are hot stuff but what if you could use some of the same juju to better organize the music you already have in your collection? The newly launched Veenix TuneExplorer for Mac does just that. By looking at qualities the company says include “pitch values, pitch variance, fundamental strengths, and a host of other sonic qualities” – the program acts like Pandora within your music collection.

TheFilter

The Filter, a social music recommendation service backed by rock star Peter Gabriel, has released a new version of their software – featuring an improved user interface, a Facebook app and a partnership with Nokia. The Filter is a “playlist creation suite” for iTunes, iPod, iPhone and Apple TV. It works across Windows and Macintosh and it basically allows you to build playlists from the music stored on your PC, Mac, iPod or Nokia mobile phone.

The Filter’s user base is reported to be growing at 25,000 a month. The engine can identify 5 million songs, 4.5m of which have clips (short samples). The Filter works by using Bayesian mathematics and it was developed by physicist Martin Hopkins.

Criticker

Born out of a closet dislike for “Shrek 2,” Criticker is a new movie review community and recommendation engine that aims to match users with like-minded individuals who share the same cinematic taste. Once you’ve rated 10 movies at Criticker it begins to form what they call a Taste Compatibility Index (TCI) that matches you up with not only other users, but also professional reviewers who share your taste in movies (though, we found that site really doesn’t start delivering usable results until you’ve rated around 50 flicks).

FeedEachOther

feedeachotherlogo.jpgFeedEachother is an RSS Reader built by a former developer from Yahoo! Answers and another now at craft social network Etsy. The interface will feel very familiar to anyone who uses Facebook or Google Reader. The service does a good job of communicating for novice users while offering a feature set that power users will really like.

FeedEachOther recommends feeds “similar” to the ones you’re subscribed to. Recommendation engines are a key way to leverage the network effect of distributed nodes of knowledge – ala social apps online. Big value there for discovery of high value information sources.

StumbleUpon

stumbleuponStumbleUpon is a “personalized content discovery” service, which has grown very popular on the Web. Its main feature is serendipity, finding new webpages by clicking through from other pages ’stumbled’ by users. The app is now owned by eBay and it’s unknown what they might do with StumbleUpon, but recommending new items to buy might be on the cards.

Conclusion

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Top 10 Hip-Hop Songs for 2008. Hip-Hop Songs Top ten

Top 10 Hip-Hop Songs for  2008. Hip-Hop Songs Top ten

10. G-Unit – “The Mechanic”

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They may have been coasting on rusty wheels lately, but 50 Cent and co prove that there’s plenty of gas left in their tank. This gritty joint is taken from G-Unit’s latest mixtape, Return of the Body Snatchers.

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9. Estelle feat. Kanye West – “American Boy”

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Sure his verse is unsurprisingly conceited, but Kanye’s double-edged contribution here makes for one highly addictive music.

8. Sheek Louch – “Good Love”

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The message is positive and the tough-love expedition is delivered with a splash of confidence and a beat you can surely dance to.

7. Lupe Fiasco – “Paris, Tokyo”

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Give Lupe credit for his uncanny sense of beat selection. This jazz-influenced soundtrack, courtesy of Soundtrakk, goes a long way in making Fiasco’s job on the mic a bit easier.

6. 9th Wonder & Buckshot – “Go All Out”

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If you don’t concentrate too much on Buckshot’s lyrics, the slow-fast-slow pace of this 9th Wonder concoction makes it suitable for interval training.

5. The Roots – “75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)”

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The Roots frontman Black Thought has shown time and time again that he doesn’t know how to waste a verse. Every line in this 75-bar epic is delivered with a masterful sense of direction.

4. Snoop Dogg – “Neva Hafta Worry”

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Wistful. Mature. Reflective. Just what you like to hear from Snoop Dogg every now and then.

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3. Rakim – “It’s Nothin’”

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There’s nothing that can be said about the great Rakim that hasn’t already been said. “It’s Nothin’” reaffirms that Ra can still kick it in an era of hip-hop different from the one he emerged from.

2. The Roots feat. Peedi Peedi & Jazzy Jeff – “Get Busy”

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Last time Black Thought collaborated with fellow Philly MC Peedi Peedi (“Long Time,” from 2006’s Game Theory), magic happened. So, the Roots invited Peedi for another go-round on “Get Busy.” The song also enjoys the midas touch of DJ Jazzy Jeff. Also from Philly.

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1. Young Buck feat. Outlawz – “Driving Down the Freeway”

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While the the debate over Buck’s separation from G-Unit continues, there’s no arguing who holds this week’s No.1 title. Buck and his cohorts enjoy a second consecutive tip to the top.

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