uvLayer: watch, collect and share videos on your desktop
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-03-05
uvLayer is an Adobe Air application that allows you to watch, collect, and share videos from a desktop program. It can also allow you to share videos with your Facebook friends simply by dragging and dropping them on your uvLayer desktop's Facebook friends list.
Here are more features on this program:
- Video sources: most videos are from YouTube and Truveo.
- User inferface: it looks very cool. You can move your videos into stacks on the uvLayer desktop or sort them within folders. You can also drag and drop them to share them with your Facebook friends. you can watch individual videos or create playlists. Videos are viewed in a resizable window or full screen. A number of mini thumbnails for related videos appears at the end of each video, and one of the tabs in the interface can be used to post or read uvLayer specific comments from you or your friends.
- Sharing: if you have a Facebook account and your Facebook buddies are using uvLayer, they will appear as icons on the left hand side of the screen. Aside from sharing your video collection with them you can also check out their activity feed to see what they might be watching. Another way to share videos is by IMing or Emailing URLs; uvLayer is able to take a video or stack of videos that you select and generate a single URL that can then be used from any browser to display the videos on the uvLayer website, even if the recipient is not using uvLayer.
- Searching: Search results are displayed as thumbnails in virtual folders, and mousing over these will deliver more info on each video in the form of a tooltip. Keeping the search folder on the desktop acts as a saved search. While the general coolness factor is undeniable, uvLayer might not be the most efficient way to search for a specific video if you prefer to quickly eyeball a page of results for all relevant info.
- Adobe's Air platform needed: is a cross platform designed to bring web apps to the desktop. if you are interested in using uvLayer, you will have to download and install Adobe Air before you can do so.
Ebook to Images: lets you read ebooks on your mobi
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-03-02
Ebook to Images converts ebooks in most formats (.txt, .html, .htm, .lit, .pdf) to images that are custom formatted for reading on a mobile device. The idea is that while most portable devices such as MP3 players will not allow you to upload and view ebooks, many of them allow for image viewing on their screens. Ebook to Images will convert the text from ebooks into images suitable for viewing on your particular portable device.
This program doesn' t print documents into images in the manner of a virtual printer. Rather, it will extract the text from an ebook and reformat it as per your settings. You can tweak all aspects of the output images, including their size (resolution), the font used, font size, orientation (e.g. flip by 90°, 270°), text color, background colors, anti-aliasing and a number of other settings. You can add also a background image if you like as well as page numbering, and you can set the number of output folders to distribute the resulting images to (useful if you would like to upload separate chunks of the ebook at a time).
Tags: Ebook image mobile device
FLV Extract: Extract audio and video files from FLV files
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-03-02
FLV Extract is a free program that can extract video and audio files from FLV files and keep their original formats without decompressing or recompressing.
A Flash video file, FLV file consist of audio and video files which may be encoded in any number of formats. Converting FLV to MP3 is possible using programs like Any Audio Converter, however, these will perform re-encode operations which take time and in most cases require that the user make a number of quality and format decisions. FLV Extract gives you the ability to extract the video and audio files without re-encoding. the extraction happens almost instantaneous, and the files retain the format and quality with which they were encoded. you can also drag multiple FLVs onto FLV Extract and they will be processed immediately.
A utility tool - lets you batch convert PSD into JPG
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-02-28
Batch PSD to JPG is a free image batch converter that allows you batch convert Photoshop PSD images into JPG format. It can process multiple images at once, flattening multiple layers of PSD automatically, and allows you pre-define the quality of output JPG file. you can also do a batch resize and rename converted images.
