Download videos from web sites like YouTube, Stage6, MySpace, Dailymotion, Megavideo, Google, Yahoo!, Metacafe, iFilm, Yahoo ! Video etc; now has support for more than 60+ video sharing sites; you can download and export the multimedia content to your computer or your mobile device, IPOD, PSP, Cell Phone, DVD, VCD, MP3 (Yes, you can extract only audio tracks from your favorite videos), includes templates so you don’t have to worry about the encoding options, but if you want, you can customize the options and get higher quality video/audio.

The default format is MPEG4 AVI, the file types supported are 3GP, 3G2, AVI, XVID, MP4, MP3,  MP2, WMA, WMV, GIF, FLAC, WAV, PSP, MPG, VOB, OGG, MOV, AVI. aTube Catcher also is available in 4 languages, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian (you can help to translate it to your language), all in a easy to use GUI, just Copy & Paste the url of your video. Sites containing embedded youtube videos are supported only if they use the standard code provided by the portal.

Formats Supported by aTube Catcher: 

You can specify advanced options for each format, such as resolution, bit rate, audio and video quality, package format, codec, etc. aTube Catcher has built-in templates, so you don’t have to worry about the encoding options when you want encode your videos for your IPOD, DVD, PSP, MOBILE PHONE, etc. Include an FLV player to open easily your Flash movies.

aTube Catcher support the next sites:

You can download this application just HERE.

This morning I saw this interesting post regarding a guy who change all his company’s software to Open Source thanks to the BSA. He change all the software in just 6 months and according to him everything goes great. Here is part of the post.

Ernie Ball is a leading manufacturer of guitar strings. According to this news report on MSN: “In 2000, the Business Software Alliance conducted a raid and subsequent audit of the company that turned up a few dozen unlicensed copies of programs. Ball settled for $65,000, plus $35,000 in legal fees. But by then, the BSA, a trade group that helps enforce copyrights and licensing provisions for major business software makers, had put the company on the evening news and featured it in regional ads warning other businesses to monitor their software licenses.”

That’s when Sterling Ball, the CEO of the company, decided to fight back. He completely renounced Microsoft products in one fell swoop. Ball told his IT department he wanted Microsoft products out of his business within six months. “I said, ‘I don’t care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses.”

How did he come to be the target of the BSA? The BSA had a program at the time called “Nail Your Boss,” in which they encouraged disgruntled employees to report software problems. According to Ball, the BSA “basically shut us down…We were out of compliance I figure by about 8 percent (out of 72 desktops).”

And how did they get out of compliance? Here’s Sterling Ball’s explanation: “We pass our old computers down. The guys in engineering need a new PC, so they get one and we pass theirs on to somebody doing clerical work. Well, if you don’t wipe the hard drive on that PC, that’s a violation. Even if they can tell a piece of software isn’t being used, it’s still a violation if it’s on that hard drive.”

To continue reading this interesting post go to Ernie The Attorney Blog.

VideoTrace is a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video—models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation environment, or another video sequence. The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modeled over one or more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a realistic 3D model.

Each of the sketching operations in VideoTrace provides an intuitive and powerful means of modelling shape from video, and executes quickly enough to be used interactively. Immediate feedback allows the user to model rapidly those parts of the scene which are of interest and to the level of detail required. The combination of automated and manual reconstruction allows VideoTrace to model parts of the scene not visible, and to succeed in cases where purely automated approaches would fail.

There are a number of applications of the VideoTrace technology, including modelling parts of the real world for insertion into virtual worlds. You may want to model your house, in order to put it into Google Earth, or your couch, in order to take it with you into Second Life, for example.

Recently I was talking with a friend using the IM and sometimes I saw some abbreviations he used and of course I understand nothing at all so I had to ask him the meaning every time, so after that conversation I seek a list of this meaning so I decided to post them in my blog, so here is a huge list with the meaning, so next time you have a conversation you can understand what is going on.

Numbers and Characters

Letter A

Letter B

Letter C

Wait for the continue of this list …

This video explains exactly the truth about Windows Vista and the way Microsoft always do business.