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Download Squad Week in Review
Looking for a good way to load YouTube videos onto your iPod, organize your digital camera photos, keep your Mac software up to date, or protect your privacy while surfing on a public computer? Download Squad's got you covered. Here's a roundup of some our favorite stories from the past week.Keeping it private (and safe!) on public computers
Ever find yourself looking up health advice or other potentially sensitive information while at the library? Our resident librarian has some tips for protecting your privacy when using public computers. Some tips are common sense: don't enter sensitive data like your social security information on a public PC, but there are some other basic steps you can take to keep your browsing sessions safe.
Tooble: Get YouTube videos on iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV
Sure, programs which download and convert YouTube videos to formats you can watch on a portable media player are a dime a dozen. Cheaper, actually, since most are free. But if you've got a Mac, you owe it to yourself to check out Tooble, a freeware YouTube video converter which does everything you could ever dream and more with just a few clicks.
Netflix subscribers get to watch as many online videos as they want
Just a day before Steve Jobs announced that iTunes customers would finally have the option of renting videos, Netflix made an announcement that its customers could watch an unlimited number of videos for no additional charge over their regular monthly subscription
Namexif: Batch rename your digital camera files with the date and time
Ever wish your digital camera would give your photos more meaningful names than DCIM_2954.JPG? Well if your camera adheres to the EXIF standard, as many camera do, it turns out that your images are already timestamped, so freeware Windows application Namexif can batch rename your photos making them much easier to organize chronologically.
App Update keeps your mac software current
We're obsessed with downloading the latest versions of every application on our computers to make sure we've got all the latest security updates and new features. We've covered a ton of programs in the past that will scan your Windows computer and check for updates. App Update fills the same role for Mac users.
Flipping the Linux Switch: New users guide to the terminal
There was a time when using a computer meant using the command line. But these days many folks can go their whole computing lives without ever pulling up a command prompt. While many modern Linux distributions don't rely as heavily on the command line as it once did, there are still some tasks that are more easily accomplished in a terminal. Here's a brief guide that will help you get over your fear of the command line.
And here are a few more stories you might have missed this week:
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pat said 8:39PM on 1-19-2008
Here is a nice web site where you can search, view and download YouTube videos.
http://www.ilikeyoutube.com/
Enjoy.
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Radical Dreamer said 8:40AM on 1-20-2008
An easier way would be to simply install a Firefox plugin which allows you download the .flv movie file.