KeepHD

I referred to in an earlier post half a dozen sites which allow you to download YouTube videos. Now I've found the best one yet: KeepHD.

You can now download high quality or even HD videos from YouTube, just by changing the URL of the YouTube video from "youtube.com" to "keephd.com". You can even download them as mp4 files, and it doesn't require any site registration (like idesktop.tv does).

KeepHD page

Enjoy!

Official Youtube Downloading

YouTube in the past few days has cleaned up their UI. Although their font is a little small, it seems overall to be an improvement. Anyway, I was watching a video by KipKay (who is really amazingly awesome), when I noticed a new button on the "Favorite -- Share -- Playlist -- Flag" bar: "Download ($0.99)". Apparently, YouTube partners can now provide the option for viewers to download the videos for a dollar.

YouTube, this is idiotic. Here's why:

1. It's too narrow.
I can only download videos in MP4 format. What about MOV? AVI? FLV?

2. It's too late.
Is YouTube somehow oblivious to the existence of hundreds of websites that already do this? Here are just a few websites that let you download a YouTube file:

• http://www.kissyoutube.com/
• http://keepvid.com/
• http://vixy.net/
• http://kej.tw/flvretriever/
• http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
• http://idesktop.tv/

The last website is my personal favorite, due to ease of use and variety of download formats.

3. 99 cents? Are you kidding me?
First off, all the websites I list above are free to use. Second, who pays a dollar for media anymore? Movies are pirated, music is internally recorded, and YouTube videos can be downloaded in a bazillion other ways.

I can hardly see anyone paying for YouTube videos anytime soon. YouTube, go back to ads. This won't work.

Observation of the Day

Very few people have ever eaten a marshmallow in more than two bites.

I took a dozen bites out of one, and in slow-motion. The effect was amazing.

Send in videos of yourself eating a marshmallow in small bites and slow motion!

(Not that anyone reads this blog anyway ;) )

Videos, 11/11/08

Happy Angola Independence Day everyone! I can't really think of anything right now, so here are soem videos I've been watching: