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Video downloader Firefox add-on:
Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video sites! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc)! Directly!Very nice. Of course it's always possible to download the movies yourself, without this add-on, but sometimes it takes some real detective work viewing the page source to figure out what the "real" URL of some embedded media is. And if you can't decipher HTML you really probably can't do it without this. Might get me to switch. I'll certainly just jump to Firefox for those situations.
VideoDownloader add a small icon on the status bar at the bottom of your firefox window, and a toolbar button. Just click that and download the video you are watching!
Eye.Fi is building 802.11g wireless (WiFi) networking into standard sized SD memory cards. They are targeting the digital camera market. Details are a little thin at the moment but this might be amazingly cool. My question is, how will this work? I mean, okay, I pop this SD card into my camera so now it has WiFi. But how do I use it? How do I configure it? My camera's software has no idea it is there. This part doesn't make any sense to me yet. My guess is that it can only connect with a computer that is running some custom eye.fi software which would sort of defeat the point (if I'm near my own computer I could just plug my camera in - I want WiFi so that when I'm out walking around the city I can use all the open networks to be uploading my pictures in real time.)
Kodak and Nikon both have WiFi camera models, but they suffer from the same problem I describe above. What we need is a WiFi camera that can find and connect to random open access points and then upload (probably smtp) to where ever I want on the net.