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Khan Academy to Deliver Educational Videos via P2P on BitTorrent

Samuel — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:00:19 +0000

Despite what some detractors say, torrents have plenty of legitimate uses — one of which is helping organizations distribute digital content at little or no cost. That’s especially important for a non-profit like Khan Academy, which is why its partnership with BitTorrent Inc. makes perfect sense.

Khan Academy is a provider of free, online educational videos. A wide range of subjects are covered, including physics, biology, trigonometry, calculus, and economics. The academy’s vault currently includes more than 2,000 videos, and all are now accessible via BitTorrent apps. Founder Salman Khan told TorrentFreak, “BitTorrent is a great platform to help us fulfill our mission of providing world-class education to anyone, anywhere.”

If you’ve got either uTorrent or BitTorrent installed, just install the Khan Academy app and get studying! Best of all, you’ll also be helping out by seeding content and giving back to the community while you watch.

Source: Khan Academy and BitTorrent partner to deliver P2P educational video

Best Freeware Audio/Video Convertor!!!

Samuel — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:10:47 +0000

FormatFactory v1.65 – 16949 KB

FormatFactory is a multifunctional media converter.
Provides functions below:
All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
Source files support RMVB.

FormatFactory’s Feature:
1 Supports converting all popular video, audio, picture formats to others.
2 Repair damaged video and audio file.
3 Reducing Multimedia file size.
4 Support iphone, ipod multimedia file formats.
5 Picture converting supports Zoom, Rotate/Flip, tags.
6 DVD Ripper.
7 Supports 40 languages

http://www.formatoz.com

support@formatoz.com
http://www.formatoz.com/download.html

Free DVD Movie Ripper

Samuel — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:38:33 +0000

Freez DVD Ripper v1.5 – 3685 KB
Freez DVD Ripper is a DVD ripping tool to rip your favorite DVD movies to popular DivX/Xvid AVI files, H.264 MP4 files, and even iPod MP4 video files with fast DVD ripping speed and excellent quality.
With Freez DVD Ripper, you can choose which titles and chapters, audio tracks, and subtitle tracks of the DVD you want to rip. You can also choose the output video format from AVI (DivX MPEG4), AVI (Xvid), MP4 (H264) or iPod MP4 Video. You can also set the video size, bitrate and framerate, audio channel, bitrate and frequency.
Freez DVD Ripper has a user-friendly interface and you can rip DVD with only a few clicks. Enjoy it!
Key Features:
- Can rip DVD movies and convert DVD to MPEG-4 DivX / Xvid AVI format.
- Can rip DVD movies and convert DVD to H.264 MP4 format for Apple TV, PSP.
- Can rip DVD movies and convert DVD to iPod MP4 format.
- Can rip both encrypted or unencrypted DVD movies.
- You can select DVD source from both hard drive and real DVD.
- You can select the titles and chapters to be ripped from DVD.
- You can select the audio tracks and subtitle tracks to be ripped from DVD.
- Set the output video resolution, video bitrate (up to 2500 kbps) and video framerate.
- Set the output audio channel, audio bitrate and audio frequency.
- High-speed conversion.
- User-friendly interface without any complicated settings.
- Free to use and free registration.
SmallVideoSoft.com
support@smallvideosoft.com
http://www.smallvideosoft.com/dvd-ripper/
http://www.hellopdf.com/smallvideosoft/freez_dvdripper.exe

Free Photo Editing Software

Samuel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:32:23 +0000

HP Photosmart Essential v3.5 – 19377 KB
Free photo editing, organizing, printing and sharing software
Features
- Import photos from any digital camera
- Organize photos by date, tags, favorites, albums, or file folders
- Edit photos with automatic red eye removal and photo fix tools
- Print photos, cards, calendars, CD/DVD labels, and photo books.
- Share photos online or with email
- Get dozens of new Photo Book artwork styles, featuring rich designer colors and patterns
- Get full control of your Photo Book fonts including type, size and color
- Print up to three 4″x6″ photos on a letter size page
- Get the option to print a draft version of your Photo Book
- Get CD/DVD printing support on 64 bit operating systems
For Windows XP & Vista users

Hewlett-Packard Development Co.
webmaster@hp.com
http://www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/digital_photography/free/software/index.html
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/united-states/pse/pse_350_enu.exe

PhotoPerfect Express v1.0.73 – 37315 KB
Focus on taking pictures, and leave the editing to PhotoPerfect Express. See your photos immediately enhanced with five powerful optimization algorithms – in just three easy steps.
Simply select the result that you like best. No further photo editing skills are required – even people new to a computer can use the software right away! You will be rewarded with Photos which faithfully remind you of what you really saw.
Features:
- just 3 simple steps
- stunning results without any technical knowledge
- five powerful image optimization methods
- intuitive visual user interface
- expandable functionality through: in-depth fine tuning + fully automated batch processing with superior results
- freeware for Windows XP or Vista

http://www.freewarefiles.com/screenshot/photoperfectexp.jpg
Arcadia Software AG
webmaster@arcadiasoftware.com
http://www.arcadiasoftware.com/photoperfect-express.html
http://www.arcadiasoftware.com/download/photoperfectexpress-setup.exe

Online YouTube Video Converter

Samuel — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:36:23 +0000

This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.

When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.

http://www.vixy.net/