Review: DivX Stash stores Web videos for mobile viewing

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Keeping track of all the online videos you want to watch can be a challenge...especially if you're not always in front of your PC. Sometimes, you see a video while you're on your computer, but you just can't remember what or where it is by the time you launch the browser on your smartphone. Enter DivX Stash, introduced at Mobile World Congress. This free service helps you create a queue of videos that you can watch later, either on your PC or mobile device. It's a very handy tool, and one that works well—most of the time.

Once the browser add-on is installed, you'll see a "Stash It" button appear on compatible video sites.

To use DivX Stash, you start on your browser, preferably on a PC or Mac. You must log in with your Facebook account and install the browser extension or add-on to Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. You then surf the Web as usual. When you come across a video on a DivX Stash-supported site (including YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, Funny or Die, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, College Humor, and more) , you'll see a button underneath the video that says "Stash It." Clicking this adds the video to your Stash, which you can access via the Web on your computer or via mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. I tested it on my iPhone and iPad.

From your Stash, you can click a video title and watch the video within the DivX Stash interface. DivX Stash doesn’t download and store the videos offline. It simply stores the video URL and brings it up within its own app. That means you'll need an active data connection if you're using a smartphone or tablet, and spotty service will greatly impact the quality of the video you see.

In addition to the videos you stash, DivX Stash also creates a feed of all the videos found in your Facebook feed. These are all of the videos posted by your friends and made available to you on Facebook. It's nice to have them all in one scannable list, but it's unfortunate that you cannot search the list to find a specific video you may have seen. Instead, you have to scroll through the videos, which appear with those most recently posted near the top, to find what you're looking for.

That's a minor glitch, though. What's more unfortunate is the problem I had watching videos I'd stashed from Hulu. They played back fine on my PC, but when I tried to access them using the DivX Stash app on an iPhone, I was unable to do so, and saw only an error message that the video was not available on mobile devices. The folks at Rovi Corporation say this is due to the nature of Hulu and the fact that some of their videos are only available to paid users. I was unable to watch any video from Hulu on my iPhone, though, even content that was freely available on my PC. In future versions, the DivX Stash app should direct users to the Hulu Plus app, which will allow them to watch Hulu content on their mobile phone, the company says. But that will only help users who've paid for access to Hulu Plus.

Videos that you add to your Stash are automatically added to the list that appears on your mobile phone.

While DivX Stash can't offer an easy—or free—way to watch Hulu content on your smartphone, it does offer easy access to plenty of free video sources. If you're an online video junkie looking to go mobile, DivX Stash could be your new best friend.

Note: The Download button on the Product Information page takes you to the vendor's site, where you must log in to use the software.

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Review: MP3 rocket makes YouTube videos in MP3s

YouTube videos to your ears win much of the eyeballs, but probably much enjoyment of its contents, to get. And if you would like to transform these videos to audio files and save, MP3 rocket (free of charge) it makes it about as easy as it could be.

MP3 rocket referred to himself as an "MP3 video converter" - and it does, actually convert YouTube videos into MP3 files or your own video files. You can certain songs or videos YouTube (you can search by artist name, song title or keywords) wanted, and proved to be quite capable of accurately very quickly deliver results. Results in a new tab, which shows presented the name of the file, source, file type and popularity rating and includes options for streaming audio to check it or download it as an MP3. If you want to download the file, can you choose the location and decide, add it to your iTunes library. MP3 rocket says that it downloads songs in "High quality mode with a bit rate of at least 256 KBS." In my ears were all downloads on a par with CDs that I had burned in my iTunes library. MP3 rocket Pro, a $30-version provides downloads to a higher bitrate of 320 KBS and promises faster downloads - even though the free version took only a few minutes to get the job done.

MP3 rocket displays the search results in a clean, organized list.

MP3 rocket includes many additional features, simple file conversion. It contains an own media player so you can hear the files that you have downloaded. And it offers also video conversion tool. Can hear a file on your computer of find and convert it to a different video format for display on another device or to an audio file for that. MP3 rocket also contains a 'watch TV' feature, you can YouTube videos from within the application, an Internet radio stream and access to some games.

If you convert a video to MP3, the software can select the location and name of the file.

If you think that MP3 rocket sounds like a good way to get lots of copyright-protected content stored for free on your PC, should heed tell its terms & conditions, the user that the application should not be used, "the purpose of copyright infringement." It says that all download are done for the purposes of time-shifting, and need for "personal, private and non-commercial use only." And despite the option, which include files in your iTunes library in the EULA: "you confirm that you do not share, distribute, or transfer all files downloaded with the software in any way. "You agree to keep the recording is longer than reasonably necessary to listen to or watch the show at a more favourable time."

Let the lawyers who these conditions to think, but otherwise MP3 rocket is a clever solution for YouTube overcrowding problem. It provides an easy way to create a collection of your favorite YouTube videos for later listening.

Note: The download button on the product information page, reach the website of the manufacturer, where you can download the latest version of the software.

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5 quick videos: Office 365 meet Home Premium

Two weeks ago, we released Office 365 Home Premium. You can subscribe to for the first time, Office install it as a service on your computer at the still receive all full-featured Office applications that you know and love, along with impressive new features of cloud and built social security benefits, instead. If you have only six minutes time, you can meet with the new Office through the following five videos watch.

Five computers, more 20 GB disk space and more: your Office 365 Home Premium subscription
Her Office on up to 5 computers. Additional 20 GB space in SkyDrive. throughout 60 minutes with Skype. Use Office anywhere. You will learn how to get the most out of your Office 365 Home Premium subscription.

Getting started: how Office login
To spend just one minute (literally: the video is one minute) to learn how to start, so you can start, use your Office subscription benefits, like SkyDrive online storage.

Use your Office anywhere in the Office on request
I had wish Office subscription and documents while on the computer of a friend, in the library or in a hotel business center access to your? You simply login to Office upon request.

Do your Office on up to five computers
You can install your Office subscription on up to five Macs and PCs. Learn more about your systems manage.

Lot Office for everyone: Add Office family members
"It belongs to me!" "No, it's mine!" Don't worry, there are enough Office for the whole family. With Office 365 Home Premium can multiple users, each with their own documents and settings support.

You will receive a free 30-day trial or Office 365 Home Premium buy today or learn more see getting started with the new Office.

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Videos from Adobe CEM Event Stockholm

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New Excel macro of training videos for beginners

Today's post was written by Angela Chu-Hatoun, senior programmer author on our large Office team, much more technical than I am that, frankly, and to explore the deep down side of programming, how it works and how can you even do it well.

This can post 13, on the MSDN Office client developer content-blog originally appeared last Friday, (display name: dev docs) and I had to Angela simply questions whether I was able to publish it here. I figure that there is a good tandem piece on my post September 2010 what is a macro and why you should use it.

Developers and power users still no programming using the Excel object model take note: there is a new series of videos that show how to create, edit and run macros in Excel 2010: Save time by creating and running macros in Excel 2010.

This set of four videos ranges in length from three to five minutes. To learn an object model for our purposes, I would like to call the first two videos in the set:

The first video in the series shows how to record a macro that fills a number of cells in a workbook. The second video shows how to view and edit the Code Visual Basic for applications (VBA) for the recorded macro in the Visual Basic Editor (a MIcrosoft programming language tool).

In General, is the application object model for Office client applications that support macro recording, use the Visual Basic Editor the code which is a convenient way to learn a recorded macro (Excel, Visio, Word) and write the code for a task, the set of actions in the application's user interface associated with. You can use the code as the basis for the recorded macro and extend the functionality by more code to achieve your purpose. Recently, I have to a similar approach to how to use the Word object model, learn to look for a string in an e-Mail message. I tried recording a Word macros in the search for a string in a Word document. Then, I have adapted the code and wrote the macro for the blog post look like to a string in an Outlook e-Mail message and automate a response that contains the string.

(Already lost a bit?) What read an string is in computer science. (This is all easier than you might think.)

If you are new to programming with the Excel object model or even Visio, or Word, watch the training videos and consider approaching the object models by recorded macros!

(Thanks Angela;) I guess really let you steal me this amazing information. People do like you is one and expand you: go to the Office Dev Docs Blog and learn some new tricks. (Well, I go this programming to explore me... abdomen)

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Hyperlinks in Excel: Hot or not? (Videos)

HOT, of course! Well, actually, it depends on.

Have ever:

Accidentally activates a hypertext link, if only to determine the cell?A number of URLs that must not hot - be imported?Imports a set of URLs, which are hot - but do not have to be?Wanted inserted in links with "friendly" display text, but URLs to show instead?URLs of bits of text in different columns together wanted to sew?

I don't know about you, but I "only all the time," "Uh huh" answers "Affirmative" and "Yep" to these questions, "Oh yes".

Links travel often people, so we asked Excel expert Bill Jelen to create videos, some häufigeren to answer the customer questions. Check out ' em. Help them?

How can I select a cell that contains a hyperlink without suddenly jump to the link target?

To a cell that contains a hyperlink without actually activating that select links, click outside the cell, and use one of the arrow keys to navigate to the cell. You can press also CTRL and then click the cell. Or, you can click on the link and for about two seconds hold. If the hand icon change to a white plus icon see letting go of the mouse.

How do I remove one or more hyperlinks? How do I disable the automatic creation of hyperlinks?

Excel 2010 has two new menu items with which you can remove multiple links at once: remove hyperlinks (note the plural!) and clear links. These commands you can clean a whole list of links immediately. If you are using an old version of Excel, Bill shows how to use a macro instead. Bonus: Learn how to prevent Excel from automatically to create hyperlinks as you type.

What I do when I insert a column of URLs in Excel, but none of the links are hot?

In this scenario, you must convert the text in the actual hyperlinks. If you have to convert a few links, press F2 to edit the cell, and press ENTER. If you need to fix a huge list of links, you can the hyperlink function.

I pasted a large number of links from a Web page in Excel, but I see only the display name. How can I show URLs instead of display name?

When should I use the hyperlink function instead of the command Insert Hyperlink ? What is the diff, at all?

Have to create a few links that you can Insert Hyperlink command use. If you need to with a variety of links, again, should the hyperlink function. Bonus: Watch Bill take columns, the bits of a URL are and take them into a single URL for use with the hyperlink function.

How can I create e-Mail links from the text in several different columns?

You say that you are in column A first name and last name in column (b). The ampersand (&) and the hyperlink function to create e-Mail addresses can be combined. When you click the link, your E-mail program automatically starts and creates an E-mail message with the correct address in the box at .

For more tips, visit Bill's website, MrExcel.com.

--Anneliese Wirth

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2 New Videos on the Connected and Entertainment Experience with Microsoft Products

Back in December, I posted about a really neat video directed by Keith Rivers that highlighted how up and coming indie artist Andrew Belle used Windows 7 and Windows Live to create a song. If you liked that video, you won’t want to miss these two new videos that were also directed by Keith that go beyond Windows 7 and Windows Live to highlight the entire breadth of Microsoft products being used together to create some amazing experiences. These videos, along with the Andrew Belle video, were showcased at the Microsoft booth at CES with all the PCs and devices that were used.

Video 1: Making of a Flash Mob

Have you ever wondered what kind of work goes in to coordinating and planning a flash mob (click here if you don’t know what a flash mob is)? Using PCs such as the Dell Inspiron Duo (read Ben’s review) and the Samsung QX410, as well as their Windows Phones - local choreographers and dancers here in Seattle use Windows Live (Messenger, Mesh) and Kinect to plan and coordinate a flash mob at Pioneer Square. Pretty impressive.

Video 2: Road Trip to Mt. Hood

In this video, skiers and snowboarders head off on a road trip from Seattle to Mt. Hood to hit the slopes. While on the road, and then even on the slopes and from the lodge at an elevation of 6,000 feet, they use their Windows Phones, Kinect and Xbox, and the ASUS Eee Slate (read Ben’s review) to stay entertained with music, movies, and games.

I got on the phone last week with Keith to talk about these videos and get some backstory. For these two videos, Keith told me his initial approach was to do something similar to what they had done with the Andrew Belle video but with 2 new musicians. However as he began to concept the videos with Microsoft, they decided they wanted to focus on other real stories that branched beyond the music industry: one about coordinating a flash mob and another following a group of skiers on a road trip to Mt. Hood. Keith not only directed the videos but wrote both of them as well and he did so in just a matter of a few days. He had about a month to do these videos which included the writing all the way to finishing post-production and handing off the final videos to us (Microsoft) for CES.

Keith used resources around him for these videos. Keith happened to be good friends with Bobby Bonsey and Egan Orion who are flash mob choreographers and producers in Seattle. He had been fascinated by the idea of a flash mob and thought following the design and production of a flash mob could be really interesting for people to see. And Keith also grew up skiing in the Pacific Northwest and had done some really great videos early in his career on freestyle skiing. He also knew of some local skiers and snowboarders who participated in competitions in the area. So deciding to do a video on a flash mob and another on skiing came as easy choices. For the skiing video, he chose the location of Mt. Hood because of the weather and because it had a beautiful lodge that gave an antique, historic look he was looking for.

Each video shoot had its challenges. The shoot for the flash mob video was done pretty fast and because of that, Keith called it “one of the most insane productions we’ve ever done”. For the Mt. Hood shoot, getting the live-action shots of the skiers and snowboarders was pretty challenging and the lift shots proved to be really challenging with the person holding the camera literally hanging off the back to film. His team was also shooting live products in use, which sometimes took extra time to light correctly to adjust for the brightness and contrast of the screen. But on the other hand, Keith also recalls how much fun it was for his crew and the people in the videos to get to use some of the newest products like the Dell Inspiron Duo and Windows Phone 7, and how addicting Kinect Sports was and easy to pick up.

In making these videos, Keith worked with producer Rebecca Davis, TJ Williams Jr. who was their Director of Photography, Nick Pezzillo who was the editor for the flash mob video and Daniel Soderberg who was the editor for the Mt. Hood video.

Keith says he was gratified that Microsoft gave him the opportunity to go out and do some really creative stories with these videos. I certainly enjoyed them and am often fascinated by the backstory behind videos like these. I hope you enjoyed hearing the backstory for these videos!

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