Computer Science Stuff

Have you ever been on youtube, vimeo, or your favorite video website and wanted to a particular video on your computer? Well I have a solution for you! The solution have for you is FIREFOX and a FIREFOX ADDON! For those of y’all that don’t know firefox has some of the best addons for web browser ever! An alternative downloader if you don’t have firefox is the ant toolbar. This toolbar works for firefox and internet explorer.

The addon we are going to focus on is Video DownloadHelper. Video DownloadHelper is a easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.

How to get it

If you have firefox installed, all you have to do is go this link and click add to firefox. After doing so it will install the addon for you and ask for you to restart your browser and you will be able to officially download videos.

Making it work for you

First you need to Tools > Addons > Extensions (It’s a Tab) > DownloadHelper > Options

After doing this go to General > Appearance Tab

Check all the options that you want (I checked all of them).

Next, go directly to the location of the video you wish to download and play the video. After doing this you will see some animation for the video download helper icon and don’t click the icon exactly. If you do you will see all of the media websites it supports but click the arrow right beside it and you will name of the video you want and click on that. After doing so firefox will ask you where you want to save it and will begin downloading it.

How to View It

One problem you will have is that probably won’t be able to see the video with the tools you have on your computer. So how will you view it? Use VLC Media Player! VLC Media Player is one the most flexible media players that plays any format of video and is FREE! IF you wish to explore and download it I suggest you go here. If there any other questions leave a comment.

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Text to Speech in Android

Version of android executed in: 1.6rc2 in Windows

TOOLS we used:

Eclipse and Android library 1.6rc2

How it works:

1. In android 1.6rc2 the text to speech library is built in called android.speech.tts, here is link for the information http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.html

2. Here is the code

package com.android;

import java.util.Locale;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech;
import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech.OnInitListener;

public class TtS extends Activity implements OnInitListener{
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
private TextToSpeech mTts;

int MY_DATA_CHECK_CODE = 0;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

Intent checkIntent = new Intent();
checkIntent.setAction(TextToSpeech.Engine.ACTION_CHECK_TTS_DATA);
startActivityForResult(checkIntent, MY_DATA_CHECK_CODE);
mTts = new TextToSpeech(this,this);

}

@Override
public void onInit(int arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String myText1 = “Did you sleep well?”;
String myText2 = “I hope so, because it’s time to wake up.”;
mTts.setLanguage(Locale.US);
mTts.speak(myText1, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null);
mTts.speak(myText2, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, null);
}

}

3. To make it even easier you can use you can download the code and open as an existing project. Click here to download.

References:

1. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/introduction-to-text-to-speech-in.html

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Have you ever tried explaining to someone over the phone how to connect to the computer so you could control or view their desktop and it ended in failure. Well apparently there is a website who has happen to overcome that, Zolved.com. They make the process smarter not harder. So lets check out their website.

If you go the link you will see Share my screen and View or Control. If you are the person that wants to share their computer you will click Share my screen. After doing so you will download the file they will give you and you will run it for your 8 digit code that you will give to your friend.

If you are the person that wants to view the persons computer click View or Control.  Download the file and run it and it will prompt you for a 8 digit code which is generated on the persons computer who is sharing will give you. Enter the 8 digit code and connect.

After that you are finished!!!! It is really that simple!

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I heard the movie Wolverine was leaked I couldn’t believe it! It is suppose to come out May 1, 2009!? But the rumors are true and it comes in such nice quality for bootleg! The bootleg copy is said to be a DVD-quality version of 20th Century Fox’s summer tentpole without a timecode or studio watermark, though it is also being described many places as an “early version” of the movie with some effects shots unfinished. Reviews of the movie based on the leak are also cropping up across the Internet. So where do you go to watch it?

AT movesix.net and go to the yahoo videos. You can only watch it at megavideo for 72 minutes and the movie is like 110 minutes long.

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