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Securing Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents with Digital Signatures, When you receive a document that has been signed by someone you know, you are more likely to trust the contents than those of a document that has not been signed, or has been signed with an unfamiliar signature. Signing a document validates it to someone who recognizes your signature, now add the same degree of integrity to your documents in Microsoft Office Word 2007 thanks to the new Digital Signatures feature.

Here’s a video a found on youtube.com about Word 2007 Digital Signatures. Check it out. (more…)

Watching videos have become more of a usual job than a frenzy time passing hobby nowadays, yet with low connection speeds things are only turning sad. Videos need to be buffered, that leads to some amount of loading time leaving you deserted for moments.

It’s time you take some action to make YouTube Videos to load faster. Here are 3 tips for you:

1. Use SpeedBit Video Accelerator

If you frequently watch YouTube videos, you can get rid of slow loading times and make them load faster with the help of a tool called SpeedBit Video Accelerator. (more…)

What You Will Need (Using only free tools!)
- Firefox
- VideoDownloader Extension for Firefox
- MediaCoder
Instructions:
1) Download and install all of the free tools listed above.
2) Goto a site (such as Youtube, MySpace, GoogleVideo, iFilm, etc.
3) Search and find a video you would like to keep.
4) Click the VideoDownloader Button in the bottom right part of your Firefox Browser window. (more…)

An Instructional video posted to YouTube has been offering a primer on how to use Google to nick music and video files in less time than it takes to download them from a P2P site. The Financial Times has got its knickers in a twist after discovering a a 21 year old called Jimmy Ruska has posed the video which shows how to direct Google’s search engine to locate files from unprotected computer systems.

The FT says that Ruska’s formula worked at Yahoo and other search engines. The nine-minute long video shows that the trick is focus a search on certain keywords, (more…)

Next month a California-based startup plans to release an application that will allow Windows, Mac, and Linux users run Linux binaries without any modifications. Lina is a Linux virtual machine that allows users to run applications with the native look of their host operating system. It also lets you install applications with a mouse-click, no need to compile software from source code. (more…)

So, little Suzie had her big recital, and you brought the new camcorder and tripod, enduring “Who does this guy think he is, Spielberg?” stares from other parents (and likely your spouse). Now it’s time for your big reward: You get to show the world the gorgeous new video of your future American Idol winner. You finish up the basic video editing, adjusting color, cutting dead air, making transitions if you’re into that sort of thing. But the world isn’t waiting for you to send it DVD copies, leaving you to wonder, “How the heck do I get this to all her adoring fans?”

To get your video into shape for iPod and YouTube distribution, start in your video-editing program. I used Adobe Premiere Elements in the directions below; it’s our reigning Editors’ Choice among consumer video-editing apps. (more…)

You’ve found an irresistible video on YouTube that you just have to show to your friends, so you want to download it to your Apple iPod. You search in vain for the Download to iPod button that should be there on the YouTube page but isn’t. YouTube doesn’t make it easy; you’re going to have to do it yourself.

Before getting started, let’s understand the problem, which has two basic aspects. First, YouTube doesn’t want you to download its videos—and it says so in its help files. Downloading the files isn’t illegal, but since YouTube’s business model is based on page views, the company has been known to modify its tagging and to use other methods to prevent downloads. If one of the techniques discussed here suddenly stops working, you’ll know why. Either look for an update or search out another solution. (more…)

YouTube has become one of the most popular sites in the world in a very short time by providing a simple way to upload and share content.

However, there are a number of services available now that will make it easier to upload videos, find deleted videos, make videos play even smoother etc. Here’s a review of some of the best YouTube tools you may find useful.

Delutube - Find Deleted YouTube Videos
Every now and then YouTube deletes a video, normally because of copyright issues. But, there is a way to still watch the deleted videos which is quite clever. (more…)

Here is a cool freeware application to download videos from YouTube and other version to download videos from MySpace.

You will enjoi it, if you want to make some collection of nice videos.
Download or batch download and convert Flash Video (FLV file) for FREE! Flash to AVI (divx, mp3). Flash to MOV (MAC). Flash to MP4 (IPOD, PSP). Flash to 3GP (Mobile). Flash to mp3. Converts FLV to MPEG4 more faster and losslessy than a typical transcoder, YouTube to iPod Converter. (more…)

To do this you need a tool called UnPlug which is a Firefox Add-On, so you don’t have to be a genius to understand that you need Firefox.

UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage, it’s a video download tool. You can install it from here

UnPlug scans web pages and tells you where media players are getting their data from, and displays it as a simple hyperlink: in most cases, you can then follow the simple download link to save the media file. (more…)