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Today, I’m going to show you how to download videos from non-Youtube sources. But first, you’re going to need the following software:

1. Orbit Downloader - Orbit Downloader is similar to Free Studio below except that it only saves the videos in FLV (flash video) format.
2. Free Studio - One of my favorite Freeware around. It can convert almost anything into mp4 format. Of course, it can only download videos from Youtube.

Now, simply follow the following steps to download and convert a video into MP4 format.

1. Download The Tools! - Do I really need to explain this? Download the tools you’ll need, which are those I told you above.
2. Visit Your Favorite Video Site - For this tutorial, I decided to use Myspace videos since I found this funny and yet vulgar Spongebob parody on the site called “Grandma’s Kisses”.

   

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If you are a Mac user then you could use one of the 4 major browsers (excluding Internet Explorer) such as the default Safari, Firefox and Opera.

These tie up 99% of the browser market but that doesn’t mean you have to be restricted to only these applications. There are a number of very viable alternatives, some built on the Trident or Gecko rendering engines and others from scratch.

Of the Mac browser alternatives I have recently discovered two recently which impressed me the most:

Shiira

Shiira is a Japanese based browser with the goal “to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari” (not too difficult in my opinion).

Keeping that in mind, Shiira is very similar to Safari in basic functionality and offers a lot of the same features but also offers a lot of enhanced functions and general usability improvements. Like Firefox, Shiira is open source and has been built upon WebKit (an open source application framework that provides a foundation upon which to build a web browser) and with Cocoa (Apple Inc.’s native object-oriented application program environment for the Mac OS X operating system) and runs on Mac OSX 10.4 and higher.

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What will happen if we had Microsoft iPhone, especially if the phone is powered by the Windows Mobile core? Let me present you the Microsoft iPhone!

Oh boy, so many error messages and even the much dreaded blue screen of death! Haha, thank God this is merely a parody and is not really a Microsoft iPhone.

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Months ago, the original creators of Limewire, a popular bit torrent downloader, left and formed Frostwire. So, I decided to run a test to see which one is far more superior to the other. The tests in this little experiment consists of loadtime, looks, search results, download speed and other extra features.. But, enough talking. Let’s run the tests.

Loadtime
Let’s start off with something simple. In the first test, I tested to see how long each program takes to load. Frostwire started off strong with a load time of 5 seconds. So what about Limewire? Limewire took an extra second to load, meaning that Frostwire was slightly faster than Limewire.

Looks

Frostwire looks

It’s no beauty contest, they’re both the same. None of them look that different from the other. They both have the same tabs (well, Limewire has more tabs than Frostwire), and has that same basic structure. The only difference between the two is the color scheme. Frostwire’s color scheme uses blue and white, while Limewire uses green and white. Really, there’s no clear cut competition in terms of looks.

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Mozilla’s latest version of their ever so popular browser, Firefox 3, has just be launched a couple of days ago. The D-day, which was the 17th of June, was the official release date of Firefox 3. You must’ve heard about the Firefox Pledge? If not, you can check out more about this and for those who have downloaded Firefox 3, kudos to yourself. Firefox 3 achieved more than 8 million downloads in just 24 hours. That’s more Firefox downloads than the browser ever had in a single day - an impressive feat indeed!

Firefox 3 has been discussed not too long ago, you can read it here. Looks like here in Kongtechnology.com, we are a Firefox lover! Well, personally, I love Firefox for its ease of use, customization, and speed. It definitely beats Internet Explorer. As for Safari and Opera, it’s a matter of preference. The three are on an equal ground I reckon, only difference is that there are features specific to one browser, for example, Speed Dial on Opera. Yet, my choice would still be Mozilla’s Firefox.

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