Flypaper, a desktop program that creates online presentations

Flypaper is a cool, new presentation creation program that lets you create Flash presentations that you can instantly upload to sites like YouTube, MySpace,a nd Facebook. In its present beta incarnation, it has some rough edges and any comparison with PowerPoint would be probably like comparing apples and oranges since Flypaper seems to provide a very different concept altogether.



Flypaper is a free application that runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista only (no Mac yet) -- it's a large download at 89 mb whereabouts, but it's fun to play with and may evolve into something very useful. The screenshot above shows the interface -- click on the screenshot to see a larger preview.

Flypaper does get into new terminology though: slide layouts/designs are called 'models'! Here's a quick one slide pres that I created in Flypaper, and then uploaded to Youtube.

Labels: flash video, flypaper, online_presentations, powerpoint, youtube

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Download YouTube Videos

In this section we will look at ways in which you can download source FLV videos from the YouTube site. Remember, do respect copyright and do not download FLV source videos that do not belong to you. In these tutorials, we will only show the video clips we ourselves uploaded to YouTube as examples. You may be breaking copyright rules if you download content that belongs to someone else.

Download YouTube Videos with KissYouTube

Download YouTube Videos with YouTube Downloader

Related Links:

How does YouTube work? And should you download the videos?

Labels: flash video, movie, share, youtube

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Download YouTube Videos with KissYouTube

KissYouTube.com is a site that makes it super simple for you to download the FLV videos on the YouTube site.



Using KissYouTube.com is easy -- just change the URL of the page on which you are watching the YouTube video, so that you add the alphabets "kiss" before the domain name youtube.com.

For example, if you wanted to download the FLV movie for this page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF0yCZ8PWco



You would go to the address bar at the top of your browser, and add the alphabets "kiss" without the quote marks before the youtube.com domain, so that it now reads like this:

http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=dF0yCZ8PWco



Scroll down the page and click the download link provided to save the FLV video to your computer.

Related Links:

Download YouTube Videos

Labels: flash video, movie, share, youtube

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What is FLV?

FLV stands for FLash Video, and is a proprietary streaming video format from Adobe. This format is used to store and share the video clips on sites like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, and many other sites.

Normally you cannot download the actual FLVs, but there are applications and hacks that let you do so. There are also several FLV players and converters (that convert FLVs to other movie/video formats) available.

Labels: flash video, flv, glossary, movie

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