Recording video tutorial never got much easier then this one. Screen Toaster is a free web based screen recorder utility designed to capture screen activity in real-time to create and share tutorials, demos, trainings, lectures and more. Fire up the web page your recording studio is ready to go you can also add audio, embed webcam while you record and once you are finished you can even add subtitles, choose thumbnails, add tags to your video share it with friends over social networks with privacy setting allowing you to control the access to the video you made. You can now also automatically upload HD screen casts directly to YouTube from Screen Toaster also you can download videos in .mov format for editing on your desktop. Their beta API allows you to integrate Screen Toaster into your website thus allowing your users to create / share and distribute video tutorials.

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Sony Ericsson “XPERIA 1″ the first business phone by Sony Ericsson which uses the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, the phone is ready to hit the market and expected to be released by the end of october. Not only its the first business phone from sony ericsson but it is also the first touchscreen phone with a overlaying Qwerty keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upwards.

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Verizon Wireless today announce Blackberry Storm, a phone with touch screen and is being called an iPhone competitor.

BASKING RIDGE, NJ, NEWBURY, England, and WATERLOO, Ontario — Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group (NYSE and LSE: VOD) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry® Storm™ will be available later this fall, exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Blackberry Storm

Blackberrry Storm features a 3.25-inch touch screen which is responsive just like the iPhone. Unlike iPhone, the touch screen for Blackberry comes with an added feature of confirmation before launching an application or initiating any process during which the full screen becomes a large button that confirms a user’s selecting when pressed, while in iPhone it just swipe or errant tap can launch an application or action.”Consumers and business customers alike will appreciate this unique combination of a large and vibrant screen with a truly tactile touch interface,” said RIM co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis. (more…)

We all know how the video market is jumping up and every now and then there is a rock start company coming up with a video sharing site. But after YouTube very few have picked up in that scene, though one of the most interesting phenomena is the online television shows. Meaning you can watch your favorite Television shows at your own time when ever you want without those long boring ads. So here we have collected top 5 Online Television show video sites. (more…)

Ever wondered how you can save your video chat’s with friends, or how you can make a video file out of your webcam or even record scene’s from your fav DVD’s to your computer. Well here is a really exciting tool by NHC software.

Designed to be very easy and intuitive to use, Debut will have you up and running, ready to record video within minutes. The video broadcasting, video conferencing & video chat have become common for all, ever wondered how you can save those videos for future reference.  We have got a tool for you it not only save’s & records video from your webcam but can record almost anything that is being played on your computer screen.

Debut seems to be one of the most comprehensive video capturing software, compatible with windows 98/2000/XP/2003/Vista, debut can capture any video that is on your computer screen, it can save that video with audio into a number of video formats i.e. AVI, WMV, MP4, MPG, 3GP, and MOV.

I can think of multiple posibilities with Debut not only you can save you video chats, but can even record video if you have a cable tv connected to your computer, or you can capture clips or save you complete DVD while you are watching it. Another exciting feature is you can even use it to capture screen’s and then share it with friends in a video format. It can be used for building video tutorials of your web applications or software as well.

Apart from that the most interesting thing its free of cost, all you have to do is go to this link or click here to download Debu directly, run the setup and you are ready to go.

After 18 weeks of beta testing Hulu today announced that they are now open for all, no need for invites, all you need is to sign up to Hulu and start enjoying the videos. In post made on there blog :

” In these short 18 weeks since we began private beta testing, we’ve been working hard to kick the tires and check under the hood in preparation of opening the doors to our site. With well over 10,000 pieces of user feedback, we’ve heard your suggestions, comments, criticisms and praise. Today we are excited to leave our private beta and open Hulu.com to everyone in the U.S.. Our streaming video service is free – anyone in the U.S. with a broadband internet connection and a computer can just press play to enjoy. “

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, released December 2007 data from the comScore Video Metrix service. The December 2007 report revealed that U.S. Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos online during the month, representing the single heaviest month for online video consumption since comScore initiated its tracking service.

Here is the list of Top5 Video Sites for the Month of Dec 2007

1. Google – 32%
2. Fox Interactive Media – 3.5%
3. Yahoo – 3.5%
4. Viacom Digital – 2.3%
5. Microsoft – 1.8%

Other notable findings from December 2007 include:

• 77.6 million viewers watched 3.2 billion videos on YouTube.com (41.6 videos per viewer).
• 40.5 million viewers watched 334 million videos on MySpace.com (8.2 videos per viewer).
• Online viewers watched an average of 3.4 hours (203 minutes) of online video during the month, representing a 34-percent gain since the beginning of 2007
• The average online video duration was 2.8 minutes.
• The average online video viewer consumed 72 videos.

Source: comScore

5 essential Firefox Addons for Social Networking
Why not bring your social network life into your browser, i have collected and organized a list of Firefox Ad Ons that will bring our favorite social networking life into our browser, it will add ease of use to access, modify and update with sites like facebook, twitter, digg, YouTube.

Social Networking Addons for Firefox
1- Facebook Extension for Firefox.
First Comes “Facebook” with an average of above 150 million user subscription, facebook has made its self the no1 social networking website. So the “Facebook toolbar for Firefox” is an essential.

Once installed the Facebook Toolbar brings your facebook life to your browser every time you open up the browser you are logged into facebook, you can search facebook, get notified of the pokes, friends requests and messages you receive. A pop-up will notify when friends update there status, write a note or interact with you on facebook. You can also open your friends sidebar, sort them and keep in touch with them. Apart from that if you run groups or a network on facebook you can share content directly from your browser what else do you need. (more…)

Yahoo today launched it Yahoo Live a live video streaming service by Yahoo. Unlike Youtube, and other Video Sharing Yahoo have build the application in which any body with a yahoo id can login create a channel and start streaming video from his web cam to his channel without any initial setup. Yahoo has smartly made the use of flash video player and streams video directly via flash. No doubt the dying technology of flash got a new horizon and path in video broadcasting.

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iPod Video would be more fun if you could connect it with the TV, so far to connect it directly to the TV there are two great way one is the cheap way out and the other is a kool gadget by Tekkeon.

1- NavDock ND 2000
NavDock™ Home Media Center with On-TV Navigation for iPod lets you navigate your iPod through an on-TV menu to play videos, photos and music on a connected television. NavDock browses directly through your iPod menus, so finding and playing music and videos is easy. And you can use the 16-button remote to adjust or mute volume, shuffle, repeat or skip songs, and fast forward or rewind through music or videos. The remote offers a five-way navigation pad and quick keys that jump directly to the videos, photos, music or settings menus.

With NavDock, you have complete control. You can change the language, the menu color scheme to fit your mood, or the navigation speed to fit your taste. You can even access the equalizer or display the lyrics or album art that appears next to your songs in the Now Playing screen in motion as your personalized screensaver.

Source: NavDock ND 2000

Connect iPod  With TV using a  simple cable.
You can also simply connect your iPod using an A/V Cable. Most probably if you have a camcorder you already have that cable if not then you can buy it from ebay for $1.99.
Connect the cables set your iPod for TV output and you are ready to use your iPod with the TV.