{"id":209,"date":"2011-02-19T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=209"},"modified":"2011-02-19T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:34:17","slug":"freeware-pick-of-the-week-february-19-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/freeware-pick-of-the-week-february-19-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeware pick of the week \u2013 February 19, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go Videos<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nA desktop YouTube player
\nDownload size (total) about 2MB
\nAir installer (Requires Adobe Air)
\nWindows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32bit & 64bit)<\/p>\n

This week’s freeware pick was selected for two \t\t\t\t\t\treasons: it’s fun and it uses the Adobe Air installer. \t\t\t\t\t\tIf you don’t already have Adobe Air installer, you’ll be \t\t\t\t\t\tprompted to download it when you download the freeware \t\t\t\t\t\tpick “Go Videos”. It’s good thing to have installed \t\t\t\t\t\t(Adobe Air) because you’re going to see it more and \t\t\t\t\t\tmore. Why? Because it can be used on other operating \t\t\t\t\t\tsystems too.<\/p>\n

With that out of the way, let’s get to the program. A lot of \t\t\t\tpeople enjoy YouTube, including EB and I. There’s a lot of \t\t\t\tgarbage on YouTube, but there’s a lot of good stuff too. A lot \t\t\t\tof funny stuff, a lot of serious stuff, a lot stuff you might \t\t\t\thave missed on TV like Super Bowl ads. YouTube is full of stuff – good stuff, bad stuff, \t\t\t\ttough stuff, weak stuff, general stuff (not the guy from WWII), \t\t\t\tand stuff you can’t find anywhere else. Did you know that \t\t\t\tYouTube has some great computer tutorials too?<\/p>\n

Enough about YouTube, if you don’t know what YouTube is, \t\t\t\tyou’ve been living in EB’s basement (that’s where she keeps me \t\t\t\tand her pet tarantulas). It’s dark down here, but she allows me \t\t\t\tto used this laptop on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays so I \t\t\t\tcan write this newsletter. And she doesn’t feed me until it’s \t\t\t\tdone. She feeds the darn arachnids though. When my duty is done \t\t\t\tand the newsletters ready to go, she tosses me a slice of stale \t\t\t\tbread and some gummy worms. On Saturdays she lets me go out in \t\t\t\tthe back yard with my electric collar on so I can’t run away – \t\t\t\tshe has an invisible fence. How does this relate to the freeware \t\t\t\tpick? Well, there’s video of me on YouTube showing me crawling \t\t\t\taround on EB’s muddy basement floor being chased by Chester and \t\t\t\tWinifred – EB’s pet tarantulas. They don’t like me either.<\/p>\n

So enough of the gummy worms and bread – let’s get to the \t\t\t\tmeat. As usual, we’re going to bring in the program’s developer \t\t\t\tto tell you about his (her?) program. We don’t know this guy \t\t\t\tfrom Adam – so it could be Eve for all we know.<\/p>\n

“This handy tool allows you to select YouTube videos in \t\t\t\tcategories of Most Watched, Car, Travel, Entertainment, Recipe, \t\t\t\tFitness, Animals, Funny, Fashion and Dance with a single click. \t\t\t\tFor each common topic there are icons of sub-topics. Search \t\t\t\tresults are listed as small images for easy browsing with a \t\t\t\tclick. Also find anything you like by entering it in the search \t\t\t\tbox.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"InfoAve
\nYes this is a screen shot of Go Videos running on \t\t\t\tmy computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s a little screen shot for you. Pay no attention to the \t\t\t\tscantily clad lady in the bottom left. I honestly didn’t put it \t\t\t\tthere. The author did. Honest. Anyway you type in the search \t\t\t\tform what you want to find on YouTube – for instance “living \t\t\t\twith tarantulas” and then little pictures appear in the program. \t\t\t\tClick a pic and there you go. You get it, right? You don’t need \t\t\t\ta browser to watch YouTube videos anymore. Hooray!<\/p>\n

Now it’s time to say goodbye, to YouTube Videos on the web, \t\t\t\tand say “hi” to Go Videos and watch your favorite YouTube videos \t\t\t\ton your desktop sans browser. \t\t\t\tGet Go \t\t\t\tVideos here<\/a>. Yep. \t\t\t\tIt’s \t\t\t\tour freeware pick of the week<\/a>…I’ll bet EB’s tarantulas are on \t\t\t\tit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go Videos A desktop YouTube player Download size (total) about 2MB Air installer (Requires Adobe Air) Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32bit & 64bit) This week’s freeware pick was selected for two reasons: it’s fun and it uses the Adobe Air installer. If you don’t already have Adobe Air installer, you’ll be prompted to download it when\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8,37,39,40,7,36,22,33,6,5,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}