Free FLV Converter 4.4

Downloading videos from free streaming sites like Youtube and Metacafe has become very easy with many application that let you download them with one click, like Download Helper for example.

The problem with most of these applications is that they download the videos in their standard "flv" format. Most applications give you the choice to convert your videos but always with a cost. And some of them even add an annoying application name that displays on the video or let you convert only part of the video for free.

Some might say, what's wrong with FLV. Well nothing is wrong with it if you only intend to play the video. But when it comes to editing, adding effects or adding the video to a presentation or another applicatio, FLV is the worst video coding out there.

Free FLV Converter lets you convert all your FLV videos to various video types, Avi, Wmv, 3gp and Ipod, Iphone and PSP compatible videos with the codec of your choice.

The conversion is done smoothly and fast and you can convert them instantly as Free FLV Converter has a built in search and play engine that supports various FLV streaming sites like Youtube, Metacafe, Google and Yahoo Videos and many more. It allows users to download videos instantly from these sites and converts them as they download so the end user will get his video downloaded and ready by a click of a button.



The GUI is very basic, no complicated tools or buttons with weird names on them. You can either search for a video and then download it via the "Search Video" panel; or you can download a specific video by providing the url of the video and the application will take care of it. Note that only the supported sites works with Free FLV and there is a good list of the most famous ones, I would have loved to see Megavideo with them but hope springs eternal.

The developers did not forget about videos downloaded from other websites or user created videos, they have added a Conversion tool to convert files that are already located in your HDD. And it works with any video that has the ".flv" extension. You can use other applications to download videos but there is only one place to convert them.

Another tool is the Conversion to FLV tool, this converts videos to FLV and it supports an even wider range of video extensions that I've wished to be added to the Convert To FLV list, like the mighty MKV for example. Maybe they will add these in later releases.


Free FLV Converter is essential for those who have limited internet connetcions and for those who want to make a collection of Youtube videos on DVDs. Just download the file, install the application and enjoy a new video browsing experience.

Download Free FLV Converter from Here.

3D Analyze

Did you buy a new laptop and you're trying to play a top notch game and after a long installation you've discovered that it does not work? Now you are wondering what went wrong, you've checked the basic specifications and noticed that your hardware meets the minimum requirements and maybe even the recommended requirements. And after some Googling searching and browsing through games sites and pages you've discovered that your video card is not supported. Well yes this happens to lots of people and its not there fault since gaming companies does not provide a full system specification and I don't know why but it happened to me. Most of the technical specifications only tell you the amount of video memory needed to run the game, sometimes they forget to tell you that you'll require Hardware TnL, Pixel Shading and Vertex Shading. As some of you might know that Intel Chipsets does not offer these essential gaming technologies that are required to play your game. But rest assured that there is a solution to this issue.

3D Analyze is a free application that lets you emulate both pixel shading and Hw TnL if your graphics card does not support them, it also comes with tons of other tweeks that you can apply to your game and/or 3D application. It is basically the one and probably the only solution out there that lets you run 3D applications on your computer with out the need of upgrading.

The GUI is somewhat frightening at first run as you'll see dozens of options and radio buttons but after a while you'll get the hang of it.

Basically most games nowadays requires HW TnL and Pixel Shading and most Intel Chipsets comes with a basic 1.1 Pixel Shading and no Hw TnL so the most important option in running a 3D game is to activate "Emulate HW TnL" and sometimes "Emulate Pixel Shading" if you have an older version than the one required. You can also enter a device ID if your game or program only works on specific chipsets like Nvidia or ATI, but first you'll have to know the device ID. And if you can't 3D analyze provides you with some of these IDs for popular hardware.



3D Analyze consumes a lot of memory depending on the options activated which means that even after emulation your game might suffer some glitches and/or crashes since your RAM will be working on maximum capacity so a change of RAM might be required before playing. Another disadvantage of 3D Analyze is that it doesn't provide you with explanations about what the various options will do, you can find information online but still it should be provided with at least a help file.

So far I have tried Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis, NWN2 and the mighty Oblivion and they all worked brilliantly except for NWN2 and I'm still trying to figure out the flaws there.

3D Analyze can be downloaded from Here.

Download Helper

Download Helper is a small yet effective add-on for Mozilla Firefox that enables you to download videos and photos from youtube, metacafe, megavideo, etc. Actually it works with all the websites that I've tried so far and everything downloads smoothly for no extra cost. The thing is with download helper that it doesn't actually downloads from the website its more likely to transfer the already downloaded file from your temporary internet files folder to a user specified folder. It actually grabs hold of the file, since most videos delete them selves once you navigate away from the page.

Download Helper is not a standalone program, therefore it doesn't offer much. As the name suggests it's only purpose is to download. No conversion is done to the files and you have to find another software to do the trick.

The main advantage of Download Helper is that it does not have restrictions, meaning that you can download any video from any web site around the globe. If you can see it you can get it. Plus it doesn't take much in regards of computer resources just a couple of KBs from your HDD and a similar amount from your RAM which makes it light and efficient. As the picture below shows Download Helper is only a small icon with a drop down menu.



Download Helper comes with a database of supported sites and when I say database I mean a real humongous database not just a couple of links and references.

You can download Download Helper from Here.

*Download Helper is only available for Firefox no version for IE is available yet.