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Interview with Michel Gutierrez of Video DownloadHelper

Sep/08 in Interviews

11 Video DownloadHelper is by far the most popular of the video downloading add-ons out the for Firefox.  Only proof you need is to check out the most popular downloads page yourself.  It gets 480,759 weekly downloads.  With that in mind, I wanted to talk with the man behind what might be one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox, ever.  Who is this man? Michel Gutierrez is the brain behind the Video DownloadHelper and I was lucky enough to get him cornered to answer a few questions I had about the extension.

Out of all the different, “download the video from that video sharing site” services out there – what does it feel like to be the most popular one, right now?

It’s good and that’s even better to be one of the most popular Firefox extensions overall :)

I started computing in the early 80s on a Sinclair ZX81 (2KB of RAM!) and since then, i wrote many lines of code within a lot of various projects but DownloadHelper is by far the application that got the best success. So when you write a piece of software that will be executed one million times everyday, you for sure feel useful but a bit anxious as you have the responsibility to make this code work flawlessly.

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Screencast Contest for Firefox!

May/21 in Firefox News

Have a hidden talent of being able to walk people through something?  Coming from the web hosting world, screencast tutorials are nothing new to me – see them used every day.  Now there is a new contest from Mozilla that will get you involved with sharing knowledge via your own desktop tutorial.

Here are a few more details about the contest:

Get ready to participate in the Firefox Screencasts contest! This is your chance to use your talents and passion for Firefox to create screencast support videos for the Firefox Support (SUMO) knowledge base.  We have prepared a list of the top 100 most popular support articles from the SUMO knowledge base and ask YOU to create screencasts for one, two, three, or all of them!  You can enter as many screencasts as you like.

Help your fellow Firefox fans and participate today!

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Media Pirate

Oct/28 in Hacks and Tweaks

Media Pirate is an image and video downloader and makes it easy to steal barrow media content from websites like blip.tv, break.com, dailymotion.com, ifilm.com, media.putfile.com, metacafe.com, myvideo.de, video.google.com, vidilife.com, youtube.com, zippyvideos.com and many other Web sites.

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ilovevideos Toolbar

Aug/31 in Entertainment

You have to enjoy a Firefox extension when the name pretty much sums up what it is all about. The ilovevideoz Toolbar is one of those extensions. This tool is one that will help you keep up to date with all the different video sharing Web sites and make sure you have seen all the best content on each.

[Learn More About The ilovevideoz Toolbar!]

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Firefox Video Tutorials

Aug/16 in Firefox Support

Have a friend that might not “get” how to use Firefox just yet? Maybe they would learn more if you gave them a visual to study? I ran across this series of Firefox video tutorials this morning. Right now they cover: Tabbed Browsing, Live Bookmarking, Integrated Search, Themes, and Add-ons or Extensions. You can even toss in your E-mail address into the Web page so that you can get updated when new tutorials are available.

[Learn More About Firefox Video Tutorials!]

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Watch Yahoo! Music Videos in Firefox

Aug/12 in Entertainment, Greasemonkey

This Greasemonkey script opens all Yahoo Launch music videos in a new window so that they will be playable with MS Windows Media Player or mplayerplug-in in Firefox. Since I have Yahoo/AT&T as my ISP, I have been getting access to some of the Yahoo! Music Plus features for some time. Now I can actually use them!

To use this script you must have Greasemonkey for Firefox installed.

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YouTube Toolbar

Jul/26 in Entertainment

WatchYouTube Toolbar Everybody loves YouTube. Every where I go I get somebody asking me if I saw this video or that video. For folks like me that have a hard time staying in the loop, there is the WatchYouTube Toolbar. It gives you all the fun of YouTube right in your browser.

[Learn More About WatchYouTube Toolbar!]

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Firefox Teaser Trailer

Jul/02 in Firefox News

Ever been interested in seeing all the behind the scenes action at Mozilla?

Hello! We (John Carey and myself, Matt Shichtman) are finally ready to launch the teaser trailer to the firefox summer video projects! We will be spending the summer putting together short bits of video with the purpose of bringing you, our viewers, the Mozilla experience as we near the release of the much anticipated FIREFOX 2.

[Watch the Road to Firefox 2 Teaser Trailer!]

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Video Downloader

May/01 in Usability

I’ve been playing with a new Firefox extension over the weekend that allows you to download those embedded movies that you see on Web sites. The extension is called, Video Downloader. The only catch I can find is that it has to be one of the video services they support. The good news is they support about two dozen (including MySpace, Google Video, YouTube, iFilm and more). Well worth the download if you find yourself wanting to save a lot of media from the Web.

[Learn More About Video Downloader!]

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