YouTube
Chances are that you already know a way to download videos from YouTube. Now there are several thousand ways to download YouTube videos (link), and I wonder why doesn’t YouTube start offering that functionality on their website ( or even better allow you to get the original file as Veoh(link) does). Currently I am using the freeware Orbit Downloader (link) to get the flv files used by youtube , then once when I got them I use a software called Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro (link) to batch convert all flv files to video ones which can be watched on my DVD playes . This routine saves me some time – batch downloading and batch converting does help. Its only that I wished there was a way to download all the videos uploaded or favored by a user without the need to attend to their urls – just using the user`s channel URL – so far I have no idea how this can be achieved. The many outside services such as VIXY (link) are nice – but they only allow one video at a time.
In case you want a good freeware to download videos YouTube Download&Convert will do the job for you (link)
Digital Inspiration list some great YouTube tools in their web site (link)



Review of the coming of age classic book Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon . Audio review of the book is included in the article.