The world of webcams and Google videos results in hilareous Idol wannabees.. Look for yourself!

Google Idol… unearthing the world’s talent…

Some photographer had the very nice idea to do a before-and-after the Tsunami shoot. It’s amazing to see the contrast and place everything in perspective. Disaster and tourism all together in this gallery:
Thailand Tsunami Then and Now Gallery

Sometimes you view a video on the web and you would like to save it to your local drive. Many modern sites protect their content. KeepVid ends all this.

KeepVid enables you to download from video.google.com, youtube, metacafe en ifilm.

Total Commander is file manager I use on a daily basis. It looks like the old dos program Norton Commander. Until a couple years ago this application was widely known as Windows Commander. But Microsoft suewed them for using the Windows word, so you know what happens then…

Today I browsed their site and looking for a way the open .jar files directly without renaming them to zip. The answer:”Just press CTRL-PageDown”. Taaadaaa. But that’s not why I am posting this article.
I found out that there also nice plugins available. I downloaded a view and tried them:

Iso plugin - Just open .iso cd images like an archive.

Disk Dir Extended - Creates a list file with all selected files and directories, including subdirs (e.g. as an index for CD-ROMs). It is called like a packer (Files->Pack)!

Avi plugin - Create AVI video files (from BMPs), open AVI files with Ctrl+PgDn and extract frames/the sound with F3!

SFTP plugin - Access remote servers via secure FTP (FTP via SSH). Requires SSH2.

These tools make Total Commander more useful. I didn’t know it was possible.