To download video from YouTube, drag the bookmarklet below to your bookmarks toolbar. You can then click on it whenever you are visiting a YouTube video URL to download the FLV video featured on that page.
This was made possible by ctrl-c.org YouTube API. I put together the bookmarklet because Adobe’s 32 bit Flash plugin is usually not very happy in a 64 bit environment on GNU/Linux. Now I can watch everything fullscreen in MPlayer.
I have been playing around with the Amazon Web Services and S3 in particular over the last couple of days. It’s something I have planned to do for a long time now but never have come around till now. But I got a kick in the but to wake up and smell the Amazon Kool-Aid (ok, too many mixed metaphors and pop-cultural references) when I heard Jeff Barr’s presentation “Web Services: Fuelling Innovation and Entrepreneurship” from d.Construct 2006 about AWS, especially how easy it is to get started and play around with the services. One of the tools he mentioned, S3 Firefox Organizer, a Firefox add-on, had me up and running in matter of minutes.