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November 22, 2008 12:00 AM PST

Featured Freeware: NetVideoHunter

by Seth Rosenblatt
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Don't be deceived by this Firefox extension's unassuming user interface, it's actually a very capable video player.

NetVideoHunter operates via a tiny icon and counter that appear in your status bar. When you click on the icon, a window appears for viewing videos. A step-by-step guide walks you through the process--a definite plus for novices. Watching a YouTube video, for example, adds it to the counter. From there, click on NetVideoHunter's tiny icon to reveal a video link. We had two choices: to play or download the video. Play starts the video, while download saves the FLV to your hard drive.

Watch out for where you save the video, and be wary of a help link on how to play FLV files that did all of nothing. Those are minor problems, though, and NetVideoHunter works great. The videos quickly appear in the queue, and play/save worked without any issues. This app is recommended.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by kumarshivsoni November 22, 2008 3:25 AM PST
my iphone
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by kalpeshfaldu November 22, 2008 4:16 AM PST
firefox extension download helper much more useful than this , not only youtube , but it can download you with video or images or music from any page you are watchiing,
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by o-m-r November 22, 2008 10:31 AM PST
tahnk
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