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CNET Editors' review
This handy Firefox add-on lets you quickly download your favorite FLV files as you browse the Web, but we would have liked some way to use this toolbar's wasted space.
Clipta Toolbar with Downloader introduces a slim toolbar to your Firefox browser that makes it easy to quickly browse and download videos at the same time, but there's still too much wasted space for our tastes. The toolbar houses a search field that uses Clipta's own search capabilities, a button that displays featured videos, and another button that shows the number of videos captured during a single session. You can't customize the toolbar at all, and the only other items on offer are links to get updates and to visit the publisher's site. In testing, the app worked fine, though. We visited YouTube during our tests, and as soon as we found several videos, we simply clicked the download button for each video file, and in a matter of seconds, video files were downloaded and saved to our location of choice. Note: this is just a tool to get the files. You'll need to have an FLV player to play them.
We were a little disappointed in the lack of a viable help feature, but you can e-mail the publisher or visit the forum on the Web site. Most people will find the program easy to use, even without any user guidance, and it works fine if you're OK with the trade-off in space.
Publisher's Description
From Clipta:
Clipta toolbar allows you to instantly search, share, download, and view high quality videos from across the web. Our toolbar integrates Clipta's state of the art video search engine by being able to instantly access videos from all over the internet without opening any extra browsers, windows, or tabs. Simply enter the search word(s) into Clipta's search bar, and scan through the world's largest variety of quality online video. Clipta's downloader allows you to save any video you watch onto your computer in FLV format. The downloader is not restricted to any specific site and is able to download the content from everywhere on the internet, including the popular sites like YouTube, MySpace, Dailymotion, and Metacafe. What separates us from others is that our downloads are not limited to videos. Now you can download your favorite MP3's onto your computer. Clipta's toolbar also allows you to instantly share and embed your favorite videos to the most popular social networks including Facebook, Myspace, hi5 and many more. Clipta's latest version feeds the most recent video news clips from premiere news providers including CNN, ESPN, and MSNBC, and offers Clipta's Toolbar services in 7 different languages.
Version 1.4 includes an up-to-date high quality video news feed from premiere news providers, services in 7 languages, and 4 new categories of Featured Videos.
What's new in this version: Version 1.4 includes an up-to-date high quality video news feed from premiere news providers, services in 7 languages, and 4 new categories of Featured Videos.
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"Very user friendly with all the right features."
Version: Clipta Toolbar with Downloader 1.2
Pros
I can search for ALL the videos on the internet right from the toolbar. I love the Capture Video feature. I can basically take any one of the videos on the internet, capture it to my PC desktop and then seamlessly upload it to my Apple IPhone.
Cons
Very hard to think of. Looks like the development team at Clipta did a very good job with design and all the features. I guess that having more languages would help, but that is probably in the works already and will be out with the next release.
Summary
Bottom line is I LOVE this product. I cannot wait for the new release of the Clipta toolbar to come out so that I can download it to my PC. Honestly, I use this tool every day. Thank you, Clipta team for a great product. Keep up the good work.
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"Clipta Toolbar offers more features than any other"
Version: Clipta Toolbar with Downloader 1.2
Pros
Thanks to Clipta Toolbar I am able to find, view, playback, embed and even download ANY video I watch. I can embed videos to my favorite social network sites and download any video straight to my desktop. Also, their 3D featured wall is incredible.
Cons
I cant wait till Clipta Video Search has more videos to chose from.
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