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The next article

Well, the eFlicks article ended up being written for Public Libraries magazine but I’ve been in contact with the folks at WebJunction and I will be sending them an article on managing your Firefox search plugins. (Every try to delete one of those puppies, or, better yet, try to alphabetize them. This article will show you how.) It should be written shortly and edited about a week after that. Since WJ is all online, figure that the article itself should be up by the end of the month. Of course, I’ll link to it here once it’s available.

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Saving YouTube and Google Video files locally

Have you ever wanted to save your own copy of a video you’ve seen on YouTube, Google Video, or other online video sharing service. Well, the new Firefox extension VideoDownloader allows you to do just that. One installed a new icon appears in your status bar.
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When you reach a page with one of those embedded videos just click on the icon and a new window will appear giving you links the all the videos on the page.
VideoDownloader
To save any of them, just right-click and use the save as function of your browser. As the window will remind you, to view the video you will need to change the file’s extension post downloading and have the FLV Player installed.

At the time of this posting there were four videos on this page. Feel free to try it out here.

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