Puzzle Collection Software – Check Your Brain Power

Download: Puzzle Collection (Size 1.65MB)

Friends now it is time to check your brain power, here is a collection of five puzzles. Challenge yourself with this entertaining collection of five brain-teasers. These puzzles range in difficulty from moderate to difficult, and span a range of clever conundrums: from calculating the number of cars on a race track to playing a variant of chess involving 8 bishops! Other puzzles include "Alpha Blocks", "Eight Counters" and "Naval Convoy", wherein the formation of an entire enemy convoy must be deduced based on the position of only 2 ships!

SmoothTube - YouTube Video Downloader

Download: SmoothTube (Size: 4.37 MB)

Hey guys! Here is a tool to download any video from YouTube. SmoothTube downloads videos from YouTube and converts them to MPEG format, which is supported by almost all media players and devices.

It also post processes videos, smoothing out some of the compression artifacts often introduced by YouTube's file size requirements.

SmoothTube uses the same libraries as Videolan's VLC player. It works as a front-end to VLC's transcoding options, requiring no knowledge of their syntax or inner workings. You do not need VLC installed (though it is highly recommended as a multipurpose media player).

SmoothTube is licensed under the GPL.

Riva FLV Encoder 2.0 - FLV Converter

Download: Riva FLV Encoder 2.0 (File Size: 4.72 MB)

This robust video converter ably packs a number of file formats into the Flash video format and is stylish to boot. Riva FLV Encoder works well with the usual suspects: AVI, WMV, MPEG, and MOV files. With a graceful, well-designed interface that shows its developers care about details, this video converter also offers a healthy set of conversion options. Frame rate, bit rate, and audio-compression options all can be set to your preferences. The program can "cut" video files into JPEG images, if needed.

Another nice detail is the inclusion of several presets depending on your network type (ISDN or DSL, for example). What's more, you can easily save settings to save time later. Overall, Riva is a great freeware application for Webmasters looking for a reliable (and inexpensive) way to convert video files to the Web.

Here's a list of the supported input formats and codecs (remember, the output will always be .flv):

AVI
Cinepak Codec by Radius, Cinepak by Supermac
Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft RLE
XviD
DivX 3 Lower Motion, DivX 4, DivX 5
TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC)

MPEG
MPEG-1 (VCD)
MPEG-2 (SVCD.DVD)
MPEG-4 (XviD, MP4, 3GPP)
Quicktime

Sorenson Video 3 Pro with the audio codec MP3, IMA 4:1 (nicht QDesign Standard und Qualcomm PureVoice) or wihtout audio
Exported from Quicktime Pro
Not supported: Exported from Adobe Premiere
Not supported: QDM2 Audio Codec
Windows Media Video

WMV 7, WMV 8
MPEG-4 V3
ISO MPEG-4 V1
Not supported: WMV 9