Ways to download a video from YouTube - Maneras de bajar un vídeo de YouTube

  When you have a slow connection as a dial-up 56 kbps, the best option you have to see a video from YouTube or any other flash video is by downloading. Last weekend I needed to download a video and I came across that my flash downloader widget didn't work for YouTube videos, the reason was they hadn't fixed it after the latest YouTube update, so I started my research in the internet and I reached the following conclusions.

1. Using an online tool or browser widget like Flash Downloader (the best), it works with many other sites like RTVE.

2. Using a Bookmarklet supported by your browser, this is a good one: Right click on the next link and "Bookmark link" or "Add to Favorites--->  PwnYouTube

When you are viewing the youtube video page, click the bookmark or favorite and like magic a yellow stripe will be opened on the top page with links to download.

3. Just add pwn to the video URL, like this: http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch...

4. HandyCraft: The most complicated and slower.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3zamD5Bw-0  (this the ID)

a) Search in the source code of the video page:  "rv.6.id"  On the left of that, it appears a code like this: "vjVQa1PpcFNezWwUOcdmmS3r_4obvXkBsqL9X_MSRE0=" (this code varies according to the video) 

b) Now we make an URL with the ID of the video (in green) and the code in pink found in the source code of the video page (do not forget the rest of the symbols in blue below)

c) Paste URL in your browser bar and Enter:

 http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=A3zamD5Bw-0&t= vjVQa1PpcFNezWwUOcdmmS3r_4obvXkBsqL9X_MSRE0=

d) Do not forget to rename the file before downloading, adding the extension .flv 

5. Another way, let the video reaches the end (when buffered completed), distressing if your connection is very slow. Then go to the cache folder of your browser and find the file that corresponds to the video, rename it with .flv (The best way is to clear the cache before watching the video, and then sort files by size, perhaps the one of the video corresponds to the heaviest file.

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  Cuando se tiene una conexión lenta como un dial-up de 56 kbps, la mejor opción que tienes para ver un vídeo de YouTube o cualquier otro video flash es bajándolo. El pasado fin de semana necesitaba descargar un video y me encontré que mi widget de flashdownloader no funcionaba con los vídeos de YouTube, la razón era que no había sido arreglado tras la última actualización de YouTube, así que empecé mi investigación en Internet y he llegado a las conclusiones siguientes.

1. Usando una herramienta on line o una extensión para el navegador como Flash Downloader (el mejor), que funciona con muchos otros sitios como RTVE. 

2. El uso de un bookmarklet compatible con tu navegador, éste está muy bien: Hacer clic derecho sobre el siguiente enlace y  "Añadir a Bookmarks" o "Agregar a Favoritos ---> PwnYouTube

Cuando estés viendo la página del vídeo de YouTube, haz clic en el marcador o favorito y, por arte de magia, se abrirá una franja amarilla  en lo alto de la página con enlaces para descargar. 

3. Simplemente añade pwn en la URL del video, de esta manera: http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch ... 

4. Artesanal: La más complicada y lenta. 

Ejemplo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3zamD5Bw-0 (es la ID del video) 

a) Búsqueda en el código fuente de la página de vídeos: "rv.6.id" A la izquierda de ésto, hay un código como éste: "vjVQa1PpcFNezWwUOcdmmS3r_4obvXkBsqL9X_MSRE0 =" (el código varía según el video) 

b) Ahora hacemos una URL con la ID del vídeo (en verde) y el código de color de rosa del el código fuente de la página de vídeo (no olvides el resto de los símbolos en azul de a continuación) 

c) Pega la URL en la barra de navegador y Enter: 

http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=A3zamD5Bw-0&t= vjVQa1PpcFNezWwUOcdmmS3r_4obvXkBsqL9X_MSRE0=

d) No olvides cambiar el nombre del archivo antes de descargar, añadiendo la extensión .flv 

5. Otra forma: dejar que el video llegue hasta el final (cuando termine el buffer), desesperante si tu conexión es muy lenta. Luego ve a la carpeta de caché de tu navegador y busca el archivo que se corresponde con el vídeo, y renombrar con .flv antes de abrir con el reproductor (Lo mejor es borrar el caché antes de ver el vídeo, y luego clasificar los archivos por tamaño, tal vez el del vídeo se corresponda con el archivo más pesado)

* References - Referencias:

http://www.techsupportguides.com/what-is-a-bookmarklet/

http://deturl.com/ 

* To warch flv files I recommend VLC player - Para ver archivos flv recomiendo vlc player

Mis recuerdos de Eurovisión, the genuine Eurovision Song Contest

   Mi primer recuerdo del Festival de Eurovisión me lleva a cuando ganó Israel con el tema “Halleluyah”; por entonces era muy pequeñita, y me puse muy contenta porque era la canción que quería que ganara. Siempre lo he seguido con gran ilusión, en la españa de los ochenta no había ni internet, ni televisión en v.o, ni tdt, ni emisoras de radio que emitieran en inglés u otros idiomas aparte del español. Para mí era fantástico el poder escuchar cantar en inglés, en italiano, en francés, en alemán, en griego, en sueco, en turco, en hebreo, en árabe...
   El segundo recuerdo infantil que tengo en que ganó también la canción que yo quería, fue en 1981 cuando un grupo del Reino Unido de chicos y chicas vestidos con trajes de colores cantó “Making your mind up”.
   La verdad es que conforme fui creciendo fui apoyando a España con el corazón y a la canción que más me gustaba con el alma. Entre las que más me han gustado representando a España se encuentran: Cadillac “Valentino” (1986), La Década Prodigiosa “Made in Spain” (1988), Sergio Dalma “Bailar Pegados” (1991), Serafín Zubiri “Todo ésto es la música” (1992), etc
   Era el festival europeo más internacional que pudiera haber en torno a la música y las buenas canciones. United Kingdom 1 point, Le Spagne 3 points, ¿os suena verdad?
   Una de las cosas que más me gustaban era cuando el presentador o presentadora del festival introducía un país y decía: ¡España!, intérprete y título de la canción, autor, y... dirige la orquesta el maestro Juan Carlos Calderón o Eduardo Leyva. Por si no os habéis dado cuenta jóvenes lectores, antes cada país llevaba su director de orquesta! Cualquier buen cantante que se aprecie debe saber cantar al compás de una orquesta y no sólo con sonidos pregrabados. Por otro lado, un festival de música que se aprecie debe llevar incorporado una orquesta, al menos esa es mi opinión. El Festival de San Remo es un gran festival porque continúa con orquesta, lo cuál no quiere decir que sea incompatible con ritmos más vanguardistas y modernos.
   "Reivindicaciones para que el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión vuelva a ser lo que es", ¿de la canción?, sí habéis leído bien, a la organización o a los países participantes, se les ha olvidado que es un Festival de Can-cio-nes, y no un espectáculo internacional de variedades.
   1. Recuperar la orquesta y la figura del director de orquesta representante de cada país.
   2. Que Italia vuelva a participar llevando al ganador del Festival de San Remo, como hacía antes.
   3. Que cada país cante en su lengua o en una de las lenguas oficiales, y que el inglés sólo pueda utilizarse para alguna frase de la canción, si el país no es de lengua inglesa.
   4. Que no se permita que la puesta en escena supere a lo que es la canción y la interpretación en sí.

   España Eurovisión 2010: Daniel Diges "Algo Pequeñito"  

   My first memory of the Eurovision Song Contest takes me to when Israel won with the song "Halleluyah", I was very little by that time, and I was very happy because it was the song I wanted to win.I've always followed it with great enthusiasm, in Spain in the eighties there was no internet, no television in o.v., or DTT, or radio stations broadcasting in English or other languages but Spanish. It was fantastic to me being able to hear singing in English, Italian, French, German, Greek, Swedish, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic ...
   The second memory as a child that also the song I wanted won, was in 1981 when a UK group of boys and girls in colored costumes sang "Making your mind up."
   The truth is that as I got older I went to Spain to support the heart and the song I liked with the soul. Among the ones I liked representing Spain include: Cadillac "Valentino" (1986), La Década Prodigiosa "Made in Spain" (1988), Sergio Dalma "Bailar Pegados" (1991), Serafín Zubiri "Todo ésto es la música "(1992), etc.
   It was the most international Festival that could be respect to music and good songs. United Kingdom 1 point, Le Spagne 3 points, do u recall?
   One thing I liked was when the presenters of the festival introduced a country and said, Spain performer and song title, author, and... directs the orchestra the maestro Juan Carlos Calderón or Eduardo Leyva. In case you have not noticed young readers, before each country had its conductor! Any good singer who should appreciate knowing how to sing to the beat of an orchestra, not just prerecorded sounds. On the other hand, a true music festival should have incorporated an orchestra, at least that's my opinion. The Festival of San Remo is a great festival because it continues with orchestra, which does not mean it is incompatible with most pioneering and modern rhythms.
   "Claims for the Eurovision Song Contest again be what it is", Song?, Yes you read that right, to the organization or the participating countries, they have forgotten that it is a S-o-n-g festival and not an international show of varieties.
   1. Get the orchestra and the conductor figure representative of each country back.
   2. Italy comes back with the San Remo Festival winner, as before.
   3. Every country singing in his language or one of the official languages, and that English is used only for some phrase of the song, if the country is not English.
   4. The staging is not allowed to exceed what is the song and the interpretation itself.

   Spain Eurovision 2010 Daniel Diges "Algo Pequeñito" 

Too Marvellous for Words

   "Too Marvelous for Words" is a beautiful jazzy song written by Johnny Mercer and composed by Richard Whiting. It was first published in 1937.

"I search for phrases to sing your praises
But there aren't any magic adjectives
To tell you all you are

You're just too marvelous, too marvelous
For words like glorious, glamorous
And that old standby amorous
It's all too wonderful, I'll never find the words
That say enough, tell enough
I mean they just aren't swell enough

You're much, too much and just too very, very
To ever be in Webster's dictionary and so
I'm borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous
Too marvelous for words"

   *Search for videos:

The King Cole Trio (1946): Wonderful of course

Doris Day (1949): Always fantastic                           

Frank Sinatra (1956) Whoever not?

Diana Krall (2009) Sweet Sweet Version

Ricardo Baldacci (2007) I came across his version on YouTube. He's from Brazil

We are what we eat

   A blog post published by other blogger saying was to collaborate with a CSA farm, made me first wonder: "CSA?, What's CSA?, What does it mean?. After researching a bit in the internet I recalled a magazine I saw last year about luxory travels around the world. A report called my attention, it was about farms in the USA growing organic vegetables and getting fresh organic milk and eggs from the animals they care for. A picture was really remarkable: a long table with an elegant table cloth, nice dishes and cups stood just in the middle of the crops, as the one you could find at the best restaurant. I thought it was fascinating people went to the country to eat a delicious meal cooked with the own vegetables they had just picked up. It would be wonderful there was something like that here in Spain, I said to myself.

   According to the Wikipedia: A CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes the community's farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production. CSA’s focus is usually on a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables and fruit in a vegetable box scheme, sometimes dairy products and meat. The term CSA is mostly used in the USA, but a variety of similar production and economic sub-systems are in use worldwide.

   One of the many advantages are they usually use organic or biodynamic farming methods, and CSA members are also more actively involved in the growing and distribution process, through shared newsletters and recipes, farm visits, farm work-days, advance purchases of shares, and picking up their shares.

   In Spain, the name used por something very similar to CSA is Cooperativas de consumo ecológico: members of the association from a same district or city go personally to a local or little shop where they pick up and pay for the stuff they had previously ordered to the farmers. In Spain, the first ecologic cooperative was created in Cataluña in 1993, nowadays there are more than forty in the same region. Delivery of vegetables and fruit in a vegetable box scheme is beginning to come into fashion in Cataluña too, many high standing restaurants choose this option to cook expensive dishes where original taste is essential.

   I am really concerned about health in food, we are what we eat as once someone said. However, most fruit and vegetables we buy for our daily consume are full of pesticides and other products dangerous for our health. I would like one day when we went to the supermarket, we hadn't to wonder: is that ecological?, are those organic vegetables?, are those free-range eggs?

   The current situation in Spain is the following: the spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food promotes shy campaigns inviting us to consume organic products, which you can find only in small amounts in big commercial centers and at high price. Most of people tries to survive by buying store brand products (Private Label Manufacturers), which are not precisely ecological.

   How the situation should be: the idea of store brands (marcas blancas) is not bad, provided you could find a totally ecological store brand; the second thing is you could go to any district market and buy easily fresh organic vegs and fruit, without having to subscribe to any cooperative.

   Anyway, I encourage everybody who has a terrace or balcony, though you live in an urban context, to grow your own vegetables such as tomatoes, green-peppers, onions, aromatic plants... I haven't had the chance to do it yet, but according to what people who has experimented it say it's worth a lot and is pretty satisfying to eat something you have seen grew, no chemical addings, healthy and tasty. A tomato tastes to tomato and a green-pepper to green-pepper and not to plastic. Fortunately the world of urban horticulture has come into fashion in cities like Barcelona.

   We as consumers should demand health and quality on what we eat. I don't want to think about a world where the poor eat unhealthy because it's cheap and the rich eat apparently healthy beacause it's expensive. I hope healthy food is real in our global world at convenient price for everybody soon.

Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'

Oklahoma Countryside

   This song belongs to the soundtrack of the musical film Oklahoma (1955); I must have seen this film many many years ago as I really don't remember now, however the melody and the chorus has remained during all this time on my mind. I even believed for some time that it belonged to Seven brides for seven brothers, as the melody is very similar to Wonderful Day. Actually, I use to sing it to myself whenever I'm glad or I feel like singing. One night, at listening to the radio, it was played and it was named Oklahoma as the film of the song, so I decided to put it here.

   * Search fo videos: Oklahoma- Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'

 

Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'

There's a bright golden haze on the meadow 
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow 
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye, 
An' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky. 

Oh, what a beautiful mornin', 
Oh, what a beautiful day. 
I got a beautiful feelin' 
Ev'rything's goin' my way. 

All the cattle are standin' like statues 
All the cattle are standin' like statues 
They don't turn their heads as they see me ride by, 
But a little brown mav'rick is winkin' her eye. 

Oh, what a beautiful mornin', 
Oh, what a beautiful day. 
I got a beautiful feelin' 
Ev'rything's goin' my way. 

All the sounds of the earth are like music 
All the sounds of the earth are like music 
The breeze is so busy it don't miss a tree, 
And a ol' weepin' willer is laughin' at me! 

Oh, what a beautiful mornin', 
Oh, what a beautiful day. 
I got a beautiful feelin' 
Ev'rything's goin' my way. 
Oh, what a beautiful day!

Music by Richard Rodgers - Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II