The secret features of our favorite media player - VLC media player

The VLC media player (Videolan media player) is by far one of the best media players freely available .

The list of features in this open source player is quite extensive.





Screen-Shot  

 


You can take a screenshot of any video you are playing in Vlc media player. By default,
the screen-shot pictures are stored in the My Pictures folder.


Adjust Audio, Video and Subtitles

 

To adjust brightness, select Tools >> Track Synchronization >> Video Effects.

Web Cam Recording

You can record a video with the help of Web Cam using VLC media player.

Video Streaming
One of the best features but it is hardly used in VLC media player. To know more visit the links below:
Engadget
Videolan Documentation
VLC media player console for Geeks

VLC media player has a built in console with the help of which you can control the various features of the player.
  

Forget short messages, post short videos using Vine

Vine is a free video sharing social app that you can install on your smartphone.
The application allows you to post and share short six minute videos.




 Even the US President Mr. Barrack Obama is using Vine...




Vine is heavily inspired by Instagram, a Home Screen shot of Vine





With Vine you can post short six minute videos and share them on your favorite social networking site.

The Vine App for iPhone, Android and Windows smartphones are easy to use and learn. The videos play in a loop once you post them in vine like animated gifs on the web.

Get Vine here : https://vine.co/

Google Keep - The next useless Note-Worthy app from Google

Google has launched a new service called Google Keep which allows a user to take notes in the form of text, images and audio.


The service is closely tied with Google Drive as all your data is stored there.

 



The Android App is simple to use

                                                   

You create a new Note and it gets synced to your Google Drive automatically.
You can edit the same note on any device provided you use the same Google account on each of them.
In Google Keep you can add colors to your note.

The Web Interface

The web interface is available at Google Keep.
It has a similar interface of Google Drive and the android app


The Good

The Google Keep service is surprisingly simple to use. Google may bundle this app in the next version of Android so it comes installed on newly purchased smartphones.

The Bad

Google Keep does not have a future. Google killed most apps in the productivity segment like Google Bookmarks, Google Notebook and quite recently Google Reader.


The Verdict

There is no guarantee that Google will continue this product after a few users.

There is also Evernote, which is light years ahead of Google Keep in terms of features. The only plus point Google Keep does not limit the user to 60 MB size every month like Evernote.

PopCorn Time : A free Netflix alternative to watch movies and tv shows?

Popcorn time  is a free service that allows you to watch the latest movie with the help of torrents.

We take a look at the Windows PC version of this service in this article.
 





What is surprising is that the most movies are of really high quality like 1080 p.



The TV series list is also good as seen below:



There are options for Android, Mac and Linux too.

Go visit PopCornTime