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Projects Come Alive With VideoBlocks

Enliven your creative projects with millions of unlimited downloadable content at the touch of a mouse on VideoBlocks.com. Check it out >

Download videos from Youtube (and more sites)

A small command-line program, youtube-dl lets users download videos from Youtube and other sites. The only requirement though is Python interpreter. Grab it now >

A Behind The Scenes Look Into AWS

At the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this year, James Hamilton, vice president and distinguished engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), gave conference attendees a broad but insightful glimpse at the size and scope of AWS cloud. For example, Hamilton goes into detail on the ins and outs of the network AWS built from scratch. For more on the story, keep reading >

The Truth Behind W3C, the Web, and HTML5

In October of this year, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) officially recommended HTML5. For citizens of the Internet who aren’t familiar with the matter and want to know more about it, this article goes back in time, providing an in-depth history on how the Web, the W3C, and HTML5 came to exist. Keep reading >

Strategy Change For Firefox’s Search Partnerships

Last week, Firefox announced that it will be changing its strategy for Firefox search partnerships. In the announcement, it will no longer have a single global default search provider which was formerly held by Google. Instead, Firefox has chosen to promote choice and innovation on the Internet by partnering with local search providers, becoming the default search experience rather than Google, in every country. Keep reading >