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Reviews
iDesktop.tv reviews:
Webuser, the UKs best selling internet magazine, has featured iDesktop.tv in its “Best new websites section”. Webuser gave iDesktop.tv 4 out of 5 stars. It mentioned the download functionality and the viewing and sharing functions. The reviewer also wrote about the interface, stating “the interface is designed to resemble a desktop application, so it’s very simple to use, and can be customised with different themes”.
The review is on page 17 of the current issue (issue 180).
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Many thanks go to Ian Hughes over at Pocet-lint.co.uk, a site specialising in technology and gadget reviews. iDesktop.tv was featured as their site of the day on 28/01/08. Amongst the comments made were “this one’s different, simply due to its functionality” and “Why can’t all sites be like this…?”. Thanks also to Yahoo UK News, for featuring this review on their site, and also naming it as their site of the day.
Go here for the review on Pocket-lint:
Here’s the review on Yahoo:
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Torley Lives
Torley, an online writer, reviewed iDesktop.tv in an article regarding video conversion tools entitled “iDesktop.tv is a bright light in a sea of video conversion suck”. Torley stated that iDesktop.tv had the best video conversion tools that he’d found.
Thanks to Torley for the kind words, and in-depth review.
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European Startups
Ivan at European Start-ups gave the site a glowing review, and managed to say some things about the site that have not yet been said, including “you will see an inspiring dose of motivation“.
Big thanks to Ivan for the kind words.
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Ehrensenf
Big thanks to German Webzine Ehrensenf for featuring us.
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DinSide
Dinside, the popular Norwegian Webzine has given the site a look. If anyone can speak Norwegian, feel free to translate the review for us.
Cheers to Dinside for featuring us!
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Macobex
Thanks to Karl at macobex.com, for reviewing the site in his article “iDesktop.tv – the new YouTube experience“. Amongst his comments were “slick and compact appearance” and “iDesktop is the new experience for watching YouTube’s videos“.
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Killer Startups
Killerstartups.com gave iDesktop.tv a look, in an article called ‘iDesktop.tv - YouTube made better’. They liked the site, and wrote: “it’s incredibly user friendly and easy to use” and “it’s packed with features to make your YouTube viewing experience much more interactive and useful” amongst other things.
Thanks to Siri at Killerstartups.com
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Ajaxian
“iDesktop is an Ajax application that allows you to search and view YouTube videos.
The viewer uses a stripped down Prototype, and a whole bunch of script to give you sliders that automatically change the layout to allow more or less content on the screen, menus, pagination, inline popups, and a lot more.”
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TechCrunch
“iDesktop.tv - a relaunch of YouTubeDesktop - is basically an Ajax interface onto YouTube videos with a few more features added, chiefly the ability to download videos to your desktop. I know there are apps for this kind of thing, but few achieve this is in the consumer-friendly fashion of iDesktop.tv.”
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The Fatty Talks“I have been trying for several weeks now to successfully download a video on YouTube of my friend. I probably used about 15 different “Video Downloading” programs and sites. Finally, iDesktop.tv allowed me to save the video properly.”
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Techdeep“Everyone will agree that the default YouTube interface is a bit boring to browse through. Browsing through YouTube can be great pass time or refreshing. So here’s where iDesktop.tv comes into picture.”
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Makeuseof.com“iDesktop.tv is a cool application that lets you browse YouTube in an incredibly cool interface. Search, Watch and Download Youtube videos in better looking environment. There is nothing to install or download just go to www.idesktop.tv.”
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Technology Bites“Thanks to iDesktop.tv team for allowing me to see their rich web 2.0 application. iDesktop.tv has a simple to use interface which is better than any other video watching application.”
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PandaCube“You can now download videos and save them as avi, mp4(ipod), mov, 3gp(mobile), wmv, flv, exe (built in standalone player) and zipped format. Now that’s a cool feature for I never liked the idea of saving my favourite videos in flv format.”
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Digg“The idea behind iDesktop.tv is to bring a desktop application experience to navigating and viewing YouTube videos through a web browser.”
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Last 100“By using a desktop metaphor, the application is incredibly easy to grasp because you feel right at home dragging ‘n’ dropping videos into a playlist or minimizing and resizing windows on the fly.”
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Mashable“iDesktop.tv is a new video aggregator that lets you create playlists in an easy and functional manner.”
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MSDN Blog Postings“I thought it was pretty cool to see an application go in to beta that connects with one of the darlings (and stars) of Web 2.0. I think it’s a great example that helps explain what Software + Services is all about.”
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“There’s no doubt that iDesktop.tv is impressive technically, with some complex AJAX going on under the hood, which worked flawlessly in Firefox on a Mac.”
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Google Reviews“iDesktop.tv is a new website where you can browse all your favorite youtube video in an
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DailyApps“The possibilities of the site reach far beyond that. It gives you the chance to create your own environment for watching video clips, saving them and sharing them with friends.”
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SolSie.com“The main goal of iDesktop.tv is to provide users a convenient way of browsing through the enormous amount of online videos and to improve the experience - help them manage their favourite ones by saving them in playlists, downloading them onto the PC and many, many other options.”
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Torley“I really like how I can watch a video in a window while continuing to browse in the background. It feels a lot more integrated than having to open multiple browser tabs to view and browse simultaneously.”
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SoftSift“Though it is rather easy to browse and search for videos in YouTube directly from its website, it is undoubtedly easier with iDesktop.tv, an impressive dynamic web application, coupled with modern design for search, watching and even downloading videos from the web!”
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PC World“iDesktop.tv runs in a browser and allows you to organize your various video watching and management tools the way you want.”