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Georgia Aquarium – videos

March 8th, 2011

During the visit to the world’s largest aquarium in Georgia, it is difficult not to be awed by the scene of the underwater world.

Following are a couple of videos recorded during the tour.


Ocean Voyager
Home to whale sharks and manta rays, Ocean Voyager is the world’s largest aquarium exhibit with 6.3 million gallons of water. Watch thousands of animals in front of the largest viewing window in North America.


Cold Water Quest
Beluga whales and more give you a glimpse of the rich variety of life found in cold ocean waters.

Georgia Aquarium is a must-visit attraction in Atlanta, and one thing that I was grateful to have with me then was the Atlanta CityPASS, allowing me to visit six most popular attractions conveniently, and “express entrance” to Georgia Aquarium without the need for a long queue too.

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How to download, save and play facebook video

February 9th, 2010

This video download tip requires no installation of any programs, except using your internet browser only.

Some videos that are uploaded onto Facebook, are not linked directly to YouTube, and the video file is encoded, stored in Facebook’s site.

It gets a bit tricky to download and play such videos offline.

If you search with Google or any other search engines, most likely than not you will be asked to install programs. More often that not also, such programs are malwares and might install trojan horse or virus to your computer.

So, say you wanted to download a video, something like this:

Identify the URL
The URL should be in the form of http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php followed by the video id.
As an example for the above, the URL is : http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1254357076086&ref=mf

Get the video link
View the HTML source of the page.

Right click and select ‘View Page Source’ and look for the id with “video_src”.
The following link is the hidden video link.

Convert the video link
The hidden video link is actually encoded and you need to unencode or technically, unescape the HTML code.
Go to http://www.linkedresources.com/tools/unescaper_v0.2b1.html and put the video link to the encoded textarea, then click unescape.

Voila, the actual video link will be displayed below.

Download and save the file
Now that you got the link, just paste it to your browser URL bar and download it.

Ready to play
The download file, could be in mp4 format, and if your video player such as Windows Media Player is unable to play it, and you do not have the codec, try renaming the file extension from mp4 to flv.
Proceed to play the file offline with FLV Player.

Hope it works for you, just like it worked for me! 🙂

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