Download and Convert YouTube Videos Under Ubuntu With Downverter

Downverter is a cross-platform desktop application that allows users  to download videos (in High Definition - HD 1080 / 720) from YouTube and convert them to any of the following media extensions:

• MP3 / MP4 /  3GP / AVI / MOV 
• WMV for PSP, Pocket PC, iPod,  Mobile Phone, Smartphone, etc.
  
  
  

Nothing complicated in this application, you need simply to insert the YouTube video URL, select the desired media format you want to convert your video into, then select where to save the downloaded video, that's it. You can install this application from the terminal with these commands:


- Ubuntu 11.10/11.04 (32-bit):

wget -O downverter-32.deb http://goo.gl/O23iN

sudo dpkg -i downverter-32.deb

- Ubuntu 11.10/11.04 (64-bit):

wget -O downverter-64.deb http://goo.gl/qXxGF

sudo dpkg -i downverter-64.deb

To Install Firefox 10 In Ubuntu11.10

A new version of Firefox 10 for Ubuntu is released and available for download recently in the official repository of Mozilla.
Firefox 10 brings many new features, here are some of them:

• Forward button is invisible until you navigate back.
  
• Implemented WebGL Antialiasing.
  
• CSS3 3D-Transforms Support.
  
• Full Screen APIs For Developing Web Apps That Run Fullscreen.
  
• No More Crash When Moving Bookmarks, etc.

To install Firefox 10 under Ubuntu 11.10, open the terminal and run this sequence of commands:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install firefox