In following up the list of my favorite viral videos, here are some YouTube videos which I think show some incredible skills. They’re not “virally popular” but they probably should be!

Piano Playing Juggler

Can Throwing

Ball Throwing

Dice Stacking

David Belle demonstrating Parkour

Face Catching Raybans

I was re-watching Weezer’s Pork and Beans video and am still impressed by the number of outstanding viral videos they managed to squeeze into it. In tribute to the YouTube stars, here’s a summary of my favorites:

Canon Rock by Funtwo

Diet Coke + Mentos by EepyBird

Numa Numa by Gary Brolsma

Evolution of Dance by Judson Laipply

Kung Fu Audition Gone Wrong by Afro Ninja

Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday

T-Shirt Guiness World Record by Matt McAllister

Nowadays, I communicate alot with people remotely (e.g. my family who lives overseas and people I outsource work to). Sometimes what I want to say cannot be communicated via email or even chat. That’s when screen captures and video captures really help.

I’ve been a huge fan of TechSmith’s Snag-It. The $49.95 cost is well worth its capabilities.

I’ve also tried TechSmith’s Camtasia video capture utility. And while I did find it useful, I just found the $299 cost to be just too high for the few times that I’d actually use it. Every so often, I’d smack my head and seriously consider buying it to solve a particular problem, baulk at the price, and then figure out a solution without needing Camtasia.

Earlier this week, a fellow geek pointed me to Jing. Jing, which interestingly enough is a product from TechSmith (makers of SnagIt and Camtasia), is totally free. It has screen capture and video capture capabilities. While the user interface is slightly different from SnagIt and Camtasia, the functionality is the same plus more! With Jing, you also get free access to Screencast (where you can host the videos you make). It’s not time limited, but it is bandwidth limited. So if you’re doing a serious amount of sharing, you will have to pay to upgrade your account.

But you don’t need to upload your captures to Screencast. You can easily save them as local files or you can move it into the clipboard (so that you can paste it on-the-fly to programs such as Photoshop).

I’m just totally amazed that such an awesome program is free. Check it out now!

Just when you thought it was safe to use a cellphone, along comes this video…

EDIT: I’ve been told that this is indeed a hoax. Snopes has the details (scroll to the bottom).

I’ve never heard of Weezer before, but their music video for Pork and Beans rocks! If you’re a fan of all the viral videos out there, it’s really impressive how they’ve put them all into this video!

Pork and Beans - Weezer