Are you sick of having to download many players? Many sites like youtube utilize FLASH. I wanted to figure this out for my own site. I have gone the Semi-Free way, which always takes some time… Here are the steps. You will need three pieces of software, that are open source. Start downloading them from the various sites: 1. 7Zip compression software a. A new high compression software to replace zip b. Download this and install it c. 7-Zip Compression 2. FFMPEG – Converts your video file to FLV a. Flash video is the key to the player problem, as it’s installed on 99% of browsers! b. You can read about it here: ffMpeg Converter c. Its very geeky, but ill make it a little easier with a simple Batch file d. Download the file here: FFmPeg download i. Grab the one with the most recent Date e. Unzip it with the 7Zip software above 3. A Web Player – JW FLV Player a. It’s a player that’s free for personal sites and cheap for commercial b. It’s very extensible c. FLV Media Player Download

Lessons learned, and tips for learning to KiteBoard. Buy a trainer kite, and go to the park / beach: First, buy a trainer kite, and get very good at flying it. If you can’t keep it up in the air for an hour, how are you going to stay out on the water for an hour, with a bigger, stronger kite, a board, current and swell? Practice diving the kite from the zenith (neutral), and signing it to 6 o’clock and back up to the top. Work on one side, then the other. Also try to fly the kite toward the “Edge of the wind window”, and hold it there very long without dropping it out of the sky. Very hard to do with a trainer kite, but this is how you launch and land a big kite. And the people who are helping you probably appreciate it if you have good kite control.