Our first tool was created by Nathan R. Yergler, a programmer who works for Creative Commons.

Ourmedia Publisher lets any Ourmedia member publish video, audio, photos, text and software to our site. Download it below (msi for PCs, dmg for Macs; a Linux version is in the works).

Note to Mac OS X users: You should copy the program from the disk image to your hard drive before running the application. This will ensure Ourmedia Publisher can create necessary preference files and error logs. If you don't copy the program to your hard drive, it will likely crash when you try to install it.

You should use the Ourmedia Publisher tool to upload files greater than 10 MB in size. You might also decide you like this tool better than the publish my media pages for uploading your works.

Try it, see what you think, and send us suggestions for improving it. After you download it, install it like any other program and then launch it. You may want to create a desktop shortcut or alias; we don't place start-up icons on the desktop or in your tray.


(2) RSS media aggregator and player

FireANT is an RSS video and audio aggregator and media player created by the FireANT team. With FireANT, you can subscribe to any RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures. FireANT will automatically download fresh audio and video content for you to watch and listen to on demand. It can play back any media format, and it syncs audio files with iTunes so you can easily add them to your portable MP3 player.

Here's a screencast of how it works on PCs.

FireANT allows anyone to share his or her original media creations — from personal video journals made by an emerging community of videobloggers, to the growing ranks of distributed citizen journalists, to home video simply intended for friends and family.

It's wickedly cool — it reads text, audio and video; it has Yahoo Video Search and a Directory; and it syncs to iTunes and the Playstation Portable.

Just download, subscribe to video, audio, or image feeds, and they will be automatically downloaded to your viewer for you to watch or hear.

FireANT can be downloaded here for both Mac and Windows.


(3) RSS feeds

Every user and group now has an RSS 2.0 feed that you can subscribe to. in the lower-left corner of their page.

Feeds for the video, audio, image and text categories can be found here:

Video
Audio
Images
Text

Just subscribe to them as you would to any other feed (or channel) in your RSS news reader.

(4) Buttons and Logos

Members who have a webpage or weblog, and want to link to their member page on Ourmedia, may use these images.