YouTube is gradually turning into a replica of your local TV channel. With content comes the old bugbear of commercials. In fact, too many of them seem to be attacking our eyeballs these days. They remind me of the times when F.M. channels really took off in my country – uninterrupted programming and just an [...]
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Whenever I get some free time online, I resort to 2 of my favorite pastimes: scouring through Wikipedia or devouring videos on YouTube. I have already talked about two extensions I use in Chrome to enhance my Wikipedia browsing, and today I will reveal the extensions that help me manage YouTube videos in Chrome. If [...]
I love YouTube. I’m certain I’m not alone. I was curious about finding new videos to watch on YouTube, and while there are a ton circulating on Facebook and Twitter, they’re often recycled and stuff that I’ve seen before. Luckily, I stumbled upon these two methods of discovering new videos. Here they are: 1. Show [...]
Snipreel (alpha) is a very simple tool that helps you ‘snip’ a part (or parts) from a YouTube video and then share it with your friends using the generated Snipreel URL. I went in search of this utility when I wanted to highlight something from a cookery video I was watching on YouTube. The entire [...]
YouTube Shows launched with much fanfare in the middle of 2009. YouTube wouldn’t be about laser chasing cats and twirl dancing anymore. Some of the premier networks sent their top-rated shows to be hosted on YouTube Shows. Networks like MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment, and CBS. Of course, many more networks from around the world (including [...]
YouTube is the biggest online destinations for video broadcasting and sharing. It’s my one stop destination to watch music videos of my favorite artists and bands. One of the biggest limitations of YouTube is that it’s not at all recommended for people on limited bandwidth. Every time you watch a video, a considerable amount of [...]
If you are planning to organize a party at home and your plans do not include hiring a DJ, then you need to do some pre-party work to make sure that the music doesn’t disappoint. A rocking party music playlist is what you are going to need. Now, you might have such a playlist already [...]
Keeping kids safe on the internet is important. That’s why we often talk about different parental control methods that help parents block adult content and other inappropriate stuff from reaching kids who are still too young to know all that. But most of the blocking methods usually can’t block site specific content. For example, YouTube, [...]
Recently, a few days after Google announced Instant Search, a YouTube version of the instant search was created by a Stanford student which most of you might have heard of. ListAndPlay is a better version of that tool. It lets you instantly search for and create YouTube video playlists that could be listened to or [...]
If you find something interesting on a webpage, you could easily share that portion of the site using previously mentioned Bounce. But what if you want to share an interesting portion of an online video? You might come across a video that drags on for several minutes before anything cool and funny happens. In such [...]
We talked about YouTube speed history in our YouTube Guide, a tool that compares your video downloading speeds to that in various other locations of the world. Slow downloading speed causes delayed online video streaming & you end up waiting frequently for the video to buffer and load. Speedbit Video Accelerator is a nice application [...]
If you use YouTube a lot along with other social networks, then, you could easily connect it to your Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader accounts to automatically share your YouTube videos and activities on them. This is a step by step guide which show you how you can connect and automatically share YouTube videos on [...]
Note: This is a Guiding Tech Feature post. YouTube, since its inception, has been growing in popularity by leaps and bounds every year. From a relatively small startup, it grew to the ultimate destination on the web for watching videos and was finally acquired by Google.
If you want to try your hands at some music mixing like the DJs but have no idea how it is done or what tools are used, then you should give TurnTubelist a shot. It’s an innovative tool that helps you combine the power of YouTube videos and music mixing to create some cool shake-your-leg [...]
Youtube recently launched a video speed display dashboard that displays gives you an idea of your video loading speed and benchmarks it against the global average. You can see the one month average video speed (in Kbps) of users in your city, state, country, and global. This database updates per day so that you can [...]
Watching Youtube videos in high definition is always fun, be it watching movie trailers or full flicks through the recently introduced Youtube movies. You could experience them in HD 720p and full-HD 1080p format. YouTube HD Transfer is a free utility which helps you download high definition Youtube videos on your computer. You can download [...]
