Tag: YOUTUBE

Google's use of HTML5-powered drag-and-drop in Gmail and Google Docs has made file management via its Web interfaces much easier. Now, the same feature is live on YouTube, enabling users to upload videos by simply dragging a clip from a desktop folder and placing into the dropzone on the YouTube upload page. As is the case with Docs and Gmail, you'll need to be using a compatible browser to be ...

Google has just snuck a rather slick feature into Docs which you might not have noticed. You could already play audio files you had uploaded to your Google Docs storage, but now you can play video files as well. Google's player supports a number of different formats, including its own WebM/VP8, MPEG4, 3GP, MOV, AVI, MPEG, FLV (Flash video), and WMV (Windows Media). The heavy lifting is performed ...

These days, you no longer have to be an esoteric nerd to sport a dual-monitor setup. Heck, many of us use three monitors, and some have been known to use entire walls. Now, when you have such a setup and try to watch a YouTube video in full-screen, you quickly discover an irritating fact: While you're watching a video in full-screen on one monitor, any click on another monitor collapses the video ...

Freemake's free Video Converter was already a very solid app, handling more than 200 import formats and able to output converted videos for playback on a wide array of devices. In the recently-released version 2.0, however, one major piece of missing functionality has been added. Freemake 2 now supports Blu-Ray burning, allowing you to output dozens of hours of downloaded video to a single ...

Embedded YouTube videos have received a new clickable link in the upper-right corner that appears when you hover over the video. This is called 'Watch later', and predictably, lets you watch the video later. Here's how it works: You spot an interesting video embedded somewhere, but don't have time to watch it just then. Click on 'Watch later'. Then, when you have time to watch it, just go to ...

Have you ever wanted to be in at the beginning of a viral YouTube trend? Well, now's your chance, thanks to YouTube Trends. There are two parts of Trends: a website (which is actually a rather fancy blog), and the Trends Dashboard. The website shows you currently-trending videos (it picks out four new videos at 4am and 4pm every day), and also offers more in-depth contextual analysis of the ...

It's fairly easy to download YouTube videos, but they usually come in FLV or MP4 format when you grab them right off YouTube. TinyOgg is a lightweight service that lets you grab those same videos, or just the audio, in the open source Ogg format. It couldn't be simpler to use: you just feed it with a YouTube URL, and hit Convert. You then get a short URL; after a few minutes, this URL contains a ...

YouTube has begun lifting the previously-enforced 15-minute video length limit for some users, the company has announced in a blog post today. The limit had been raised to 15 minutes for all users (up from 10 minutes prior to that) back in July. As of today, users "with a history of complying with the YouTube Community Guidelines" and the copyright rules that YouTube enforces will be able to ...

The official, Google-made YouTube app for Symbian has received an update that takes it to version 2.4.10 and brings a few notable improvements compared to previous iterations. First off, devices running the new Symbian OS are finally supported -- meaning that you can run this app on a Nokia N8, C7, C6-01, or even E7 when that becomes available. Also in are higher quality videos, where the ...

Some people say that Flash video playback can be a tad crappy at times. This is a pretty obvious business oppurtunity for competing video products, and indeed, DivX tries to one-up Adobe with its DivX HiQ Beta 2. It's a whole (free) bundle of applications, but the interesting one is the DivX Web Player. It's basically a player that latches onto the YouTube player and a bunch of other common video ...

Yesterday, Google released an updated version of the Android YouTube app, a major update that continues the unbundling of the app from the Android OS. YouTube 2.1 has been re-written from the ground up to mirror the desktop experience more closely. New to the Android platform is in-page playback, allowing you to read the video description, scope out related videos, or rate videos without having to ...

While YouTube offers its own solution for music-lovers, it is not ideal if you're more of a listener. After all, YouTube leans towards watching videos, and its interface is geared toward that task. Still, YouTube does carry an awful lot of musical content, and there must be a better way to harness this wealth of content and make it into a personalized radio of sorts. Indeed, this is what Tubeify ...

Accessing all the files you've uploaded to various Google services is a bit of a pain at the moment. Wouldn't it be nice if the Big G provided some sort of tool that provided simple, centralized access to everything from your YouTube videos to Picasa Web images? Google thinks so, and that's precisely what Cloud Picker will do once you've got access to it. The image above was shared by a ...

As expected, YouTube has introduced a new ad format called TrueView Video Ads. The big novelties that this product brings is the viewers' ability to skip ads (after watching a minimum of 5 seconds, though) or even select which ad they would like to watch from a list. Advertisers are charged only when a viewer has chosen to watch an ad, and not per impression. Allowing people to choose the ads ...

Adobe's pushing hard with hardware acceleration and for good reason: using the GPU takes a serious load off the CPU, which Flash is pretty hard on at the best of times, especially on Mac OS X. Adobe hopes to address those concerns with today's release of Flash 10.2 beta and the arrival of a new feature called Stage Video. The idea behind Stage Video is that it'll enable hardware acceleration ...