Have you experienced the following situation? You just received an email or message from a friend that contained a link to a funny must see video. Problem is, you do not have time to watch it right now. What do you do? Most users wait until they have the time, some may even bookmark the [...]

Categories: The Web

If you have ever tried to use Youtube on a big television screen you may have noticed that the controls of the standard page are not that easy to use as on a PC. Instead of fiddling around with the standard controls, Youtube users have the option to access the XL version of the popular [...]

Categories: Music and Video

I did not pay much attention to Youtube or any other Flash based video portal on the Internet ever since I have uninstalled the Flash Player on my PC. Still, I sometimes have to visit the site if something newsworthy is happening. A new YouTube userscript that has not been reviewed yet is probably not [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The news was just posted over at the official Youtube blog that the video length limitation on Youtube has been increased for “normal” Youtube users. The limit has been raised from 10 to 15 minutes. We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our [...]

Categories: Google, Music and Video

Youtube is raising the bar once again with the announcement that the video hosting site will support 4K videos in the near future. Less than a year ago Youtube enabled full HD, 1080p, video resolutions on Youtube and most people thought that 1080p was going to be the top resolution on Youtube for a long [...]

Categories: Google, Music and Video, The Web

The popular video hosting site Youtube offers publishers the option to limit their videos to users from specific countries. Some BBC content is for instance only available for users from the UK while companies like Warner Music Group often restrict their music videos to visitors from the United States. The messages that users receive when [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic

Online videos are highly popular and get posted in two forms on third party websites. Videos can be embedded on the page so that they can be watched directly on the page or posted as a link that redirects the user to the video portal to watch it there. The second option can become annoying [...]

Categories: Music and Video

Tudou.com is the first entry in our new site review series that takes a look at very popular sites that you may have never heard about before. Tudou is the most popular online video hosting site in China with more than 100 million video views and 40,000 new videos per day. While that does not [...]

Categories: The Web

The video hosting website Youtube hosts all kinds of videos from movie trailers to music videos, from educational videos to personal ones. We all know that it is possible to download videos from Youtube so that they can be watched locally without additional bandwidth costs. Furthermore, it is possible to copy the videos to devices [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web