YouTube videos can be posted as links or as embedded media contents on websites. It depends largely on the technology powering the website if it is possible to embed videos directly. If you look at sites like Facebook or Google Plus for instance, you will notice that they convert YouTube links directly to embedded videos. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

When you open the music section over at the video hosting site YouTube you get a list of popular music videos that are currently hosted on the site. You can play individual videos or all of them at once, and while that works nicely in most countries, you may live or be in one that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Since you are reading this blog I assume you get a lot of tech related questions that you need to answer. In my family it is my mom who is asking me questions about sending images as attachments via email or deleting lines in an Excel document. And while that feels very basic for me, [...]

Categories: Google, Online Services

I have uploaded quite a few videos to the video hosting platform YouTube in past months. Since there were no editing options on site, I had to use desktop applications like Virtual Dub to edit the video before publishing it on YouTube. Editing included cutting and adding music to the video before uploading it. Google [...]

Categories: Music and Video

All videos that you view on the popular video hosting website YouTube are logged by the service if you are logged in on the site during the time you are watching the video. While that may be great at times if you want to find that one video again that you watched a couple of [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic

You may recall that YouTube started rolling out a new player and site design not so long ago. The redesign, announced about a month ago, made several changes to the video hosting website. Probably the change with the biggest impact was the switch from a light themed played to a dark themed player. Back then [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Magic Actions for YouTube promises to be the most convenient way to watch YouTube videos in the Google Chrome browser. But can it live up to that promise? When you look at the feature set you will notice that it combines several unique options with features that are common in other YouTube extensions as well. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Is it possible to set a different default YouTube video quality for all videos hosted on the video hosting site? YouTube plays videos in 360p by default. Users who want a different video quality need to click on the 360p link on the video page to switch to another quality setting. And that needs to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

A YouTube redesign is something that could backfire tremendously. We have seen it happen before with slight design changes that Google has been heavily criticized for. That’s probably the main reason why the new Cosmic Panda design is offered as an alternative to the default YouTube design and layout. Users who would like to switch [...]

Categories: Google, Music and Video