Youtube is without doubt one of the best destinations for free unlimited music on today’s Internet. Youtube Music is not only accessible via its official web address youtube.com/music but also from regular searches on the video portal. The default controls on Youtube are not optimal for an uninterrupted music experience. While it is possible to [...]

Categories: Entertainment

I personally like desktop applications that combine video searching, playing and downloading. Why? Because these programs tend to have advantages over browser based solutions. Among the important ones are the ability to search multiple video portals directly, better download management and a download history. SVDownloader has been developed by the same company that brought your [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One of the things that is not perfect on Youtube is the fact that videos that you have already watched are still showing up in search results. Youtube could at the very least add a marker to let users know that they have watched that particular video in the past. Not everyone may think this [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

We have seen our fair share of applications that offer to download Youtube videos, both as browser extensions and as desktop applications. Some, like the excellent Firefox add-on Download Helper are still working while others have stopped working or vanished from view. The video player and organizer Miro has not been mentioned a lot, if [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I prefer an integrated solution when it comes to downloading videos from the Internet. Integrated in this context means that the browsing for videos and downloading should be handled in the same application. External video downloaders have their advantages on the other hand, and there are certainly users who prefer to use a separate program [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Youtube’s video restrictions make it sometimes necessary to divide videos into multiple parts which are then shown under suggestions and sometimes added by the uploader in the video description. It is rather cumbersome to watch a multi-part video on Youtube as it involves finding the next part of the video to continue watching a video. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Chance is that your visit the popular video hosting site Youtube with different window sizes of the browser. Some users may always visit it maximized but the majority is probably visiting it with different window sizes. The problem here? Well, Youtube is not automatically expanding the video. It still displays that meager video frame even [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Many videos on the popular video hosting site YouTube are available in multiple qualities. Why is that you may ask? The video qualities depend largely on the source video that gets uploaded to YouTube by the user. This source video defines which video qualities the video gets encoded to. Youtube users then have the choice [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

One of the things that you notice when you run a browser without Adobe Flash is that the majority of videos won’t play anymore. While that’s more or less obvious, considering that Flash is the technology that most video portals use to stream the videos to the user, it is a little known fact that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera