While closing some of the company’s lesser popular services, Google’s popular services such as Google+ or YouTube have received plenty of updates in the past. Google today announced that they have updated YouTube’s browse, video editor and video manager pages. Channels have moved into the focus on YouTube with recent updates, and the new browse [...]

Categories: Google

Depending on the videos that you like to watch on YouTube, you may be seeing way more video ads than a year or two ago. With YouTube finally taking off revenue wise, users are seeing more video ads before the actual videos that they want to watch on the site. While it is understandable that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

With YouTube’s redesign now live on the site and with no turning back opportunity anymore, it is time to realize that the changes have not all be for the better. If you are not logged in or an active YouTube user you can probably live with the new frontpage design and all, but if you [...]

Categories: Firefox, Music and Video

If you are a regular on YouTube you probably know that Google has recently redesigned the page completely, turning pretty much everything up side down. The new design has received quite the criticism, for instance for the centered fixed width layout, or the larger frame at the top of the YouTube home page. Most YouTube [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Tutorials Basic

If you are an Internet regular you have probably heard about the Wadsworth Constant, an Internet meme that has come to some fame at the end of last year. A user named Wadsworth mentioned that he skipped 30% ahead of every YouTube he was viewing on the Internet. This spread quickly throughout the geeky parts [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Logged in YouTube users can vote for videos by clicking on the like or dislike buttons displayed underneath each video. The total number of likes and dislikes are then displayed on the video page. YouTube is taking that concept a step further with YouTube Slam, a new feature where videos are battling it out against [...]

Categories: Music and Video

Dropbox is more than just another cloud file hosting and synchronization service. It is a very flexible service that can be used for advanced tasks, for instance to load torrents into uTorrent remotely. VideoDropper is a free add-on for Dropbox that can be used to save YouTube videos into Dropbox. This can be useful under [...]

Categories: Online Services

Those of you who follow me will know that in addition to writing here, being an author and all the other things I seem to do, that I’m also a teacher.  I’ve spent the last few years teaching adult basic skills, which is helping adults with poor literacy and numeracy skills, or those without qualifications, [...]

Categories: Google

Did you know that YouTube saves information about every video that you view on the video hosting site when you are logged into your Google account and also when you are not? And that those video views are saved indefinitely by the service? The saving of YouTube video views may be a privacy issue to [...]

Categories: Google, Security