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

When you play games or watch videos on the Internet, you usually do so on a web page. Many sites, like YouTube, offer to change the size of the video to other predefined sizes on the screen or to full-screen. None offer options to resize the games or videos gradually on the screen. That’s what [...]

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

YouTube with its vast assortment of music videos is one of the best locations on the Internet to find and listen to music. The overall site layout is on the other hand not super ideal for listening to music, especially if you want to listen to multiple songs. The only option to do this comfortably [...]

Categories: Online Services

When it comes to downloading video from the Internet, I have reviewed a great deal of tools in the past. From how to download YouTube videos to general browser extensions such as Download Helper for the Firefox web browser to desktop applications like Free YouTube Download which can download whole playlists, favorites and user videos [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

I have been dabbling in the video recording, editing and publishing field lately. One of the latest things that I had to get my head around was a black bar problem on YouTube. Depending on the original video that you upload, you may see black bars horizontally or vertically. That’s pretty bad for the viewing [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Tutorials Basic

I just signed up for a new Youtube account for one of my other sites. The signup process is pretty straightforward. Enter your desired username, email address, birthday and gender, and on the second page your password and the verification captcha. If everything is correct, Google will send out a verification email. This email is [...]

Categories: Google