Google recently launched its new online music service through Google Music Beta which is jam- packed with features. It allows uploading up to 20,000 songs on to the virtual cloud known as a Virtual locker. These songs can be accessed from any part of the world with an Android phone, a tablet or a computer [...]

Categories: Music and Video

You find many tools on the Internet that let you download videos from YouTube comfortably. From browser extensions like Download Helper for Firefox to desktop applications like YouTube Snagger or Tubequeue. What most of them have in common is the ability to download individual videos from the video hosting site YouTube. Some even come with [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One thing that’s been annoying YouTube users for quite some time is the subscriptions bar that may be automatically displayed at the bottom of the screen. Many users refer to it as the gray bar as it may pop up for playlists, favorited and liked videos as well as for subscribed videos. So what functionality [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera

I sometimes like to view or listen to YouTube videos multiple times. To bad that there is not an option to repeat YouTube videos automatically. Sure, you can click the Replay link once the video has stopped playing, or refresh the page on YouTube to start from the beginning; But that’s not automatic. It is [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Back in December of last year Yahoo released a statement that they would close down several of their web properties. Among them popular social bookmarking site Delicious. The statement turned out to not be entirely true, as Yahoo later reassured Delicious’ users that they would keep the service running. Yesterday now we read on the [...]

Categories: Yahoo

Google recently made the announcement that they would shut down their video hosting service Google Video for good. I have covered the announcement in Google Video Closing Down, What You Need To Know. Google posted two deadlines: The service would shut down for visitors on April 29 which meant that it would no longer be [...]

Categories: Google

Before Youtube, Google tried to conquer the video hosting niche with a service that they called Google Video. When they discovered that they could not compete with Youtube, they bought that service and made people forget all about Google Video. There are actually many similarities to Google’s attempt in past years to get a foothold [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

It’s been on the cards for a couple of years now but today YouTube has launched its new Live service.  New live streaming video can be found at www.youtube.com/live and they follow several tests that included high-profile concerts and events. This now puts YouTube, which already gets around 2 billion video views every day, up against [...]

Categories: The Web

I have reviewed several video players in the past that use MPlayer as a core component. This includes my favorite video player SMPlayer but also KMPlayer (just received an update to version 3) or MPlayer WW. UMplayer is another MPlayer fork with some interesting new features that you won’t find in the other players. I [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows