Web video is still largely powered by Adobe’s Flash technology. Sure, some sites like Youtube begin to offer videos in different formats like WebM, but Adobe Flash is still the dominant format, even on Youtube. That’s a problem if Flash is not working properly on your system. If you experience lags, endless buffering or other [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Youtube is without doubt currently the most popular and known video hosting website in the world. The site, despite its popularity, lacks several features that would improve a visitor’s usability considerably. Two of the missing features that come to mind are the ability to select a specific minimum and maximum video quality automatically, and to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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

The protests against President Mubarak in Egypt have escalated in the last few days now that the beleaguered president has said that while he will step down, he won’t do so until September.  To try and stop protests, or at least quell them, Egypt shut down almost its entire Internet service last week and much [...]

Categories: The Web

Youtube recently changed the homepage after an initial tryout phase. The developers “removed some of the less-used modules such as “Videos Being Watched Now”, moved modules like featured videos to the right side to make “room for a combined list of personally relevant videos made up of recommendations for you, your subscriptions activity, and videos [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

One of the best options on today’s Internet to listen to a song, any song for that matter, is to search for that song on Youtube. Chance is there is at least one video with that song on the video portal. Some web users use Youtube more or less exclusively to listen to music. The [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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