Current Adobe Flash versions cause a heavy load on many computer systems during video playback. This will change with the upcoming Adobe Flash Player 10.2 which is currently available as a beta version. Users who are experiencing performance problems during video playback, especially when they are playing high definition contents on video sites such as [...]

Categories: Mac, Software, Windows

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

If you have ever tried to use Youtube on a big television screen you may have noticed that the controls of the standard page are not that easy to use as on a PC. Instead of fiddling around with the standard controls, Youtube users have the option to access the XL version of the popular [...]

Categories: Music and Video

It is sometimes hard to keep up with all the change that is going on. Youtube recently introduced a subscriber limit for their users, in order to fight sub4sub spam. As you may know, it is possible to subscribe to users or channels on Youtube to receive information about new videos that they have uploaded [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Users can subscribe to channels or other users on Youtube, which has the effect that they will receive notifications in their account if a new video has been posted on the video portal. That’s a great way of keeping up to date with videos that are produced by specific users or channels, and to make [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

It’s been around for five years now, though I’d imagine for most of you it feels much longer, but YouTube, now owned by search giant Google is almost becoming profitable according to YouTube CEO Eric Schmidt.  NeoWinhave reported he recently told a French University that the website is now close to becoming profitable. This is [...]

Categories: Google

Fast, faster, instant. It seems that speed is a popular factor nowadays. Youtube Instant is a new third party example how speed can change a service. The developer, Feross, inspired by Google Instant has created a Youtube pendant, sort of. The basic service displays the search and video on the same page. Videos begin to [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Music and Video, The Web

I sometimes like to watch a video, or a series of videos in the background while doing other stuff on the computer. To do that I usually reduce the size of the web browser window as much as possible. This is to make sure that most of the desktop space is available for those other [...]

Categories: Software, Windows