Video thumbnails offer a limited preview of a video before it is played. This can be helpful for getting a first impression, and may sometimes even make the viewer skip the video based on the preview. Videos at a glance is a Chrome extension that offers video previews on several popular video hosting and posting [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I did not pay much attention to Youtube or any other Flash based video portal on the Internet ever since I have uninstalled the Flash Player on my PC. Still, I sometimes have to visit the site if something newsworthy is happening. A new YouTube userscript that has not been reviewed yet is probably not [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Last year Youtube started to expand their offerings of user uploaded video clips to include shows and movies. The offer back then was limited, especially movie wise. Today Youtube announced the availability of Youtube movies, a free movies category on the video hosting site that currently offers 400 free full-length movies. Youtube Movies sports hundreds [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Have you ever opened multiple Youtube videos at the same time? The cacophony of sounds has probably been unbearable. Youtube videos start to play automatically, and there does not seem to be a restriction in the number of videos that can play at the same time. A user opening four videos simultaneously will make the [...]

Categories: Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, The Web

The news was just posted over at the official Youtube blog that the video length limitation on Youtube has been increased for “normal” Youtube users. The limit has been raised from 10 to 15 minutes. We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our [...]

Categories: Google, Music and Video

The popular video hosting site Youtube has been offering limited beta HTML5 viewing capabilities for some time now on their website. HTML5 video playback was limited to Google Chrome and Safari, and only directly available on Youtube after joining the beta channel. Webmasters and Internet users who wanted to embed videos on third party websites [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

If you are at the top you have to keep up with the demand, if you are not it is likely that someone else will snag that position right from you. Youtube has recently redesigned several of their inner category pages, including shows and movies to offer users better access to popular and recent additions [...]

Categories: Google

Youtube has started some time ago to display advertisement on their video pages. These ads come in different forms, some are displayed on the page without affecting the video, some are displayed as a small bar in the video, and some are displayed as a short clip before the video even starts. Youtube displays a [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Tutorials Basic

Youtube is raising the bar once again with the announcement that the video hosting site will support 4K videos in the near future. Less than a year ago Youtube enabled full HD, 1080p, video resolutions on Youtube and most people thought that 1080p was going to be the top resolution on Youtube for a long [...]

Categories: Google, Music and Video, The Web