The video hosting website Youtube hosts all kinds of videos from movie trailers to music videos, from educational videos to personal ones. We all know that it is possible to download videos from Youtube so that they can be watched locally without additional bandwidth costs. Furthermore, it is possible to copy the videos to devices [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

It seems that spammers have finally found a new target for their campaigns: Youtube. If you have lately performed a search on the video hosting platform and decided to sort the results by upload data you might have been in for a shock depending on your search query. Searches for popular games or applications for [...]

Categories: Google

Most add-ons for Firefox that allow a user to download videos from the popular video hosting website offer to download one video at a time. This is most of the time the active video on the page. Some video downloaders even have the requirement to play the video for at least a second to recognize [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Online videos are in high demand and one of the most popular pastime on today’s Internet. Services like Youtube, Dailymotion, Hulu or Gametrailers are visited by millions of users each week. The videos that are hosted on those sites can only be viewed online and it is understandable that many Internet users are looking for [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you want to search for videos on Youtube you can either go directly to the site and hack your search phrase into the search form offered there, use a search engine instead to find what you are looking for or use a browser extension to search Youtube directly without leaving the page you are [...]

Categories: Google Chrome

Most video portals like Youtube or Dailymotion display lots of contents next to the videos that they host on their websites. This includes advertisements, user comments, the site navigation and other features like related videos. Those elements can be a distraction especially for sensitive Internet users. Turn Off The Light is an extension for the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Windows Media Center can be extended with plugins to add new features or services to the entertainment software. The MacroTube plugin for Windows Media Center integrates the three popular online video services Youtube, Dailymotion and MSN Soapbox into the program. The developer provides a 32-bit and 64-bit version of the program so that both 32-bit [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It seems that Google has changed its stance towards Google Chrome extensions that provide the functionality to download videos and other media from video and media hosting portals like Youtube. The terms of service of the extension gallery still do not allow those extensions to be offered in the Chrome extension gallery but some at [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Back in November of last year Google announced that they would be starting to add automatic captions in Youtube with the help of the voice recognition algorithm that was already been tested and used in Google Voice. Youtube began to roll out the feature on last Thursday on the video hosting portal and a new [...]

Categories: Google