Youtube

YouTube is a platform home to thousands of content creators and streamers producing videos for entertainment and education. As one of the companies owned by Google, there’s many tips, news, scandals, features, and tools we’ll share for you to read.

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Hide Watched or Bland Videos On YouTube

If you are a regular on the video hosting site YouTube, you might feel that the site is missing options to hide or remove videos. This can be interesting for subscription videos […]

YouTube's Automated Copyright Video Scan Appears Broken

Imagine the following scenario. You film how you are collecting ingredients for a wild salad, and upload the video to YouTube. You then get a copyright claim later on stating that the […]

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YouTube Search History Now With Disable Option

The popular video hosting site YouTube up until now kept a log of all of the videos that you watched on the site while logged in to your YouTube or Google account. […]

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Gridtube Modifies YouTube's Search Layout

The search results layout on the video hosting website YouTube has a few usability issues. When you search on YouTube, you are presented with a long list of scrolling results. For each […]

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YouTube Browse, Video Editor And Manager Updated

While closing some of the company's lesser popular services, Google's popular services such as Google+ or YouTube have received plenty of updates in the past. Google today announced that they have updated […]

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Display The Inbox On The YouTube Frontpage

With YouTube's redesign now live on the site and with no turning back opportunity anymore, it is time to realize that the changes have not all be for the better. If you […]

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How To Switch Back To YouTube's Old Page Design

If you are a regular on YouTube you probably know that Google has recently redesigned the page completely, turning pretty much everything up side down. The new design has received quite the […]

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YouTube Tip: Shortcut To Skip Part Of A Video

If you are an Internet regular you have probably heard about the Wadsworth Constant, an Internet meme that has come to some fame at the end of last year. A user named […]

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YouTube Slam, Vote For YouTube Videos

Logged in YouTube users can vote for videos by clicking on the like or dislike buttons displayed underneath each video. The total number of likes and dislikes are then displayed on the […]

YouTube launches Schools Website

Those of you who follow me will know that in addition to writing here, being an author and all the other things I seem to do, that I'm also a teacher.  I've […]

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Clear Your YouTube Viewing History, Workaround

Did you know that YouTube saves information about every video that you view on the video hosting site when you are logged into your Google account and also when you are not? […]

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How To Get The New YouTube Homepage Right Now

If you are following the chatter on social networking sites such as Google+, Facebook or Twitter, you may have noticed that YouTube is currently testing a new homepage design. Clever folks found […]

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Want Even More Distractions? Try Google+'s Youtube Button

Update: The YouTube button is no longer available. I sometimes feel the urge to check for new email messages during work. Other users may feel the same urge when it comes to […]

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YouTube Charts

One of the things that I do not like that much about YouTube is the fact that several key pages and services are not linked directly on the main page of the […]

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YouTube Link Title, Play Linked YouTube Videos Directly

YouTube videos can be posted as links or as embedded media contents on websites. It depends largely on the technology powering the website if it is possible to embed videos directly. If […]

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YouTube Video Editor

I have uploaded quite a few videos to the video hosting platform YouTube in the past months. Since there were no editing options on site, I had to use desktop applications like […]

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How To Clear Your YouTube Video Viewing History

All videos that you view on the popular video hosting website YouTube are logged by the service if you are logged in on the site during the time you are watching the […]

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Modify The YouTube Player Color And Theme

You may recall that YouTube started rolling out a new player and site design not so long ago. The redesign, announced about a month ago, made several changes to the video hosting […]

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Magic Actions for YouTube, Chrome Browser Extension

Magic Actions for YouTube promises to be the most convenient way to watch YouTube videos in the Google Chrome browser. But can it live up to that promise? When you look at […]

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Detach Videos, Games From The Firefox Browser Window For Easy Resizing

When you play games or watch videos on the Internet, you usually do so on a web page. Many sites, like YouTube, offer to change the size of the video to other […]

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YouTube Redesign Cosmic Panda Now Available

A YouTube redesign is something that could backfire tremendously. We have seen it happen before with slight design changes done to core products such as Gmail, Search or YouTube that Google has […]

How To Remove Black Bars On YouTube Videos

I have been dabbling in the video recording, editing and publishing field lately. One of the latest things that I had to get my head around was a black bar problem on […]

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How To Resend The Google Verification Email

I just signed up for a new YouTube account for one of my other sites. The signup process is pretty straightforward. Enter your desired username, email address, birthday and gender, and on […]

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Subscription Bar Remover For Youtube

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 […]

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Google Video Closing Down, What You Need To Know

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 […]

YouTube Goes Live!

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 […]

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Youtube TV Mode, Automatic Fullscreen Youtube Videos

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 may improve a visitor's usability considerably. Two […]

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Youtube Homepage As It Was Meant To Be Userscript

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 […]

Chrome Window Expander For YouTube

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 […]

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DivX HiQ, Replace Video Player On Youtube, Other Video Sites

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 […]

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Auto HD For YouTube

Many videos on the popular video hosting site YouTube are available in multiple video qualities. Why is that you may ask? The video quality depends largely on the source video that gets […]

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Youtube XL Brings Videos To The Big Screen

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 […]

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Youtube Introduces Subscriber Limit, Too Many Subscriptions Messages Appear

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 […]

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Youtube Instant

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 […]

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Detach Videos From Browser Window

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 […]

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Youtube Movies Section Expanded

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 […]

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How To Stop Video Autoplay On Youtube

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 […]

Youtube Ups Video Limit to 15 Minutes, So What?

Google announced just a moment ago on the official YouTube blog that the length of videos on YouTube for regular users on the site has been increased by the company. The maximum […]

Youtube Adds HTML5 Embedding To Videos

The popular video hosting site YouTube has offered limited beta HTML5 viewing capabilities for some time now on their website. HTML5 video playback was limited to Google Chrome and Safari, and only […]

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Youtube Revamps Music Page

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 […]


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