Posts tagged YouTube
Free Legal Full Length Movies

Here's a treat that many people are not aware of. Youtube the past year or two has increasing been updating the site to support full length movies/documentaries. What many Youtubers do not know is they could watch full length featured movies without the Part 1/10, Part 2/10, etc.

Youtube has a section of Full Length Documentaries and Feature Films. Even a free section which you may view here.

And with a recent announcement that Youtube will feature over 100 original channels in a year or two expect Youtube to replace cable/satellite very soon.

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Play Snake inside YouTube.com

What if you could turn a boring YouTube video into a little game. Well, you can! Google has placed an Easter egg inside their modern YouTube videos. Giving credit to my friend Noe, who led me to this finding, was tutoring  and wanted to show a helpful educational video to a youngster and accidentally used the arrows keys when trying to navigate the search box. The Snake game pop 'ed up in front of the video. I was stoked when I heard this. Maybe, this wont be as useful as other tips but for a fact it is exciting and fun!

Now, here is how to enable it:  Hold the left directional key down for about 3 seconds and press the up directional key, while still holding the left key. Now, you can play snake on top a YouTube video. Here is one you can try it on. Have fun!

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Yoytube scaming people?

Just today, I was in my Chrome browser when I decided to see some videos on YouTube. I started to type in the URL when I accidentally misspelled Youtube and typed in yoytube.com. This was clearly not my intention. This it what showed up: At first, I thought it was the real Youtube.com, but when I saw I had an opportunity to win a Macbook, Iphone or, Ipad.  I suddenly stepped back and thought to myself, "Apple and Google together? That;s not right".  Then I saw the URL and saw it was not Youtube.com. I had been redirected to another site.  Well, you may ask,  how can I prevent it? That is a very good question. First thing is, you are the person who needs to be responsible to see if you have been directed to the correct destination.  Always glance at the URL bar in your browser. Second, do not use your browser to search or go to websites. Type them into Google or bookmark them within your browser. If you have any tips let us know. Thank you!

 

Thanks to Michael for part of the tip.

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Send YouTube Links with a Specific Start Time

YouTube  contains entertaining videos that are shared throughout the internet. It's simple to do so by copying  and pasting the URL. But did you know that you can send a link with a specific start time of the YouTube video to someone?

1) Go to the YouTube video that you want to send.

2) Scroll to the part were you want to start the video

3) Right click on the video and go to "Copy video URL at current time".

4) The video link will be copied to your clipboard and you are set to go!

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Put a YouTube Video on Repeat

Today's post will be short and to the point. Want to know how to make a video just repeat itself? Just find the video that you want repeat, go to the address bar(where the URL is ie. http://www.youtube.com/watch####), and insert the word "repeat" before the ".com" like this http://www.youtuberepeat.com/watch####. You will be directed to another site YouTubeRepeat.com and there it will loop your video for free. :-)

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Ditch the Discs, the Dish, & the Coaxial

[caption id="attachment_2368" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Video on Demand"][/caption] To elaborate on an earlier post regarding hooking up your computer with the TV to watch several forms of media, there may be those whom do not always want to be connecting their computer to their TV to view media. There are solutions that offer several features that will convince you to ditch the discs (DVDs & Blu-Ray) , the satellite dish as well as cable TV (coaxial).

First, I will mention new software that enables the user to instantly discover something to watch online from their couch via a set-top box. Whom is making this software? Google. Yes, this year Google has introduced Google TV which is software that runs specifically on a set-top box (think cable box) but the media is streamed and found online, minimizing the amount of commercials. Let's be honest here, you probably watch more commercials during an entire month than an actual show.

Apple TV is another competitor looking to take a slice of the video on demand market with capabilities to rent and stream shows from iTunes. It will even allow you to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a remote.

But what if you already have content on a hard drive that you just want to view without turning on your computer. There are several media players out specifically for this such as the Western Digital Media Player, Seagate Freeagent Theater, ASUS O!Play, etc. The aforementioned are probably the top 3 media players on market. Depending on the model you purchase, you could view almost any media format available. In addition, they have HDMI and wireless capabilities. Subsequently, you could just connect your external Harddrive or a regular flash drive and they will automatically identify compatible file formats. At the moment I have not delve into a specific player but I am looking into investing in one. Fortunately, if you get tired of the content that you have, you may connect them to the Internet via an ethernet cable or Wi-Fi and access content from Youtube, Netflix or even Hulu. Although it depends on which respective model you purchase, some have a regular model that plays content from an external HDD while the premium model will enable you to access to online video channels.

Why you should buy one other than the reasons above? The reason is saving money. In the longer term, you will be saving money from ditching services such as satellite TV and cable TV. Why pay for commercials when you could be paying for entertainment.

Because of the growing content available online you may want to ditch the discs and the cable all together. Currently, this is where the market is heading; some have even said Blu-ray may be the last physical media format to be popular amongst consumers as more of them are seeking video on demand services. Unfortunately, I have barely touched the surface, I have not discussed the X-Box 360 and Playstation 3!!

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Lectures for Physics, Math, Biology,Statistics, Chemistry

If you are a student and have not heard of Khan Academy you are definitely missing out. Khan Academy's purpose is to teach students with a short ten minute video on any subject including  Physics, Math, Biology, Statistics, Chemistry, Khan Academy in Spanish, and many other courses.  Here is a small biography from Wikipedia on the founder:

"Salman Khan is a Bangladeshi American born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father hails from Barisal, Bangladesh.[2][3] Khan holds three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: a BS in mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MS in electrical engineering and computer science. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. In late 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin in mathematics using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought his tutor age, he decided it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube. Their popularity there and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted Khan to quit his job in finance in 2009 and focus on the Academy full-time."

Khan Academy  has definitely helped me out in many of my courses and I know they will help you out too.

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Limewire is DEAD!? Download Helper is here to help

BREAKING NEWS!!! Limwire no longer works!! And honestly I have not used it in almost 5 years!! So, many people on the internets are at a lost due to limewire's shutdown. But there is something better for those of you that would like to acquire songs that you like or even videos as well. Be warn may get addicting, I showed some friends how to do this and they got addicted. First you will need Firefox because this is actually an extension and not a full blown program. Next you need to add the extension Download Helper.

Once installed you may download most music and videos from site like rhapsody or  youtube and more. See the video below as an example: (Note: I am using FireFox 4 Beta 6 so your interface will look different)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hv2BlNP_u0&hl=en&fs=1]

Once installed go for a test run for example rhapsody.com as shown above

play a song and then right click in the browser outside the player

go to downloadhelper  option and then go to media and there you should see a name of an mp3 file

click it and save it and it should be the last song you played.

Try the extension out at the following sites:

youtube.com

http://mp3.rhapsody.com/home.html (let's you preview entire songs ;) )

facebook.com (videos)

In addition, Downloadhelper provides a list of supported site when your right click and go to the downloadhelper option.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006/

DISCLAIMER: Please support the artist and their music by purchasing their merchandise and albums.

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Scroll YouTube

Did you know that

People are watching 2 billion videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.

Thats a lot of videos but here is a quick tip. If you are watching YouTube and the video is fully loaded you can use the numbers on the keyboard to scroll through the video. '1'-'9'. That way if you want to go back half way go to number '5'.

KeyboardPhotoBy[ sovett]

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Put a YouTube Video On Repeat

Just found out about a nifty site/service for those who listen to music on YouTube (me included). EndlessYouTube is the name, fittingly enough, and does exactly what the name suggests; It constantly plays a YouTube video on repeat until you choose to stop it. Sure you can do it yourself but the simplicity begs you to use it instead. All you have to do is add "endless" to the beginning of the URL and you're good to go. You get the YouTube URL of the video you want, in this example I'll use Gorillaz' (Some of the best music you will ever hear) Tomorrow Comes Today video. So you have your URL, http://youtube.com/watch?v=0KxHqJwO1-Q, and change it to http://endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=0KxHqJwO1-Q.

You can also just grab the video ID, in this case it's "0KxHqJwO1-Q", head over to EndlessYouTube and paste the ID into the appropriate box. The service does have it's faults though. Because it's using the embedding feature, it won't work with videos that turned off embedding.

Another amazing feature is you can choose to loop over a segment of the video. Just use this format http://www.endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID&start=[e.g.%201m10s]&end=[e.g.%201m20s] and choose the segment you want to loop.

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