YouTube Adds Video Annotations And Gets Interactive
by Haris on June 6, 2008
in Internet, Social Networks, Web 2.0
YouTube has recently added a new feature called Video Annotations, which allow users to make more interactive videos using annotations and bubble messages. You can now add interactive comment boxes, messages, text in bubbles, links to related videos, channels and search results of YouTube content.
Flickr users must be already familiar with this feature as Flickr allows you to add annotations to the photos we upload, but at YouTube we deal with videos, not photos. So it’s way more fun to do in YouTube. Users will have full control over the annotations and the way in which they display in the videos. They are very easy to customize. You can change the size, location on the screen, and location in the video. You can also adjust how long they stay on the screen. And if you don’t want any distractions during the video, you can turn this feature off from the player menu.
How To Batch Download From YouTube
by Haris on May 14, 2008
in Freewares, Internet, Social Networks, Softwares, Tips and Tricks
Can this get any better for YouTube addicts? Now you can download multiple videos from YouTube at once and while downloading, you can even convert them to any format. This application can download videos from any YouTube page, or from individual channels, playlists, favourites, users and group pages.
This batch downloader works only on pages with more than one YouTube video. But remember, it won’t work on the Search page. May be we’ll get this feature in the future releases, but at the moment, it doesn’t work. The Download button activates on selected pages only.
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How To Batch Download YouTube Videos
In order to download videos using YouTube Batch Downloader, open the page contaning videos or video links, and press the Downlaod button. Your videoes will start downloading instantly.
Where Are the Videos Saved
Wondering, where did all the downloaded videos go? No, they didn’t got lost. You can find them at My DocumentsMy YouTube folder. They are sorted by YouTube publisher usernames.
No Pause Or Stop Feature
The only thing I didn’t like about this tool is that it does not have button, or option to stop or pause downloading videos. There is no way this can be done unless you close the application itself.
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Upload Mac Webcam Videos To YouTube – Vidnik
With this cool, new Mac application by Google you can quickly record videos from your Mac’s iSight camera and then upload it to YouTube. Well, it isn’t difficult at all. Vidnik makes it very easy.
All you have to do is run Vidnik, and set your YouTube account username and password. Then record a video, crop it, add tags and a description. Choose a video category and click “Upload.” Simple, eh?
Don’t worry about the movies you record. They don’t get lost after uploading. You can find them from ~/Movies/Vidnik and are saved as .mov files. You can use these videos for other purposes. If you already have a video and want to upload it on YouTube, you can simply drag and dropt the video into Vidnik and uplaod it on YouTube.
Overall, it’s a good tool to upload videos from your Mac to YouTube quickly. I’d recommend every YouTube fan using Mac to give this one a try.
Download YouTube Videos Online
by Haris on April 30, 2007
in Firefox, Tips and Tricks
Well, there are two best ways why which you can download videos from YouTube. There are many sites and applications which also allow you to download videos from YouTube, but most of them have problems such as you have to convert them first before you can see them.
I have found one great site which lets you download videos or only audio from YouTube. It automatically converts the video into your desired format and then give you the download link. Simple, isn’t it? Well, yeah. It is. It is an all-in-one solution :).
Click Here to Download Videos From YouTube
Continue reading below to read about the cool Firefox extension which also allows you to download videos from the web.
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