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View Blocked Videos The world’s most famous video hosting site Youtube provides the publisher while uploading a video, with an option of limiting the video to users from specific countries. Meaning, you might be staying in India or US but may not be able to view every video on Youtube, that’s because the publisher of [...]

There are several websites which allows you to download YouTube videos and there is no shortage of tools available for downloading YouTube videos. Some tools are designed to download videos directly to other formats so that you can transfer those videos to your iPod or other devices.

Free Video Downloader is a freeware that allows you to download HD quality YouTube videos, optionally you can also convert them to various other video formats.

YouTube today released a new interface designed to watch YouTube videos on large screens like TVs called YouTube XL.  YouTube XL works with TVs hooked up with computers, you can also watch videos using game consoles like PS3 or Nitendo Wii.

Google today announced Google Web Elements at it’s Google I/O conference. Google Web Elements lets you easily embed content from Google sites like Youtube videos. Currently you can embed Calendar, Conversation, Custom Search, Maps, News, Presentations, Spreadsheets and Youtube news.

Google News clusters got better today with categorized content from blogs, local news, quotes, images and videos. When you click on “all news articles” links below each cluster in Google News they will show cluster pages with all the above said sections, each section like blogs, local sources also carry links to more articles.

Youtube is the most popular video sharing site, you can find pretty much every kind of video you want, but instead of wasting time browsing the YouTube site you could use an app just for discovering or watching new videos while working on other things. Sprink is a Youtube player for desktop that will allow [...]

While browsing the web these days, you would rarely come across any website with just plain text on it. Flat text – nothing else. Well, that was Web 1.0 , we now live in the Web 2.0 age, surfing not only just text, but audio, video, presentations, files, movies and what not! If you have [...]

The number of tools available for downloading YouTube is overwhelming, we see new tools for downloading very often. All these tools will allow you to download videos from YouTube and some allow you to convert to other formats. Youtube2Mp3 is a Firefox add-on that allows you download youtube videos directly as MP3 files.

Muziic is a media player app that streams music from Youtube unlike other desktop media players. Muziic player resembles other media players like iTunes/songbird etc, it lets you search music, create playlists and browse the music between categories.

YouTube has the watch in high quality option in YouTube site for videos which have high quality version but this is not available for embedded videos till now, although it is possible to use a hack to do that. Now YouTube enabled the high quality YouTube video embeds, YouTube is providing a HQ button in [...]

Youtube is disabling or deleting unauthorized copyrighted tracks from videos. This move may effect a huge number of videos on the popular video sharing site. The videos with disabled audio are good for nothing, if the audio has been disabled for a video there is a message below the video that reads “This video contains [...]

YouTube has HD Videos for quite some time, when a video is available in HD you will see a link “watch in high quality” below the video. Youtube has added a landing page for the HD content recently to make it easy for users to discover HD videos. There are tons of youtube video downloaders [...]

Buffer.me is a new service that gives a nice interface to watch youtube videos. Buffer me allows users to watch videos is distraction free way.

YouTube has introduced a new landing page for all HD content and a huge video player to watch HD videos. Along with the HD landing page there are three new landing pages for news, music and movies.

Last year Youtube introduced Video Holiday Cards for the holidays season, these video holiday cards are back again on YouTube this year. This years video cards feature introduced mote themes and featured videos for you to choose from. Not only featured videos in fact you can send any YouTube video as a greeting card. While [...]

Full length movies are coming to Youtube in the next few months according to CNet, at lease one biggest Hollywood movie studio films will be offered initially. These movies will be ad-supported according to the report.

YouTube has rolled out a new feature that will let you link to a specific point with in YouTube videos. To create deep links for the videos append a time link to the end of the the youtube video URL, for example if you want to link to a video after 1min 15sec you would [...]

If you keep searching for your favorite musician video in Youtube you will see lot of parody videos or someone’s video with your favorite song. Plistube allows users to create playlists of their favorite artists videos so that you don’t have to search in sea of youtube videos.

There are many desktop apps and web sites offering downloads of web videos from sites like Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion etc. There are few services that offer on the fly conversion of these videos to other formats so you can play them on different devices. Filsh.net is a service that allows you to covert web [...]