While this might be old news to some, I’m sure there are still a few people who wouldn’t mind hearing about this tool. Let’s say you’re on YouTube, and you see a video you really like. It’s downright awesome, and you think “Hey, I’d love to put that on my iPod.” Believe it or not, you actually can do that. Some...

YouTube’s grand and all, but there’s definitely a few things that could be improved about it. Until Google decides to implement automatic playback, or the ability to resize videos while watching them, we’ll have to turn to outside sources. Notably…Chrome extensions. Here’s 5 extensions for Google Chrome designed to make your...

Last week I received an email: You wrote this http://www.pcmech.com/article/whats-the-longest-youtube-video-ever/ Well, i made a video that is longer.  Here is a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=865S1zMcWMo& While it barely qualifies as a video, it does count – and it’s 571 hours in length. To put that in perspective, that’s just shy of...

When I was in grammar school there was a book drive every year, and one of the hot sellers of the day was The Guinness Book of World Records. We like to know records because statistical information is interesting. And of course there’s bragging rights for being "that guy" or "that girl" who did something first/best/etc. To the best of...

An often overlooked feature in YouTube is the ability to upload via email. Using mail.in.com’s scheduled mail feature, you can send emails with the video file attached to send on a specific date and time. Shortly after send, YouTube will post the video publicly. Here’s how it’s done: Step 1. Acquire your YouTube mobile address. Login to your...

If you are looking for a bit of mindless weekend entertainment, the ultimate time waster is YouTube. So for your viewing enjoyment, this article titled “161 of the Best Videos on YouTube” will help you sift through the clutter to find a few clips worth watching. I watched several of these (I especially like the stop motion and Lego animation, the...

If you upload videos to YouTube but have not bothered with the task of basic editing (as needed of course) for whatever reason, there is good news for you: Google has introduced a new tool which allows you to edit your videos directly on YouTube: YouTube has a new video editor that lets you create videos using excerpts from the videos you’ve already...

We have posted a couple of times with regards to downloading and saving online videos from sites like Youtube, but the site Bender Converter takes this process to the next level. Here you can download and convert videos from the following sites: youtube.com, dailymotion.com, vimeo.com, twitvid.com, wat.tv, veoh.com, vids.myspace.com, video.google.com, blip.tv,...

The fight for internet video sharing supremacy is a weird one. It’s one of those things that’s ridiculously expensive to maintain, is not profitable, but yet necessary. More on that in a moment. Veoh, a video sharing site most of you probably forgot about until I just mentioned it, is going under. They gave it the good fight, but never seemed to...

One of YouTube’s lesser used features is the playlist function. It is actually a good feature but a bit on the difficult side to get the hang of. It’s also darn near impossible to find out where the direct-URL link and/or embed code is in case you want to post it to your blog or send via Facebook/Twitter/etc. The video below will show you how to do...

Firefox users who frequent YouTube, may be interested in the extension: Better YouTube. [This extension] enhances YouTube with Greasemonkey user scripts, that offer options like the FlowPlayer “doesn’t start till you hit play” viewer, clean “theater” view, and links to download the video automatically. With this add-on installed,...

YouTube (finally) put some profanity censoring in their text comment system after years of angry complaints from many, many users of the system. The moment this went into effect there were people right on top of this: Note the second comment above. Let it not be said that all YouTube "community members" are dumb. If you still want to see the...

On YouTube there are more than a few prominent video-makers there that have run into the problem of having videos pulled (or accounts outright banned) due to them not being family friendly. Personally I think the term family friendly is fairly easy to figure out, however when it comes to YouTube the lines are blurred as it appears to be dependent on whether the...

A lot of people are disliking YouTube these days. If it’s not for their ever-present "scheduled maintenance", it’s for the continually tightening grip on what is considered "acceptable" content and what isn’t. And let’s not forget that the community (and it’s a stretch to call it that) is simply awful. There are...

I personally find it comical how many users of the YouTube site believe they have "rights" on a private system that doesn’t grant them any. I also find it comical many believe that they can simply dictate to Google what they should and shouldn’t do with their own video sharing web site that’s free. A classic example of this is in this...

You’ve probably heard of web sites like KeepVid where you can direct-download the FLV file of any YouTube video you watch by entering its video URL. You don’t have to do this. You can use Firefox’s local file cache to do it also. Yes, it takes a little longer, but the plus is you don’t have to rely on another site just to download videos....

Whenever you are watching YouTube videos you probably come across some that you would like to save to your hard drive. While there are software titles and browser plugins which will do this for you, the abosolute easiest way I have found is by using KickYouTube. KickYouTube requires no software installation or registration of any kind and the usage could not be...

Many people who publish videos on the internet (such as PCMech) does put an "intro" on the front to inform people who made it in the first place. Over the course of my video-making I discovered that by and large, people hate intros if they:Are too long. Are too "spammy". Have the word "productions" in it. All of the above.Too...

While it’s true that other video-sharing sites (like Vimeo’s HD channel) have had large HD-quality video for a while now, YouTube has finally jumped into the fray with its own HD. And to be honest it looks really good. The only drawback is that it’s absolutely required that you have a reasonably fast PC with a decent video card, else you get...

You can file this under the "Yeah, I knew that would happen" department. A consumer advocacy group is really ticked off because there are pharmaceutical advertisements are appearing on YouTube without any disclaimers or warnings (as they must have on television). Corporations, typically speaking, hate it when they have to put any disclaimers or...