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...

When you hear people say that internet video is really big right now, they’re right. Now that so many people have broadband Internet access, the common use of internet video has reached mainstream and more and more people are starting to do it. And rightly so. You ever watched television for hours on end? Even if it isn’t particularly exciting, your...

Have you ever seen a video on YouTube or any other video sharing website that you wanted to download, but didn’t have the option to? Luckily, there are many ways to do this. In this article, we’ll explore several of your options, both web-based and software based. Web-Based Methods Here are several websites that will allow you to download and/or convert...

Periodically I get asked how to get videos uploaded to YouTube to look better. The easiest possible way to do this is to simply capture/import and export your video file as 640×480 resolution for great video quality. Here’s a quick tutorial for those who use Windows Movie Maker: Import at 640×480 If you are importing from a camcorder, you can...

Google owns YouTube. YouTube is an extremely popular video web site. Yet Google isn’t exactly sure about how to make money from it. Or at least they’ve put on the appearance as such. In reality they know exactly how to make money from YouTube. Commercials. Affiliate and cable television make money by selling advertising time. For every 30 minutes of...

One of the “in” things to do online these days is lifestreaming. Lifestreaming is where you have an online record of your daily activities. You might use Twitter to share random thoughts throughout the day. You might snap photos or take videos and put them online. You’ll write blog posts. You’ll update your statuses in social networks...

We all like the convenience of the Ipod. We like our cell phones. In short, we like small things when we’re on the go. Digital cameras have gotten super small. And now, video cameras have as well. The Flip Video is a super small video camera that retails for only $150. In fact, it is easily small enough to fit into your pocket. I had an opportunity to give...

Those crazy wacky guys at MIT are at it again, this time with a system that tracks YouTube videos that are taken down for copyright violation. Want to see it? Of course you do. Here you go: http://youtomb.mit.edu/ There are a few things you’ll immediately notice about this site. First, it’s a bit slow to respond. But don’t fret, it will...

In case you hadn’t heard, more than a few YouTube users are stating that “it isn’t like it used to be” (more or less) and that the site is nothing but a big ball of boring. In addition to that, users of that site are abso-frickin’-lutely sick of the negativity that goes thru that place like a never-ending tidal wave; this means...

One question that has been asked in live chat is how we post our recorded live Ustream videos to YouTube afterwards. Ustream has the ability to convert recorded shows into a compatible YouTube format such as WMV and MOV. See video below for details on how this is...

I gotta tell ya, I’ve been making good strides with Linux Mint. So far I’ve been able to do quite a bit with it and get several Windows apps running including the Steam client. Never thought I’d see that happen. In addition I found a way to convert Theora-formatted videos over to AVI suitable for YouTube upload, oddly enough with a Windows...

YouTube is a great site but sometimes you just don’t want to see any comments on videos at all. An add-on by Lifehacker cures that ill in short order for users of Firefox and Netscape 9. Grab Greasemonkey first, then the Better YouTube add-on and you’re good to go. See video below for an example of how it...