Do you ever visit YouTube with the aim of checking one video out, and subsequently spend hours trawling through related videos, and related videos of related videos? It's almost unavoidable. After all, whether you're looking for entertainment or information, what's to say the next video won't be as useful as the current?
The YouTube app within iOS is somewhat dated, sluggish, and seems rather out of place in comparison to most of the other stock apps - most of which run smoothly and without too much fuss.
If you’re an Apple TV (2nd-gen) user, you might be happy to know that an unexpected update has reached the platform: version 4.3 (Build 8F455) has reached devices. This new update includes several benefits, including the ability to stream TV shows, even those already purchased from iTunes, right from your TV.
Google+ Hangouts Now Lets Up To 10 Users Watch YouTube Live Streaming Together. Here’s How To Use It
YouTube and Google+, are two Google properties, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that both should be integrated as closely as possible to one another. +Hangouts, Google+’s group video chat feature, has since its inception allowed YouTube video to be played back within video conversations allowing all participants to view the same video simultaneously. It now seems that support for YouTube Live, YouTube’s live streaming service, is being added to +Hangouts, allowing live events to be played back in real time as well.
One of YouTube's most-watched musicians has had her account suspended after a copyright claim from a Japanese media company. Pop star Lady Gaga's online fortress has been hauled offline, leaving behind a message of, "This account has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's Copyright Policy".
Google's design team has been on fire lately with Google+ and subsequent visual updates to Gmail and Google's main page. YouTube is now getting a redesign too, codenamed Cosmic Panda, and yes, this one is open to the public.
One of the most pressing issues when the iPhone came out was the worse-than-desired performance of the YouTube app, mainly concerning how long videos would take to load. Now there's a fix, named TCP Optimizer, and it's freely available if you're willing to jailbreak your phone.
There's nothing better than getting something for free, so long as it's not stolen of course! Movies for example. We love movies at Redmond Pie, but we love free movies even more. Thanks to our friends over at iPhoneInCanada, we can now watch some free movies on our iPhones too.
When YouTube launched its YouTube Live service, the prospect of watching live streamed video from all our favorite content providers excited us all. There was just one problem though - YouTube's Live streaming was very much a Flash affair, leaving us iOS fans out of luck. But as is usually the case though, there's now an app for that.
While not the first OEM application to be ripped from its original hardware companion, HTC's YouTube app is one that's long been coveted. Now, thanks to XDA member Tom Hounsell, the app is available to anyone who wants it.
