Tag Archives: Youtube

Videos are meant to be watched which means if you’re watching YouTube, the website expects that you haven’t sent it to the background. That’s not how everyone watches YouTube. The website lets you create playlists and if they’re music playlists that you’re listening to, the tab doesn’t really have to …

YouTube added a live streaming feature a while ago. It was added to compete with Twitch though that didn’t quite work. Still, the live streaming feature is there and this year, Apple is going to be using it to stream its iPhone event. If you already follow Apple, or any …

You can watch YouTube videos in full screen mode. This particular mode has been a part of YouTube for a long time. It’s not new although lots of new viewing modes have been added to it over the years. There’s a neat theater mode, a mini player, and there’s the …

On small screens, media players or websites that can play media often struggle with screen space. The Facebook apps are a good example of this. On older versions of the app, users were unable to scroll through their news feed if they were watching a video. Facebook rectified this by …

Screenshot tools are absurdly common both for the desktop and for browsers. In fact, you can even find tools that let you take screenshots of your desktop and entire websites from the terminal/command prompt. If you have a very specific screenshot need i.e., you need to screenshot YouTube videos, and …

You can rent and pre-order movies on YouTube. The titles that you can rent and/or pre-order include movies from the Marvel franchise, as well as some obscure ones that may not have shown at your local theater. This particular YouTube feature is geographically limited i.e., it’s only available in select …

If you need to automatically post YouTube videos to Twitter, you’ll find the all guides point to a now obsolete method. YouTube, before January 2019, allowed users to connect their Twitter account to the service and automatically share videos. It has now removed this option. In order to automatically post …

YouTube-DL GUI is a front-end application for the command-line tool YouTube-DL. The program is designed to take the complexity out of using YouTube-DL from the command line and make it much easier to save save YouTube videos on Linux offline. The application has a very simple, straightforward UI, with quick-change …

YouTube has more content than a person can watch in a single lifetime and we’re not even taking into account the boring, uninteresting stuff. Just the stuff that’s gone viral and is mildly popular is too much for one person’s lifetime. That said, we definitely try to watch as many …

Android 8.0 has a new feature; Picture in Picture mode. It’s available for any app that chooses to support it. VLC picture in picture view has already been implemented. You need only update VLC Player to the latest version, and make sure you’re running Android 8+ to use it. This …