Tech Updates

12 Fun Hacks for Getting More Out of YouTube

2010-11-15T06:27:00.000-08:00

There’s no doubt that plain old YouTube can be tons of fun, but when you get bored of watching clips the traditional way, there are a ton of sites that can help enhance the experience.
Whether you want to view a video with a far-away friend, compare two clips, or find more interesting ways of browsing and sharing, there are plenty of options out there. The web community is known for creating hacks that improve your surfing experience; now we’ve dug into some of those tools and hacks built around YouTube.
Have a look through our 10 choices and let us know of any other YouTube mashups, hacks, or similar sites and services you’ve used. We’d love to hear about them in the comments below.

1. TubeReplay

This site features a super-simple premise. TubeReplay will play a YouTube video over and over again, until you stop it or go mad — whichever happens first. Just enter the URL of the clip you want repeated and the site will do the rest.

2. DragonTape

DragonTape allows you to remix YouTube videos into a seamless mixtape. Search for the clips you want, drag and drop to set up the play order and then share the playlist with friends via an auto-generated URL, or embed it with the code provided.

3. YouTube Doubler

This “mashup helper” exists “because you have better things to do than work.” You can use it to compare two videos, or have fun mashing together two patently unsuitable videos. Simply enter the two URLs, decide on your VJ name, and you’re off and away. You can share your video pairing via a generated URL.

4. SynchTube

SynchTube allows you to watch synchronized YouTube videos with up to 50 other people with a chat window along the side so you can IM about what’s happening. Setting up a “room” is easy. Just enter the URL(s) of the videos you want to watch and then share the URL with your group. We can imagine tons of uses for this service, but the sweetest one has got to be setting up some videos to watch “together” with a far-away partner.

5. Infinitube

Enter your choice of keywords into this site and it will create an infinite playlist based on them. Get ready for a seamless viewing experience based on as many keywords as you can imagine.

6. Splicd

You can link to a specific spot in a YouTube video by adding #t=MMmSSs (replace MM with minutes and SS with seconds) to the end of the URL, but Spilcd (and TubeChop below) take this concept a step further. Splicd lets you cut down a YouTube video by entering start time and finish time. You can then share your edited clip with a URL or embed it with the code supplied.

7. TubeChop

TubeChop shares exactly the same principle as Splicd. TubeChop, however, lets you make your edited selection by sliding a bar along a timeline. It’s worth an independent mention as some may prefer TubeChop’s visual editing process.

8. YouCube

This unique little tool lets you create a “YouCube,” an interesting, if slightly offbeat way of sharing YouTube videos. Enter the six YouTube videos you want to appear on each side of the cube and it generates a spinning 3D cube of your videos that you can then name and share via a shortened URL.

9. MixTube

MixTube is a great, simple tool that lets you easily create and share music playlists from YouTube videos just by adding the URLs to a list. This tool is tidy and useful for songs that you can only find on YouTube, such as mashups, live performances, and other user-generated content.

10. YouFlow

YouFlow offers an alternative and more attractive way to browse videos on YouTube. Enter your key words and a selection of results will be displayed in a cover flow-style layout that you can scroll through. You can choose to play multiple videos right from the results, something that is much more difficult to do with YouTube’s queues and playlists.

11. Quietube

If the majority of YouTube comments depress you, then: a) You’re not alone, and b) There’s a solution. This browser bookmarklet offers a plain white or plain black background to view vids on. Simply install and then hit the “quietube” button after you press play on any YouTube video for some peaceful, troll-free viewing.

12. YouTube TestTube

TestTube is YouTube’s “ideas incubator,” akin to Gmail Labs, where YouTube engineers and developers “test out recipes and concoctions that aren’t quite fully baked.” You can play around with a comment search, HTML5, the lite version of YouTube (Feather), a caption editor, music discovery features and more.

Watch Trailers of Movie on YouTube

2010-11-15T06:21:00.000-08:00

Am not sure if this is something new but YouTube has a special page at youtube.com/trailers where you can watch movie trailers of many upcoming releases as well as movies that are already running in theatres.
Movie studios and fans have been uploading video trailers on YouTube for long but this page makes it easy for you to quickly spot the “official” trailers from one place without having to use search.
YouTube currently aggregates trailers of mostly Hollywood release though I did spot one from an upcoming Bollywood release as well. The “latest trailers” in the sidebar will help you discover new movie trailers that may have been added since your last visit.
Apple maintains a hugely popular movie trailers website at trailers.apple.com but it requires the QuickTime plug-in while the YouTube trailers require the Flash player which most of us already have on your browsers.

Make your name look really cool

2008-01-20T09:51:00.000-08:00

Well guys one of my frnd told me that he wanted to style up this orkut name and wanted to make it more attractive so this one will help all users who wanted to customize there Orkut Names

Snick (Style-nick) is a great nickname editor, you input a nick name (or any other text you want to modify), and then you have several editing options, you can reverse the nick, you can add pattern either side of the nick, and finally (and most important) replace normal characters with other weirder characters which resemble the originals!! Snick is basically a glorified ASCII editor, as it edits normal characters with other less used ASCII alternatives.

with Snick you can make seriously crazy nick's for MSN Messenger, WLM Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, AOL, Mercury Messenger, or any other messaging program out there, or you can make them for your blog's, website's or anything else! There even fun to use on chat rooms!!

So go visit this link and customize your name http://ougarena.com/snick/ and have fun

Free Daily sms Updates

2008-01-20T09:42:00.000-08:00

Well Guys this site MyToday gives you update on various topics and that also free of cost so all you need to do is
*Sign up there
*For sms updates on topics see here
*then To start receiving updates on a topic,
sms START to 09845398453
e.g. sms START CRI to 09845398453

*Only pay the operator charge once for the Start SMS
*In case you want to stop the updates, sms STOP <> to 09845398453

Recive Scrap notification on your mobile and many more intresting things thru sms

2008-01-20T09:15:00.000-08:00

Well guys its really very easy way the only thing u need is a Indian Mobile network service
so here we go

*SMS REG to 09845398453. (Cost=Premium Charges as per operator)
*ThenLogin to your Mytoday account using the password that you will receive from them and the user name as you mobile number (the one which you used for SMS ).
*Click Here to manage your SMS Feed Updates.

*In the Name Section, write "Orkut Scrap". (You may opt other Name also)

*Enter URL as: "http://www.indian-tv.com/orkut.php?uid=xxxxxxxxxx", where xxxxxxxxxx is your Orkut Profile ID.

like it is http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=8336024321372445092
so here 8336024321372445092 is the uid
*Put a before "Send SMS" Option and click on Create.
and now u r done start receiving notifications of scraps

Limitations:

*Scraps Come too Late (Approx 5-6 Hours).
*Word Limit of Approx 71 Words.
*Mytoday might not deliver password on first attempt.
*Your Scrapbook must be unlocked.

Even though this hack so many limitations, it is worth giving a try. After all everything is free of cost.

Credits Orkutaddons

Yahoo and Msn Smilies on Orkut

2008-01-20T06:21:00.000-08:00

Well Guys u can impress your frnz by using yahoo and msn smilies on orkut
to use it u need mozilla fire fox and gresemonkey a extention of firefoz
then download these script

YAHOO smileys:-
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/12735.user.js

MSN smileys:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/12734.user.js

hope u like them

Find all owned community of any orkut member

2008-01-19T07:46:00.000-08:00

Well guys this is a very interesting script which help you to find out how many owned Communities are there in a persons profile well u just need to copy this javascript by pressing ctrl+a and then go to the profile of the person whose all owned communities u want to find then run this script on the address bar and its done u get redirected to search page in which all his owned communities are present
Copy the code from below...

Type in cool and Diffrent Backgrounds

2008-01-17T03:42:00.000-08:00

Well Guys i got through this site a long time ago and again someone asked me about this so thought to tell u all also To Visit the web Site click here now click on try it and enter the message body and click on show me

Interactive Orkut Shortcuts

2008-01-17T03:17:00.001-08:00

Well Guys this is a Gresemonkey script so first of all u need Mozilla Firefox and Gresemonkey .
This script is very user friendly and will make your orkutting more easier and comfortable this script has got a very new thing which others don't have it works on mouse hover just bring your mouse to any comm mic and u will get options or just get it to some profile and easy shortcuts will appear to u.
After installing Firefox and gresemonkey you may install this script...
Here are few screen shots which will clear all your doubts

Disable Copy Paste In your or your frnz scrap book

2008-01-14T22:41:00.000-08:00

Copy and Paste the code in your scrap book or your frnz scrap book and then just try to copy any scrap on that page .... u cant isnt this amazing...

Scrap all Your Frnz in a Single Click+Scrap Flooder

2008-01-14T05:57:00.000-08:00

Scrap Everyone on your list.
To send scrap to all friends on your list, use this script (Below In red)

Copy the above code by first clicking on the box and then press ctrl+a

1> Paste the above code (which is in red) in your address bar
(the place where you type www.orkut.com).

2> Press enter.

If u want to Flood your Scrap Book Then Just login with your fake then mark on selected frnz then click on your name and in No. of times to send the scrap: put 350 there

And Click on Send scraps and don't forget to write some thing in the text are
and njoy :)

Mass Deleter 2.0 - Easily Delete What Ever You Want

2008-01-14T05:33:00.000-08:00

Here is an all in one mass deleter software which enables you to delete various orkut elements in a single click. This may be a very useful software for those who are fed-up with a huge friend list (courtesy: this hack) . Moreover, this is an all in one software to delete anything which associates your profile

Features of this software :

Delete Scraps
Delete Messages
Delete Friends
Delete Testimonials
Delete Testis I wrote
Delete My Updates
Delete Crush List
Delete Ignore List
Delete Bookmarks
Delete Hot List
Delete Videos
Delete Images
Delete Topics
Delete Feeds
Delete Display Picture
Delete Profile

How to Use This Software?

Download Mass Deleter 2.0
Make sure you have .NET framework v 2.0 installed. In case not, you can download it from this link.
You can easily operate the software.

Warning : This software can be disastrous if used carelessly. If you are using this software, we assume that you know what you are doing.

Credits - Gautam (creator)

Spice Up your Orkutting!!!

2008-01-14T04:40:00.000-08:00

Hi Guys i am here to Increasing your Browsing enjoyment on the net so guys First of all
Install Mozilla Firefox 5.7 mb
It Increases your web surfing speed and its really amazing
To Download latest Firefox Click Here

Then Download Gresemonkey which will help all your gm Scripts to run
To Download it Click Here

Now we get to the Gm Scripts parts here i am gonna share some most best gm scripts to Spice Up Your Orkutting..

Keep Track of Your Scraps On All Orkut Pages!

This script helps keeping you track of your scraps on all orkut pages. You can easily track any new scraps without checking your scrapbook again and again. This adds the number of scraps alongside the scrapbook hot link on the top bar.

Click Here To Install The script

Quote Messages in One Click!

This Script Adds a Quote option alongside every reply in a topic so that you can easily quote the message and reply to a specific member's message.

See the screen Shot To be More Clear

Click Here to install the script

Glitter Your Scraps With the New Formatting Orkut Toolbar!

Sharath over at Technowise has posted a really cool greasemonkey addon for orkut.This addon adds a New formatting bar for scraps on orkut. We recommend you to download this cool addon. You can have a Look at the beautiful features of this toolbar.

The Glitter Option

Colour Option

Smilies Option

Click Here to Install the toolbar

Userscript - Unlock Locked Albums Permanently!

This userscript once installed will automatically unlock the locked album everytime you click on locked album of any profile.
Note - The script is updated to work with new orkut album feature.

Install Unlock Orkut Albums Script

Credits:OrkutPlus

Few More Exciting Wallpapers

2008-01-13T23:57:00.000-08:00

Hope u all like it :)

Wonderfull Wallpapers

2008-01-13T20:10:00.000-08:00

Guys i am here to Share some Wonderful Wallpapers u can actully Download it to your computer and have lots and lots of fun u can use it as dextop wallpapers and also on your orkut profile pics and albums ;)