June 6, 2012
There are so many YouTube channels devoted to history that I can wear the skin of my fingers writing about them for you. Instead, I will restrict myself to these ten. With these ten YouTube channels, I try to present a cross-section of history. Maybe you will like them. Maybe these will inspire you to compile your own list.
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May 30, 2012
Nikola Tesla is rightly regarded as one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. His pioneering work as an engineer, especially in the field of electricity and electromagnetism, mean his name is synonymous with invention and innovation. However, one of the things Tesla is best known for these days is the Tesla coil, an electrical transformer circuit he used for experimentation.
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May 29, 2012
Japan has always been considered a bit weird when it comes to culture. On the one hand, Western TV would have you believe Ultimate Warrior and Human Tetris are like the Japanese Olympics, up there with classic cultural icons like ninjas and Samurai. On the other you have the Japan-obsessed who believe every anime has artistic merit and nothing is more beautiful than white-faced geisha.
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May 26, 2012
We all know that the world loves YouTube. Practically everyone who is on the Internet has been to YouTube or has at least heard of it. There are also plenty of browser extensions that add some good functionality to YouTube to make everyday YouTube usage a bit more comfortable. However, I found an Opera extension that adds some highly practical features that makes using YouTube better.
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May 22, 2012
As I've discussed before, there seems to be a something about fictional post-apocalyptic worlds that draw modern viewers in. Perhaps it's the notion of a world with limited technology. Maybe it's the idea of actual danger. These are two things that most of us reading MakeUseOf do not necessarily have to face, and with a post-apocalyptic world, we can view these possibilities at a safe distance.
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May 16, 2012
We've already seen a list of the best music videos featuring floppy disk drives, and now it's time to broaden our horizons a little and bring more tech hardware into the mix. It's amazing the variety of machines and old gadgets that can be reimagined as music-making instruments.
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May 15, 2012
Being a fast food aficionado, I recently recognized that it was high time for me to get back in the kitchen. I've spent way too long eating my meals on the run, and I'm sure that many of you could relate. However, part of my trouble was figuring out what I should cook! Using the powers of the Internet, I set out to find a few YouTube channels that provide some decent meal tips as well as entertainment.
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May 9, 2012
Google+ Hangouts have recently announced they will allow everyday users to be able to share hangouts to a live audience and to save their Hangout sessions as a YouTube video to be shared later. The feature is called Hangouts On Air, which has been available to selected users for a while, but is only now [...]
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May 8, 2012
You can think of this Chrome extension as the “Read-It-Later” for YouTube videos. It performs nearly the same job for YouTube videos as does the so named browser add-on does for webpages. The Chrome extension called Video History for YouTube has a few more tricks up its sleeve which makes managing all the YouTube videos you watch (or intend to) a little easier.
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May 2, 2012
In my opinion, YouTube is the best market for putting your music into the public eye. There are so many opportunities that it provides, ranging from building a raw personal fan base all the way to being discovered by a major record label. Also, if the record label thing doesn't work out, there's always the chance of being picked up as a YouTube partner.
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April 28, 2012
Google is expanding its movie-rental activity bit by bit and, after reaching France last month, Google movie rentals have now arrived in Australia. This means Australians can now rent thousands of movies from the Movies page on YouTube Australia or from Google Play Movies, including films from Walt Disney, Sony Pictures and NBCUniversal, as well [...]
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April 28, 2012
Send any YouTube video to your television, instantly. It's perfect for YouTube parties or anytime you want to comfortably watch a video from your couch. All you need to make living room dreams come true is a media center powered by XBMC and a simple browser extension. Here's the scenario. You're sitting on your couch, browsing the web. You stumble upon a hilarious video and you want to share it.
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April 24, 2012
Viral videos are accidents. I don’t think they can be created deliberately, though I am sure people try. A video going viral can launch careers and give someone their 5 minutes of YouTube fame. So, how do you catch the best ones before they happen or as they are happening? Keep tabs on these seven viral video sites to watch what’s buzzing right now.
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April 23, 2012
If I had enough money I’d buy a slow-motion capture camera that shoots video at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of frames per second. As it is, I don’t have very much money to spend on eye-wateringly expensive photographic gear so I’ll have to make do with other people’s videos instead. The fascination for slow motion video has a lot to do with the world we can’t see, much like macro and microscopic photography.
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April 17, 2012
Google continues to add more and more titles to its Google Play and YouTube rentals movie libraries. After striking deals with five of the major film studios, the newest one to join the fun is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) which will be adding more than 600 titles to the Google movie libraries. Less than two weeks ago, [...]
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