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| Google Updates Google Video |  | The Mountain View-based company Google has rolled out an update for Google Video, its second video sharing technology which allows users to upload and share clips on the web. Google Video now provides a new Grid View that helps you find a certain clip easier than anytime before. From now on, when searching for a clip and viewing the results in grid view, you can move the mouse cursor over a video thumbnail and see more details ab ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 08:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia 9900GTS and 9900GTX Drawings, Spotted in the Wild |  | Two of Nvidia's upcoming graphics cards in the GeForce 9900 series got pictured yesterday. It's true that the images show an engineering drawing on the products rather than the functional unit, but they bring extra details about a series of products kept under the deepest secrecy.
According to a forum post at ... [read more >>] | | 10 May 2008, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| TV View - The New Google Video Default Interface |  | Google has recently rolled out a brand new interface supposed to provide better functionality than anytime before. And it really does that especially because it allows visitors to view clips, browse among the search results or click on the related videos on the same page. A few days ago, the Mountain View-based company decided to set this new interface as default, so all the users who search for a certain clip will get to see and ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ScreenFlow 1.1 Exports Up to 40% Faster |  | Fans of Vara Software's screencasting application for Mac, ScreenFlow, should be quite happy to hear that the program has been updated. One of the most noticeable changes brought by ScreenFlow 1.1 is, of course, faster exporting times. About 20% to 40% faster, in fact, the developer claims ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| WMware: Make Video, Nab MacBook Air |  | VMware claims that thousands of people have switched to Mac thanks to its stable and powerful Windows-on-their-Mac solution, VMware Fusion. The company asks, "Are you a proud switcher?" If you are, all you need to do to fulfil ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 04:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Messenger 9 Enhances Video Support |  | Following the recent release of Flickr Video, the Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo, also the owner of the photo-sharing service, has updated its internal instant messaging client to support the clips uploaded on Flickr. This means that users of Yahoo Messenger 9 can share their ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Video Flickr Not Welcomed on the Web, Users Believe |  | A few days ago, the Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo made what seems to be Flickr's first step into the video sharing market: the implementation of video support which allows users to upload their own clips on the famous photo sharing website. That's right, Flickr was actually a photo sharing webpage and the video support somehow changes its target. This is the reason why lots of people who were using Flickr on a daily bas ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Softpedia Goes Freeware Only - Part II: Multimedia |  | This article is a follow-up to a ‘tutorial’ I wrote a while back about freeware applications. So it’s time again to leave your wallet aside and start browsing through our small collection of freeware programs. If in my last article I had mentioned some utilities that might have needed experienced-user ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 03:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fix Included: Nvidia's SATA Drivers Give Windows Users the Chills |  | Nvidia's SATA driver is reportedly giving Windows users a hard time since enabling the so-called "performance" driver leads to multiple system crashes that fall out of any logic. The issue has been reported even on Nvidia's support forums, but the chip giant never felt like replying.
One of the complaining users claim that he installed Windows XP, added the necessary drivers, then went back to his mundane c ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2008, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Web2 Delight 1.0 Released for Mac |  | Global Delight Technologies has just released the latest version of Web2 Delight for Mac, a search-and-download tool enabling Mac owners to get anything their hearts desire from online video or photo platforms such as YouTube and flickr. Web2 Delight supports Apple's iPod, iPhon ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Usher Takes the Heat for Sexy Video Shoot |  | Usher's wife Tameka Foster got a lot of bad press a while ago, when her husband's career still seemed to be going somewhere. Back in the age when they were not married and didn't have their kid, Tameka was targeted by the press for allegedly being an uber-bitch and sabotaging her husband's work relationships. She was rumored to be behind her husband's fall out with his mother Jonetta Patton, who acted as ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 10:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Unveils Splendid HD1 Video Enhancement Card |  | Asustek has just announced its new ASUS Splendid HD1 video enhancement card graphics solution, that is allegedly able to deliver improved graphics performance for high-definition multimedia applications, with sharper, more vividly colored visual outputs.
The enhancement card comes bundled with Asustek's Splendid technology and is alleged to enhance lower resolution inputs by recovering image clarity, as well as to unleash ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Awards Find Winners |  | YouTube is all about originality, if we are to strip away all of the lawsuits for copyright infringement, and creativity. The user-created clips that have made it the world’s biggest video sharing site have all been set against one another in a contest to see which one is the most popular, for each category available: Adorable, Comedy&l ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Video Considers XXX Clips to be “Health and Beauty” Material |  | Never ever, in the history of Internet videos, has a user-generated video hosting site been avoided by those who wanted to share their triple X rated clips with the world. The rules are already classic and have been around ever since man climbed down from trees and discovered the power of marketing: the first to come is the first to be served. Abiding by them, the latest video site to surface is the latest one to have been ‘given ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple SDK Tops 100,000 Downloads |  | Seven days have passed since the release of the iPhone software development kit (SDK). Seven glorious days during which developers, small and big, have been allowed to use the same tools that ... [read more >>] | | 12 March 2008, 11:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Britney Stars in Sexy Cartoon Video |  | Britney Spears is definitely one of the most controversial presences in today's agitated world of showbiz entertainment – but a day to day life filled with mysterious drug use, manipulation, mental illness and legal troubles will not stand in the way of the former pop princess' musical career – or what's left of it anyway. As a result, Britney's record label is about to release yet another single off Britney&# ... [read more >>] | | 12 March 2008, 09:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Prodigal Hulu Finally Opens Up! |  | Please, do try and look surprised, act like you didn’t know this was coming and sigh with relief: Hulu is finally coming out of limited beta testing and onto our computers tomorrow, the company announced one day ahead. Take that, spammers ‘giving away’ access to the video site, you’re running out of business. If only that were true, but they’ll find some other thing to trick internauts into having their computers infested.
Aft ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 07:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Music Video Lyrics |  | Have you ever been at a party and right when your favorite song comes on, somebody next to you starts singing the lyrics wrong, loud and completely aphonous? That must be unnerving, and many, many can testify that it is one of the moments you just feel like going berserk. Here’s a quick tip for everybody who’s found himself or herself in that position: the next day, send a message to the ‘singer’ containing ... [read more >>] | | 03 March 2008, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Change YouTube Video Resolution |  | Last November the YouTube co-founders announced while attending in a TeeVee conference, that their company was toying with higher resolution videos replacing the low res that currently makes up for more than three quarters of the total clips uploaded. Because of the cryptic and almost Spartan ‘leak,’ the media jumped and all sorts of estimates started floating. "Will it be HDTV? Obviously, the Google owned video sharing serv ... [read more >>] | | 03 March 2008, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russian Prisoner Abuse Video Restored on YouTube |  | YouTube and Google have left a long trail of censorship behind them as they grew ever larger, and more often than not, the companies’ images had to suffer because of it, after the media caught wind of the facts. In December, lawyer Robert Amsterdam, representing the jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has posted a clip on the video sharing site, allegedly depicting violence and abuse in the Yekaterinburg prisoner camp.
After ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 18:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Live Video on YouTube Coming in 2008 |  | The rumored and sometimes confirmed, sometimes laughed at, coming of live video on Google’s video sharing service has finally had a pin stuck in it. It won’t float around anymore, because there’s no point in speculating about something everybody knows is going to happen.
Live streaming has been a life-long dream (metaphorically speaking) of the online community, and many video sharing services have attempted it throughout time ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 13:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| DivX Pulls Plug on Stage6 |  | The video site whose popularity has skyrocketed in the past two years only has two more days to live, so if you want to check it out or just enjoy the high definition in which its clips came in, you'd better hurry. Uploads have already been ceased and DivX is hurrying to kill it dead as soon as possible. The site gives a motivation for the decision: "So why are we shutting the service down? Well, the short answer is tha ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 12:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Steamy Music and Videos |  | Doug Lombari, vice president of marketing at Valve, talked about the plans for the popular games download service at the Game Developers Conference. And some of his remarks are rather surprising.
Last year has been a good year for Steam. One doesn't need to look a ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Shops Itself |  | Google’s biggest problem, advertising wise, is that the very expensive YouTube, for which it paid $1.65 billion, does not pay off. Plain and simple, almost 70 percent of the people and companies that chose to advertise on the world’s biggest video sharing service said that they were not happy about the response they got and deemed it to be not worth it.
The Mountain View-based company couldn’t and wouldn’t have that, so it stepped up a ... [read more >>] | | 22 February 2008, 20:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| “Princess Diana 'Could Have Been Killed by MI6' – Conclusions of Experts!!!” |  | In case you were interested, and as a result you are reading this, you would have very likely fallen for the latest Trojan attack to hit the Internet. Receiving a message with the very same title and a "Download Now!" link inside is the sure way to get the Downloader.SQV on your computer and there’s no telling of what’s to come next.
Actually, there is, per se, but in regard of what your life will be until you get th ... [read more >>] | | 22 February 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Use 'Nanoscope' to Boost Your iPod Nano's Display |  | This you gotta see! British dude cleans his closets and finds this old-school slide viewer, right? Not very satisfied with Apple's idea of portable-video, "markrirwin" decided to boost up the image on his ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 08:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Adds New Video Ads |  | Google is starting to come around to its old self after the emotional week following the Microsoft bid to take over Yahoo! It stirred some waves when it offered to lend a helping hand and then it sat back and watched how things unraveled. Back to the drawing board of moneymaking schemes now, and a New York Times bit of news previews what they’ve been working on.
Apparently, the Mountain View-based company will be introducing, ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| S3 Graphics to Announce Chrome 400 Series Discrete GPUs |  | S3 Graphics has announced the Chrome 400 Series of discrete graphics processors for notebooks and energy-efficient desktop PCs. Although the company has lost half of its graphics-related market, the VIA/S3 venture is determined to make a comeback with a new series of products, built on the 65nm architecture.
The Chrome 400 Series graphics chips are fully compatible with the DirectX 10.1 and come with a 64-bit memory interface. ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 08:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Video Relaunched, YouTube Competitor |  | What is Yahoo! thinking? One of the products it has worked best on was launched without any fanfare and mediums were kept mostly in the dark surrounding the event. Yang needed the attention to show the shareholders that he was head of a strong and organized company, not one that couldn’t dwell on its best features.
Trying to copy Google’s Video, probably, Yahoo!’s counterpart was supposed to be a showcase for professional con ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Are You an Online Video Heavy Viewer? |  | A study on Behavioral Differences Among Online Video Viewer Segments has been released by comScore and Media Contacts, to show the three levels of users roaming the Internet video woods, their habits and mindsets and the impact that advertising might have on them. The differences, I must point out, are enormous.
The first category, the Heavy Viewers account for about 20 percent of the total users accessing online video. An ap ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 05:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo!: Live Streaming Video Service Rolled out |  | It’s actually a wonder people not in the loop have heard of it. The beta launch was announced just briefly, in a post on Yahoo!’s Technology Development Group’s head, Bradley Horowitz’s blog that had… three words: 'Live is live,' he said, and nothing more. For those waiting for it, the new service is both a blessing and, at the moment, a plague.
Doing everything it promised to do, like creating the profile from which ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| China’s Video Censorship Rules, Not as Tough as Advertised |  | It’s not as red and marked with the hammer and sickle as you might have thought, but it also wouldn’t win the "people living there’s award" when it comes to freedom of speech. It’s an ongoing cha-cha dance, with one making a move (the government) and if the reply is moderately strong, it will back up a little and let the other (the people) have their way to a certain extent.
The laws that were announced early January and [ADM ... [read more >>] | | 06 February 2008, 08:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HDD Replacement for MacBook Pro (Video) |  | Looking to upgrade your MacBook Pro hard drive? Good. That's always good. Upgrading is good. But what if you've never popped open a laptop, or don't have much experience with swapping hardware in and out of a system, all this while ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Video Removed Skipping – YouTube Next? |  | Google Video has clearly lost face with YouTube because it wasn’t pushed out front as much as the video sharing service. The team must be trying to bury it altogether after removing the fast forward option. A close analysis of the two services shows that YouTube caught great speed after being added this feature, while previously only Google Video had it and was doing pretty well.
If it’s a policy to make users migrate from one to anothe ... [read more >>] | | 04 February 2008, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! $150 Million Acquisition for Video Network |  | Yahoo! will be forced into making a big decision this year, whether it is to continue with investing into advertising or drop it altogether and look somewhere else for cash flow. That’s what analysts say, but they add that another viable option for the Sunnyvale based company is to sell to Microsoft, which had been trying to buy for some time now.
Either way, it is the decisive year for Yahoo! and Jerry Yang knows it. He’s try ... [read more >>] | | 01 February 2008, 13:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Videos: The First Month |  | In case you only check out YouTube every once in a while, you’re most likely to click on the "most viewed" videos in the "related" box. That’s ok, many people do it and are not interested in the rest of the process, from uploading to getting paid.
But this is not about partnering with Google’s video sharing service, it’s about an average of success, if I may call it that, that a video has in its first month ... [read more >>] | | 31 January 2008, 08:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouBama, the YouTube and Obama Mongrel |  | If these elections are the YouTube elections, as many have said they would be, a similar site would mean a step ahead of the competition. That’s what a couple of Barack Obama supporters thought and they came up with a mongrel between the popular video sharing site and Digg. Of course, the name of the product had to show who it was that they endorsed, so the choice to be made was obvious: YouBama.
It gives users the options to upload vid ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| No Movie Rentals for New iPods! Why? |  | This has been a growing issue since Tuesday when Apple forums were filled with complaints regarding the fact that the new iPod models don't allow movie rentals via ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gmail Story |  | A short while ago, the Gmail team decided that the way they kept the motivational stories that users sent in was obsolete. In other words, they couldn’t carpet their walls a second time with the letters, over the first. The solution, in touch with modern times, was to ask fans of the email service to make a video of themselves telling the story and send it the team’s way.
About a month and 1,500 videos later, somebody had an idea about ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 14:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MySpaceTV Adds BBC Video to Service |  | Facebook must have spooked shivers down MySpace’s spine. From the outside, it looks like the biggest (still) social network in the world is trying to expand into all directions at once. It just opened offices in Russia and a homepage for the community there, a similar course of action is coming in Turkey (MySpace Turkey – always cracks me up) and now MySpaceTV has signed a deal to have BBC Worldwide provide video content.
The agreement ... [read more >>] | | 24 January 2008, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| All of YouTube’s Videos for You! |  | Until now, only a few thousand videos from YouTube were accessible on the mobile platform out of the tens of millions available. Well, not any longer, as today the video sharing site has expanded its mobile service to include its entire collection. And that’s not all! Most of the features that have made its website so well received have been implemented, such as the rating of videos and sharing them with friends.
A good decision on the ... [read more >>] | | 24 January 2008, 09:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google’s Videos Trump All Others |  | The worst thing about the numbers being returned by the conducted measurements is that they’re mostly late by a month or two, but hey, at least we have some numbers. comScore has just released the figures found with its Video Metrix for… November 2007. Right on the dot, as I said.
The number of videos being watched over the entire month is enormous, I must warn you it is not a typo: 9.5 billion online videos was November’s q ... [read more >>] | | 19 January 2008, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Usage Web Prices from Time Warner |  | The second largest cable provider in the United States has decided that the taxation employed to this day was actually not the best possible, so it announced through the voice of Alex Dudley, its spokesperson, that a new one will be implemented.
The new taxation method will first be tested in Beaumont, Texas, and it will provide the company’s Internet customers with several levels of pricing, depending on how much they downl ... [read more >>] | | 18 January 2008, 08:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sexing Up Nicole and Kelly? |  | I know Timbaland is a musical genius – plus, he's kind of good looking too and rolling in the millions of dollars, I hear – and I also know that he has this uncanny ability to turn everything he touches into gold. So yes, it's no surprise that another one of his tracks is doing great in the charts, but for the life of me, I can't make any sense of the video for "Scream" (the latest song from his "Shock Value& ... [read more >>] | | 17 January 2008, 09:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Become a Hollywood Star Online! |  | Monetizing on those who think they are good enough to make it to the well-lit stages is the idea BigShotLive founders had. A pretty good one indeed. It’s what an entertainment site should be: people trying their best and failing miserably and for those who aren’t in it for the laughs, it shows some pretty good artists that have, most likely, not been signed yet.
... [read more >>] | | 17 January 2008, 05:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Attracting Media Firms |  | The launch of the Mexican YouTube homepage on the 11th of October 2007 was highly successful and is currently under a lot of attention from the local media firms that want to broaden their offer to the public.
Reuters reports that Exa Tv, an entertainment cable channel has signed a deal with Google’s video sharing service, alongside newspaper El Universal, modeling agency Contemp Models and soccer site Medio Tiempo. The benefi ... [read more >>] | | 16 January 2008, 06:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iPlayer Demand Rocketing Through the Roof |  | Almost 160 thousand downloads per day on average were recorded by the BBC site ever since it launched its video-on-demand service on Christmas day. Doing the math (22 days multiplied by 160 thousand downloads makes.. I need a calculator for this one… there it is, more than 3.5 million) you’ll see that it was wildly successful and deservedly so, I might add.
The reason it had the numbers written above is the unique approach to ... [read more >>] | | 16 January 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One in Two Wants Video |  | The fact that not everybody on the Internet has used at least once a video sharing site, such as Google’s YouTube, makes me think that we’re not there yet, we’re not as technologically advanced as we think we are. I know it sounds strange, but keep in mind that YT is the biggest thing there is when it comes to video sharing, and you surely bumped into a page that has a clip from them embedded.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project ... [read more >>] | | 11 January 2008, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Video Streaming Coming? |  | If you’re going to watch the video I embedded (and you will or else you wouldn’t be reading this), you’re going to catch the tone of the answer Chad Hurley, one of the co-founders of YouTube, gave when asked whether his company was working on streaming video. "We’re working on a lot of interesting things", he said. That’s neither denying, nor confirming the possibility.
For the recent start-ups that have gone into the [ADMARK= ... [read more >>] | | 10 January 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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