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If you’ve got a collection of videos up on YouTube right this minute that you’d just love to have in a folder in your secure harddrive back home in their original format, Google has just answered your prayers today. In another lovely update to their Takeout menu, the Data Liberation Front has added the ability for users to download the videos they’ve uploaded to YouTube back down in their original format: “your videos in. your videos out”.

This update does not allow you to download just any ol’ video you find on YouTube – that’s not the situation in the least. Instead it’s an expansion of your ability to keep your own videos that you yourself uploaded. You can now download the videos that you uploaded to your own account – before you were only able to download individual transcoded videos, now you’ll get the most basic original format, just what you uploaded.

Download your own YouTube videos galore through this Takeout portal.

This is all part of a larger initiative that’s got Google working to allow you to download, keep, and/or delete the files and information that you’ve added to their systems and servers. The Data Liberation Blog has shown off a whole lot of different ways for you to download your Google-stored data in a variety of ways, not lead of all with the Takeout system. Google Takeout is a place where you can download data from Google+, Buzz, Contacts, Google Drive, Knol, Picasa, Google Voice, YouTube and more!

What do you think about Google’s Data Liberation Front initiative? Is it enough to convince you that you’re not part of a Big Brother type situation where Google swallows your soul with every click? You can download your information, but the internet may never let go – even if it’s not Google – always remember that!

Google now allows original quality YouTube video downloads is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Hitachi announced the development of a prototype storage media that can store (Record and Read) CD level digital Media on Quartz Glass capable to endure extreme environmental conditions without degrading. This new technology stores data in binary like form (see picture above) by creating dots inside a thin layer of quartz which can be later read with an ordinary optical microscope and compatible software. The first prototype shown by Hitachi is 2cm2 and just 2mm thick and includes in its …

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Those of you pumped up about the iPhone 5 bringing in architecture that allows simultaneous voice and data on a single radio, take heed: it’s been confirmed that this ability only works on GSM-based LTE (and 3G) networks. If you’re planning on working with a network that uses CDMA for voice and LTE for data, you’ll be out of luck – they’ll both work, just not at the same time. The key here may be in the official Apple statement (as seen below) which includes a “not yet” which may keep some doors open.

If you’re working with AT&T with the iPhone 5, you’ll be on GSM, and will be able to work with simultaneous voice and data right out of the gate. If you’re on any other carrier here in the USA, you’ll be working with CDMA, and will not yet have that functionality. Have a peek at the official statement from Apple on this situation.

“iPhone 5 supports simultaneous voice and data on GSM-based 3G and LTE networks. It is not yet possible to do simultaneous voice and data on networks that use CDMA for voice and LTE for data in a single radio design.” – Apple

Again keep your eyes on that “not yet possible” and decide for yourself whether or not that means that the operating system will be able to be tweaked to a degree in the future to allow both voice and data at the same time over LTE. For those of you that do plan on purchasing an iPhone 5 and have not yet chosen a carrier, take a peek at the timeline below with a collection of iPhone 5 news bits and updates to help you see.

iPhone 5 simultaneous voice and LTE data on GSM only – for now? is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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