Feb 03
Music videos are a popular staple among YouTube users, accounting for a large percentage of the video service’s overall views and drawing in countless people every day. The Google company … Continue reading
Feb 03
Supposing you weren’t part of the Disney YouTube channel subscriber list and given backstage passes to the uploading of the entire three-season run of the cartoon Gargoyles last year, you … Continue reading
Feb 03
It’s incredibly noisy in the cockpit of a helicopter, and you’d assume the sounds you hear in any YouTube police chase video were just the deafening whine of the chopper’s engine. But as one hacker discovered, that monotonous drone can actually hide some useful data, like the helicopter’s GPS coordinates.
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Feb 03
It’s such a shame that ten seconds of valuable information requires watching awful online ads and rambling, ill-produced amateur video. [Doghouse Diaries]
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Feb 02
WrapUp: iOS Style Scrollbar in Chrome, AirPlay for Windows Media Center, and More
Posted in: Today's ChiliThis article was written on May 30, 2011 by CyberNet.
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you’ve got something we should include.
–News–
Google Wallet Coming to Your Phone
Google will be turning your NFC-equipped phone into a digital wallet that is packed with coupons, membership cards, and credit cards.
Amazon Launches Mac Download Store
Amazon is now selling Mac software downloads with some titles that even Apple’s own Mac App Store doesn’t have, such as Microsoft Office.
Gmail Will Display Related Contact Information
A new feature that Google is rolling out in Gmail will show information (off to the right of an email) about the contact(s) in the message you’re reading.
YouTube Streams 3 Billion Videos Each Day
As YouTube rolls by their 6-year anniversary they announced that over 3 billion videos are watched every day, and 48-hours of footage is uploaded every minute.
Yahoo! Mail Redesign Leaves Beta
Yahoo! Mail has over 277 million users, and they will all get to experience the new interface that marks the first major update in over 5-years.
WolframAlpha Adds Medical Information
I am constantly amazed at the amount of information pouring out of WolframAlpha, and last week they announced that medical data has also been added. Now you’ll be able to find out interesting medical stats, such as how many patients suffer from a particular illness each year.
Microsoft Shows Off Features in Windows Phone Mango Update
According to Microsoft there will be “hundreds of new features” coming in the new Windows Phone Mango update due out later this Fall. Some of the features include IE9, multitasking, threaded conversations, and speech-to-text support.
Dropbox Crosses 100 Billion File Mark
Dropbox hit a huge milestone with over 100 billion files having been saved by their service, and another 300 million being added every day.
Square Launches iPad App
Square’s new iPad app gives users the ability to accept credit card payments using a powerful register-like application.
–Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews–
iOS Style Scrollbar in Google Chrome
This awesome extension will shrink the size of the scrollbar in Chrome, and does it for both the main reading area as well as any scrollable areas inside the page.
Submit Forms to New Tabs in Firefox
With the TabSubmit Firefox extension you can submit forms in a way that a new page is opened up. When is this useful? I’d use it when doing searches on a site or in a forum so that the search results page opens up in a new tab.
Evernote Extension for Chrome Updated
The new Evernote Chrome extension has added the ability to auto-detect the body of an article making it easier to clip only the content.
AirPlay for Windows Media Center
With the help of this free addon users can actually stream video directly from their iOS device to any Windows Media Center PC.
Bulk Convert Audio Files on a Mac
xACT is a free utility that will let you bulk convert over a dozen different types of audio files to the MP3 or AAC format on your Mac.
Compare the Cost of Driving vs. Flying
The Fly or Drive Calculator is a great way to determine whether it is more cost effective for you to drive or fly to your destination.
–Downloads–
- CDBurnerXP 4.3.8.2568 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Dexpot 1.5.10 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Dropbox 1.1.35 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Fedora Linux 15 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- FileZilla 3.5.0 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Firefox 5.0 Beta 2 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Foobar2000 1.1.7 Beta 5 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Foxit Reader 5.0.1.0523 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Google Chrome 13.0.772.0 Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Miro 4.0 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Opera 11.50.1016 Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Skype 5.3.0.113 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Sumatra PDF 1.6.3834 Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
- uTorrent 3.0 RC2 [Homepage] [Mirror]
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Jan 29
YouTubers Claim That No Opinions Were Bought In EA’s Paid Content Incentives
Posted in: Today's Chili
YouTube, EA, and Microsoft among other parties were singled out this month after it became known that they were involved in paid video incentives, where both EA and Microsoft supposedly paid content creators to mention positive things concerning their games, which needless to say, sparked off various claims of bias. It is to the parties who are under fire that has experienced a certain level of redemption, where several personalities actually stepped up to ensure the situation is crystal clear – or at the very least, a whole lot less murky.
YouTubers Claim That No Opinions Were Bought In EA’s Paid Content Incentives original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 28
NBC News has released some new information from documents it acquired via Edward Snowden, the media company has announced. According to the documents, which NBC has largely made available on … Continue reading
Jan 25
I guess this makes sense when you think about it, but I never thought about it. Soap bubbles don’t stand a chance when it’s -4 degrees out, as YouTube’s NightHawkInLight elegantly shows us.
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Jan 22
If you’ve ever tried to use YouTube as a practical measure of how fast your Internet connection is, then you might be in for a surprise. Apparently, Google has the … Continue reading
Jan 21
Do you remember the old days of a 14.4kbps modem with all the screeching that it made just to get connected to the Internet? Well, in this day and age, we have places like South Korea offering a whopping 300Mbps LTE-A connection for mobile devices, which makes short work of video streaming. Google themselves have a brand new project which was specially designed to test the quality and connection speeds of internet service providers, and this particular service is known as Google’s Video Quality Report.
Google Video Quality Report Tests Your ISP’s Connection Speed original content from Ubergizmo. 
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