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This article was written on March 03, 2008 by CyberNet.

Last Tuesday, the team over at YouTube posted a blog entry that explained their new experimental personalized homepages that they were getting ready to launch. On Saturday, the new personalized homepages were made available. Here’s a quick run-through on what they’ve done:

• Personalized recommendations based upon your previous activity
• View the latest videos from the channels that you’re subscribed to
• See what your friends are doing like if they’re uploading, rating, or favoriting movies under the “friend activity” section
• New dashboard which includes stats from your inbox (how many messages if any, friend invites, received videos, etc.
• View the number of videos you’ve uploaded, how many times they’ve been viewed, and more under the “About Your Videos” section

To get access to the personalized homepage, you’ll need to go to www.youtube.com and log in. Once logged in, just go to www.youtube.com/iyt. You’ll only have to go through the process once and then anytime you go to YouTube, you’ll be automatically forwarded to the new site. If you use YouTube regularly, I think the new changes will be welcomed.

Their goal with all of these changes is to “gauge people’s interest in having a YouTube that’s tailored to the individual.  Ultimately, we want to get you one step closer to the videos you’ll enjoy most every time you come to the site.”

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This article was written on October 25, 2010 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–

HP Slate Will Cost $799
Engadget has both some images and a video of the HP Slate in action, which will run you a cool $799 when it is released. Specs include a 1.86GHz Atom processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 64GB SSD for storage.

Summary of Apple Announcements
If you haven’t read about all of Apple’s announcements last week this will get you up-to-speed on the new MacBook Air, OS X Lion, Mac App Store, and iLife ’11.

Windows 7 Sells 240 Million Licenses
Microsoft announced that in the first year of availability they’ve sold over 240 million licenses of the Windows 7 OS, which makes it the fastest selling operating system in history.

Microsoft Office 365 Available Next Year
The cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 will offer online versions of the Office suite for a monthly fee starting next year.

HP Unveils webOS 2.0
The next generation of Palm Pre and webOS will include things like Flash Player, Skype, an updated Facebook app, and many enhancements throughout the entire operating system.

Hulu Blocks Google TV
Google TV users might be a little discouraged to find out that Hulu doesn’t work, at least for right now. There was a modification you could make to change the user agent, but that has since been plugged by Hulu. So you’ll just have to wait for the Hulu Plus subscription service to be made available.

Xbox.com Gets an Update
The redesigned Xbox.com now has a browser based Avatar editor, the ability to play web games with your Xbox LIVE friends, and more.

Dad and Son Send HD Camera and iPhone to Space
A father/son duo created a nice weather balloon rig that reached a maximum altitude of 100,000 feet, and captured it all on video. Thanks to the onboard iPhone they were able to retrieve the balloon about 30-miles from where it launched.

–Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews–

Insomnia Keeps Your PC Awake
Windows users can download this handy little utility if they want to prevent their computer from going to sleep. As long as the window remains open the PC will remain in “insomnia” mode.

Anandtech’s In-Depth Windows Phone 7 Review
If you enjoy reading long and detailed reviews about gadgets this is one you won’t want to miss. It covers just about every aspect of the new mobile OS.

Change Your Aero Color Based on Weather Temperature
Windows 7/Vista users can enjoy this nice free app that will adjust the color of the Aero glass to match the current temperature outside.

Opera 11 Alpha Available with Sample Extensions
The testing phase of the next major Opera milestone has begun, and there are some sample extensions available for you to take for a spin.

Desktop Email Notifications for Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, and More
This free utility will let you monitor and manage messages from all of your email accounts.

Play Most Video Types on Android with VPlayer
The free VPlayer app for Android lets users watch videos in DivX, Xvid, MKV, WMV, FLV, and RMVB formats.

No Hassle Way to Download and Convert YouTube Videos
The DownloadTube.org site lets you paste in a link to any YouTube video, and have it converted into a more widely supported video format.

Keep iTunes Libraries in Sync with MediaRover
MediaRover is a free Windows and Mac utility that will keep your songs and playlists in sync across multiple machines.

KeySharky Adds Hotkey Support to Grooveshark
Firefox and Chrome users can grab an add-on that provides customizable hotkey support for the Grooveshark music streaming site.

TinyUmbrella Updated for iOS Users
TinyUmbrella is a free app used to save your SHSH blobs so that you can rollback to an older version of iOS if needed. The app has been updated to include a new UI, and has some other features that are pretty nice.

–Downloads–

• Digsby Build 84 ^Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
• FeedDemon 4.0.0.1 ^Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Firefox 3.6.11 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Foobar2000 1.1.1 ^{Beta 2} [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Google Chrome 8.0.552.5 ^Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Growl 2.0.5 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Miranda 0.9.8 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 ^RC1 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• PDF-XChange Viewer 2.057 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Picasa 3.8.117.16 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Pidgin 2.7.4 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Revo Uninstaller 1.90 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• SeaMonkey 2.0.9 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Thunderbird 3.1.5 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• uTorrent 2.2.0 ^RC1 [Homepage] [Mirror]

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Last night Boxee users apparently noticed they were unable to stream YouTube videos via their app or Boxes as noted above by TheNewTVRepublic, leading to some speculation that we were seeing a repeat of licensing related blocking that once shut down access on Popcorn Hour hardware. Fortunately that’s not the case, as the official YouTube account just tweeted out a notice that it’s only a glitch which it is working to address “quickly.” We’ll return to DEFCON level 4 pending an actual fix, but until then the latest series of Vote 4 Bieber My YouTube entries will just have to wait.

Update: And just that fast things are apparently working again. Return to your normal schedules citizens — nothing to see here.

YouTube streams are down on Boxee, but not blocked – Update: fixed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on July 03, 2008 by CyberNet.

There’s bad news today for privacy advocates with Wired.com reporting that a judge is ordering YouTube to provide Viacom with the hsitory of all of their users. They say, “Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses.” This is in regards to that lawsuit that Viacom filed against Google back in March last year for $1 billion over damages for copyright infringement.

In the past Google has been pretty good about fighting for the privacy of their users, and in this situation they said that turning over the required data would be invading on their users’ privacy, but the judge essentially said “too bad.” The logs of information are contained on four tera-byte hard drives which Google must hand over to Viacom. Google will also have to provide Viacom with a list of all of the videos ever removed from YouTube for any reason.

Now why on Earth would Viacom want all of the data of YouTube users? Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch says the Judge presiding over this, Judge Stanton is “a moron” because turning over this information will allow Viacom to sue those who have watched copyrighted content. Did you get that, those who have simply watched, and not uploaded the content, could get sued. I don’t know about you, but I could have easily watched a copyrighted clip without even know that it was illegal. How are we supposed to keep track of every legal and illegal video on YouTube?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, as you can imagine, isn’t too happy about this. They posted about the ruling already and said, “The Court’s erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights, and will allow Viacom to see what you are watching on YouTube. We urge Viacom to back off this overbroad request and Google to take all steps necessary to challenge this order and protect the rights of its users.” At this point it looks like it’s up to Google to take some serious steps to protect the privacy of their users, otherwise we could see users fighting back with a class-action lawsuit.

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There’s not much more to say here — that crazy video we saw earlier today of what appeared to be tweaked iPhone 4 parts has been pulled from YouTube “due to a copyright claim by Apple, Inc.” Obviously we still have the screenshot above, which tells the whole story, really — these parts point to a variant of the iPhone that’s the same, but different. Exactly why it’s different is still up for debate — the CDMA iPhone for Verizon is obviously everyone’s first guess, but until Steve speaks we won’t know for sure.

P.S.- We suppose it’s also possible that Apple wasn’t actually responsible for the removal — someone could have punked YouTube’s copyright cops, and there is that odd double-period typo after “Inc.” But that seems like someone’s playing a particularly insane game, no?

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