Not just YouTube videos to be exact, Omnisio supports videos hosted on Google Video and Blip.tv too. With Omnisio, you can do more with online videos, like adding comments in the video—but it is especially useful for its ability to mash several videos hosted on YouTube, Google Video or Blip.tv.

There is no need to download a single video or any software. Just simply enter the URL of the online video at Omnisio and you can start adjusting the timeline and add new video to create a new video combining several videos.

The best thing is you don’t even have to sign up in order to use Omnisio. However, a sign up will let you do more like edit the video in future.

If you would like a demo, I have one made for April Fool for my the other blog. It consist of two videos, a HBO joke in 1986’s April Fool, and another video at the end.

You can probably find a better demo on Omnisio itself though.

Like YouTube videos but want something fancier than YouTube’s default dull and boring player? Slide SkinFlix can help turning the dull player into one with bling blings within seconds, in which you can embed it on your blog, MySpace profile etc.

You can choose to pick a video skin (frame) or a theme (butterflies etc flying around on the video)—or even both of them. I made a demo using a video of an Airbus A380 landing at Heathrow Airport, with Fireflies as the theme and a TV as the skin.

The theme thing is quite annoying to me as it’s somewhat blocking the video, but the skin is sure cool, especially when you want something more special than the color and border offered by YouTube.

Have fun customizing your videos!

The number of comments of a blog is occasionally being used as a metric to determine how active a blog is. Therefore it is important to make sure it is easy for someone to leave a comment on your blog. An example of a bad commenting system are those found on Blogger powered blogs.

I will almost certainly won’t want to comment on a blog that require me to click on the “Leave a comment” link, wait for the pop up, and only fill things up in the small window. In short, Blogger’s commenting system is just bad, very bad. If you are using Blogger too but and are looking for a better commenting system, then check Intense Debate out.

From an annoying Blogger pop up comment to Intense Debate

One of the best reason to switch to Intense Debate is that, it does not pop up, but integrate nicely on your blog instead. Meaning one can post a comment on your blog without leaving the post itself, just like those seen on WordPress blogs. Head over The Thinking Blog for a working demo. Watch the video below to see what features are offered:

Installing Intense Debate is easy. If you are using Blogger, you will only need to add the Intense Debate widget to your blog and you are good to go. I’m not paid for this post, but it just doesn’t make sense to stick to Blogger’s comment system any longer when you can have a way better one.

Picnik, one of my favourite online photo editor, locked its premium features to only premium members on 23rd October last year. What is left for non-paying users are a handy of basic tools, which is much less fun than what premium users are enjoying.

However, Picnik had announced on Wednesday that the previously paid premium features is now free. Free users will now have access to premium tools and features, which is made available by being ad-supported. If you are a paid users, Picnik will remain ads-free and you will have a couple more of features. It looks like this:

It’s a real good news for a loyal free user of Picnik. But I just found that the workable space is somewhat too small with the banner at the bottom. Anyway, I would rather sacrifice those space with a lot more cool premium tools.