This is what I usually do on YouTube when I’m on a slow connection: Click play, then immediately pause the video When the video is done loading, full screen and play it smoothly Until recently, this has changed. Step 3 would be “Get pissed when the video is automatically bumped from 360p to 480p. The [...]

Love that song you just heard on YouTube? With sites like ListenToYouTube and VidToMp3, you can download the audio off a YouTube video with minimal effort. The two mentioned sites are using the same script, so they work identically. All you have to do is to enter the YouTube video URL. The video will then [...]

Have you ever see the following error message when you are trying to access YouTube using Firefox? Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Size of a request header field exceeds server limit. Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE It used to happen to me. Then after a while, it’s gone, and now [...]

(Firefox Add-on): Just like torrent files, YouTube videos can get pretty nasty too. Judging from the quality of comments left by the YouTube community, you shouldn’t be surprised to spot some nothing-better-to-do YouTubers uploading fake videos with misleading titles (say, a video full of emoticons titled Pink Panther 2 Trailer: watch).

By default, YouTube offers 9 color schemes to colorize its video player for embedding. Although color customization of YouTube player is very flexible, since it can be manipulated using hex color codes, YouTube is not providing any easy way to do so for whatever reason. There is no way else to get more creative with [...]

You might not notice this if you are staying in US, but some YouTube videos, especially official music videos, are restricted to viewers from the United States only. Whenever a viewer from outside US wants to view those videos, YouTube says “This video is not available in your country“.