Minitube brings YouTube Video Clips without Flash

By Martin Kaba • Jan 10th, 2010 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu

I did a simple Google search with the keywords “flash issues with linux”, well try and see what comes ups. I’ll certainly prefer my Linux system to be 100% flash-free, but lets be real its not the case. Minitube and other media players with YouTube plug-ins provide a more convenient way to watch YouTube video [...]

YouTube to get 1080p HD Videos Next Week

By Martin Kaba • Nov 13th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Video

The notice that YouTube will get support for watching 1080p HD videos next week comes straight from the horse’s mouth. As of now YouTube’s HD mode for viewing videos was max 720p, those who have submitted Full HD videos will have their videos re-encoded to the better mode. YouTube also intends to put awesome videos [...]

Ubuntu:Complete your XBMC Media Center with YouTube Playlists and Give it Better Looks with XBMC Skin Manager

By Martin Kaba • Feb 14th, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Multimedia, Open-Source

XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center) is a free and open source application for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox, that can turn your Ubuntu 8.04 LTS or 8.10 into a veritable media center platform, with video playback, streaming videos, audio, images, playlist playback, slideshows and more. – If you’ve been using Microsoft’s [...]

YouTube Now permits you to Erase your unwanted Comments

By Martin Kaba • Jan 26th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source

If you’ve ever made silly a comment on a YouTube video or got into a “verbal fight” with some other user – and now regret all that, YouTube now permits you to delete your unwanted comments that cause you embarrassment. If is was a typo you can delete it and make anther comment, but you [...]

When Penguins fly

By Martin Kaba • Jul 6th, 2008 • Filed under: Extras

You’ll get the answer after watching this interesting video from YouTube. Have fun

Firefox extension – DownloadHelper

By Martin Kaba • Dec 6th, 2007 • Filed under: Firefox, Linux Tips and Tricks, Video

DownloadHelper is a Firefox extension offers and easy and alternative way to download your favourite videos from sites like MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, YouTube etc. It also extracts audio and picture galleries. DownloadHelper signals to you with an animated icon what videos you could download; by simply clicking on the menu beside the DownloadHelper icon. [...]

Firefox extension – Better YouTube

By Martin Kaba • Nov 8th, 2007 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video, Windows

A better YouTube is a new Firefox extension that bundles up YouTube Greasemonkey scripts (allows you to change how your favourite pages behave and look) into a single and more convenient package. It help you to customize YouTube videos( not only), for better viewing. To install follow the famous three step process for installing Firefox [...]

Is Linux Still a third Choice?

By Martin Kaba • May 12th, 2007 • Filed under: Open Source Advocacy

Is there a right way to bust apart the challenging fortress of metaphor that Apple has created with the “Get a Mac” campaign? With such a powerful dichotomy between the Mac and PC archetypes, is it even possible to insert Linux and have it come out on top? To answer that question, I think we [...]