Kids these days watch a lot of YouTube videos and if you’re worried about your child watching something inappropriate you can use the Gube app instead of handing them unrestricted access to YouTube. Gube curates thousands of educational and fun videos for your child in your choice of four age categories. More »
If you’re an avid YouTube watcher who switches across tabs a lot, you might finding pausing a video or adjusting volume a little difficult. Video Controller is an extension for Chrome that places a simple control panel on your toolbar to quickly pause or adjust volume regardless of which tab the video is in. More »
If you’ve ever wanted YouTube to look more like a TV guide, Nowbox is a new app for iPad that pulls your channel subscriptions and lays them out in the same way as an electronic guide. More »
If you’ve ever wanted to share the best parts of a YouTube video and not the whole thing, Snipreel allows you take small snippets of a video and share your own highlight reel. More »
Chrome, Firefox and Safari: Related videos! They’re useful but can often have misleading thumbnails or text, designed to get you to click when you have no actual interest in the video content. It’d be nice to see the ratio of likes to dislikes on the video before you go in, right? Now you can. More »
Technology blog GHacks reports that YouTube is testing a new homepage design and that anyone can force this new design by adding a cookie to their browser. Here’s how to do to so for Chrome and Firefox. More »
Dear LH, I’d like to try out some sort of martial art, just for fun. I don’t really want to commit to fully-fledged lessons. Is it possible to learn basics using online resources? Thanks, Typical Uni Student More »
Chrome: Google has released two official Google+ extensions: one for Chrome allowing you to quickly share links and get notifications while browsing, and one offering YouTube integration for your Google+ profile. More »
Chrome/Firefox/Safari: If you’re tired of all the distracting, annoying content surrounding your videos on YouTube, you can hide them with simple browser extension Clea.Nr. More »
