Tag: YouTube

Apple iPhone 5S Unboxing

Well, it was time for my wife to upgrade her smartphone which saw the iPhone 4S replaced with the iPhone 5S. The replacement was somewhat of a necessity given a very annoying quirk with the iPhonewhere the volume would turn down by itself (both music and phone calls) which was a constant annoyance. Apparently, the …

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Enabling the Large Player Size in YouTube

After a recent change you may have noticed the ability to toggle between the standard and large player sizes in YouTube has seemingly disappeared. You could be forgiven for thinking so but it has actually been moved into a menu. Just click the little cog icon in the bottom right of the video player window …

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Perhaps the Simplest Way to Download YouTube Audio and Videos

It goes without saying that the legality of this service would be questionable unless you are dealing with creative commons content but it’d save you from downloading any software to perform the process. If you want to download video or audio from YouTube then all you need to do is add pwn to the front …

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Panasonic SC-BTT880 3D Blu-ray Home Theatre System Preview

Hopefully you managed to get a look at the unboxing video of the Panasonic SC-BTT880 3D Blu-ray home theatre system from yesterday so leading on from that I have a preview video to give you a closer look at the amplifier and remote units. I will try and get another video up on how the …

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How to Tell Which Browser Tab is Playing Back a YouTube Video

Another quick tip. Sometimes you might just have a lot of time to kill and you end up with a whole stack of browser tabs containing YouTube videos that you want to watch. However, you might lose which tab has a video playing back if you’ve got a large number of them opened and you’d …

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Boydo Gets Access to YouTube Live Streaming

Just a quick update today. I was having a look through the features page in the YouTube channel settings for my YouTube channel and noticed that I can now stream live events. I’m going to have to read up on how live streaming is setup but my next issue is figuring out what I could …

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Samsung Galaxy Express Unboxing

As you may know, I won a new smartphone at work when Samsung recently visited which of course was a great surprise! The smartphone I won was the Samsung Galaxy Express which is likened as being a mini Samsung Galaxy S III albeit with more modest specifications (smaller screen, dual core CPU and 8GB memory). …

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Panasonic Viera TH-P55VT60A Plasma 3D Television Unboxing

A while ago I decided it was time to upgrade from the Panasonic VT20A plasma television which I reviewed hereĀ and recently it arrived. However, I had to wait until last weekend to unbox it given that the process does end up taking up a lot of room and needed some help in filming it (I …

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Pebble Smartwatch Unboxing

Pebble Smartwatch Colours

Well, it’s taken a year since the initial Kickstarter campaign to raise funds but this week I finally received one of the two Pebble smartwatches. Of course, people have received their Pebbles well before now but only in black with orange, white and grey being delayed. That said, Kickstarter backers were offered the ability to …

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Fitbit One Wirless Activity and Sleet Tracker Unboxing

A couple years ago I unboxed the original Fitbit after having it shipped out from the USA given that you couldn’t buy one locally. It has served me well but after going through three plastic clips which broke, losing it overnight and finding it again as well as surviving a session in the washing machine …

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