TechAirlines: Technology Tips

It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since the first beta version of YouTube.com has been launched in May 2005. YouTube, the web’s most popular video site with over 24 hours of videos uploaded per minute, was registered in Feburary 2005 and the first video was uploaded in April 2005. Along with the birthday celebration, YouTube announces it has surpassed an astonishing... 

Have you been browsing YouTube recently? If you have, you may have noticed a new design for the video player. There are actually two new designs. One is a very slight rearrangement of the controls and the other is a complete redesign. Do these look familiar? Notice the reversed controls. This player is currently live to all videos that aren't using the redesigned player. The new redesigned player... 

Are you a Twitter user looking for a sleek new Twitter client that’s not powered by Adobe AIR like most apps out there? Tired of Twitter apps having too many features you don’t need? Take a look at the Blu Twitter Client, otherwise known as the “Vista Twitter Client”, focused on simplicity. Blu has loads of attractive eye candy including a startup animation with the logo, interface... 

Still waiting for a Google Wave invite? Of course, you could always wait until the final release comes but nobody knows when that is, could be a few years (like Gmail) or it could be in just a few months. However, there are many nice individuals out there with spare invites they are willing to give away to anyone. What makes the Google Wave invite line and Gmail invite line is that back then, there... 

Facebook lets users comment as well as “Like” items on walls and newsfeed, however one of the top requested features is a “Dislike” button. There are several fan pages and groups trying to get “1,000,000 for A Dislike Button”. For those of you who want a Dislike button, a relatively new Firefox extension known as Facebook Dislike will add a Dislike button to all... 

Google Wave is an online tool for real time communication and collaboration. First announced at the Google I/O Conference on May 27, 2009 and reached almost 1 million users since September 30 when preview testing started with an initial 100,000 users each with 20 invites. I was finally invited to Google Wave a few days ago. According to Google, Google Wave is a web-based application, computing platform... 

Facebook, the popular social networking site, has given the homepage Newsfeed an update recently, as indicated by their new blog post. The default home page news feed is now no longer in chronological order but instead in the order based on a special algorithm. To view the news feed in chronological order, users need to click “View Live Feed” on the top. This seems to be a way to deal with... 

YouTube, the very popular video sharing website now owned by Google, allows users to delete their own comments. However, YouTube still leaves “Comment removed by author” in the place of the deleted comment, so there is still a record of comment previously existing even though the actual content of the comment can’t be viewed… or can it? There is no button that says “Show...