Pakistan Could Have Seen Glimpse Of YouTube Today For Three Minutes!

Could you imagine yourself of being restricted on using Google owned video sharing website YouTube. Well this may be the case you might have heard before with Pakistan. This happened way back in September when an anti-Islam film, innocence of Muslims appeared on the website. This film created a huge spark creating the Muslim country to enter various riots creating national disturbance, ultimately the Govt. banned the website from being accessed in Pakistan.

However, people from Pakistan could have enjoyed a three minutes glimpse of YouTube after that the website was taken down again and blocked. 

Why did the officials just lifted the ban for three minutes. No doubt we have the inquisitiveness of knowing why did that happen. Reason does not lie that the officials just wanted to play on/off game but rather they thought that the anti-Islam film could have been removed. 

Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik  wanted always to remove this ban as YouTube is at the same time a huge resource for education, entertainment and news. Finally he tweeted today stating people " Hope you are all happy now ".

Sooner the ban was lifted and maybe some people from Pakistan might have caught the glimpse of famous video "Gangam Style" but it was reported by private news Network Geo that the film still existed on the website. Finally  Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, knowing that the material still existed put back the ban on YouTube again. 

This is not the first time Pakistan has done this with YouTube. The site was blocked in 2008 after cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad outraged many Muslims. It was blocked again in 2010 over "blasphemous" material. The country has also gone after Twitter and Facebook on similar charges.

You may still be amazed that how such Social Networking Sites could provoke people in mass so much but reports have said it does exist and Govt. have no option rather than blocking people to access it. 

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Youtube redesigned,Did you notice the change ??

We all know Google has always been making changes in it's product to make it simpler and more use friendly and this time it's Youtube.The new version of the homepage is centered around the YouTube Guide, which shows all new videos from channels that users have subscribed to. It also recommends channels that you might like, based upon your viewing habits, as well as those that your friends are watching.

This change is made basically to put actual content to the people rather than putting irrelevant things,and trust me this change looks good.While you’ve always been able to subscribe to channels, Google is pushing how the subscription-focused design is "just like adding your favorite shows to your DVR." Below is the screenshot of the Youtube homepage and the previous one is the notification that you will get by youtube when you visit it for the first time.

That plan has apparently worked, as the number of users who subscribe has more than doubled during that time. YouTube users are subscribing to about 50 percent more channels, and view time from channels has grown 30 percent. YouTube now claims to have more than 800 million users showing up every month who watch 4 billion hours of videos during that time.

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Play your Youtube videos on VLC player directly !!

 BY-Harkirat Singh (Twitter)(Google+)

 I  first thought of saying about what vlc is and how useful it is but then it occurred to me,you might be knowing about it.It is the world's most favorite video player and plays almost all formats.But today i am going to tell you about a new feature of this player.
                                How many if you knew you could play youtube videos via your VLC player ?? Not many right so here are the steps by which you can do it !!

Step 1: Open your VLC player and press  ctrl+n

Step  2:Enter the url of the media that you want to play and press the play button !!

Benefits:

• You can choose Video -> Always on Top inside VLC and the YouTube video window will stick to the foreground while you work on other tasks.
• Press the Loop button in the player controls and the YouTube video will play non-stop in a loop (also possible with Chrome add-ons).
• You can change the Playback speed of the YouTube video and make it run slower or faster than the normal speed.
• Use the Tools -> Take Snapshot option to capture a screenshot image of any frame or scene in the YouTube video.
• Watch the YouTube videos without the ads. I played a couple of movies and music videos inside VLC and none of them carried any pre-roll ads.

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The YouTube app will no longer come standard on iOS. That's exactly the way Apple and Google want it.

Did Apple kick YouTube to the curb, or did Google have a part in its disappearance from iOS?

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YouTube will no longer come standard on the iPhone and iPad as it used to come earlier with any iOS pre-installed.

The next upcoming version of Apple's mobile OS -- iOS 6 -- will be missing the familiar YouTube app from its home screen. Instead, users will have to download a new YouTube app from the App Store. Apple claims it's not about the rivalry but simply because its five-year deal with Google has expired, while Google isn't even talking about the circumstances of YouTube's departure from Apple's devices.

Apple and Google don't exactly like each other, and Apple has been systematically purging Google's influence from its flagship OS. Earlier this year, Apple announced that iOS 6 willremove Google Maps in favor of Apple Maps.

SOURCE- CNET

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