YouTube adds ‘tape mode’

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57 years ago someone created the Ampex VRX-1000, the first tape to record with. To celebrate, YouTube has added “tape mode” which is actually quite a cool effect to play with. You can check it out on the Daft Punk commercial from last weeks SNL.

iOS6 beta 4

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iOS6b4 was seeded late yesterday for developers registered with Apple. The big news is that the dedicated YouTube app is gone – which has had a largely negative reaction from those assuming that this is Apple being a bully to Google. What is more likely and more realistic is that Apple’s license with Google has… Read more »

Built-in sharing

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OS X Mountain Lion has an under-the-hood, native way to share pictures and videos via Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo on top of the (what will be) usual suspects: email, AirDrop or Messages. An interesting point has been raised by pocket lint in a post about the fact that YouTube is a notable omission from this… Read more »