Marriage Proposal Secretly Filmed with iPhones [Video]

It was a big surprise from Frank which decided to propose to his girlfriend Kasey in romantic Central Park in New York City. Many people were involved in producing this surprise. Frank got a bunch of techie friends together to pull off this one-take event. Employing musicians, playing Kasey's favorite song, a famous bridge, a rowboat, a bunch of iPhones running custom apps and a MacBook Pro to mix it all together. See the result after the jump.

Really it was an amazing marriage, so what you intend to do with your girlfriend after you saw this? [via RazorianFly & TUAW]

Chromium OS Running on iPad [Video]

We reported you yesterday about the the 17 years old hacker, who ported the Chromium OS on the iPad, we showed you only a screen-shot about that, today I brought you a video showing the Chromium OS running on iPad. It's not the best performance demo and is all too brief, but it does show touch sensitivity functioning.

For those of you who don't know this hacker, his name is Hexxeh, he has been playing around with Chromium OS builds for months. also he developed many builds since Chromium OS source was released, and Google itself acknowledged his work.

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Download YouTube Videos Using YourTube 2.0 for iOS 4, With iPod Import

New version of YourTube is available on Cydia, YourTube is the tweak that allows you to download YouTube videos directly from the official website. With this version it is finally added support for iOS4 and other interesting functions.

YourTube 2.0 is newly re-designed for iOS4. It includes a host of stability fixes, improved memory management, improved download speeds, and fixes for the nasty iOS4 sandbox. Also, you can now import the downloaded videos to your iPod library directly.

YourTube 2.0 is available for $5 on the Cydia Store, but for existing customers. If you purchased YourTube 1.0 after July 1st, you get the upgrade for free! The upgrade will cost $1 to all other previous customers (thats an 80% discount).

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Microsoft Co-founder Sues Apple, Google and Facebook

Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, sues Apple, Google, Facebook and eight other companies including YouTube, Netflix and AOL saying that they are using technology developed about a decade ago at his now-defunct Silicon Valley laboratory.

"This lawsuit against some of America's most innovative companies reflects an unfortunate trend of people trying to compete in the courtroom instead of the marketplace," a Google spokesman said

Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen is a pioneer of computer software, he didn't develop any of the technology himself but owns the patents. We'll keep updating the post with more information as soon as we know! [via WSJ]

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• Google Launches "Google Beat", A Video Series About Hottest Searches on Google

Google Launches "Google Beat", A Video Series About Hottest Searches on Google

Google has just launched a new weekly video series called "Google Beat". It's a series of videos telling you the hottest searches on Google in U.S. The series will run on it's own Youtube Channel. The feature uses data from Google Trends, Google Insights for Search and other Google analytics tools.

Every day, there are more than a billion searches for information on Google. Have you ever wondered what those searches are about—or whether what you’re searching for also happens to be on the minds of millions of others across the country? We’re introducing a new way to find out—a regular video series called the Google Beat that highlights some of the hottest searches on Google in the U.S.

Here's a small episode of the Google Beat:

[via GoogleBlog]

Youtube Launches New Movies Section With 400 Full Length Films

Youtube has launched a new Movies section on it's website carrying about 400 full length films, free of charge. It comes courtesy of deals the Google company struck with U.S. studios like Lionsgate, MGM and Sony Pictures and UK service Blinkbox.

When you get in there, you will find a collection of about 80 - 90 minutes length, a bunch of action movies, some cartoons for kids, also horror movies for strong hearted people!

Youtube Surpasses Yahoo in Alexa Rank! Now, The 3rd Most Visited Site

Youtube now is the 3rd most visited website on the Internet! Today, Youtube surpassed Yahoo for the 3rd spot on most visited sites on Alexa. Of course, #1 is Google and #2 is Facebook but now Youtube has a great chance to get from Facebook and take the #2 spot.

If you are interested to know the first 10 most visited sites in the web, you can navigate to this direct link on Alexa which lists the first 20 sites! [via TNW]

Youtube is Testing New Video Player?

Have you seen any new changes in Youtube video player? Yes, you should see new changes in the video player as Youtube is testing a new awesome video player and adds some new features! This changes has made in the "post-screen", the screen that shows up after the video has stopped playing.

As you see in the screenshot above, They added "Reply", "Like" and "Share" on both Facebook and Twitter to the left side of the "post-screen". They also changed the "Related Videos" to "Up Next" with a customized new design! The new design should be shown to some people not all, So if you have seen the new video player from Youtube, Let us know!

Twitter is Showing Videos in Stream and Redirct to VideoSurf?

Just heads up, From about two weeks we told you that Twitter is going to show videos and images in stream as there was an option to enable Multimedia, Today I noticed that when I try to post a video from Youtube it shows up in the stream as collection of screenshots as shown below.

For High Resolution, Click Here.

But the strange thing that Twitter redirects you when clicking on the video to VideoSurf.com as this screenshot,

For High Resolution, Click Here.

So is it a type of a deal or something like that? Will there be Images in stream too? We still don't know, Stay tuned and we will tell you!
We will keep updating here, trying other video sources and also trying images on other twitter accounts!

MiTube to Download Youtube Videos on iPhone and iPad for Free [Update: Removed]

Two weeks ago, I already told you about Youtube HD which enables you to download Youtube videos on your iPad for $3 but now we got our hands on a new app in the iTunes app store which download Youtube videos on both iPhone and iPad for free.

This app can be download for free with no fees from iTunes app store by navigating to the links below:
Download MiTube for iPhone and iPad [iTunes Link]

After downloading MiTube, you can check our iPhone Apps Gallery and iPad Apps Gallery that you may need.
Update 1: MiTube has been removed from iTunes App Store, feel sorry for who missed it!

Youtube Raises Video Upload Limits to 15 Minutes

Youtube has posted a new blog post announcing that Youtube Video Upload Limits Raised from 10 Minutes to 15 Minutes, Youtube listened to number of users who asked to Raise the upload limits to more than 10 minutes, Now Imagine a Youtube Video with 4K Resolution and 15 Minutes Duration. Here's a part from blog post

We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We’ve heard you, and today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve increased the upload limit to 15 minutes.

I believe that YouTube will run a “15 minutes of fame” video contest to celebrate the new time limit. So keep your eyes opened!

A New Style To Embed YouTube Videos

Youtube has announced a new iFrame based embed style that would brings you good Flash Video for all Apple devices that only supports the much know HTML5 as iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.The embed style will use , Check the full post and an example for this style after the jump..
Here's the post:

An enhancement to our video embed capability is now available through a new embed code style. This new style uses and looks like this:

<iframe frameborder="0" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID" type="text/html" width="640">

And here's an Example!

Youtube HD to Save Youtube Videos on your iPad

Today, PagePreview has been Released in Cydia and Now Youtube HD has been Released and available in Cydia, With Youtube HD You can save any Youtube Video on your iPad for future viewing, Sure your iPad have to be Jailbroken (use Spirit), Check the description after the jump..

If you own an iPad, you may have been bothered by your crushing inability to save YouTube movies - whether you want to play back your collection offline, or just show your friends the next big thing without having to say “wait a sec, it’s buffering” - you can now do it all with YourTube HD! Like YourTube for the iPhone, we’re bringing YouTube video saving to everybody’s favourite semi-tablet device!

YouTube HD is available in Cydia Store for $3 Only, Head on and get it!

Youtube brings 4K Resolutions, Smash the 1080p Videos!

What a fabulous news! it was announced from Youtube that the Youtube videos are going to support 4096P not just 1080P and that was reported by the YouTube's Director of Product Managementat today's in VidCon  2010 conference, promises 4K Videos.

Here's a video with 4k resolution:

From the YouTube blog:

Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K (a reference resolution of 4096 x 3072), meaning that now we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4096p. To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet; IMAX movies are projected through two 2k resolution projectors.

So you will now get Youtube videos supported with 4096 x 3072 video, otherwise known as 4K.You can do whatever you want and the downloads still wow. it is really unpredictable what Youtube plans for tomorrow .

Youtube Mobile gets HTML 5 Video for iPhone [Video]

YouTube has Launched Mobile WebApp for iPhone, Youtube mobile site (m.youtube.com) gets full support of HTML 5 for all new Mobiles including iPhones, Videos from Youtube working with HTML 5 gets more quality than the one with Flash player!

This Mobile WebApp gets is really fast, gets new user interface, it gets the same features that found in Youtube.com as "Like"  and "UnLike" and More..

Here's the video by Youtube Introduces the new Mobile WebApp: