Watching the videos on YouTube is only half of what YouTube is all about. The other half is uploading your videos to YouTube for the rest of the world to see. Whether its something silly or of substance, as long as it doesn’t violate the terms of use, anything goes. In only a few simple steps, you can have your videos seen globally. Here’s how to do it.
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YouTube on the Mac: The Definitive Guide – Part 4. Creating the Videos
All about DjVu – A free .PDF alternative
You may or may not have heard of the PDF alternative DjVu (pronounced Déjá Vu). Similar to Adobe’s PDF, DjVu was developed by ATT Research back in 1996. A free file format with no restrictions, DjVu was chosen for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project to convert paper books into eBooks. Its advantages include higher compression, font support is not required and is better for scanned images. It also includes provisions for OCR text recognition.
In case you do run across a djvu file (extension .djvu or .djv) in OS X, here’s what to do:
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YouTube on the Mac: The Definitive Guide – Part 3. Converting the Videos
Now that we’ve learned how to save and watch YouTube videos, what about if we want to take them with us on the go? With video enabled .mp3 players like the iPod Nano or Touch, it would be great to watch YouTube videos on them. For part three of this series, I will show you how to convert YouTube and other online videos into iPod (and other) formats.
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