Promote Yourself With YouTube

One of the best things you can do with YouTube is create a channel to promote yourself, your business or your cause. Post videos about your work or anything you think people might be interested in. Try to make all of your videos on one subject or related subjects. Upload your videos then change the…

Subscriptions

Once you have a YouTube account and you have signed in you can subscribe to you favorite channels.  Let’s say you come across a great Photoshop tutorial by ajwood2001 and you wood like to see what other videos he has. Click on the user name ajwood2001 and it will take you to his channel. Let’s say you…

Manage And Edit

You can manage your videos visibility, stats and comments right inside YouTube. You can see your video’s stats, thumbs up and thumbs down all from the Uploads page. You can edit your videos right inside YouTube. You can cut, append, edit the sound track and more right inside of YouTube. From the Analytics page you can…

Upload Videos

To upload video to YouTube you must first have a YouTube account. If you already have a Gmail account just use your Gmail login. YouTube supports many video formats including WMV, AVI MP4 and many others. See a list. How to upload.

Download YouTube Videos

Of course you can watch YouTube videos from the YouTube website but what if you have dialup or even worst no Internet at all. With the “Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV” extension for Firefox you can download YouTube videos when your near a high-speed connection and them watch them later when you don’t.

YouTube For Education

I know you’ve seen the sleepy cat videos, the failed skateboard stunts and the Cosplayers on YouTube. What you may not have seen is all the great educational videos. You can learn almost anything on YouTube. Anything from math to cooking. As a matter of fact, education videos are the largest growing area of YouTube.

Windows 8 On Slow Computers

Last week at the KIPCUG general meeting I said I had not installed Windows 8 on a slow computer and I did not know what would happen with that computer if I did. Today I installed Windows 8 on my old laptop that is literally coming off the hinges and this is what happened:

Windows 8

Windows 8 will be the latest Windows OS (operating system) when it is released, probably in September or October. For now we have the Consumer Preview to play with. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview seem like a release candidate to me. It is very polished, very fast and not buggy at all. Windows 8 is…

Google And Privacy

Last month at the Internet SIG we talked about Google and their “privacy issues”. A few weeks ago Google was accused of crack the iPhone. Here’s Leo Laporte to tell you more about it…

Security and Privacy Tools

So far we have just dealt with privacy issues but what about Internet Security? SSL and TSL SSL or TSL are Internet Security protocols. They encrypt (make your communication secret) everything on the Internet point to point meaning from your computer to the web server, this includes your passwords. Whenever you login to a SSL…