A new version of flash-free desktop YouTube app ‘Minitube’ has been released.

The bulk of the changes concern Mac OS X Lion users (as the app is cross-platform) but there are few goodies that Ubuntu users can benefit from too.

These include: -

• Support for finding “other parts” of videos delivered in segments
• Social sharing to Twitter, Facebook and e-mail
• Fixed bug with very short videos not playing
• Fixed a (rather paranoid) security issue with temporary files and made sure temp files are always deleted

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Minitube 1.6 can be installed in Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10 by adding the ‘LffL Minitube’ PPA (below) to your Software Sources.

ppa:ferramroberto/minitube

After you have added the PPA run a system update before installing the ‘minitube’ app from the Ubuntu Software Centre.