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Desktop YouTube Music Player Gets Updated

Innovative YouTube music player ‘Musictube’ has a new release out – but is it a hit?

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YouTube Lens Adds MiniTube Playback Option

Remember that YouTube Lens for Unity we showed you last week? It’s just gotten a little bit better.  The Lens lets you browser through YouTube’s extensive video library without having to open your browser. When you want to watch a video you just click on the thumbnail and out pops VLC ready to play the [...]

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Minor New Features Added to Linux YouTube App MiniTube

Minitube 1.7

Flash-free desktop YouTube player ‘MiniTube’ saw a new release at the weekend.

The update, which bumps the app to version 1.7, sees a number of minor new features added.

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Unity YouTube Lens Updates with Browser Free Video Playback

Youtube video via VLC in Linux

The latest update to the YouTube Unity Lens adds Flash-free playback of videos in VLC (if it’s installed) when clicking on a video result.

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So Long Productivity – YouTube Lens Puts Browser-free Searching of Videos in the Unity Dash

Unity Youtube Lens

The fantastic folks over at Spanish blog ‘Ataraeo‘ have put together a nifty a lens for browsing YouTube’s library of videos straight from the Dash. The package, a YouTube ‘Scope’ (the search engine bit) and a Video ‘Lens’ (the interface bit), even comes complete with filters for narrowing down searches by popular YouTube category types. Results can then [...]

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Linux YouTube App ‘Minitube’ Updates, Adds Social Features

Minitube 0.6 in Ubuntu 11.10

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 [...]

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MusicTube Desktop App Uses YouTube As A Music Library

The creator of flash-free desktop YouTube application ‘Minutube’ and stylish music player ‘MiniTunes’ has announced the release of a new application: MusicTube.

Musictube is a mish-mash of the developers former two applications, and is designed to let you find, arrange and listen to whatever music you like – as long as it’s on YouTube. The idea is similar to on-demand music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora: you search for an artist or a track and, if it’s there, you can play it.

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Drag n’ Drop YouTube Video Uploader for Unity

We’ve featured many Drag and Drop applets for Ubuntu’s Unity Launcher over the past few weeks, but this is the first one to support uploading to YouTube. The applet is by Tom LeJeune, whose Google+/Picasa image uploader we’ve featured before. Like that applet this one also requires the installation of GoogleCL in order to work. [...]

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Bugfix update to desktop YouTube app ‘MiniTube’

A minor “bugfix” update to Minitube – the desktop, flashfree YouTube app – is available for download.

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Neat video review of OMG! Words! – the free game from OMG! Ubuntu!

Browsing around YouTube I also came across this pretty neat video review of the game by YouTube Ubuntu-er darockero11 that does an excellent job of showing off how the games works and just how addictive it can be…

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Desktop YouTube app Minitube updates with channel support [Updated]

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It lets you watch YouTube free of Flash on your desktop, added in video downloading last time and, in an update release today, Channel support has also arrived.

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Totem’s Youtube playback to enter dark ages

Soon, all of Totem users’ fast computers and high-speed internet connections will be reverting to 176×144 3GP youtube video.

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Shotwell 0.8 adds YouTube uploading, folder watching, wallpaper slideshows, more

Shotwell 0.8 has been released with some fantastic new features for users.

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Video uploading/downloading to feature in Shotwell 0.8

A new release of the excellent photo manager shotwell isn’t that far off and from development so far it is packing a few new goodies…

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Flash-free YouTube app ‘Minitube’ adds video downloading

The popular desktop-YouTube application ‘Minitube’ has added support for video downloading in the latest release.

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