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TaskTube for iPhone – Control YouTube Videos from iPod Controls on Taskbar [Play, Pause]

On November 26, 2010, in Hacks, by TechAdmin
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TaskTube for iPhone is a jailbreak tweak that lets you control YouTube videos from iPod’s Play & Pause controls. TaskTube adds these controls to YouTube.app in iOS 4.2.1 and works really great. Want to give it a try? First, you need to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 with redsn0w 0.9.6 beta 4 then follow the steps below:

Step 1: Open Cydia and move to “Manage” tab and tap on “Sources”.

Step 2: Now add following repo:

http://cydia.myrepospace.com/metion

To add the repo: Tap on “Edit” (top right), then on “Add” (top left). A window will pop-up asking for source URL. Enter the URL given above and tap on “Add Source”.

TaskTube Repo

Step 3: Now move to “Sources” again, you’ll see MyRepoSpace source in there, tap on it.

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Step 4: Now look for TaskTube and tap on it.

Step 5: Hit “Install” (top right). AppSync 4.2 install process will begin.

TaskTube for iPhone

Step 6: After installing, Respring or Reboot your device.

TaskTube is added to YouTube app now, to see the action:

  1. Open YouTube app and play any video
  2. Double click on iPhone “Home” button to open iPod controls.
  3. You can now control YouTube videos with iPod controls.

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This awesome tweak is FREE on Cydia, go get it!

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Facebook, Wikipedia & YouTube Banned in Pakistan, More in Line

On May 20, 2010, in Web, by TechAdmin
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After Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube have also been banned in Pakistan. Ban on YouTube comes on grounds of “blasphemous material”, according to PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority). Earlier yesterday, Facebook was banned on orders of court due to a controversial group started by an individual asking users to submit caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). There has been no response from YouTube as yet but Facebook has expressed disappointment on decision saying that they were received no warning prior to ban. 450 links have been blocked up till now and more may follow.

More on BBC.

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Flickr and YouTube on TweetDeck Now

On February 8, 2010, in Software, by TechAdmin
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TweetDeck LogoTweetDeck, one of the popular Twitter clients, has just launched the version 0.33 that has some exciting new features. TweetDeck now comes with support for YouTube which means that you can view YouTube videos right within TweetDeck and don’t have to open the YouTube links in browsers to watch the videos. There’s also support for Posterous, Mobypicture, Twitgoo, and Flickr and images from all these will now open in the preview box. Mobypicture has also been added as image uploading service in addition to TwitPic.

Apart from adding support for new media services, there’s major user interface improvement with addition of column viewer that lets you manage your columns easily. On hover, it shows the status of that specific column and clicking over it takes you to that specific column. It’s very useful feature for professional users who keep track of different hashtags and have quite many columns added in their TweetDeck. You will not have to scroll long way just to check the status of that column it’s been made easy by column viewer. Here is how YouTube videos look on TweetDeck Preview box:

YouTube Videos in TweetDeck

As from now, TweetDeck is using OAuth, the open protocol to share resources, for smarter API usage. This means that TweetDeck can now make up to 350 API calls in an hour, and it can still go beyond that.

Here is the detailed official video showing enhancements in TweetDeck version 0.33:

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