This is a follow up of the recent post: Guide to root Droid X Safely. While this is the exact same tutorial as mentioned in the previous post, but due to the users request the creators of this rooting came up with a video guide as text version seemed too geeky to follow.

Follow this step by step detailed tutorial guide posted on Youtube by rainabba (10 minute video) to root your droid x. Also two thumbs up from my side to the Alldroid folks for helping out the droid x users.

How to Root Droid X using Birdman’s method

On a regular basis, Google’s YouTube comes up with many nifty features that keeps it much more interesting and entertaining for the web users. And now, another recently added feature is the ‘Youtube leanback’ that plays videos automatically while you lean on your couch.

This latest addition lets user to watch videos automatically without having to use the mouse, i.e., with YouTube Leanback, you can look into your personalized feeds videos, one video after the other. All the videos are in full screen, HD quality mode that plays automatically.

Videos shared by your friends on Facebook, twitter, Orkut or Google reader can be browsed by connecting your account on Youtube. No advertisements on the videos as of now. But how long can they resist? Anyway, Check out the video..

More on YouTube.com Leanback [Video]

Accessing Youtube Leanback

Head over to the url — Youtube.com/Leanback. Use the arrow keys to navigate through the videos.

Millions of internet users visit YouTube every month, as you already might know that. It can be seen through the site’s imposing statistics but one can also notice that the site has grown very quickly in few years.

ComScore reports that YouTube has come a long way from when it started. The average visitor to Google videos will watch around 100 clips a month and these videos will mainly feature YouTube videos. And to top that, around 145 million individuals visit Google video sites and YouTube for that matter every month. This is proven by the site garnering around 43.1% of online videos watched overall.

But regardless of these statistics, you might realize that YouTube has made few changes with the site. If you would look at its homepage, which most of you probably rarely see since links and embedded videos redirects to the videos you want to watch. The webpage is usually populated with user-generated content, perhaps adhering to its original mantra ‘Broadcast Yourself!’ Although the site’s premium content is more profitable for ads and can even be sold directly to YouTube’s audience.

In the meantime, a rival video website Hulu, who holds a distant second place and only holds around 3.5% of online viewers, has been reported to have a subscription service called “Hulu Plus” which is available in the US. The service provides full access to Hulu’s video archive while the free service only allows for 5 most recent episodes of a chosen show.

Last year, there were rumors of a YouTube subscription service although the site has made other ways in order to transcend its homegrown vibe including full length movies and television classics like Star Trek and some attempt to sell video rentals.

But it seems that YouTube is not keen on promoting premium accounts and remains to stay true to its viewers and shows what’s popular and some video suggestions in relation to your viewing habits. Perhaps there’s nothing wrong with premium accounts, just like Hulu Plus is or is planning on doing, but it seems the stress and problems related to premium accounts is something that YouTube developers doesn’t want.

After acknowledging the power of iPad DJ app, here is one more reasons that tempts you to buy a Apple iPad. So much has been articulated about the Apple iPad that already has a strong market demand — and is probably one of the likable product of its kind.

Al right. So here is another neat Apple iPad video that is trending on Youtube and is seen at Gizmodo. I believe its worth sharing here.

Apple iPad Painting Video by David JonKassan

Awesome artwork Finger painting from David using the Apple iPad brushes app that took him around 3 hours of live work. The outcome is splendid, to say the least. Check out the video..

Video Length: ~8 min.

The ability to watch any videos right from the browser is one of the best feature of the internet. Thanks to YouTube and similar websites like YouTube, we have many tools that can save and download videos for offline viewing.

Similarly, the addition of high definition videos (HD Videos), also known as HQ videos (High quality)  have enhanced the video viewing experience, although there are many different ways to download HD videos off Youtube, in this post I’ll be sharing one of the easiest and working method which I’ve used it for quite a long time now.

Download HD Youtube Videos

Whether it’s an movie video on YouTube, music video or any random clip in high quality mode, get this freeware youtube downloader software by clicking here and finish the installation. Once you’ve finished installation, run the Youtube downloader HD software from your computer. It looks like this

The process to start instant downloading of HD or HQ youtube videos is quite easy. Visit Youtube and search for your favrouite clip, copy the url (the web address on the address bar) and paste it in the Video url box of this program. Click on Start to begin downloading the videos.

Unlike other programs, Youtube downloader HD freeware has been very much faster in terms of downloading the videos with variety of options.

You can save youtube videos in FLV, AVI or Mp4 format (Useful for PSP devices) or you can also download HD Videos in 720p and 1080p resolution which is absolutely awesome.

With this technique, you can also download the vevo videos and save them on your hard disk as well. One of the handy and free youtube downloader that does what exactly what it says! Go on and give a try..

Internet has been more than an effective service with regards to providing entertainment nearly at cost free value. Whether you are managing tasks, downloading files or watching videos; it’s all free entertainment with this internet connection.

One of the pleasing feature of the web are videos –> Music videos, Movie videos or trailers, you can watch them online without having to sign up! And, that’s the reason to compile this post which has the list of some of the best websites to watch top music videos and latest video premieres that are popular on charts.

Websites to Watch Top Music Videos On Internet

1. Yahoo! Music beta

The list begins from Yahoo! music. With Yahoo! music you can watch the latest and the most popular music videos on internet for free. You can watch the categorized popular music videos and listen to radio or watch music video premieres instantly without any signups. Yahoo! Music is easy to use and has tons of videos to keep you glued.

2. Youtube.com

The reason I recommend youtube for watching music videos is because of the HD quality which provides a much better viewing experience.

You can also watch low bandwidth music videos or change the resolution of the video, no wonder Youtube is one of the best place to watch latest music videos (use the search function and sort by view count or browse through the music channels).

3. MTV Music videos

Some of the most viewed videos are featured on MTV official website. These are handpicked music videos that are updated regularly. You can also enjoy watching the pre-made artist playlist of videos..

4. AOL music videos

More than 23,000 music videos are hosted by AOL that provides new, top music videos in different genre. Browse through the video playlists created by AOL members for random music.

Once signed in (not an necessary step) you can add videos as playlist and share them with your friends! Browse through the popular video collections of AOL by clicking here.

5. Vids.Myspace Videos archive

Though you will find linguistic videos in between the Myspace videos but the collection is quite big too. You can watch most of the music videos (some of them are not available in YouTube) with vids.Myspace.

Visit the Myspace video space and enjoy browsing through variety of top quality music videos!

Lately I’ve been using YouTube to upload videos using video capturing tool such as Snag-it which records the screen action and saves them on the desktop. Although we can add audio to these recorded videos but we have to use a different tool.

Luckily, Youtube comes to the rescue as it allows you to browse, add audio to no-sound videos without going through the strenuous process.

So, if you have any videos that are already uploaded on Youtube without a sound then use this feature to embed an audio by browsing through Youtube archives. You can also change the existing audio of the video using the Audioswap option.

Login to your Youtube account and go to My videos (assuming that you’ve already uploaded the video). Now select the video whose audio needs to be revamped, click on AudioSwap as shown in the above screenshot.

You will be brought to a page where you can search for an audio song, latest music based on genre, artist and the tracks available. Select the track and preview the video (Yes, the audio is embedded to your video)

Pretty useful feature from Youtube as you can swap the music anytime without uploading the video again and again!

I have watched around 5000 videos in a year in YouTube.com (I am amazed) and most of them deal with funny spoofs and rare music videos that are not found over the other Internet websites. Recently I posted that YouTube allows you to view latest high quality movie trailers which is also one of the positive factor that makes me stick with YouTube, probably forever

And in this post, I will show you a simple way to watch YouTube videos with lyrics on. You can always make use of lyrics plugin or website to view lyrics but with this JavaScript, it gets easier.

Youtube Video Lyrics on Sidebar

Just make sure you are using Mozilla Firefox browser as we will make use of addons and user scripts that will take a couple of minutes.

Method – You will need Grease monkey addon installed on your Firefox. And then download the script which will display lyrics as shown above in the screenshot.

• Download Greasemonkey (restart Firefox)
• Download YouTube lyrics (restart Firefox again)

It’s done! Visit any youtube music video to see the lyrics in the sidebar. You can also choose to view lyrics from different website (supports 10+ lyrics website). This depends on the video title, if the title of the video matches with the lyrics website then lyrics are displayed automatically.

Most of the time, the addon seems to work very well for videos with proper titles or artist name. I hope you all will find this tip useful!

With tons of online website and other sources which promises to provide visitors with high quality movie trailers for a fee or registration, I feel they were unnecessary for me as I could always find them on free video sharing website like Youtube, Megavideo and so on.. But now with online world booming in the hands of official companies who are encroaching the web market, here is an official Youtube Channel providing latest Movie trailers of Hollywood movies that are of high quality and are uploaded by the film company like Warner bros..

2009 Latest Movie Trailers

You can watch almost all the movie trailers of the upcoming 2009 movies along with all time popular trailers on Youtube movie trailer channel. Whether it is Twilight, Harry potter, Terminator Salvation trailer, Wolverine or any other Hollywood trailer – Youtube has it all! The official trailer channel is here

Though the video trailers are of good quality, you can always click on HD for extra high definition video display. A very good initiative by Youtube!

Where free speech seems to be adorned and the internet living is also affected in China, it seems the internet browsing is totally snugged out in China. In popular China places like Beijing and Shanghai, people are trying out ways to access blocked websites. Though China has pretty much everything of there own, i.e  – there own local Social networking to Search engine and instant messenger!

But if you want to access blocked China websites and want to get around the filters for specifically accessing twitter, then here are a few tips and ideas to help you out.

Accessing Blocked Websites in China

Make use of proxy – Proxy websites are popular, though some of the Chinese proxies are blocked but you can always make use of updated proxy list and get a VPN connection through proxy (Works for every blocked site) that allows you to access the webpage anonymously.

Switch to OpenDns -  Head over to Open dns website and configure your DNS to the described value that will help you in accessing sites quickly.

Twitter alternative – Though twitter.com web interface is blocked, you can try out itweet and other tweeting clients online for accessing blocked twitter in china and also around the world.

And if you know any ways for accessing blocked sites then do let me know via comments.