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One of the great things of having a smartphone is that you want to watch videos, sometimes, you don't want to stream the video online but you want to download and watch at your convenient time. While Android devices have a variety of YouTube video download apps, which are not too efficient except for my all time favourite TubeMate , iOS devices can't really boast of much of these apps that are truly efficient in doing what they are supposed to do. Enter MxTube MxTube is an app which you would only find in Cydia meaning that its available ONLY for jailbroken iDevices. If you want to jailbreak your iOS 7 device, follow this guide . The app is hosted under BigBoss packages so chances are that you would find it if your Cydia packages are up to date. To download, go to Cydia and search for MxTube, even though it has  not been updated to support iOS 7, yet it still works. So download it and install the app. The app will create its icon on your home screen. MxTube ...

YouTube recently updated their app for both Android and iOS to versions 5.0 and 2.0 respectively.  This new update brings a new very important feature to the table. This new feature allows one to watch a video and in the process search for another video to watch. This new multitasking feature is almost like having a split screen, where one screen play the present video being watched and the one below gives you the option to search for playlist or view comments to currently playing video. Alternatively, you could move the screen of the present video below in one corner and then search for videos at the top part of the screen. At any point, you could move the presently playing video to any part of the screen or make it full screen by turning your device horizontally. Furthermore, when your search results are returned, you can click on the "play all" button to play all the videos in the search result. Isn't this awesome? YouTube user experience is getting better for every up...

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen today launches MixBit which is like Instagram and Vine. Instagram and Vine have gained considerable popularity as a media sharing platform over time. Instagram is owned by Facebook and Vine by Twitter.  YouTube, which is also a media platform have decided to launch its own social app called MixBit which offers the similarities as its rivals. MixBit allows you to record and share your videos with friends. Like YouTube uploaded videos, even after uploading a video, one can still edit video to suit more taste. Once video is uploaded, it can be shared with Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and also fellow MixBit pals. Like other rival platform, MixBit is available for iOS and on web at www.mixbit.com . Android version of the App would be available soon. Will MixBit thrive and get very popular like YouTube is? That is a question only time can answer.

We are in that age and era where cyber crime and account hijacking are on the increase.  So many a people have fallen prey to these attacks due to little knowledge on how to securely increase the security of their online accounts. A lot of people use more than 3 Google products ranging from Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Google Doc, Picasa and Google Wallet on a daily basis and these accounts are connected to online applications and websites. Invariably, if someone gets control of your Google password either directly or from other websites/applications, almost all Google services one uses becomes compromised: that would be a disaster. This post is to help Google account users to further increase security on said accounts and provide at least a greater level of account security than the uninformed individual. Although Google tries as much as possible to secure accounts of its users, still a little extra fortifying is better and won't hurt. Requirements 1. You have a Google acco...