Without the native app, YouTube would be pretty much useless to iPhone and iPad owners, and that'd be a damn shame. A damn shame, and also a gaping hole in the iOS repertoire. But fortunately, the built-in YouTube app does its job very nicely.
Having YouTube sitting, un-removeable, on your iPhone takes some of the urgency out of finding other, perhaps superior video streaming apps, though. And there are plenty of them out there offering content and functions that can't be found in the native application.
So we thought it was time to cast a critical eye over three of the top free streaming and social video apps available for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Socialcam Video Camera
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Although YouTube has always been intended as ‘the people's channel,' few of us upload anything like the number of videos we actually watch. The Socialcam Video Camera is aiming to correct that balance by encouraging us to put our iPhone videos online and sharing them with others in our personal network, or the whole world.
Admittedly this is a feature that's replicated by the likes of Facebook and Twitter (and, yes, YouTube), but it has to be said that few of them, if any, accomplish the video sharing task as well as Socialcam.
In many respects it's simply down to the great user interface, which makes it a doddle to upload (even in the background) and presents the Socialcam world to you in a very neat and friendly fashion. It also includes filters, as all camera-equipped apps seem required to do these days, making it something of an Instagram for moving pictures.
Vimeo
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Vimeo has long been a direct competitor for YouTube within your web browser, with some traction but not quite posing any real danger to the streaming king, but if you do prefer its clean approach to online viewing you should check out its free, official iOS app.
As with other, similar apps you can upload, share and watch videos through the Vimeo network, but the app has one rather nice feature that stands out above the others. This one lets you edit your iPhone videos before uploading them, so you can trim some of the inevitable digital fat to cut down upload times, make your videos more watchable and even splice together several recordings into one online vid.
The toolset provided by this app shows what YouTube is lacking, even if the network as a whole doesn't pack quite as much punch.
TED
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If it's a viewing experience you're looking for, which isn't quite sated by sneezing pandas or morons on webcams, TED could well be the app for you.
TED is one of the few places on the internet where intelligent content takes precedence over everything else. Talks are given by industry experts, education gurus, radical thinkers and anyone else with something interesting to say. And it's amazing just what these guys, along with TED, can make interesting.
The philosophy behind the seminars hosted by TED is that everything must be fascinating and at the cutting edge of its area of expertise, but it must also be accessible to the world. The result is a library of innovative, enthralling videos you can watch on your iPhone, which makes it feel like Johnny Ball is sitting on your right, and Peter Ustinov on your left.
It's the video equivalent of reading, and we love it.
Samsung suffers production error with Galaxy S3 'Pebble blue' covers - techspot.com
The impending UK release of Samsung's new flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone suffered a slight setback after a factory error resulted in the binning of over 600,000 of the 'pebble blue' rear battery covers due to a problem with manufacturing.
Sources say the error has now been fixed, and production will be ramped up urgently to fix the shortfall which has resulted in almost no worldwide availability of the handset. The issue was made apparent last week after the GS3 launched in Dubai without a single Pebble Blue handset in stock anywhere, despite promises both colors would be offered at launch.
This naturally sparked some interest, after which Samsung came clean about the manufacturing mistake. The production hiccup is also likely to affect availability in the UK of pebble blue versions after the initial stocks run out, although the white version remains unaffected by the blunder and will be available in large numbers.
It couldn't have been worse timing either, with the phone due to go on sale tomorrow in the UK, and already piped to become an overnight best seller, especially with the recent news that Samsung hit a record nine million pre-orders for the Galaxy S2's replacement. Given such massive interest, it sounds like the factories of the world's largest phone maker will need every one of the five million units per month capacity just to keep up with demand.
Worldwide availability is expected to be scarce for at least a couple of weeks, with some carriers not expecting to get any stock of the Pebble Blue models until the middle of June at the earliest.
iPhone, Blackberry, Facebook & Twitter Triggering Divorces in Dubai - ibtimes.co.uk
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Although there are no concrete figures on the number of divorce cases because of social media, there is reportedly a significant increase in the number of cases citing cyber infidelity.
The family reconciliation section at the Dubai courts reportedly receives not less than two divorce cases a week involving suspicious communication through social media as the reason.
"We have had cases of wives claiming divorce because their husbands communicated with women on WhatsApp or BlackBerry Messenger and husbands filing for divorce because their wives interacted with men on Twitter or opened Facebook accounts or posted their photos without their permission," Darwish was quoted as saying in the Gulf News report.
In many cases, people seem to seek divorce immediately after they get to access their spouse's account either accidentally or intentionally and find they communicate with people of other gender supposedly cheating on them.
There have been even cases where the wife has cracked the password of her husband's iphone and finding out other women's photos in it.
Not all cases are beyond reconciliation, though. "A husband wanted to divorce his wife after he discovered that she set up a Facebook account without his permission. He suspected her character because she added male friends. Due to suspicions, the husband divorced her. At later stages, we convinced them to reconcile and they returned to each other," said Darwish.
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