Web Talk

Well, there are really dozens of YouTube tricks here at Web Talk, just use the widget search located on the top right side of the blog to have a pretty good idea of what I am talking about. Anyway, if you are lazy, here are the most famous You Tube tricks on how to watch YouTube videos in the  Firefox sidebar, How to watch YouTube videos in slow motion, How to watch YouTube videos in your Gmail, how to watch YouTube in cinema style and how to turn off annotation in Youtube. For more, really more tricks, have a look here, seriously! Recently, YouTube has released an interesting trick which lets you automatically embed YouTube HD. The trick to turn on the  feature, involves, as usual the use of a special code.

In order to embed and play YouTube HD videos in your blog or website all you have to do is to spot your favorite HD video on YouTube. Right after that, on the YouTube page containing the video, click on Customize button at the end of the embed code. Such a botton looks like a clock work. A new menu will appear. Tick the “Play in HD”. The web address will be modified, appending this code “&hd=1” at the end of the  address . Here is an example:

<object width=”853″ height=”505″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/pIexG8179K8&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1“></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/pIexG8179K8&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”853″ height=”505″></embed></object>