petantik's corner » google http://blog.petantik.net Where thoughts turn to type Mon, 10 May 2010 10:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Youtube released a native s60 application http://blog.petantik.net/2009/03/youtube-released-a-native-s60-application/ http://blog.petantik.net/2009/03/youtube-released-a-native-s60-application/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:44:00 +0000 petantik http://petantik.net/?p=38 Good news for all the YouTube and Symbian S60 lovers out there YouTube has released a native client for viewing videos on your mobile phone. Even though there were 3rd party solutions such as emtube (which has been fallen by the wayside with the official site down for several months ) and  and MobiTubia (which hasn’t had a public release for nearly a year, just donor only) before it’s neat to have an official free client.

I’ve played around with it for a few minutes and it looks quite nifty when you click on a video it rotates to fill landscape mode, gimmick I know but it looks good.

If you want it, head over to YouTube Mobile site and click the download link.

Some screenshots are available here with some more detailed description of the functionality

Happy watching

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For those that don’t know, it’s basically a street level map consisting of multiple images captured by the Google camera car that has a tower on it with many camera for full 360 degree vision.

Although, it is useful there is a cottage industry of people catching people doing strange strange things that just happen to have been captured.

In fact one of the reasons I was waiting for this is because I saw the google car drive past me at some point last year, and I thought oh no … I’m going to be on it … and indeed I was

The strangest thing about it is that I am wearing the exact same clothes today (except the jacket) as I was that day, which probably says more about my wardrobe than anything else :P

Well, back to work now

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