YouTube
Whether your interest is gardening, motor racing, family history, cooking or watching TV shows;
YouTube has a wealth of material for everyone once you know how to use it effectively and best of all it is free.
You might like to learn how to fix something around the house, how to use a computer program, how to upholster a chair or anything else you can think of; it is likely there will be a video on YouTube to help you.
Here's some quick statistics to give you some idea of how big the video collections are:
- More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month
- Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube—that's almost an hour for every person on Earth
- 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute (http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html)
Once you have found some videos you like, you may want to share them with friends. YouTube makes it easy to share, simply click on the share button below the video you are viewing at the time. You'll have a choice whether to share it via email, on Twitter or Facebook or you can simply copy the link and save it to your favourites or bookmarks.
Channels
Channels are collections of videos that are usually about the same topic. You can find
Classical music,
Gardening,
Travel,
Windows and
Apple channels to mention just a few. You'll find a channel on just about any other topic you can imagine.
You need a Google account to subscribe to your favourite channels, this way you will see when new videos are added. If you have a gmail account you already have a Google account.Simply use that same address and password to log in to YouTube. Now you can keep track of all those favourites.
Once you start making videos on that phone or tablet, you can upload them to your own channel to share with friends and family.
Here's my introduction to YouTube made with the
Adobe Voice app on my iPad. Have fun exploring YouTube!
