Everyone knows that in a life span of 5 years so far, YouTube has proven to become an extremely popular video sharing website, not only that, it also has shown live concerts and many special events, such as elections etc. The website was launched in Feburary 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. These 3 individuals had worked hard to come up with an idea on sharing videos and had a tough job of getting the site really popular. In around November 2006 YouTube was sold to Google for $1.65 billion dollars. Ever since that time Google has been handling YouTube and making changes throughout the site. I guess we have to hand it to Google for being such a huge company, that they could manage hosting such concerts, live events etc. It just goes to show how much YouTube has changed in 5 years and yes we could all argue that the new design isn't the best. But hey, Google will be making constant changes and we could be expecting new things soon. After searching on YouTube, I managed to come across what was the first ever video posted on YouTube and all I could say was the quality of videos today on YouTube has changed so much, with HD and the ability to have widescreen.

Here is what was the first video ever to be posted on YouTube (With Jawed Karim):



So a happy birthday to YouTube from 1-Mac and also give us your thoughts on how YouTube has changed over the years and what you think of the new look of YouTube compared to older re-visions. More updates to come soon.

Recently Apple had slammed Adobe for the fact their product the flash player is highly unstable on Mac OSX and also since tools to create apps on the iPad and iPhone from flash were also taken off. Since then Adobe has taken a different approach against Apple and today made an Ad with a poem which show's love for Apple. Seems kind of awkward since I have no clue what Steve Jobs might be thinking about this but one thing is for sure he doesn't change his mind that easily. He was against Adobe and their products for a long while now and I believe that Steve Jobs believes the right thing.

I have also had flash crash on my Mac sometimes and that could be quite a pain, right now it doesn't seem close that HTML5 will take over flash but Adobe needs to change the way they program their products because flash is very big memory hog, notably HP were going to put flash on their Slate device and that's when it struck people that due to flash it could greatly affect the performance of the HP Slate.

For now, no one knows what decision Apple will take on Adobe but only time will tell. Here is the link for the picture of the poetic ad Adobe had created for Apple: Adobe's "Love" Ad for Apple

Remember last time we talked about how an Apple worker had left the iPhone 4G prototype in a bar and Gizmodo had gotten a hold of it and the news was leaked? Now more news comes up this time about a man in Vietnam who discovered a prototype though this one he shows in a video is different than the one found in the bar few weeks ago... now this brings up questions could this be the actual iPhone 4G because as of now there are two different prototypes and the one shown by the vietnamese man seems to be stuck on some screen with fire and not much of the software is shown, but the backing on this model seems to be glossy opposing to the matte version shown before in the bar. This one seems like it is also real and Apple haven't really mentioned anything about this iPhone 4G found in Vietnam.

Here is a video of the next found iPhone 4G in Vietnam:

Now everyone was expecting good competition for the iPad because the HP Slate was coming and I was actually quite anticipated for it's release until news from TechCrunch hit and there are rumours going with the fact that HP might not release the slate. To be honest there was a lot of talk about how Windows 7 wouldn't make a good tablet OS and it seems HP are listening to the consumers and now are thinking about not releasing the HP Slate, this is not confirmed yet but as we have seen the videos of HP Slate performing using Windows 7 it seemed to run fine. Even in an interview with Phil Mckinney, HP worker. He said the HP slate will be coming, but with these rumours we aren't sure... this was definitely some news because the anticipation was big for the HP Slate and HP were praising the product a lot and then they suddenly decide to not release it? More news on the HP Slate to come soon, stay tuned.

This site as you all have been noticing, has been running for a while now and I am glad to say the site is doing very well, thanks to all your support. The site has evolved a lot since it was introduced back in January and today I am announcing that we also have an IRC chat room on the blog it is located on the tab to the right called "IRC chat room" there you can chat all about tech and the world of Apple or Microsoft if you like, our chat room name is #AppleTech and we hope you all have a great time in the chat room and for more information check out our chat room page and be apart of the community, no registration is necessary, just put in any username and chat. I will be also there in the chat and other people as well. My username is: Mac-1000x. So please do stop by. Thank you.

For people who have no clue of what an IRC chat is and how it works, there are people chatting normally but you might see people with a symbol beside their name in the status bar that means, that they are an Operator, Half Operator, or Admin, Voice member and Owner. These are the people who have been the most involved in the chat room and they are the ones who make sure that the chat room has no spamming, swearing and everything is in good standings. There are also bot's in particular two of the bot's on my chat room are "Snoopy" and "Mattie" when no one is around they make sure that other's are following the rules if not the person either gets kicked from the chat room or banned. This way everyone can have a good time in the chat room without any problems.

Spread the word so we can have more people involved in the chat! The URL for the chat is: http://1-mac.blogspot.com/p/irc-chat-room.html

We hope you join our chat room soon, thanks! :)

It's been less than a month and the iPad has hit 1 million product sales, which shows that at one point netbook's were huge, now could face a dramatic loss. Many companies had created netbook's and the main one being Asus with the largest lineup of netbook's and they could be facing a huge loss because Apple has brought tablet computing and this is replacing all the netbook's. The problem with netbook's is the fact the price difference isn't huge from an iPad but performance wise there is a considerable difference. Remember when the first Eee Pc was released it was said to be for $199 and that blew people away, but when it was released was it $199 for the consumers? No. At that point of time money mattered most to people and all that mattered was that they had a computer but with Apple bringing Tablet computing to the next level, people have changed their minds. Netbook's were also very new to the market and were looking to be a hit for the next few years but the iPad has brought their sales down dramatically and we could be seeing and end soon for netbook's but the question remains will Tablet Pc's catch on the new trend?

The netbook market is also adapting to having tablet's as well with an added keyboard but that add's to the price and nearly costs as much as the iPad or even more. We know for sure that everyone isn't an Apple fan, so the netbook's can still be in a safe situation. But if Apple continue to keep prices lowered down to target everyone in the consumer market, then that could end all hopes for netbook's

Sorry for not making posts the past few days, was very busy. But now I am back and there is more news from the world of Apple. According to stats firstly it is said in less than a month the iPad has hit 1 million product sales and that is much better even compared to when the iPhone first came out! The iPad 3g is doing well in terms of sales but not as high as the Wifi model. The iPad 3g was said to have sold near 300,000 units! And it can only get better for Apple. Apple is now seemingly dominating the tablet market but once the slate hits in June supposedly then we could see drama. It just goes to show how much sales difference a product can make if it has an Apple logo on it.

There are also people on the lookout for iPad's on the refurbished store so people can save around $100 for a brand new iPad but with a different box, but chances are if they do appear they will sell faster than the Mac mini which typically gets out of stock from the refurb store in minutes. Remember I talked about a widget called "Refurb Me" which helps you keep track and keeps you up to date with products appearing in the refurb store. This widget is only available for Mac only so far, meaning if you are thinking of looking out for an iPad on the refurb store this might be the perfect widget. You could find more information on my post here: Refurb Me

Stay tuned for more upcoming news on 1-Mac.