Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

My apology to all my readers who use IE to surf the Internet last weekend. I have fixed the homepage and am still fixing tonnes of other pages which have YouTube embed. For quite a long time, YouTube embed never had a problem until last weekend, users using IE 6.0 and IE 7.0 have been having problem going into my site. The error message that was shown is “The Internet Explorer could not open the Internet site…”, “Operation aborted”. Firefox seems to work fine, though.

Thank god I found a solution.

Existing YouTube embed: -

<object width=”425″ height=”355″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xe1TsLVOiY4&hl=en”></param>
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xe1TsLVOiY4&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed></object>

Change it to: -

<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xe1TsLVOiY4&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed>

Problem fixed. Just remove the top part and leave the embed part. Remember to remove the </object> in the last part.

Anyone else experiencing this issue with their blogs?

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Google, as usual, changed it logos for the occasion while Yahoo! uses an animated Flash that will turn both it’s “O” into recycle symbols when you mouse over it while a plant will grow besides the letter, “Y” when you mouse over the logo for the first time.

If you realize, besides Google and Yahoo, YouTube has also changed its logo purposely for Earth Day. Seems like more and more web sites are creating awareness for Earth Day this time around.

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Now, you can customized the colors of YouTube videos on your web sites. However, you can only customize the video by choosing the existing 9 different color themes including the original black & white theme and not by choosing your own colors.

Click on customize embed besides the embed code will bring you this

There are 9 different color themes to choose from

You can include borders from the theme you have chosen or just leave it borderless. You can also specify whether to include related videos to be included in your video.

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Happy Birthday, Google! Google turns 10 on September 15, 2007 but is already the heart of the Internet. Oddly, the news is brought to you by Yahoo! News.

• In other non-related news, Prince wants to sue YouTube.
• Tommy Lee and Kid Rock were asked to take part in a boxing match! It would be interesting if the match comes true.
• O.J. Simpson is a suspect in Vegas armed robbery.

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Good afternoon. As Lunar’s New Year is almost over, many things are blooming while some are not.

• Adobe to make Photoshop online. In an attempt to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday. Cowabunga?
• While Madonna’s having problems adopting her first child. Angelina Jolie has no problems adopting her third! Angelina Jolie are claimed to have adopted a Vietnamese boy.
• YouTube to debut three new BBC Channels! Whoa!
• Woman smuggled 51 live tropical fish in skirt! That’s one main reason woman should wear mini-skirts - for security purpose.

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Do you have an iPod Video and you want to download a video you have watched on YouTube so that you can share it with your friends? WikiHow has got a step-by-step instructions to show you how to watch YouTube on your iPod with 8 steps if you are using Windows and 4 simple steps if you are using Mac OS X.

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Good afternoon. Student shooting is very common now in the States. The theory is, anything Canada can do, United States must do better.

• Google plans to buy YouTube $1.65 billion in stock.
• Beware of what you drink! Bad carrot juice makes four sick.
• Tim Allen married actress Jane Hadjuk. Time for some home improvement!

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