Tech Smartly

Yes, that’s right, you can see high resolution videos! What is this trickery, you say? Yes, there are actually high res videos on youtube, although not every video has the option. There are only a few simple steps to do so.

1. Get the URL
2. Add &fmt=18 to the end of the url
3. Watch

Here is an example using the skating dog video.

Low Resolution

High Resolution

This video shows a big difference between the low and high resolution. Not every video is higher quality as well, but it can really make the videos look nice than the standard youtube quality. Also, embedding youtube videos changes the quality back to normal.

Note: Just recently, On certain videos, youtube has a link to the higher quality version.

This is a cool little applet that I found, which allows you to drive around on Google maps in a little car. An interesting idea, although not that interesting after about 5 minutes. If you start in the water, you can drive around in it until you get to a road, then you can’t get back to the water. Also it says that it does not work with firefox, but I’m using the latest firefox beta and it works perfectly.

Not terribly fun, but interesting. Can be found here.