YouTube is a website that allows users to easily post their videos for others to see. Since YouTube videos are viewed all over the world via computer and mobile device, it is easy to share videos with people and often videos “go viral”, or – in other words – people refer their friends to them and they end up being viewed by millions of people. Viewing videos on YouTube is fairly simple and uploading your own videos isn’t that much more complicated. You can learn to use the YouTube website effectively with just a little bit of practice.

Viewing videos is as easy as going to the YouTube website and typing in a search term. Videos are sorted based upon the title and the descriptive keywords, or tags, that the uploaded included with them. You have the option of watching them at different resolutions, and the resolution that you choose determines how quickly the video loads for you. Videos are also easily embedded on other websites, so you will often find them in places other than the YouTube website, and are also indexed in video directories like Google Video.

You have several options if you create an account with YouTube. First, you can save videos as favorites, like bookmarking websites that you want to come back to. You can also create playlists of videos, if you find several that you would like to watch without having to start each one individually. Also, YouTube included related videos, or the next video in a series of them on the sidebar, and on the screen when the video you are currently viewing has ended. Also, users can comment on the video they are watching as long as they have a YouTube account.

You can also upload your own videos if you like. Video bloggers post on YouTube and often gain followers that regularly watch videos, and school plays, musical and concerts is also a common sight. Videos of aspiring musicians, either performing their own songs, or covering another artist are some of the most prevalent YouTube videos out there. Uploading a video is fairly simple, if you have the file on your computer’s hard drive already, and YouTube supports a wide variety of formats, and recently has allowed HD videos as well.

The interface is simple. You just click on the upload button and select your video. It can be HD if you want, and up to two gigabytes in size. However, the maximum length that YouTube allows is fifteen minutes with few exceptions.

YouTube also allows you to record a video directly from your webcam if you want, and don’t need to do any editing to it, and you can easily share your video via your social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and MySpace. YouTube is an international phenomenon that is now a part of popular culture all over the planet.

Using the Facebook login screen is fairly simple once you get the hang of it, and after a few practice tries, you’ll be able to use Facebook and other social media websites as easily as if you had been doing it for years.

The first thing that you’ll have to do in order to log in to your Facebook account is to create one. If you don’t have a Facebook account yet, then it is easy to get one, simply by going to the Facebook homepage at www.facebook.com and typing in the name you want to use and the other required information like your email, password, gender and birthdate. Alternatively, you can choose to create a page for an organization, band or celebrity fan page at the link below the sign up button.

In the process of signing up, you will encounter a capcha, which requires that you type in a series of letter and numbers to prove you are not a computer making an automated request.

Then, you will be directed to a page that will inform you to check your email and confirm your mailbox before you can continue. Often, people encounter problems with the Facebook algorithm not recognizing the email address that they have entered.

For instance email addresses at domains with dashes in them may not be allowed, and email addresses at your own website are sometimes filtered out. In this case, if you have entered your email correctly and Facebook is refusing to accept it, you might consider creating an email account at Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail to use in creating your Facebook page.

If you forget the email that you used to sign up for Facebook it is quite easy to retrieve it with several options. If you keep trying to log in and cannot simply click the link at the bottom of the login screen that says ‘Forget Your Password’.

You will be taken to a screen that will allow you to search by your email address, or phone number if you entered one, as well as by your Facebook username which is usually http://facebook.com/ followed by your first and last name separated by a dash. However, this may not be the case if yours is a common name that is used by a lot of people.

If you don’t know your Facebook user name or your email then you can search by entering your first and last name, and the first and last name of one of your friends. This will take you to a page where you’ll be asked if you want to reset your password, and will show you a very small portion of your email addresses listed on your account.

Smartphones are the norm in today’s business and the iPhone is one of the favorites used by business professionals and executives everywhere. There are also some iPhone applications that are specifically created for business that can help you manage your time better, track and process payments and generally do more and be more effective in business. Here are a list of the top five iPhone apps for professionals in our modern world.

Iterminal

iterminal: iterminal is a mobile credit and debit card processing application that is perfect for sales people, as well as other professionals that have to accept credit cards. Hardly anyone uses cash anymore, and checks are become less and less frequent. Now, you can keep up with the demand for instant payment via a credit or debit card with iTerminal, which allows you to enter the credit card number, approves or declines the transaction and processes it, all for $25 a month and 2.29 percent plus thirty cents of the transaction amount.

Flight Track Pro

Flight Track Pro: A $10 application that allows anyone who travels for business updates to the latest information concerning flights including airport delays, arrival times, flight tracking and reservations and gate changes. The application also looks for an alternative schedule and provides bonus information like temperature, aircraft type and speed and the altitude you are flying at.  For anyone who travels, this is the best way to stay connected to the airlines and airports and the latest, updated information.

QuickOffice Mobile Office

QuickOffice Mobile Office Suite: Everyone knows that the iPhone and Microsoft Office aren’t best friends, and in fact, iPhone allows you to read office documents with no way to edit them. However, this $13 app changes all that. You are able to edit Word and Excel documents easily and share files, easily emailing them from your iPhone. You can also get individual programs QuickWord and QuickSheet for around $5 each if you only need to use Word documents on your iPhone, or the same if you only need Excel documents.

LogMeIn Ignition

LogMeIn Ignition: One of the handiest iPhone apps for busy professionals and executives is called LogMeIn Ignition, an application which allows you to remotely log in to any computer that you set up beforehand so that you can transfer applications, get files that you need from the office, or look up information that is stored on your computer. LogMeIn Ignition is the answer to all those times that you think ‘I wish I was at the office right now’.

JustAddMoney Expense Tracker

JustAddMoney Expense Tracker. For the iPhone, JustAddMoney is the perfect solution for anyone to track money that they are spending. You can enter any receipts that you get, checks you write as well as purchases made with credit cards or cash as soon as you make the purchase. You can also make categories for purchases and expenses and easily transfer money from accounts and the best part is, it can be used my multiple people so you can share financial information with others, and be instantly updated when someone else uses money.