nathan hammond

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote what turned out to be a pretty popular bookmarklet for downloading YouTube videos. Last month YouTube announced adding 1080p as a playback format. Catching wind of that a few days ago, I decided I'd go back and check to see if they still worked. Nope. I guess that betrays ...

This definitely has not gotten enough attention. Originally discussed here in 2006 by a team of people from Stanford, there exists a class of attacks on browsers that enables one to identify which sites a user has visited through either their caching mechanism or CSS. The white paper can be read here, but in short: <style ...

Update Out with the old, in with the new. It has been quite a while since this article was written, and it was seriously out of date. I have updated the bookmarklets, included here for convenience. Be sure to use these links here at the top, and click and drag them to your bookmarks bar. YouTube ...

I've been fiddling around with YouTube's swfArgs['fmt_map'] value to see if I can use it to programmatically identify which formats exist for a given video but I'm running into a wall... I don't have a large enough sample set to confirm my results, and the YouTube HD shift is so recent that there aren't other resources. ...

Update x2 Out with the old, in with the new. It has been quite a while since this article was written, and it was seriously out of date. I have updated the bookmarklets, included here for convenience. Be sure to use these links here at the top, and click and drag them to your bookmarks bar. ...