An update to the YouTube embed code which uses <iframe> allows your blog readers to view the video in whatever they have set in their YouTube preferences. This means that if they chose to view the videos in HTML5, embedding the videos on your blog / website using the new embed code will show up for them in HTML5 - just as if they were watching the video directly on the YouTube website.

Since a lot of bloggers read WebUpd8, we like to occasionally post about web related stuff. Here is a trick which should help a lot of people owning a Facebook fan page (might also work on Wordpress.com, Myspace and so on).

Tinypic.com, an image hosting service owned by the same folks behind Photobucket has been down for most of the day. That wouldn't be too much of a tragedy if thousands of blog (maybe more?) wouldn't have most of their image (blog post images and template elements) hosted on Tinypic.com.

The reason people choose tinypic.com is because with an account, you get an unlimited number of image uploads and unlimited bandwidth.

RecordMyDesktop is a desktop screencasting software application for Linux. It comes with different GUIs for Qt, GTK, KDE (RecorditNow).

RecordMyDesktop had a problem (actually it still does): a libtheora update broke it and it no longer works, making the video unplayable, even with VLC. However, there is a fix for this (the video will work in VLC and can be uploaded to YouTube, etc.): adding the "--v_bitrate 2000000" paramterer. Here is how to use it:

This post is for those of you which have a blog and run Disqus comment system on it.

Firstly, let me tell you the exact story: I haven't noticed this before, but if you look at the source code of a post (post, not main page) of probably all blogs using Disqus (except Web Upd8 and Mashable), and search for some words in the post, you will see them displayed twice: once in the actual post and once in a div with the "disqus_post_message" id, which is not visible on the actual page because it's hidden. This basically means all your posts text exists twice on your blog which is of course not very good in terms of SEO. Even worse, the "disqus_post_message" has the style "display:none", which Google interprets as trying to hide content.

Blogger users were only able to create posts, not pages. That's until today, because Blogger in Draft finally allows Blogger users to create pages.

To create a page for your Blogger Blog, log in to Blogger in Draft, go to Posting > Edit Pages > New Page. After creating your page, when you click the "Publish" button, you'll have an option to create a widget to display a link for this page, or you can link it manually:

I haven't posted about Blogger in a while, but there was a certain bug in almost all the "related posts" widgets for Blogger I know, and today I finally decided to fix it for Web Upd8 and hopefully, this will also help other Blogger blogs out there.

A while back, we covered how to display some Google Analytics stats on your website, using PHP and the Google Analytics API.

But here is a much simple way of doing this, but for visitor stats only: by using Sharega, a web service which will display a visitors counter on your website, no matter the platform you use because it will allow you to simply enter some HTML code as your counter.

To use Sharega, all you have to do is add it's email address to your Google Analytics users, with 'view stats only' account access, then on the Sharega website enter your website url and finally, add a piece of code to your website.