Use this technique to easily "pop up" a YouTube video and keep it on top of other windows so you can watch it while you continue to browse . . . uh . . . work.
The first tool is a bookmarklet. In Firefox, for example, you can right-click on the Bookmarks toolbar and select "New Bookmark". Other browsers are similar.
For the location, use this bit of javascript. Make sure it’s all on one line!
javascript:e=document.forms.embedForm.embed_code.value;w=window.open(’about:blank’,'_blank’,'height=360,width=450,menubar=no,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=no’);d=w.document;d.open();d.write(e);d.close();
Or, drag this like to your toolbar to do the same thing:
Now when you are viewing a video on YouTube, you can click the bookmark and it will pop up a window with just the video.
But how do you get the window to stay on top, so you can do other things while watching it?
Install PowerMenu. This program puts a few useful items in the context menu when you right-click on the title bar of a window or the item in the start bar. Just choose "Always On Top" and it will stay visible.
And there you go, a handy YouTube viewer that lets you continue working while you watch the latest viral video of the week!
Check out DM2… it does a lot more than PowerMenu and it’s portable.
http://dm2.sourceforge.net/
One of the other things I’ve down with YouTube is download the video and convert it to a different format for offline viewing using VDownloader (portable):
http://www.vdownloader.es/
And to save time, I speed up videos by up to 500% using the Enounce MySpeed Plugin:
http://www.enounce.com/en/prd/myspd/MySpeed.php