YouTube has taken the world by storm. It is now easy to take a video and share it with the world. So easy in fact that children are able to share and make videos with their friends, families can keep in touch by recording events and sharing them with their long distance relatives and business can record tutorials, advertisements, or even quick sales messages all with little effort.

Take the popularity of You Tube and add in the popularity of camera phones and you’ve got an interesting way of sharing video with the world. You can record anything on your camera phone and upload it straight to YouTube right from your cellphone. This can be great for capturing anything from baby’s first step, to skateboard tricks, to the silly pet videos that get thousands of hits on You Tube every day.

Here’s how to upload the cellphone video you just made into your YouTube account:

1. Log in to YouTube and go to the “My Account” page.
2. Under “Account Settings,” click the “Mobile Upload Profiles” link.
3. Click the “Create Mobile Profile” button and enter the information required.
4. Click the “Create Profile” button.
5. When your profile is set up, you will be given an email address to upload the video taken with your phone. Email your video to that address. After it’s uploaded, you can go to YouTube and edit the information about the video if you want.

That’s it, easy peasy! You now have a YouTube video to share with everyone !

The iPhone is the true eye-candy of communication right now. The housing is sleek and definitely different than anything out there. Pull out the iPhone and everyone knows what it is right away. But is it really the “must have” gadget that the all the hype has made it out to be?

The iPhone offers a choice of two models based on storage of 16GB or 8GB. There’s also the smaller 4GB option, but it seems the availability of that one is limited.. Basically, if you’re not really worried about carrying around all the songs in the whole world or a ton of data on your phone, it’s safe to go with the smaller 8GB option. At round $500 to $600, this is the phone you don’t leave sitting on the table or counter while placing your latte order at Starbucks. It definitely tops the list of most expensive cell phones for the year. However, the iPhone is more than a phone. It’s a cell phone, camera, iPod, and web access all rolled into one.

If it’s available online, it’s available from your iPhone in the blink of an eye. The iPhone has fully Internet capability. With the touch of your finger, you can read and answer email, check your Google calendar, bid on eBay, or update your Facebook page. Having internet access literally in your pocket is sure to battle off boredom if nothing else.

It’s also top of the line when it comes to having a camera built into your phone. Camera phone fanatics find that the photos taken by the iPhone are as good as those from a high-priced digital camera. Even in poor light, the iPhone’s camera adjusts so that the photo looks great. In addition to taking great pics, you can also transmit iPhone photos to your computer or send them directly to a photo lab for printing. Can your camera phone do all that?

It is the definition of easy to use. It will automatically sync all your contacts from your PC, Mac, or Internet service for you, saving you the time of loading all the information into your new phone manually. There are also plenty of apps you can add to your iPhone for even more functionality.

If the iPhone is half as fantastic as the marketing that introduced it, then this really is THE phone to own. With so many cell phone options available for so many brands, the iPhone kicked the competition and continues to deliver on its hype.

Thumbdive is the perfect iPhone application for those who wish to always be in contact with their friends or family. It allows you to have long conversations with people in your SharingPool and share content from your favorite social networking websites (if you wanted, you could share content from all of them!), all from your iPhone.

First, you should install the Thumbdive application on your iPhone.

Next, add your account information for your favorite social networks.

Thumbdive will automatically download the latest updates from these social networks.

For example, if you added your Facebook account to Thumbdive, it would download your latest status updates and share them with anyone in your SharingPool.

Also add RSS feeds of your information, such as the RSS feed from a WordPress blog. Then, build your SharingPool.

Your SharingPool is your list of friends that you wish your latest updates to appear for. You also will be able to view their latest updates. Finally, keep in contact with your friends. You can use Thumbdive to talk to your friends. Someone in your SharingPool can join in on your conversations with other friends, based on your privacy settings.

This is similar to a forum, where anyone can post a reply to a topic that has been created, with a touch of instant messaging. Having quick chats with people that are in your timezone and using Thumbdive at the same time as you, or have long distance chats that continue for weeks or years.

Thumbdive includes an in-depth privacy system, allowing you to select just who can view your status updates and join what conversations. With a little setup, you can stay in contact with everyone that you want to be in contact with, without letting other people read in on your conversations.

The Thumbdive App is in beta right now. It will be released to the general public soon, but until then membership is on an invite-only basis. You can apply for an invitation now.

There are loads of iPhone applications, both free and paid, for all sorts of things to keep your life organized. I think we all know one of the most common New Year’s Resolutions is to lose weight, get fit, exercise more! While browsing the app store today I was surprised to find that there are actually a large number of fitness and health related applications available.

One of the most handy apps was actually a free selection, a calorie counter and tracker that was made free by Livestrong.com.  It’s designed to help you find the calorie count of what you’re eating and help you keep track with an easy to use daily log of your calorie intake.

It even includes a handy database of restaurants and their menu items, so you can keep track even when you’re on the go. No more wondering and estimating at the end of the day.

I’m always on the lookout for great apps and tools with practical uses. Leave a comment and let us know about your favorite application, add on, plugin, etc…

I’m sure by now you’ve heard more than enough about the Google phone that everyone was waiting for.  It is said to be the major competition for Apple’s iPhone. But, gosh darn it, here I am talking about it some more.

If you go to the store and ask for the shiny new Google phone, what you’re actually buying is the T-Mobile G1. It’s being sold and taken care of T-Mobile, so that’s who you’ll be signing up with for service should you go after one of these interesting phones.

I sort of like what Dian said over at Gotta Have; “In appearance, the gadget looks a lot like a Darth Vader version of the iPhone — all angles and pop-out surprises.” That seems very true. Are you prepared to have a lightsaber duel between the iPhone and the Google phone?!

Okay, enough with the dramatics. I have to agree with Dian on another point. The G1 has one important feature that the iPhone is missing. A slide out keyboard. I love a full keyboard on a smartphone! The iPhone’s touch screen is awesome, but for those texting maniacs out there, nothing replaces a full QWERTY keyboard!

I read this tip over at Gizmodo this week and I thought it was a great idea. You know how you have all those cards cluttering your purse and wallet? Cards for the gym, cards for the library, cards for school, cards, cards, cards. It can be quite maddening sometimes, and they’re so easy to lose when you’re always pulling them out and putting them back.

Just take pictures of your club cards (Costco, Safeway, Blockbuster), import them into your iPhone as an album, and trim down the number of cards you have to carry in your wallet. When you need to use a card, just whip out your phone and show it to the cashier, hoping that they don’t get too uppity about your cleverness.

Now, how clever is that? As long is the card isn’t one that needs scanned this tip should work for you. In addition to that I would also say that it’s not a bad idea to upload copies of your ID’s, license, school ID etc to your iPhone also… that way if your wallet is lost or stolen and you still have your phone you can show proof that you’re in fact you. Got to love our technology.

I am of course talking about Blackberry Smartphones. They are all the chatter everywhere this week, I even saw people talking about them in my Twitter stream. I will confess, I do not yet have a Blackberry at all. I have resisted giving in to the craze, but it’s getting harder and harder by the day to continue resisting. They have so many great features about them, stunning displays, sophisticated user interfaces and full-QWERTY keyboards… what’s not to like?

The BlackBerry smartphone’s support for tri-band HSDPA and enterprise-grade Wi-Fi networks and its next-generation mobile processor make downloading email attachments, streaming video and rendering web pages easy as dialing your phone. Integrated MP3 Player makes taking your tunes with you easy and best of all eliminates the need to carry a separate MP3 player leaving more room in your bag or pocket for other things. The BlackBerry Smartphone also includes 64 MB of on built in memory plus it has a microSD Card slot for easy expansion and the ability to easily transfer from your Blackberry to your computer or laptop.

Have you turned into a Blackberry addict yet?