How to block Youtube Video from a Channel or block entire Channel - for Annoyed Parents :)

If you have younger kids, I bet you are already annoyed by some of the YouTube channels. My 6 year old recently started having an affinity for Minecraft games and for some reason he kind of addicted to game play videos on YouTube channels, and to these channels/people who play the Minecraft and voice over the game action. Some of these adult players use foul language and I don't want to have my kid listens to these crap all day long. I don't mind if he watches cartoons or any other educational videos, but I hate some of these channels like "Annoying Orange", "Stampy", "Stampylonghead" etc.

So, I found a great browser add-on to block these channels. If you are using chrome, you are in a luck. Here's how to block these YouTube channels

Install Video Blocker on Chrome

Follow this link and download the extension for Chrome by clicking on the “Free” button.

When the “Confirm New Extension” box pops up, be sure to click on “Add”. Once it has been installed, you can block channels in one of two ways.

Using Right Click on Video short cut Menu 
Find the thumbnail for a video, any video, made by this channel. Right click on it and select “Block Videos From this Channel”. That’s it!

Using Option Menu (You can restore some channels using this method)

Under the Chrome Menu button in the upper right corner of the browser, select Settings. From there, click on Extensions and under “Video Blocker” click on “Options”. If you have a TON of channels you dislike, you can actually load them via a .csv, but If you are really that heated about hundreds of channels I’ll let you go figure out how to do that bit yourself. To do it one at a time, click on the plus button.

Type the channel name into the box provided and click “Add”. One thing to note here, everything you enter is case-sensitive, so videos from a channel named 'VAVO' will not be hidden when you add 'vavo'. The same goes when using the wildcard feature, which blocks multiple channels containing the same text string.

So whether you like it long or short, this is a quick and easy method to remove a channel from your sight forever. (or until YouTube makes a major update and breaks the extension, which happened yet thanks to constant updates from the creator)

Launching the new personal web site: Web Maze

Finally I’m done with my new personal web site. Name, “Web Maze”, and I’m damn proud it. Yehhh.After number of initiatives, and different designs, this looks better, I guess. Just finished the final touch-up with a Guest book, php server support from the CS department. I used to upload all my previous web stuff into Texas State web server, but find out they have no support for the server side scripting. But our CS department web server is fully functional with mysql and php plus, remote login to the server, what else to expect ha?

For a long time, I was thinking about doing something like this, with all my stuff, research, academia, personal into one place and have a professional looking web site. Yeh….finally I’m there.

Check out the web : Web Maze

"Google Chrome" web browser- Awesome

I just installed the new Google web browser "Chrome". Its awesome, page loading is super fast. Some problems are there working with sinhala fonts, thats fine this is just beta right folks?

I like the interface pretty much and its quite simple design, i guess that may be the reason for fast performance.

We'll see how the things moving.........

Update: I kinda settled with Opera :)

2000 bloggers - See who's there

Thanx for Kottu blog archive, i found this cool site 2000 bloggers, cant remember from whom i got this. But surely its a kottu blog archive member. So thanx whoever, for introducing these kind of global events........ This goes to the person who post abt 2000 bloggers at Kottu. This is just abt 2000 bloggers, ppl who dont know and wanna know what is it?

Tino the author of this site defines it in this way

55 million blogs......I'd like to showcase all of them, but I've settled on just 2000 bloggers.Bloggers come from all walks of life! Some are SEO experts. Some are writers. Some are sports enthusiasts. Some are affiliate marketers. Some are business professionals. Some are political. ALL HAVE OPINIONS!!!.....Two requirements, though:
1. You must have a photo of yourself somewhere on your blog, and
2. Your blog must have been created prior to January 1st of this year

So thats kind of an idea isnt it. I tried sending a comment to join the group. Hurra......i got my face on it yesterday. But thats not the coolest thing...........I'm featuring on the home page of the site too.........If u can't belive just look at this..........2000 bloggers home. One of my post abt valentines day is featuring at the site first page. Kind of a previlage. Thanx Tino!

This is for the ppl who wanna share there blogs at 2000 bloggers site. Check this link and send a comment including ur blog url and photo page url (photo should be included in ur blog). Thats all. If u r lucky enough.....who knows u will be at the 2000 bloggers site too. So hurry up......there are only few more slots available as i guess, b'se im at somewhere in the 1800 place so hurry up guys and girls..............see ya at 2000 bloggers...............cheers

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Mmm…Where to start, First I express my appreciation to Mano (One of my great friend) who inspired me on this Crazzzy blogging. I spent days to create my OWN blog. Here it is. If I say something honestly, I still don’t understand how other guys compose their blog such a nice manner. Hope to dig into this blog thing more later.