A little over two months ago, I previewed an upcoming YouTube client by my friend Steve Streza. The app is still upcoming, but it's a lot closer to release, and taking a cue from some mutual friends, Steve is taking preorders for his app, now renamed Tubular. (CBS threatened suit for InnerTube.)

Before you kill him about the presale, it's worth noting that in this case, you guys actually do know what you're digging into your wallets for. Plus, Steve is hoping he can continue development on a bit more robust of a development platform than his aging G4 iBook.

While the name has changed, Tubular is still very much the app it was promised to be. It features extremely slick YouTube video browsing (couchpotatos will love keyboard navigation), easy video organization by drag and drop, and one click video conversion for playback of your favorite videos on your iPod.

As always with presales, it's a bit of a risk to purchase the app before it's released. But there are, of course, some perks. The price on the blog for interested people is $12.99. (I've been told it'll sell for $19.99 when 1.0 is released.) But hardcore YouTubing blog readers can grab this for $9.99 by clicking here. Enjoy! (Digg it!

I don't have time these days to enjoy much procrastination, but when I do, I've been spending increasingly more of my time at YouTube. If you haven't checked it out at this point, YouTube is basically the Flickr for home movies and has rapidly become one of the most popular websites on the internet. (#10 now, according to Alexa. Talk about a stratospheric climb in popularity.)

So how'd they do it? Well, as any YouTuber will tell you, there's a lot of crap out there, and you have to wade through it. But with hundreds of thousands of videos out there, there's also a lot of quality stuff. Some really funny home videos, clips from TV shows like the Colbert Report, animated shorts, etc. And a lot of the fun in the YouTube experience is actually wading through all the crap to find the gems.

The not-so-fun part is the YouTube interface, which admittedly does the job, but in a very spartan way. I wish I could browse YouTube with the same ease and visual luxury that I browse music on iTunes Music Store, ya know? Continue reading...