On Saturday August 22, PC World Editor Ian Harac took a close look at DeskTube!  You can find the article in its entirety, here.
Want to watch YouTube without all the overhead of a browser? DeskTube (free) lets you do just that. DeskTube is, as you might guess, a desktop app which connects to YouTube and shows [...]

Our developers are cutting, nipping, pulling, tucking and stitching DeskTube’s brand new spanking look- just for YOU! We’ve taken a hard look in the mirror and based on your feedback we plan to create and launch a brand new user interface in the coming months.   In addition to a new UI, we have [...]

Here’s a quick how to video on how to join someone’s channel and share a video.

var so = new SWFObject(‘http://thedesktube.com/DeskTube/videochat_controller.swf’,'index’, ‘616′, ‘594′, ‘10′, ‘#ffffff’);
so.addParam(‘menu’, ‘false’);
so.useExpressInstall(‘/DeskTube/expressinstall.swf’);
so.write(“flashcontent”);

Performance
We’ve been hard at work at the DeskTube ‘offices’ and are ready to release a nice shiny version of DeskTube. This version marks a significant release. Performance has been a major issue with DeskTube so far, this being due to the custom look it was using. We’ll, we’ve gone through a redesign, [...]

We’ve included a beta version of DeskTube on the download page which will become the next major release of DeskTube. We’ve put this out before actual release due to the fact the performance gains are unbelievable. Anyone who wasn’t able to run DeskTube, or ran it but had to sit through choppiness or [...]

Yes, the title does say video chat. We’ve been working tirelessly on this feature that will allow you to video chat with up to three (3) friends. You will see your video output, and the video of any friends you may be connected to, as well as publish your audio and hear your [...]

This is a significant release, so we’ve decided to lay out the release notes in an easier to read and follow format.
Search:
You can now paste in a YouTube video’s URL into the search field in DeskTube to go right to that video. The URL must be formatted as follows:
Facebook Stream Photo Viewer:
You [...]

You may, or may not, have noticed we were down for about 15 hours over the weekend. We’ve recently been preparing to beef up our server for our Quick Capture feature. We’ve finally got everything in order and made the jump. What does this mean for you, as the user? Well, [...]

DeskTube has come a long way. It’s all thanks to all the feedback we get, so we are re-opening the Beta Program for those that want to help us improve DeskTube directly. There are a lot of things that we want to do, one being drastically lower the amount of CPU usage DeskTube [...]

We wanted to let everyone know we are aware of the the constant “Error Loading Video” messages. It’s due to the fact DeskTube fetches the high quality video by default, and it appears some of the classics don’t have a high quality version. We will correct this in an upcoming release, be sure [...]