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YaYa’s focus is Flash video, Adobe AIR and local databases. NOT YouTube.

YaYa isn’t meant to bring your YouTube user account to the desktop. It’s meant to let you enjoy Flash video without overlays or clutter. Cue up 100 of your favorites from your Library…send them to the player (and maybe even pump it to a big screen like my friend does in his bar)…hide the controls and let it do it’s thing.

Most YouTube apps ALWAYS require the internet. YaYa doesn’t. Once you have some favorite videos downloaded (and you can download up to 50 at a time btw) you can unhook the modem and get your groove on.

Like I said in another article. When it comes to FLV, I want what I want when I want it. With the YaYa library being local I can pretty well guarantee that my favorite videos will be ready when I want them to be whether I’m tethered to the internet or not or whether or not YouTube’s service is available.

YaYa v.9 is now available here and at the Adobe Showcase. This version is a must have if you like the app because it adds a lot of new things and fixes a few others.

Some of the features of the v.9 release:

1. Totally reworked multiple download routine. The list of returns is now repeater based instead of itemRenderer based so when you scroll while downloading, every active download is tracked as it should be and progresses as it should. Refactoring was causing major problems using a renderer and if you scrolled the list while downloading an item things went wonky. Not anymore.

2. Exit awareness during downloads. If you attempt to exit with downloads in progress the app finishes all downloads and library queries before exiting and notifies the end user of such.

3. Library playlist queuing. Now you queue items from the library to the video player. This is more natural. This way you can use the filters to narrow down what you are looking for…select from the narrowed down list and queue them up.

4. Added YouTube username search. You can now search by keyword or YouTube user.

5. Added a new “Hide Controls” mode. Click the box and the entire application window becomes the video space.

6. Display of Publish date (by user request).

7. Search progress indicator. Just a visual so you know the app is searching YouTube.

8. Version check from app. If your version is current you are notified. If not you can download new version.

8. Many background tweaks not worth mentioning.

Nirmal T V from Life Rocks 2.0 was kind enough to write about YaYa at his website recently and it’s apparent he actually tried the app from his screenshots as opposed to simply cutting and pasting some text for the sake of it. Coming from a guy as talented as he is, it put a smile on my face to read it and for that I thank him sincerely

A few years back I added Yahoo Maps to my Koolmoves and Flex based forums (myBBS and FlexBBS) and users could pick their location on earth at registration and it was also used for the “who is online” panel to show who was online at any given time. It was a Yahoo Staff Pick back then and hugely popular with my users but I removed it from later forums builds and versions because the Yahoo Map API was AS2 based and I was migrating to AS3 and figured I would revisit the ability once the API’s went AS3. I always wanted to use a Google map instead of Yahoo but at the time the Google Map API was not as useful to me (in the context of what I was doing) as Yahoo’s was. This is no longer the case and the Google Map AS3 API is pretty slick and has my gears already spinning to add the maps back to my KM-CODEX Desktop app. Long story short, expect to see this added to the next build of “Power Windows”.

YaYa v.4 is available now. This version adds some UI alterations and a bevy of behind the scenes additions. Users of previous versions will have their library databases altered inline to add a new “genre” field. Users can now filter their libraries to target exactly what they are looking for by selecting multiple criteria to hone in on what they want. Filtering now supports title, bookmarks and genre’s. You can view the entire library without filtering with a click of a button and there are 83 genre’s to choose from for assignment to any video you please.

Also added this version is a “Hide Controls” checkbox which will do just as it suggests and hide the Accordion controls and make the video player full window. In combination with the stretch on/off control you should get any video to layout like you want.

Initial Load Screen

The New Library Tool Box Expanded – Assigning A Genre To A Video

Search Panel Additions

Preparing To Download To Library

Library Download In Progress

Video Player Stretched – About To Take Snapshot

Snapshot Viewer – Preparing To Remove One Picture

The New “Hide Controls” Mode – The Entire Application Window Becomes The Video Space