With just over a week until the whole of humanity is saved and we shall never have to worry about disease again launch of the iPhone in the US, Apple have let it be known that they have been getting even closer to YouTube.

YouTube have been busily re-encoding lots of their videos to H.264 and the Apple iPhone (aka Mankind’s Saviour) will be the first phone to make use of them. The advantages to Apple is PR (You’re reading this) and the playback of H.264 should be more battery efficient, as it doesn’t need the whole of a Flash player to render the videos on the handset.

Over 10,000 video will be available on the 29 June (iPhone day) with all of the other videos following suit, it’s expected, by Autumn (Fall) this year.

By way of a lovely tie-up, it’s also the day that sees the YouTube on Apple TV go live - after they do the download update to their little boxes.

On this day, years gone by ...

• EEDAL 2006 - The 4th International Conference On Energy Efficiency In Domestic Appliances And Lighting - 2006
• Hollicks Eyes ITV For Takeover Rumour? - 2006
• T-Mobile Sidekick 3 Announced - 2006
• Yahoo Messenger Goes Collaborative - 2006
• Hello? I'M ON THE PLANE!!!! - 2005
• LA Times Abandons Its "Wikitorial" - 2005
• iTunes "Essentials cards" In Glastonbury 2005 Promotion - 2005
• UK eGovernment - Pressure Builds For Awareness Campaign - 2005
• UK Broadband Take-up Almost Doubles in a Year - 2004
• Happy Birthday, DNS - 2004