How to Link to a YouTube Video So It Starts at a Specific Time

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You might already know how to do this for embedded videos, but now here’s how to start a video playing at YouTube.com at a certain point of time – by using a “#t=" at the end of the URL, and then a time in the format of e.g. “1m45s”:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bibCui3lFM#t=1m45s

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40 brilliant Gmail hints, hacks and secrets | News | TechRadar UK

40 brilliant Gmail hints, hacks and secrets | News | TechRadar UK

35. Want to track where that spam list got your address from? Use this little known Gmail trick. Insert a + symbol in your email address and Gmail will ignore everything between the + and @ symbols. For example - if your Gmail address is yourname@Gmail.com you could tell Amazon that it's yourname+amazon@Gmail.com. The mail will still be routed to you...

TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz ... and Cash (archiving magazine articles 7/2007)

TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz ... and Cash

Originally a solo operator, he now has a half dozen writers and researchers pumping out three to 10 posts a day in addition to maintaining an opinion blog called CrunchNotes, a gadget blog called CrunchGear, a classified-ad site called CrunchJobs, and a portable-computing blog called MobileCrunch. He says he has looked at, however briefly, more than 7,000 startups in two years and has written about nearly 500 of them. "I saw a parade," he says, "and I got in front of it."

GoodSync : File Synchronization, File Backup Software, File Sync Software (archiving magazine)

GoodSync : File Synchronization, File Backup Software, File Sync Software

Something to look at...I just saw an ad for this.

Internet Security 2.0 - Page 4 | Maximum PC (archiving magazine articles)

Internet Security 2.0 - Page 4 | Maximum PC:

"ThreatFire picks up the installation routine where AntiBot leaves off, and rather than throw a few arbitrary options at the end user, the app gives you customizable control over additional subsets of the application. If you’d rather not tinker, the default options will keep the set-it-and-forget-it folks protected, but power users will want to poke around the menus and tailor ThreatFire in ways AntiBot doesn’t allow, such as enabling automatic restore points before quarantining files. You can also schedule rootkit scanning at set intervals, just as you would with your anti-virus software. But we’re most enamored with the Advanced Rule menu, where you can set up custom security rules for virtually any kind of threat. If you want to create a rule that disallows any process from deleting or overwriting files in the Windows/System32 folder, you can do that and then configure exceptions for programs or processes that might legitimately need those types of privileges. Give your custom rule a name and description, and you can enable or disable it thereafter with a click of the mouse. And to add icing to an already tasty cake, ThreatFire’s wizard walks you through the process in plain English, so you never feel overwhelmed or unsure about what you’re doing. Bravo!"

Internet Security 2.0 | Maximum PC (archiving magazine articles)

Internet Security 2.0 | Maximum PC:

"We’ve had our share of “uh-oh” moments, when curiosity superseded our better judgment and we impulsively clicked a suspicious link or downloaded a suspect file. In most cases, those moments have been followed by a laborious malware disinfection, or if the damage was severe, a full-blown Windows reinstall. Trustware Security promises to make those situations a thing of the past. To prove it’s serious, the company will pay you $500 if BufferZone fails to keep your PC secure, with a few caveats (http://tinyurl.com/2nvc23). Normally, we’d worry that such lofty claims would result in a Chapter 11 filing, but despite our best efforts, we were unable to wreak irreversible havoc on our test systems and claim our bounty."

Flash 10 Released - Finally, Flash Videos In Firefox Work Again! - ReadWriteWeb

Flash 10 Released - Finally, Flash Videos In Firefox Work Again! - ReadWriteWeb

Today Abode announced the availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new plugin offers a number of improvements such as native support for 3D, a new text rendering engine, and integration with Adobe's Pixel Bender technology. However, we know that many of you aren't interested in these upgrades, which are mainly aimed at Flash developers. What you want to know is this: Will Flash video finally work in Firefox?

We're pleased to report the answer to that question is YES. After installing the new player, we loaded up a bunch of tabs in Firefox and played a YouTube video. The video played to completion. It worked!

The Firefox 3/Flash Bug

If you don't have any idea what we're talking about here, consider yourself lucky. The Flash/Firefox bug has been a major source of aggravation for many users running Firefox 3 on Windows XP or Vista. When viewing an embedded video on a web site like YouTube, the videos would start playing, but they would stop after only a couple of seconds. There was nothing you could do to fix it except to close the browser and re-open it (which only sometimes worked) or load up an alternate browser like IE or Chrome.

People's experiences with this bug weren't consistent - some people were affected, some not at all, and for some it was intermittent. To make matters worse, the only solution at the time was to install the Flash 10 player which was then still in beta and therefore unsupported by many large web sites, like CNN, for example. That site would prompt you to upgrade to Flash 9 as it thought you must be running an older version of Flash.

Both Mozilla and Adobe were aware of the issue, but neither company seemed to really know what the problem was. At one time, Adobe suspected that it was another Firefox plugin that was affecting Flash. The Mozilla developers also did their best to determine the cause on their end, too, but because Adobe was a closed-source company, their efforts could only go so far.