How to Copy YouTube Playlists of Another YouTube User Learn how to copy any existing YouTube playlist, which may or may not be owned by you, into your own YouTube account. YouTube has a large and dedicated community of users that are working diligently to organize this ever-growing database of videos into playlists that make the YouTube experience even more enjoyable. Looking for the most inspiring Steve Jobs speeches on YouTube? Nursery rhyme videos to entertain your kid? TV commercials from the 1950s? Like everything else on the web, you favorite YouTube playlists may disappear without warning – this can happen if the YouTube user deletes the playlist himself or if YouTube decides to shut down his account for, say, copyright infringement. Thus, if you happen to really like a YouTube playlist, the best thing would be that you clone that YouTube playlist into your YouTube account. The previous version of YouTube included a handy feature for copying video playlists but they seem to have dropped it earlier this year.
DropDAV Connects (Finally!) iWork and Dropbox File management on Apple’s iOS devices is still a quirky endeavor. While many (most?) use Dropbox (see previous ProfHacker coverage) to view files, or to edit text files, Apple’s showcase iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) can’t save to Dropbox. Most of the time, the way to get a file into Pages for editing is to open it as an attachment–which is ok, but there’s no way to save the file you’ve been working on to Dropbox. And while you can open files from Dropbox into an iWork app, there has not been an easy way to go in the other direction. Apple’s apps do support the WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) standard for writing/reading files, so if you have access to a WebDAV service, you can use that. DropDAV is a useful recent service that bridges this gap. "Copy to WebDAV" This is an important difference! If you want to use the DropDAV service, there are only two steps: First, you go to their website and enter your Dropbox credentials (*). Easy! Return to Top
10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About Though it has some competition, YouTube remains the premier video site on the web. With a staggering amount of videos uploaded every day, some people even make a living from the service. 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube Here are 10 great alternatives to YouTube, although the "better than" is obviously open to debate... Read More No matter if you’re a casual YouTube user or go looking for the craziest channels you can find, there are all sorts of ways to tweak YouTube to make it just right for you. Let’s look at some URL tricks to get more out of the service. 1. Typically, when you copy a link to a YouTube video, it starts from the beginning. You can do this in a couple of ways. youtube.com/watch? Can be shared 90 seconds in using this URL: youtube.com/watch? If you don’t want to use the manual method, pause the video at the time you’d like to share it at, then right-click and choose Copy video URL at current time. 2. youtube.com/watch?
10 [More] Killer Dropbox Tips and Tricks | Web.AppStorm We recently rounded up 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks, which was accompanied by a giveaway. Entries required a comment with your favorite Dropbox tip, trick or hack you use. From that massive collection of entries we bring you 10 [more] killer Dropbox tips and tricks to make the most of this amazing app. The First 15 Our first Dropbox post included 5 Creative Uses for Dropbox, then we added 10 Awesome Tips and Tricks to that list. 10 [More] Killer Tips and Tricks by You! We’ve read through all 400+ comments of all your favorite uses for Dropbox and here are our top ten picks. 1. One of the most popular uses for Dropbox, submitted by you guys, was to sync .torrent files from one system to another, which would then automatically download them. You need to first setup a BitTorrent client capable of automatically loading .torrent files from a specified directory. Transmission Autostart Downloads Your client may be a little different but they’ll all have similar settings. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
30 Google Chrome tips, tricks and shortcuts 1. Create desktop and Start menu shortcuts to web apps such as Gmail - go to Gmail.com and then select Create application shortcuts... from the Page Control menu (in the top-right corner of your browser - it looks like a page with the corner folded over). Now choose where you want to place your shortcut. This works for other Google apps such as Calendar and Documents, and other services such as Windows Live Hotmail. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Five Dropbox tips for Mac Unix nerds Dropbox is already a very powerful utility for Mac OS X, but if you're knowledgable in Unix, you can make it even better. Here are five ways that you can use Unix to get more out of Dropbox. 1. I wanted to update my copy of the HTML processing tool Tidy today. I was happy to find instructions for building Tidy under Snow Leopard, but it also reminded me of another way that I've been using Dropbox for some time now. If you compile and install Unix utilities on your own instead of using MacPorts, Fink or Rudix, you will most often be asked where you want to install these utilities to. That's when it occurred to me that instead of installing to /usr/local/, I could install to my $HOME/Dropbox/ and have the program "instantly" available on all of my computers. Now it's important to note that all of my Macs are running the same version of OS X (10.6). This has required a few minor configuration changes. 2. 3. 4. 5.
How to Free Up Space in Gmail: 5 Ways to Reclaim Space Gmail provides a high storage limit – 10 GB and counting – but it doesn’t help you much if you’re close to reaching it. You’ll need to know some tricks to free up space in your Gmail account. Once you’re at the limit, mail will start to bounce instead of being received. You’ll also see a message saying that “You have run out of space for your Gmail account.” Search for Attachments Attachments can take up a lot of space. Once you’ve searched for only the messages that contain attachments, you can go about deleting the larger messages and freeing up space more efficiently. Unfortunately, there’s no way to sort messages by size from within Gmail. Use an IMAP Client You can access your Gmail over any email client that supports IMAP, like Mozilla Thunderbird. We’ve previously covered setting up Gmail in Thunderbird, so follow that guide – but leave Thunderbird set to the default option of IMAP, don’t switch it to POP3 like the article instructs. Click the Size column to sort messages by size.
Create a Highly Organized, Synchronized Home Folder with Dropbox How to Encrypt Your Files And Improve Dropbox Security Dropbox is indeed a great application. It gives you a free 2GB of storage space to store your files and allows you to access to them and sync them between different computers, regardless you are running Windows, Mac, Linux or any other smart mobile device. However, as good as it gets, there is one major issue. All the files that you have stored in the cloud are not encrypted. Whoever hack into your account can view and access all the files in your account, including those confidential documents that you have synced over the cloud. Why is this important to you? SecretSync is a file-by-file encryption solution for Windows and Linux. The installation and usage of SecretSync for Windows is pretty straightforward. For Linux, the usage is purely command-line based. 1. 2. This will run the installer and download the necessary files from SecretSync site. After the installation, type to start the SecretSync service. SecretSync In Ubuntu, open a terminal and type: encfs ~/Dropbox/.encrypted ~/Private
5 cool things to sync with Dropbox on your Mac - Ars Technica If you're not already familiar with file syncing service Dropbox, you should be. The easiest way to describe Dropbox is that it acts as a type of online storage that gives you access to your files wherever you go, no matter which computer you're on, what OS you're using, and where you are in the world. No need to use a DVD, USB drive, or e-mail to transfer important files. However, Dropbox is really much more than that: you can access and work on files even when you're offline, share folders with friends and coworkers, and most importantly (for this writeup, anyway), sync settings for numerous applications without having to fork over any cash. Why is this good? Sync your 1Password database 1Password is a password manager and auto-form-filler for the Mac that has been a hit among the Ars staff and readers alike. In order to do this, you must first have the latest version of 1Password installed on all your Macs (make sure you have the licenses to do this, of course!). Sync Yojimbo
20 Must-Have Ubuntu Showdown Apps Last month developers across the world spent three short weeks crafting over 130 applications as part of the Ubuntu App Showdown contest. From these, three winners were picked by a jury of judges: RSS reader ‘Lightread‘, puzzle game ‘Picsaw‘ and web-app creator ‘Fogger’. But that’s not where the contest ends. To help you get started we’ve listed our top 20 submissions – jury winners omitted – that are worth installing regardless of whether you intend to vote or not. Note: The following are not presented in any sort of order. XKCD Browser As the name might suggest, XKCD Browser brings the popular online web-comics on to your desktop. Comics browser are cached for offline-reading; further infromation on the comic can be viewed by hovering over the image, and Gwibber integration lets you share anything funny you come across to Twitter or Facebook with a simple click. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:brianrobles204/xkcd-browser; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install xkcd-browser Blubphone Postman
How Can I Migrate My Google Data from One Account to Another? Google play is the only service holding me back from doing a complete transfer. Sadly, when I researched into this, Google Play purchases cannot be transferred. If you're talking about Android apps, you can log into multiple google accounts on your device and it's absolutely no hassle to use a different account for Play than you use for Voice, Contacts, Calendars, Plus, etc. (I would imagine that music & movies would be the same.) You basically just log into the appropriate account for each service's app. That actually a great question, I'm interested in any information about Google Play purchases as well. i did some more checking and i think not. you can always logon to the account on your device, but that is just another step and another email to remember
How to use your Android as a Webcam Webcams are useful for chatting with family, colleagues, or even a client. However, if you want a Webcam right now and don't have an extra $40 to $80 laying around for one, why not use your Android device instead? You won't need to worry about having a front-facing camera on your device, since this method will employ the use of the rear camera. Using your Android device as a Webcam will do some serious draining of your battery because the screen will remain on the entire time. Note: You will need a Wi-Fi connection that is shared by both the computer and your mobile device to use this application. Getting started: Install a copy of IP Webcam on your Android device. Once both IP Camera applications are installed, follow the steps below: Step 1: Open the IP Webcam app on your Android device and make the necessary adjustments for resolution, quality, orientation, and FPS limit. Tip: It is recommended that you set a username and password. You should see your video load in the Web browser.