YouTube tip

[charlie]

It's no great shakes, but it's real handy. So, in case this isn't something everybody already knows...

When you send someone to YouTube, you don't have to tell them to wait until the 5 minute mark for something interesting. YouTube lets you set a start time for videos if you append a string in this format to the URL:

#t=XXmXXs

Just substitute minutes and seconds for the XXs. For example, beginning a video at 8'12" would look like this:

#t=08m12s

Here's a snippet of Wall-E that starts at the 1 minute 40 seconds mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1o42BhiRq0#t=01m40s

[Syrinx]

1. I did not know that

Thanks for the tip.

[Yes We Did]

2. Or you could just drag the slider on the player and it will start from there...

My mother (the most computer illiterate person I ever met) figured that out all by herself. I asked her how she did it, and she said "I don't know. I just tried."

Some background on my mom... whenever she has a problem with her computer and I tell her to click, she ALWAYS asks "left Click or Right Click" :rolf: Oh, I love her to death.

[Tuvok Obama]

4. Oh that's nothing. My mom has so much trouble remembering right-click from

left-click that I've resorted to:

"Bad-finger click to get the menu, then scroll down and good-finger click on..."

I am totally serious. This started when she kept messing up settings by right-clicking instead of left-clicking, then panicking and quickly left-clicking.

She's had her own computer since 2003. Bad-finger and good-finger. OMG.

[Inchworm]

3. Sweet! Great tip for linkage :)

:yourock:

[BattyDem]

5. I didn't know that

Thanks! :hi: