I hate having to watch advertisements in YouTube videos before I can watch the actual clip. I hate it even more when the advertisements can be longer than the actual movie or you see the same advertisement 10 times in a row. With this cool Google Chrome extension you can skip the ads with just a click of a button. The creator also claims that it will always work, and legal. Once you have installed the extension just go to a YouTube video with advertisements and hit the “Blue Play” button at the top of the video next to the title (See Image).

Link | Google Chrome Extension Link

As of NOW I’m going to try to do a new segment called “Coding Trick Of The Week”. I’ll show you how to do some cool tricks with coding, and it can be in any coding language. This weeks is going to be how to set a background color when you a user selects or highlights text on your site. This will be accomplished using CSS3.

Put the code below in a CSS file or inline CSS and then you will now have your text with a redish background when highlighting or selecting it. For an example just select any text from this site. It currently only works with FireFox, Chrome, and Safari. To change the background or highlight color just change the hex color code #ffb7b7 to whatever you want. You can even use common color wording such as RED.

The Code

::selection { background: #ffb7b7; /* Safari */ } 
::-moz-selection { background: #ffb7b7; /* Firefox */ }

Image showing part of this article highlighted with CSS code above being used.

If you have never tried to code because you are unsure where to start or just afraid of what it would be like or any other reason like that then you should take the time to check out this really cool website called Codecademy.com where you learn to do basic coding such as; variables, strings, arrays, while loops, and if statements.  With this simple to use and understand but still very educational interface you will soon be on your way to becoming a well tuned coder.

I think one of the coolest things about the site is the fact that it is social. What this means is you can easily keep track and share your progress with anyone. I even think with this feature we might see beginner programing classes using this as a entry level tool to begin and learn how to code.

If you are having any trouble getting your Google Calendar Delegation Calendars to automaticaly sync with your Mac’s iCal then this step will help you solve this problem. Although it is a long procedure it works with no additional software.

Step 1

Open iCal, go to Preference, then to Account, finally to Delegation. Unmark all of your delegates.

Step 2

Open the app TexEdit and copy and paste this account url on your TextEdit worksheet: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/USERNAME@gmail.com/user

Step 3

Now log into your google calendar. Once you are logged in, go to “My Calendar” on the left hand side and click on “settings”

Step 4

You then will see all the calendars on displayed. Choose one of the delegates which will take you to Calendar Details tab.

Step 5

Scroll down to Calendar Address and fine the “Calendar ID” on the right hand side. Copy the Calendar ID.

Step 6

Go back to TextEdit and replace part of the account URL, so it goes from https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/USERNAME@gmail.com/user  to
https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/Calendar ID/user (mind you that Calendar ID has a “group.calendar.google.com” suffix, so an example of the final account url may look like  https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/lbuhjrlgkfoi1oqs56710vkn8zh@group.calendar.google.com/user

Step 7

Copy the altered account URL

Step 8

Go back to iCal, Preference, then Account.

Step 9

Add a new account, if you are using 10.6, under Account Type, select Caldav, and Paste the altered account URL in the Server Address box. If you are using 10.5, once you click Add an account, expand theServer Options, and Paste in the altered account URL in the Account URL box.

Step 10

Finally enter your google username and password. Click Add.

Step 11

You’re done for one of your delegate accounts. Repeat the process till all of your accounts are added in this way. You will see all your calendars showing up under the Account panel in your iCal preference. Then you’re done.

Source | http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=4e5c309678c75983&hl=en

A year ago I told everyone to use Proxy servers to avoid harassment from your ISP when downloading torrents, but now there are better alternatives. One alternative is to use a VPS host, known as a SeedBox, where you can download your torrents to at fast speeds. The key is they put the VPS servers in a country with no copyright laws making it NEARLY impossible for anyone to legally track the downloading to you. There are many benefits to make the switch to include;

1. Harder to track you because you don’t download any torrent traffic to your computer through the torrent network. Instead you download it through HTTPS or FTPS.
2. Faster speeds, most SeedBoxes limit around 10 or less users per server and each server has around a 100MB connection both up and down.
3. You are now able to share correctly. With this you can leave your uploading going and not fear a slow connection, eating up your bandwidth cap, or even getting caught redistributing the content.
4. Some Seedboxes offer additional services, like mine offers an HTTP proxy and was very friendly in getting me setup with some good private communities.

Seeboxes are not a alternative to proxies they are a better solution to avoiding the harassment, and doing anonymous torrenting. If you are interested go ahead and check out the provider I am using now (SavvySeedBox) they are wonderful. If you know of some other good providers please leave a comment.

Solid state drives (SSD) really do make a difference in speed on your computer but the average price for an SSD is $2per GB, and the size of SSD’s are very small. So with this guide I’ll show you how to safely free up some space on your SSD or any other drive that is low on space.

Upper photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hongiiv/

Step 1: Disk Cleanup

This step only matters if you have been using your SSD for awhile. If this is a fresh install this step will most likely not help you.

1. Go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup
2. A window called Disk Cleanup for (C:) will appear like shown in figured 1.1.
3. Check all the boxes under Files to delete: and press OK, you have now done a disk cleanup.

Figure 1.1

Step 2: Uninstall unused programs

Another one that may not effect your SSD space if its a fresh install of Windows but go ahead and give it a try.

To do this just go to Start>Control Panel>Uninstall a program, you should see a window like in figure 2.1. Now you can uninstall any programs you don’t use or need.

Figure 2.1 - Windows Programs and Features

Step 3: Turn off unused Windows features

Don’t play Windows default games? Lets get those space hogging things off your SSD.

This is located the same place you as step 2 but its on the left hand side where it says “Turn Windows features on or off”. Look at figure 3.1 to see where the button is.

Figure 3.1 - Windows Features on or off button

Step 4: Turn off Hibernation

This is a really neat trick and works like a charm to free up to 8GB of space.

1. Go to start and Type cmd in the search and press enter.
2. A command prompt will open, in the command prompt type powercfg -h off to turn off hibernation
3. Restart Windows and check your drive, it should now have up to 8GB of disk space freed up.

Note: You may have to run command prompt as administrator.

Step 5: Install programs on 2nd hard drive

This helps out a lot. Move your programs over to a second hard drive will free up more space than you think.

This is something you have to do BEFORE you install your software. If you already installed something you will have to uninstall and reinstall it to the 2nd hard drive to properly get it to work.

Step 6: Move your page file

If your setup is like mine, and you have an extra drive in your system for your programs and user data then you should move your page file over to that drive too. This can free a lot of space, it freed 12GB on my system.

Although this is an easy task to do, it is also an easy task to mess up your computer. For this step I recommend you only do this if you are good with computers. The video below is a great video on how to do it just make sure and set the page file to your 2nd hard drive.

Step 7: Move user profiles to that 2nd hard drive

Just like your programs, you can move your user profiles over to that second hard drive too.

To accomplish this just download Profile Relocator.

If you didn’t already know the new iPhone OS starting at iOS 4.2.1 has a cool little feature called AirPrint. With AirPrint you can print from your iOS device to a wifi AirPrint supported printer, but what about the ones that are not? This cool applications for Windows makes it possible to route all your AirPrint jobs to your computer to your printer.

Link: AirPrint To Your PC

LifeHacker, one of my favorite sites just released a how-to for doing a untethered jailbreak for your iOS 4.2.1 device. Before you get started make sure and download GreenPois0n. Once you have that downloaded just follow along with the video below or read the quoted instructions from LifeHacker.

QUOTED INSTRUCTIONS FROM LIFEHACKER

• Connect your iOS device to your computer. It’s always good to back it up before jailbreaking in case something goes wrong, but before you get started with the jailbreak you’ll want to quit iTunes.
• Download Greenpois0n and open it up. Press the jailbreak button as soon as you’re ready. Once the process starts, you’ll only have 5 seconds to get in position.
• Hold down the sleep button at the top of your iOS device for 3 seconds.
• Once the 3 seconds have passed, start holding down the home button without letting go of the sleep button. Do this for 10 seconds.
• After the 10 seconds have passed, let go of the sleep button but continue holding down the home button for about another 10 seconds. Once the Greenpois0n logo appears in the window on your computer, you can let go.
• Wait for the jailbreak to complete. It’ll finish on your computer first and the button that formerly read “Jailbreak!” will now read “Complete!” Click that to exit Greenpois0n. You can now disconnect your iOS device from your computer.
• Your iOS device will take some time to boot. It might need to boot twice. Once it does, you should find a new application on your homescreen called “Loader.” Open that up, and if the jailbreak was 100% successful you’ll see a single button that reads “Cydia.” Tap that and then tap the “Install Cydia” button that’ll pop up. This will—believe it or not—install Cydia on your iOS device. Once it’s done, you’ll have Cydia installed and your jailbreak is complete (although you may need to restart to see Cydia on your home screen).

If this doesn’t work for you and you don’t see Cydia, you’ll need to add the redsn0w jailbreak as well. You can download redsn0w here. You’ll also need the iOS 4.2.1 software for your specific device. Once you have both of these things you can run the redsn0w jailbreak on the device with the greenpois0n jailbreak already installed. Running redsn0w successfully should solve your Cydia problem if it occurs. I’ve jailbroken two 4.2.1 devices now and I’ve had the problem on only the second jailbreak, so this issue may have already been resolved.

If you want to have a way to quickly search your docs, contacts, and emails within Google Apps or even Gmail then this is for you. This free browser add-on works just like a Macs finder or Windows Search, quickly showing you results as you type.

Few Enhancements: Quoted From Cloud Magic
CloudMagic 2.0 also boasts many UI enhancements to make your search better & faster. Few noteworthy changes are – a) tabbed interface for emails, docs & contacts search results & b) full screen mode for integrated search in emails, docs & contacts. You continue to get rich preview of the content inside search results. With CloudMagic 2.0 you can refer to other emails & docs while composing a message without opening different tab or window. Similarly you can refer to any docs or emails while working on docs.

Download Link

If you are bored like I was and own a Mac then maybe you should expand your knowledge and do a little App hacking. I was able to hack an example shareware app to bypass the registration process and unlock all its feathres. To begin read LifeHackers, “How to Crack Just About Any Mac App (and How to Prevent It)“. Once you hack his freeware App or if you get stuck head on over to mrsspeaker.net, “Beginning Mac Hacking“. And so you know, it actually works on some Apps.

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