There are a few, nearly similar ways to do it. The differences between them are only there for our ease. No matter which do you use, put it at the end of the youtube link (without quotes). Here are they:

• to begin the video playback at 14 seconds: “#t=14s”
• to begin the video playback at 1 minute and 10 seconds: “#t=1m10s”

Examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3iLFhYDCy0#at=2m20s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TN3VtWwks4&feature=player_embedded#t=45s

Hope it’s useful! If you know other Youtube deeplink feature, don’t hold it back!

Update: one of them doesn’t work any more. corrected.

Since I have a Mac, it has a typical noise when turns on or starts up from sleep: the optical drive’s mounting noise. Even if we doesn’t use, it will make this noise. When I changed to a unibody MacBook, they applied a significant improvement on this, a noise level that I could easily live with without any complaint. (Here I must mention that MacBook Pros had always a “better” and lower noise.)

But from now on, we do not have to “suffer” from this. A new EFI firmware update (with a scary pc-speaker voice during installation), some restarts and a SuperDrive Update arrived that completeley eliminates these startup noise of the optical disk drive.

Tested, it really works! Can’t beleive why the hell took this soooo long to deliver. Here’s how to apply the updates, in case you don’t read the small footer notes

1. Select the EFI firmware update in the Software Update app, and install it
2. After a few seconds, it’s done… almost. Quit every application you’re running, and connect the power cord! Now quit Software Update too, and the EFI firmware update will just start.
3. You will hear some creepy speaker noise when it restarts, see black screen for a while, and see a progress bar sliding up. No need to worry, at the end you are at your login screen.
4. Log in and go to Software Update again. Now install the SuperDrive firmware update.
5. That’s it. No need to restart again. To test your new super-quiet MacBook, go to sleep, and than awaken. Ta-da, no noise !

But anyway, thanks Apple , I really needed this after getting a new mainboard and few month ago, and now a new battery. (Although I still wonder what will be next. Garantuee expires at the end of Deceember. :S )

Notes: Always follow the onscreen instructions and always connect your MacBook to a working power source when installing a firmware update!

My MacBook is almost always on power adapter, I use it like a desktop computer, so noticing a battery problem isn’t always easy, and maybe never is on time.

But this was hard to overlook when I unplugged: the battery went dead from fully charged in about an hour. In addition, it completely shut down at 16%. And when I say completely, I mean no reserve battery power warning message, and no saving the computer state and go to sleep: just switch off like I’ve teared out the battery. (Yes, I lost my unsaved work.)

There’s some handy guide at Apple how to treat you lithium-ion batteries like “Lithium-ion Batteries” and “Apple Batteries – notebooks” but none of them are helpful solving our problem.

System Profiles says: Check Battery

Actually you need this guide, hidden in Apple support articles. But before that check your battery status in the System Profiler (Hardware/Power). When it says “Check battery”, you definitely need to do this before thinking about the service (btw you need to do this monthly according to Apple’s advice).

Follow these steps to recalibrate your batteries (and put some endurance in it – once a month ):

1. Plug in your adapter and fully charge your MacBook and rest in the fully charged state for at least 2 hours.
   (The power cord’s plug turns green when it’s fully charged. Don’t care about the percentage shown in menu bar.)
2. Disconnect the power adapter and let it use the battery. When the battery discharges, your MacBook will hopefully save your state and go in sleep mode.
   (Or not. Mine just switched off, so I switched on it again, and used it for a few minutes again.)
3. Allow it to sleep for at least 5 hours…
   (…to discharge all remaining reserve battery power.)
4. Plug in again and leave it until fully charged.

That’s it. While you charging and discharging (step 1 and 2) you can use your computer. I’m not sure you can do this at step 4: Apple explicitly tells this in step 1 and 2, but not in 4. (Maybe you can tell me?)

Note: This calibrating only applies to all MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, PowerBook G4 with lithium-ion batteries.

Update: I recalibrated twice, but had no luck. I went to the service where they can diagnose the problem in five minutes. If they get the appropriate error code (or something), they’ll renew the battery for you, like they did it for me.

I think it should be a common problem, but the solution is not so simple. VMWare doesn’t provide an option for extending the disk’s size in the virtual disk’s settings. (In addition you have to read three help support pages on VMWare’s site.) Maybe they’re afraid of dataloss. That’s not gratuitous, partitioning and formatting never was a safe procedure, so I also recommend a backup, and do this only on your own responsibility. Important: do not try to use this if you are using your Boot Camp partition inside WMVare Fusion.

Our first step is to locate the virtual disk files. If you did not move the virtual disk files, it should be in your Documents, inside the Virtual Machines folder.

home/username/Documents/Virtual Machines

If you don’t know where the files are, you have to run a search in the Terminal. Run the Terminal and type in this:

find / -name "*.vmdk"

Don’t bother with the “Permission denied” rows, in the results you will find the vmdk inside a .vmwarevm package file, like Virtual Disk’s Name.vmx. You can always abort the search with Ctrl+Z. Now if we have the file, copy it’s location, we need it in the next step. (Simply highlight it and press Command+C). Also do not close the Terminal yet.

VMWare virtual disk package content

The second step is to resize the virtual disk’s partition with VMWare’s Terminal-only utility, vmware-vdiskmanager. It’s located inside the Application Support folder.

The command has three parts. The first is the app with it’s location, the second is an option and the new size of the disk, and the third part is the location of our virtual disk file (the .vmdk). In every part we have to put an escape character before each spaces to tell the Terminal that it’s a space and it belongs together. So here it is, my command looks like this (without linebreak):

/Library/Application\ Support/VMWare\ Fusion/vmware-diskmanager -x 10Gb
  /Volumes/Work/Virtual\ Machines/Windows\ XP\ Professional.vmwarevm/Windows\ XP\ Professional.vmdk

You should replace the 10Gb with whatever you want your disk need to. You can also specify the size in Kb and Mb. Of course you have to replace the third part too, with the location of the .vmdk file, you found in the second step.

After succesful execution, you get a “Disk expansion completed succesfully.” message.

Resizing VMWare disk partition in the Terminal

Now we have our virtual disk resized. But what now? It depends on the guest operating system. Because it works like a real hard drive. The new free space is not partitioned and it’s unformatted. If you’re system can handle it, you can now add the new space to the existing partition.

The new free space is not partitioned

I have Windows XP, so I need a third party software to merge them. I recommend Acronis Disk Director, but I don’t know any reliable free software for this (please tell me if you know one). VMWare also recommeds a few other software. With this software you’ll be able to merge the unpartitioned disk segment with the existing one (actually it’s resizing the existing).

Resizing with Acronis Disk Director

 Good luck!

I’ve outgrown my 200 Gb backup disk very soon, so I had to find a solution. In my old PC I had a few bigger sized disk. One 200 Gb with two partitions, an installed XP with lot of installed games on the first, and films and softwares on the second partition. Another one with 300 Gb SATA and two partitions; an installed Vista on the first, and films and softwares on the second. And at last one 120 Gb, old backups of my works and music library on it. The first two disk was almost full, but I didn’t use the Vista, and the old backups could go to the trash.

It wasn’t easy to allocate the data to the other disks and free up the 300 Gb disk for the time machine. It took me two nights and a lot of thinking . So I plugged in both, this and the time machine backup disk into my MacBook.

The problem:

First I tried to simply copy the backups.backupsdb time machine folder to the new, bigger drive, but it didn’t work. It prepared for a while (2,5 million files :S ) and ended up with an error code -50. I also tried to copy the folders manually (one-by-one) but it also failed. (ok, just started to try… )

Than another problem came:

The right solution for transferring your Time Machine backup to another disk is to use the Disk Utility’s Restore function*. So I tried to restore the whole backup disk to my new disk, but after 10 minutes of preparing, Disk Utility failed to restore and ended up with a simple, meanless operation failed error. Other solutions are Carbon Copy Cloner** or SuperDuper!.

*How to restore: click the Restore tab on the right. First drag the disk or partition you want to restore from to the Source field (you don’t need to click the Image button if you restore from a whole disk), than drag the disk/partition you want to restore to, to the Destination field and click Restore. Additionally you can check the Erase destination option.

**Beware, because the earlier versions of CCC are copying the linked files wrong, I don’t know about the newer versions

The solution:

I found this Apple Support Discussion, but before I clicked a Verify Disk on my backup drive. It failed. After verifying failed, Repair Disk button was inactive, and I had to unmount and mount it back again to be able to press it again. It took about 2 hours or so, but the repair was succesful finally. You can also try the Repair permissions function, permissions can also cause these problems.

Be prepared for the next step: now you should be able to Restore. In my case, it took about 2 hours, and after the copy a verrification process goes through the disk… also very time consuming.

When the restore finishes there will be two disks with the same content and same name. So I suggest to turn off the Time Machine before this, or at least check that the next scheduled backup isn’t near. With the Disk Utility you can easily identify the old drive and unmount it. If the right disk is in, you can turn on the Time Machine, Change Disk and select your newly restored disk again to get a proper drive icon and then Back Up Now to try… Good luck.

If you read the post, you would be also upset about the fact that they prefer dynamic urls because it contains additional informations about the generated page. Like “language=it” obviusly means that the page has italian content and the parameters like “sid=123456789” could be ignored by the crawler. However clean URLs like “/it/pages/3” for example, or something that contain many keywords doesn’t help the crawler to clearly identify the content and it even hard to maintain if some new parameter comes in.

I think that clean URLs are not just for SEO. Clean URLs are for people who use the web and want to navigate easily, bookmark esily, or remember the link they’ve visited.

I think internet is for us, not for bots. If they crawler is so smart to “clean up” dynamic urls, then they should go for a more smarter one which can read clean URLs and compare with the content on the page.

I won’t use dynamic URLs just beacuse the Google maybe(!) has a hard time with crawling them. I use their search engine, their web analyzer, their instant messenger, and their new browser. Now I should make content like they want to? Beceause URLs are part of the content.

Maybe the whole post is a bad presentation of a good advice, and Google wanted to say: don’t overuse URL rewriting, don’t stuff it with fucking keywords because it’s worse than a dynamic one with the clear meaning of the parameters. From now on there’s only clean URLs and no search engine friendly URLs you SEO expert bastards!

One small step for us, but one giant leap from Apple. iTunes Store Hungary is ready (only) for iPhone.

So here it is, how can you create a mailbox for the recently viewed emails:

It’s pretty easy. Just create a new Smart Mailbox from the “Mailbox” menu, give a name like Recently Viewed, and choose the condition “Date Last Viewed”. The rest is up to you. I chose “is in the last 3 Days”, it should  be enough for me, but of course you can select whatever you want, or add some plus condition like specifing a mailbox or something.

That’s why we love the mac.