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Youtube - You know that site with videos and all. Yeah! It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about:

1. View high quality videos

Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, however you can check if a video is available in high quality format by appending ‘&fmt=18′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or ‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.

2. Embed Higher Quality Videos

While the above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed hig quality videos you need to append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ and “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ to the embed url.

3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part

Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

4. Hide the search box

The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url.

5. Embed only a part of Video

Just append ‘&start=30′ to skip first 30s of the video. In general you can modify the value after start= to the number of seconds you want to skip the video for.

6. Autoplay an embedded video

Normally when you embed a Youtube video and load the page, the player is loaded and it sits there waiting for you to hit the play button. You can make the video play automatically by adding ‘&autoplay=1′ to the url part of the embed code.

7. Loop an embedded video

Append ‘&loop=1′ to make the video start again without user intervention after it reaches the end.

8. Disable Related Videos

Publishing your content in the form of Youtube video? Don’t want people to see other people’s content that may be related but may as well be in competition to you? Just add ‘&rel=0′ to the end of the url part of the embed code and you just turned off the related video suggestions!

9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering

Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video. Change the url from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<somecode> to http://www.youtube.com/v/<somecode>

10. Download Video

Although not inherently a youtube trick but useful all the same for downloading videos. Just change youtube to kickyoutube in the url of the video and it will take you to kickyoutube.com with all the options for downloading the video you were watching.

Do you know of some similar Youtube URL tricks and hacks? Fire them in comments!

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Firefox has Lots of Addons for the Users, So am here posting some of the Best Firefox Addons for Web Designers & Web Developers. These are some of the the Best Addons for Web Designers & Web Developers which are really usefull for them.

• 1. ColorZilla: If there’s a color on a web page that you like, ColorZilla will find the precise code for it and allow you to paste it into your coding program. You can also create custom colors with its built-in palette browser. It saves the most-used colors for easy access later on. It’s powerful, it’s simple, it’s a must-have.
• 2. CSS Validator: CSS Validator adds a right-click option in your browser, sending the CSS to the W3C CSS Validator. It opens the results in a new tab. CSS Validator is a nice tool that will come in handy often.
• 3. Aardvark: Aardvark lets you select elements from
  a Web page and perform various actions on them. I use it to analyze the structure of a page. You can also remove and isolate elements or generate DOM code. I highly recommend it.
• 4. FirePHP: FireBug is a fine tool for CSS, HTML, and javascript, but FirePHP, which only works when you have the FireBug extension installed, creates a full-featured development experience. With the help of both add-ons, you can view the quality of your PHP and find errors. It’s a great aid.
• 5. Font Finder: Font Finder allows you to highlight a font you like on any site, right-click on the selection, and after choosing “Font Finder”, view the full CSS text styling of the selection. You can then paste that into your won webpage.
• 6. CSSViewer: No Web designer should be working without CSSViewer. The add-on informs you of all the CSS information you’ll need from a site. Simply click on the page you want, open it in the Tools menu, and it will display CSS information. I use it almost every day.
• 7. FireBug: Firebug is one of those extensions that you simply can’t be without. It lets you edit, debug, and view CSS, HTML, and
  JavaScript. Once you make a change to the HTML on the site, Firebug automatically displays it in the same pane. It’s extremely powerful.
• 8. IE View: As long as you’re running Windows, IE View is a helpful tool. The extension adds an “Open in IE” option in the right-click menu, allowing you to quickly open a site in Internet Explorer. It’s a great way to check how a page looks in both browsers.
• 9. Java Console: If you want to see how Java applets are running on Web pages, the Java Console is for you. You can monitor and debug applets, and get a full report on their performance.
• 10. HTML Validator: HTML Validator is an extremely powerful tool available to Windows users only. The add-on gives you feedback about errors on the page. It also lets you know where problems need to be addressed. But unless you’re an advanced Web designer, stay away from this tool. It’s very complicated.
• 11. LinkChecker: LinkChecker highlights links on any Web site and tells you if the link will direct you to a live site or if it will return a 404. I use it every day.
• 12. Style Sheet Chooser II: Style Sheet Chooser II replaces Firefox’s built-in style sheet switcher and allows you to pick an alternate style that will persist on all pages of
  a Web site. It’s not something you’ll use often, but when you do need something of the sort, Style Sheet Chooser II is the way to go.
• 13. Web Developer: If you install any of the extensions in this roundup, Web Developer should be included. It adds a menu and toolbar to firefox giving you the option to display a page’s style, view and edit CSS, and much more. No Web developer should be without it.
• 14. Poster: If you want to debug servers and make HTTP requests, Poster is the tool for you. It’s easy to use, you can set a content type, and within minutes, you’ll have all the information you need to inspect the results of your HTTP query. Useful.
• 15. Aardvark - A cool extension for
  web developers and designers, allows them to view CSS attributes, id, class by highlighting page element individually.
• 16. chromEdit - Alter the appearance of any page by editing CSS and
  Javascript files with this extension.
• 17. CSSMate -
  Firefox extension to edit CSS files.
• 18. JavaScript Debugger -
  JavaScript debugging extension enables a strong debugging environment.
• 19. Load Time Analyzer - View detailed graphs of the loading time of web pages in
  firefox. The graphs display events like page requests, image loading times etc.
• 20. View Dependencies - Find out all files that were loaded in a webpage with the view dependencies tab in page info.
• 21. Clipmarks - Easily save portions of webpage with this extension.
• 22. Codetech - Excellent extension for web page designers, codetech is a webpage editor with the look and feel of Dreamweaver.
• 23. Flash Switcher - Use this extension to avoid reloading between flash plugins.
• 24. Greasemonkey - Control any aspect of web page behavior by adding
  Javascript code to any webpage using this
  Firefox extension.
• 25. Link Evaluator - Quickly check the links in a page to make they are resolving to live links. Good links show up as green, problem links will show up in red.
• 26. LiveHTTPHeaders - Adds a way to view the headers to the page info viewing area, will also let you work on new ones in real time.
• 27. SEOforFriefox - Adds information to your Yahoo and Google searches giving you instant knowledge of the site’s standings with various ranking services for easy reference as you check out your competition.
• 28. SEOQuake - Gives you a lot of options for checking the ranking of your site to see how you place in various search engines.
• 29. Window Resizer - Automatically resize your browser window between 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200 to see how pages appear at these resolutions.
• 30. Screen grab - Capture screenshot of any webpage and save it as an image file with this extension.

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For those who don’t use Firefox, you’re missing out on a great browser. If you Twitter, Firefox has a great add-on called TwitterFox. Here’s a short description

TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter.

This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar which notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.

I highly recommend this to anyone. Give it whirl. For those who get irritated at the pop ups, you can customize the length of time to check for tweets.

it will boost your twitter activity too….and if u use it in proper way you will get numerous followers ….njoy..:)

your comments are appreciated …

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