Archive for 'Tips'
Youtube Tips
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.
If you want to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube, you can. For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM#t=5m05s Notice the ā#t=5m05sā on the end of the url? That link will take you 5 minutes and 5 seconds into that video. Linking to a particular minute and second can be really helpful sometimes. To do it on an [...]
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Tips for Digicam owners
Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.
Do you own a digital camera? Chances are, you do, because it seems like most everyone does these days. When you look at your digital camera, do you see all of the little icons on it? Yours probably looks different than everyone else’s, but somewhere on your camera, you should be able to find them. What [...]
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Scraping websites using YQL
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.
We typically do lot of data scraping for various projects. We either use php functions or CURL for scraping data from remote websites. This involves reading remote url content, removing unwanted characters from it and then using regular expressions getting relevant data. While this is not that complex, it sometimes becomes too messy. So while exploring [...]
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YouTube Hack
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
When someone is uploading video directly from the handy cam, it is easy that the person will forget to rename. So it does not describe what the video is about. So it will never pick up for a normal search. Try search “” VTS_01_1.VOB“” and you will find so many unseen videos. You will never know [...]
