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Sick of the beeping alarm clock in the morning ? Then why not get awoken by your favorite video on YouTube. Have your favorite song playing or something more relaxing, science can help as a study showed the most relaxing song ever to be Weightless By Marconi Union.

Tags: Online Tools → YouTube

Use A YouTube Video As Your Alarm Clock

By Paul Crowe → Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Ever wanted to share just a piece of a YouTube video like one part in a compilation video ? You can easily achieve this by adding a string to the end of the URL, or if that's too much hassle to remember there is an online tool you can use.

Yep so if for example you wanted to link to a video but say four minutes ten seconds in you would add &t=4m10s to the end of the URL.

So you would turn this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R54_y3TXyGA

Into This :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R54_y3TXyGA&t=4m10s

The alternative tool is a tool called YouTube Time you can visit the site here : www.youtubetime.com/. Enter the URL of the video and choose the time you want the video to start at and get the link.

Now you know, let us know what you think in the comments.

Tags: Online Tools → YouTube

Link To Exact Time On YouTube Video Online Tool

By Paul Crowe → Saturday, February 14, 2015

On a Documentary Site I'm involved with we embed videos mainly from YouTube but something was really annoying me, those darn annotations ! Now I don't mind a simple annotation in the corner we can click to subscribe or at the end of a videos if some other videos from the channel are showcased. But more and more I find videos plastered with annotations and it absolutely ruins the viewing experience.You try to click the little X to remove an annotation but click the box instead or as you close one another appears arghhh.

So I wanted the viewing experience on Documentary Fans to be annotation free and I found the way to achieve that goal.By adding a small tag to the embed code annotations are disabled and here is how to do it.

Turn Off Annotations YouTube Embed Videos

Tags: YouTube

Disable Annotations On Embedded YouTube Videos

By Paul Crowe → Saturday, February 7, 2015

It's just over a week to Christmas so why not get your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+ profiles in the Christmas spirit with a seasonal cover photo.Here we have listed over 30 fantastic cover photos ready to use on your social profiles and pages.The best part is the sizes are default Facebook cover photo size so they will also work as your Twitter cover photo, YouTube cover photo and Google+ cover photo.

The list has a variety of Christmas themes with some classic Christmas images as well as cute, animal and religious Christmas covers.To use any of the images you have two options you can right click on the image in the list below and choose "Save image as" to save the image to your computer then upload it using the cover photo settings on your Facebook or other profiles.Alternatively you can click the "Download" link above each image to go to the source website of the cover photo and follow the instructions there.Enjoy !

Over 30 Free Christmas Cover Photos

Tags: Cover Photos → Facebook → Google Plus → Social Media → Twitter → YouTube

30+ Very Best Facebook Christmas Cover Photos

By Paul Crowe → Tuesday, December 16, 2014

There have been a few times I have popped up a playlist on YouTube only to discover it's set to play backwards.This always happens on auto populated YouTube playlists which is very frustrating.Even more frustrating is the fact we have no option on YouTube to reverse a playlist and make it play from back to front.In this post I have however a fix that will allow you to reverse the order any playlist on YouTube is played.

This fix I'm afraid has a few limitations, well one limitation really and that's that it will only work on the Google Chrome browser. Not too much of an inconvenience Chrome is a great browser and can be quickly downloaded.

How To Invert A YouTube Playlist

1. Follow this link to the Reverse YouTube Playlist Page in the Chrome Store.

2. Click the download button in the top right to install.

3. Now when you open a playlist in YouTube you will see two arrows in the top right beside the autoplay and random buttons.Click the arrows to reverse the order.

A great add-on for Chrome although it is a pity YouTube have not built in this option for this especially with all auto populated playlists playing from back to front.Let us know what you think in the comments.

Tags: Chrome → YouTube

How To Reverse A YouTube Playlist

By Paul Crowe → Tuesday, September 2, 2014