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Copy Pasting Google's Search Results Made Easy

Shmuelie has written a post discussing the code, which you can find on his blog.


I was answering a few questions on Stackoverflow and remembered a few sites I could link to as a reference. A quick Google search and the sites were displayed. I right-clicked on the link and copied the link shortcut. All good so far, but when I pasted it, it was full of Google's injected metadata and query strings. A complete mess which meant I had to visit the site and copy the address directly from the address bar.

YTmulti - Watch Multiple YouTube Videos Easily

YTmulti instantly creates a playlist of videos that have been split on YouTube. Usually, when one part finishes, you have to click on the next part. Instead, YTmulti brings back each part automatically and plays them back one after the other without you having to do anything. Simply paste the first part of a multiple-part video and it'll do the rest. For example, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct2kbLBuSOg) has three parts, so the link can be pasted and the remaining two parts are brought back.

Alternatively, you can just add the word 'multi' after 'YouTube' in the url, like this:
http://www.youtubemulti.com/watch?v=ct2kbLBuSOg
 This makes it easier when you're watching the video on YouTube and you want to jump straight to YTmulti. You can also share the playlist easily with one link so other people can watch the entire thing in one go.

The main advantage to this is that you don't have to sign-in to your YouTube account (if you have one) and you don't have to manually find each part and add them to your playlist individually.

Feel free to leave any feedback!

[TIP] Launch Current Terminal Directory in Finder

Sometimes you've navigated to a certain directory from within the Terminal and you want to explore that window in Finder. You could look at the directories you navigated from and follow that in Finder, but it's much quicker and easier to simply type

open .

in the Terminal window (don't forget the '.' at the end). Simple :)

[TIP] Closed Chrome and Lost All the Tabs?

If you've accidentally closed down Chrome on your Mac (CMD + Q), and all those tabs have disappeared, there's an easy way to get them back. Simply fire up a new session of Chrome and press CMD + SHIFT + T (reopen closed tab) and it should load all the tabs from the previous session. It won't load any 'incognito' windows,  just the normal ones.

Hide Desktop Items on Mac

I assumed hiding desktop items on my Mac (Snow Leopard) would be as simple as right clicking on the desktop and selecting a 'hide icons' option. Unfortunately, this isn't the case but there is another quick way of hiding icons on the mac without downloading any other tools.

Simply fire up the terminal and type in:

Instantly Search For Files On Your Computer

If you're running a Windows machine, chances are, you've used the search feature a few times. Whilst Windows 7 and Vista have the search box within the start menu, sometimes it can take a while to search for files (especially if they haven't been indexed). There's a great freeware tool which can make searching for files pretty much instant.

Download Code from SVN/GIT Repositories Without SVN/GIT Clients

Sometimes you want to download the source code from various SVN/GIT repositories such as SourceForge and Google Code, without having to install and set up an SVN/GIT client. Fortunately there's a very simple utility app that downloads the code for you without any hassle.

[FIX] Trouble Adding Hotmail Attachments on Mac?

Problem:
I'm currently running Chrome on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and just had a problem trying to add an email attachment to an email, in Hotmail. The strange thing was, I was able to upload some files (like an m3u, but couldn't upload RTF or Doc files).

Solution:

Quickly Create a Playlist of All Your Songs

Just a quick tip when creating playlists. If you have a folder and you want to create a playlist that will play all the media files within that folder, you can simply fire up any text editor, type in the directory path and save the file as an 'm3u' type. Most media players will recognise the format and play all the songs within that directory, including all the sub-directories.

Step by step:

- Open a text editor (e.g. Notepad)