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TWIL - Week #46

This Week I Learned: There are many sites that insert something like "Read more: www.site.com" into your clipboard when you copy text in your browser. These websites use the Clipboard APIs. There are multiple ways to block this behavior . Facebook knows what you looked at on Amazon . Demand Side Platforms (DSP) give Facebook the unique identifier for an individual's browser as well as the cookie data containing the browser's history. With 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors a month, Wikipedia relies on a diligent army of roughly 75,000 volunteers each month to edit the articles. The Maha Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering , drew 30 million pilgrims on the peak day in February, 2013 Mark Twain was perhaps the first American to attend the Kumbh back in 1885 #trivia "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to 21, I was astonished at how mu...

Free preparation material for Microsoft Exam 70-487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services

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I found the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) free course  Developing Windows Azure and Web Services Jump Start  more interesting and useful than the Microsoft Press exam training guide for the 70-487 . MVA also provides preparation material for exams 480 & 486. For becoming a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD:Web Applications) , you have to pass the exams 480, 486 & 487. The slides used in the course are very well done! Also see:  I passed the 70-480 exam!

HOW TO play a YouTube video with your own subtitles

It is not possible to watch subtitles for YouTube videos if the author of that video has not provided one. However, you can open the video URL within VLC Media Player with the Media > Open Network Stream... and use your own subtitle file ( supported by VLC Media Player that you acquired or wrote yourself) using the Subtitle   menu option. If you are watching a MSDN Channel 9 video with a downloaded copy, you can get a copy of the related Web VTT caption file to view video with subtitles offline. Also see: HOW TO extract subtitles from YouTube videos as plain text HOW TO remove time codes from a WebVTT file