May 5, 2017

May the 5th be with you 🖖 #21

By Helmi • Issue #21 • View online

Did you know: 21 is exactly the half of 42? 🤔 So this issue maybe only half the answer to life, the universe and everything but it’s more than nothing, isn’t it?

YouTube Special

I’m getting more and more into watching Youtube. It fills about 75% of my entertainment needs yet and also is a nice source for informational and educational content from time to time. Here are some recent links around Youtube that I found useful and thought you might like, too.

YouTube's new Layout

Youtube just announced a new layout that is much cleaner. You can try it out by visiting this link and clicking the button to activate it.

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Magic Actions for YouTube

This Browser Addon (Chrome, Firefox, Opera) is my favourite little Toolbox to tweak some YouTube features and Layout stuff to make YouTube a little bit more handy, useful or ad free.

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Tubbler - Standalone YouTube Player for Mac OS X

I’m using this free, Desktop Video player for Mac OS X for a while now. It works just fine and carries its own little playlist that you can easily drag video URLs into. Unfortunately, it does not connect to YouTube and read your “watch later” list from there.

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Watch this: Elon Musk's TED 2017 Full Interview

A must watch. The serial entrepreneur took part in an engaging 40-minute interview with TED’s Chris Anderson on Friday, April 28, 2017

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Assorted links

Fraunhofer: 1000 km range from new battery

This is amazing emobility news. Germanys Frauenhofer seem to come close to 1000km worth of energy for EVs with new battery technology.

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CookiesOK - Get rid of the cookie warnings

You’re probably also annoyed but the most useless judicial decision in the EU during the last year: Cookie notices. This little Google Chrome plugin works quite well for auto clicking those messages away. It even has a built-in report function for sites not yet working.

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