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How to Share a YouTube Video With a Start and End Time
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How to Share a YouTube Video With a Start and End Time

YouTube makes it easy to share a video that starts at a specific moment, but ending at one is a different story. Here's how to do both, including the URL parameters YouTube doesn't expose in its share menu.

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The Pros and Cons of reCAPTCHA v3
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The Pros and Cons of reCAPTCHA v3

reCAPTCHA v3 dropped the checkbox and the traffic-light puzzles in favor of a silent score from 0 to 1. That is a real usability win and a real set of tradeoffs. Here is what you actually sign up for.

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How to Adjust Zoom Volume Only
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How to Adjust Zoom Volume Only

Zoom routes its audio through your system's main output, which means turning Zoom up also turns up Spotify, every browser tab, and the notification ping that just blew your eardrums. Here's how to give Zoom its own volume slider on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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How to Hide the Bookmarks Bar in Chrome (Including the New Tab Page)
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How to Hide the Bookmarks Bar in Chrome (Including the New Tab Page)

Ctrl+Shift+B hides the bookmarks bar everywhere except the one place people complain about: the New Tab page, where Chrome shows it anyway. Here's the shortcut, the setting that actually has three states, and what to do about the New Tab page.

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Shortcut vs Symlink: Why Your Program Can't Find the File
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Shortcut vs Symlink: Why Your Program Can't Find the File

A Windows shortcut is a file that contains a location. A symbolic link is a location. That difference is invisible in Explorer and decisive to every program that is not Explorer, which is why a shortcut that works when you double-click it fails the moment a script tries to read through it.

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