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How to Embed a Muted YouTube Video in your Website

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It is easy to embed YouTube videos in your website. You grab the default IFRAME embed code, paste it anywhere inside your web page and you’re done. YouTube does offer some basic customization – like you can modify the player dimensions or hide the YouTube branding  – but if you would like to exercise more control over the  behavior of the embedded player,  the YouTube Player API  is the way to go. This tutorial explains how you can embed a YouTube video that will auto-play when the web page is loaded but with muted audio. For instance, a products website may use short screencasts  to highlight features and these videos will autoplay when the page is loaded. The volume is however set to 0 and the user can manually click to un-mute the video. Similarly, if you are using a YouTube video background for your website, it makes more sense to use muted embeds that run in a loop See the demo page . How to Mute the Embedded Yo...

The 10 Important URLs That Every Google User Should Know

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What does Google know about the places you’ve visited recently? What are your interests as determined by Google? Where does Google keep a list of every word that you’ve ever typed in the search box? Where can you get a list of Google ads that were of interest to you? The 10 Important Google Links Google stores everything privately and here are the 10 important links (URLs) that will unlock everything Google knows about you. They are hidden somewhere deep inside your Google Account dashboard and they may reveal interesting details about you that are otherwise only known to Google. Let’s dive in. 1.  Google stores a list of usernames and passwords that you have typed in Google Chrome or Android for logging into various websites. They even have a website too where you can view all these passwords in plain text. passwords.google.com 2. Google creates a profile of yourself based on the sites you visit, guessing your age, gender and interests and then use this data...

Find Who has Access to your Google Drive Files and Folders

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The files and folders in your Google Drive are private by default until you decide to share them. You can share your documents with specific people or you can make them public and anyone on the Internet can view the shared files. Google Apps users have the option to share files and folders within the organization while restricting access to anyone outside the domain. You can not only control who has access to your Google Drive files but can also assign the level of access they have on the shared files. You can set the access permissions to either view (read only) or edit (read & write). For instance, if you are to send a large file , you can upload the file to Google Drive and share it in view-mode with the recipient. Who Can View or Edit your Drive Files? You may have a number of documents, spreadsheets and other files in your Google Drive that are accessible to other users. These users could be your contacts, som...