Saturday, March 7, 2009

Start YOUTUBE Videos From A Specific Time

Simply grab the embed code and then modify it just a little to make the video start at the point you want. Here's how to do it:

Copy the YouTube code you want to embed from the video information column on the YouTube video page. Paste the code into your text editor to make the changes.

Add &start=180 to the end of the YouTube video URL in both places inside the embed code (replacing 180 with the number of seconds you want to start inside the video). This will cause the video to start playing from that many seconds when a person clicks play on the embedded video.

If you want to automatically start the video, you also need to add &autoplay=1 to the end of each URL as well, which will cause the video to start playing from the point inside the video as soon as the page loads.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Using Task Scheduler to schedule the computer to shut down and restart at a specific time

Click Start, Run and type control schedtasks
Double-click Add Scheduled Task. The Scheduled Task Wizard starts. 
Click Next. 
 
Under Click the program you want Windows to run, click Browse. 
 
In the Select Program to Schedule dialog box, locate the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder, locate and click the Shutdown.exe file, and then click Open.
Under Perform this task, specify a name for the task and how frequently you want this task to run, and then click Next.
Under Select the time and day you want this task to start, specify a start time and date for the task, and then click Next.
Type the user name and password to run this task under, and then click Next.
Click to select the Open advanced properties for this task when I click Finish check box, and then click Finish.
Click the Task tab. In the Run box, specify any additional parameters that you want to use with Shutdown.exe. Click OK.

Important: In the 10th step, you need to add the parameters for the Shutdown.exe command. To immediately shutdown the system (0 second timeout), the command-line would be:

shutdown.exe -s -t 00

To reboot the system immediately, this command:

shutdown.exe -r -t 00

Cancel Automatic logon in Windows XP

Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type control userpasswords2, and then click OK. In the dialog box that appears, enable Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer check box, and then click OK.

Configure Windows XP to Automatically Login

Click Start, Run and type CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2, and click Ok. Select the user account from the list (the account to which you want to automatically logon). Uncheck Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer option, and click Ok. Type the user account password and complete the process.

For Windows XP Home, don't try to auto-login as the built-in Administrator, as you'll receive an error message.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Infosys says 2008-09 campus recruits to start joining July onwards - BUSINESS STANDARD

India's second-largest software exporter Infosys Technologies today said it has honoured all the offers it had made in the year 2007-08, and ready for the absorption of the next batch of campus recruitment starting from July this year.

 In 2007-08, Infosys had made about 20,000 campus offers to the students of various engineering colleges. However, the joining date of a few of these campus recruits had been staggered in the wake of the changed global economic situation.


"We have honoured the campus offers made in 2007-08 and all of them have joined the company this year. Last year (2008-09), we had made about 18,000 campus offers. They would start joining us starting from July following the completion of their degree in June this year," Nandita Gurjar, Sr. Vice President, and Group Head of HR, Infosys Technologies told Business Standard.

Meanwhile, Infosys has decided to extend the training duration for the newly joined employees to 26 weeks from the earlier 16 weeks. Gurjar said the company felt that the likelihood of the employees' getting work (project) was more with the increase in the training duration. Infosys spends close to Rs 750 crore every year towards providing training to the company's workforce.

The Bangalore-headquartered company, which employs over 100,000 people, has however decided not to all-together freeze the new recruitments this year. "Right now, we have slowed down on recruitments. We are still recruiting, but only in case of absolute necessity," S Gopalakrishnan, CEO of Infosys Technologies said.