Ever want to embed a YouTube video, but skip the boring parts? Here’s how you can do it.  YouTube’s embedded player has a parameter that you can use to specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video. Just add &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to […]

YouTube, by default, creates embed code that displays videos in relatively low quality. Here’s an example, Matt Harding’s Where the Hell is Matt? (2008): It’s possible, though, to embed YouTube videos with higher quality. Here’s the same video, embedded with YouTube’s high quality option: Notice how images, and especially type, are sharper. Unfortunately, this is […]