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The below is a screenshot of the Playback Settings pane for my YouTube account. I’ve set it up so clips always show in HQ when available. I’ve also chosen not to show those annoying pop-over annotations.

Here is a screenshot of the cookies which match ‘youtube’ in Safari’s cache:

If I then go ahead and remove all YouTube cookies and open a video I know to be in HQ with annotations I see this:

The annotations are turned back on and the HQ button is deselected.

So, big deal, we’ve proven that YouTube account settings are stored in a cookie and not on YouTube’s side. But why? If I want to browse YouTube in Firefox and Safari on the same machine, or in Konqueror and Opera browser on Linux, I shouldn’t have to manually go in and set up the same account every time for each individual browser. It should be a setting stored along with my account.

But that’s not the most annoying part
One of the most frustrating things, which all of these people on YouTube’s own support forum have been complaining about since the feature was first introduced, is that YouTube will periodically simply “forget” the user’s settings when the user logs out of his or her Google account.

Yes, that’s right. Because you can sign into YouTube using your Google credentials, when you log-out of, say, your main GMail account and into one you’ve perhaps set up for spam or general mail, the session cookie for YouTube expires at the same time.

So you have to manually go back into your account settings and start over again, simply to watch clips without the annoyance of annotations and in the higher quality playback format your high speed connection can handle.

YouTube. Pretty please with a cherry on top. Fix this annoying and pointless “feature”!! We want our account settings to be stored with our account, not in the individual browser we happen to be using at any one time. Thanks in advance!

It could well be the most anticipated tech news in many months; what will Apple reveal at this year’s worldwide developers conference?

We know that there will be a feature complete preview of the new Snow Leopard operating system and the rumour mill is buzzing with talk of everything from a whole new iPhone to an appearance from a recuperating Steve Jobs.

It all kicks off June 8th at 10:00am pacific time, so set your world clock widget to Cupertino and stay tuned to these live blogs:

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/06/04/wwdc-2009-tipb-live-metablog-monday-1pm-edt10am-pdt/

http://www.macrumorslive.com/

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/apple-wwdc-keynote-liveblog-coverage.ars

http://live.gizmodo.com/

http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/05/wwdc-2009-rumor-round-up-ahead-of-the-big-show/

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The robots.txt file is used by web site administration to list what search engines can and can not index, within the pages of a site.

As reported on kottke.org, whitehouse.gov, yesturday, removed a 2400 line list of exclusions and replaced it with just one.

Here’s the full list of things the Bush White House didn’t want you to search for.

Just a quick note to say I am aware of the fact that in the E-Mail digest and the RSS feed images aren’t showing correctly. This is to do with the software plug-in for Wordpress I am using to prevent hot-linking and not because the images are actually broken.

Apple approved me for the iTunes music store podcasting section! I need to brush up on exactly how best to format the XML feed so that all the appropriate look and feel elements appear exactly as I would like them—but I haven’t really been able to get on with that until now, having had to wait for an iTunes ID.

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Show notes:

• DRM free iTunes at last
• Macrumours hacked
• Steve Jobs health concerns
• iLife and iWork 09

 

 Podcast #1 [10:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (189)

I went to make coffee and came back to a screen full of this. Transcript cut and paste below screen shots. Is that a goatse just starting to download?

UPDATE: I rushed to print so quickly when I first saw this happening, I didn’t read the whole thing first. Now I’ve had a look at the beginning, at the start of the hack it appears someone from 4chan takes responsibility for a remark about Steve Jobs making it’s way into the MacRumours chat feed. Then all hell breaks loose. At one point someone claims ebaumsworld responsible too. Very messy.

Here’s the transcript:
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Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

If you’re familiar with my other blog you’ll know that every now and then I post technical articles, how-to tips and other geek culture paraphernalia, loosely orientated around the Apple Mac, music and technology news and opinion pieces.

For a long time I’ve wanted to branch out into this side of my blog writing a lot more, but haven’t ever seemed to get around to it—until now.

As well as being a more dedicated place to post technical articles, this new site will also play host to high resolution video and audio—all wrapped in compliant RSS, so you can subscribe to the feed using your reader software of choice, to easily listen and watch on your mobile devices and in any Quicktime compliant player, like iTunes.