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The ability to respond to calendar event invitations in most applications is broken.  This is true for both web and desktop applications. There are a whole host of calendaring applications on the market with the likes such as Exchange , Google , Yahoo , iCloud , you name it.  In more closed environments like those in many offices that use Outlook as the client for email and calendaring, the problem is less noticeable.  The integration is much tighter.  Take Google Calendar and iCloud for example, the integration is less tight because invitees will get their notifications using Apple Mail , Yahoo Mail , iOS , Android , and who knows what else.  This is because the invitees will be using their email and calendaring application of choice rather than whatever is issued in the office. Attempts have been made by most software vendors to gracefully handle invitations from email, and the calendar vendors try their best to make the invitations simple to respond from.  The trouble is that t

Eclipse has the ability to prevent certain files from being incorporated into projects or from being scanned during file searches.  The limits are applied by way of patterns in the file names. It may well be the case that several IDEs are used in the development of projects which will litter the projects' folders with IDE support files.  These can get in the way of Eclipse, but can be ignored with this resource limiting provision. To get there: Right click on a project Choose Properties Expand Resource Choose Resource Filters Some common "exclude" filters might be: .buildpath (file-level should be fine) .git (folder-level, and should exclude children as well) *.komodoproject (file-level should be fine) .project (folder-level, and should exclude children as well) .settings (folder-level, and should exclude children as well) *.sublime-* (file-level should be fine) Adding these filters to an Eclipse project should allow the placement of project file

Google provides a feature with its YouTube service that allows a user to jump to any place in a video.  The trick?  Simply put a minute and second marker in the URL using the MMmSSs format, where "MM" is the minute value with a leading zero, and "SS" is the seconds value, also with a leading zero. This minute and second values combination then just needs to be combined with some URL notation to tell YouTube to jump to this spot in the video.  This looks like:  #t=MMmSSs.  Just tack this bit to the end of your URL and away you go.  Compare the differences in an actual YouTube URL: Plays the video from the beginning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu927_ul_X0 Plays the video from second 23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu927_ul_X0#t=00m23s