Saturday, April 10, 2010

How to fix show me as away when inactive in Skype?

Setting your Skype-status to away automatically when you are away from the computer is not really working anymore, is it? If that's the case it's easy to fix.

Go to Tools/Options and change Show me as away after X minutes to some other value. Like 4 minutes. Save it.

Then go to Tools/Options again and set it to some other value again like 5 minutes. Save it.

After you changed it twice it will work correctly. Stupid, isn't it? But at least it can be fixed.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

How to play a Youtube playlist in random order (shuffle)?

With the recent redesign of Youtube they've taken out the randomize option, so you can set your playlist to autoplay, but it will always play in the same order. Boring, isn't it?

Luckily, there is a handy site which allows you to play/shuffle a Youtube playlist in randomized order. It does not have a fancy design, but it does the shuffling well.

You just give your Youtube user name, it lists your playlists and you can choose one to play in random order. It even have a Play Next button if you want to skip a number.