Web site Planner Hack details how to turn your pocket-sized Moleskine into a custom weekly planner with an at-a-glance look at your upcoming week. With no shortage of pre-made weekly planners in the world, why would you want to put together a DIY version? There’s really just one (albeit very good) reason: You’ve decided it’s time to get your schedule in order, but guess what: It’s neither the start of a new year nor the start of a new school year, and since most planners run on these calendars, you’re either stuck buying a planner that’s only half usable or you just don’t buy a planner because it seems like a waste of money at this point. So while this Moleskine planner hack is far from mind-blowing, it’s the perfect, cheap interim planner.
Planner Hack [via DIY Life]The default YouTube video size too small for you but don’t want to dedicate all your attention to the hugely pixelated fullscreen interface? With a little URL hacking, you can view a version of the YouTube video that dynamically resizes to fit your browser width. Weblog Digital Inspiration says that all you need to do is grab the YouTube video ID—the string of text following watch?v= and append it to the end of this URL:
http://www.youtube.com/v/video_code_here
So, for example, you would change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PM9yhfYFLw
…to…
http://www.youtube.com/v/-PM9yhfYFLw
It’s pretty simple, and it means that you can still view larger YouTube videos without switching to fullscreen and focusing exclusively on the video. The URL hack is simple enough, but 20 Lifehacker brownie points go to first reader who cranks out a bookmarklet or Greasemonkey script to redirect to the browser-width version of the video.
Stretch YouTube Videos To Fit the Browser Window, Better Than Full Screen [Digital Inspiration]
