Share YouTube videos the right way

Do your friends a favor and use this pro tip from now on.

Author

Lewis Wallace
February 01, 2023

It happens all the time. A friend sends me a link to a YouTube video and says, “Check out the part where [outrageous thing happens]!”

Unfortunately, the video turns out to be nearly an hour long — and I have no idea at what point the “outrageous thing” appears.

If you’re guilty of being “that person,” today’s pro tip is for you. It shows how to quickly generate YouTube video links that start at the precise moment you wanted to showcase.

Now that’s outrageous!

Also in today’s newsletter:

  • Major League Soccer subscriptions arrive on Apple TV+.

  • Jony Ive designs the “perfect nose” — and you can get one for $3!

  • A gorgeous new stand from Elago turns your iPad into an “iMac mini.”

  • Wall Street braces for Apple’s upcoming earnings call.

— Lewis Wallace, managing editor

P.S. You might have noticed that some links in yesterday’s edition of Cult of Mac Today didn’t work. Sorry about that — we’re still figuring out our new email publication tool! You can find an updated version, with actual working links, on our newsletter archive page.

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Tweetz o’ the day

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Things are changing so fast that certainly by the end of the ‘80s, we really want to turn over the reins to the next generation, whose fundamental perceptions are state-of-the-art perceptions, so that they can go on, stand on our shoulders and go much further. It’s a very interesting challenge, isn’t it? How to grow obsolete with grace.

— Steve Jobs, 1985

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