Have you ever encountered some web video you find immensely helpful but can't bookmark or save for later viewing? Most streaming plugins prevent saving of such video contents for later viewing; however, there are ways to save such content for offline viewing and personal consumption. Below is a technique I have used multiple times to save educational content for future offline viewing.
Step 1: Download Video Download Helper chrome extension
Once you have the extension installed, you can go to any streaming video content you wish to save and see if it is able to detect a streaming URL to …
There is currently no easy way to edit EXIF data especially in batch fashion on Mac or iOS devices. Importing photos into your iCloud photo library with incorrect Date Time information can result in the disaster of your photo timeline being bombarded with photos from incorrect dates. I recently had to import a large number of photos into my iCloud photo library and encountered this exact issue. Unfortunately, the date time editing function seen in the Photos App on MacOS and iOS (see image > adjust date and time) does not actually change the original date time for an entire sequence …
One of the items on my long term to-do list was to put my old hard drive collection to use by creating a network attached storage (NAS) machine. Over several upgrades over the past few years, I had amassed several 500gb-1tb drives both in 2.5' and 3.5' varieties that were collecting dust. The question quickly became- what was the cheapest and most cost effective way to build a NAS?. Specifically, many of the off the shelf solutions such as Synology carried out the duties of a NAS quite well; however, came with many downsides including the lack …
Read more →Some of you may have noticed that the blog software I use is called Pelican- a static file based blog generator. Other similar pieces of software include Hugo and Jekyll. I prefer Pelican due to my preference for Python. One issue I encountered when writing articles in markdown for pelican was remembering the header for the markdown files. A simple fix for this is to use VSCode to write your articles and to create a vscode snippet for the header. I have put mine below as an example. Type pelhead to trigger the snippet.
{
"Pelican Header": {
"prefix": "pelhead",
"body": [
"Title …This is a quick tutorial on merging mp3 files together. Like many seemingly trivial computing tasks that one would imagine are easy to perform in the year 2021 this is remarkably not easy to do. This is the fastest route I discovered and I hope it's helpful.
Requirements
1. Brew
2. MacOS
Steps
Open terminal or iTerm and run brew install -v mp3wrap id3lib ffmpeg to install all the required packages
Run mp3wrap temp.mp3 combinedme1.mp3 combineme2.mp3 ... (... can include as many mp3 files as you need to combine)
Next run ffmpeg to copy the mp3s together into a …
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