I wrote about downloading videos with Youtube-dl-gui before. Read these: How To Download Videos With Youtube-dl How To Convert Videos With Youtube-dl-gui This program has a converter and merger components included so I decided to give them a shot. Merging My problem here was that […]
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Updating VLC is usually not an issue if, like me, you have it set to automatic. I had version 3.0.12 Vetinari and every time it tried to update, I would get an error message that at first I completely ignored. The message kept popping up
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I wrote about downloading videos with youtube-dl-gui before. That article contains important information you will need to use this software. You should read it before continuing with this one. This program has a converter and merger components included so I decided to give them a
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I wrote in my last article about using VLC to download Youtube videos. A commenter, thanks to Daniel, suggested a program called youtube-dl. It is a command-line program and I really wasn’t interested until I found out there was a graphical interface you can download.
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I learned a new way to download YouTube videos by just using VLC. Decided to try it. Here are my end results. This requires VLC media player from: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ So first go to YouTube to get your video link. I’m going to be using the
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I had a bunch of tabs open and when I switched to some of them they were just blank. I was thinking at first that the last update broke the browser but then I remembered reading about a new feature in Opera concerning snoozing tabs.
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My neighbour had a problem with her computer not saving her wireless connection info. Here is one way to fix it. Type services into the search box and click on it in the list. In the Services window, scroll down, locate WLAN AutoConfig and then
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I usually use PhotoFiltre for my basic photo editing needs. Especially since version 7 included more layer support. Not as sophisticated as Photoshop, but it suits my needs. But the colour palette needs a bit of improvement. One colour I noticed missing is brown. There
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A guy brought me his iPad. I was told it was stuck in recovery mode. When they brought it to me, it was stuck on the Apple logo. I plugged it into my computer to see what would happen. Nothing happened. So I opened iTunes
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Starting with Windows 7, Microsoft replaced the Internet activity monitors with a static one. I’m referring to the icon that looked like two monitors that flashed blue to show network activity. One incoming, one outgoing. It displayed down in the notification area. But Microsoft, in
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My mother asked me to print up a birthday card with some dogs on it. I thought she said for my nephew, but it turned out to be for his dog. It had to happen. 🙂 I wrote before how I use OpenOffice Writer to
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ASCOMP Image Former It’s a paid program but you can get a 14-day free trial with no limitations, according to their site. It’s basically just an image editor but one feature that caught my eye was the ability to rotate pictures. Most image editors allow
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Just a quick tip. If you use playlists in VLC, you can separate the playlist from the player by going to the View menu and clicking on Docked Playlist. If this is checked, the playlist is embedded into the player but uncheck it and you
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I downloaded an ISO from https://archive.org. At the rate I’m going now, I’ll soon have the entire Internet downloaded. 🙂 Rather than waste a CD or DVD by burning this ISO, I opened it as a Virtual Drive. Note: Most compression programs like 7-Zip can
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