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What the Epic Games acquisition of Bandcamp means for independent musicians
Bandcamp was acquired by Epic Games. Is it a demise of the last hub for independent musicians? Or perhaps a step toward the metaverse dystopia?
The Story of Cineworx – Helping Indie Filmmakers succeed during lockdown
How FV Player helped indie film-makers and film festivals? Read the story of Cineworx and their experience with our player.
macOS support for HEIC
Since I have some files on hand and most of the relevant software installed, I decided to systematically look at iPhone HEIC and DNG support some of the major photo viewers/triage tools and RAW developers as of March 2022. This is an updated list from November 2020 where the situation was fairly dire. There’s much […]
How to make Nikon Z9 RAW files easily editable with any RAW editor
Photographers who use DxO PhotoLab 5 know the pain of not being able to edit RAW images from their new cameras for many months, even years.
Disqus review 2022: Disqus allows impersonation, hate speech and offers no customer support
While Disqus is a reasonable comment service on paper, you can only hope not to run into trouble. They don't care and never did. RT.com does.
Think Qwant is an independent European Search Engine? Think again.
Qwant is a Potemkin-village, built to impress naive Europeans that we are independent. Video results offer only YouTube and DailyMotion.
Create Any Kind Of Video Subscription Model Easily
With the Restrict Content membership levels integration , FV Player makes it easy to sell subscriptions to courses, creators, or special bundles.
Unicorn Startups outside of the Silicon Valley
Is it possible to start a unicorn companiy outside of the Silicon Valley? Diversification is on the rise along with the emerging tech hubs.
YouTube Alternatives Worth Exploring
While YouTube still enjoys market hegemony among video platforms, there are several interesting alternative options which are worth discovering.
New Shortcode Conversion Tool
Convert old and clunky manually written shortocodes into responsive video database entries.
Advanced And Secure Video Courses With LearnDash Integration
FV Player is fully integrated with LearnDash, with the newest addition – video progression support.
How Privacy is Made, One Application at a Time
Big tech companies track us everywhere. The struggle for privacy is tough, but thankfully, there are still people out there who have our back.
Video Search Bias: Absolutely Dominated by YouTube, No Odysee to be found anywhere
Anyone who has gone looking for a video knows YouTube dominates the results. A close look at just how monolithic video search results really are.
Privacy tweaks: How to set up Brave Browser in 2022
Although Brave might really be the most private browser out of the box, it still can be tweaked in the privacy settings.
Privacy tweaks: How to set up Mozilla Firefox in 2022
Firefox is the only major alternative to Chromium-based browsers and offers reasonable privacy online – only after a few tweaks here and there.
Privacy tweaks: How to set up Opera Browser in 2022
Opera is still much loved browser among privacy-minded users. Does it live up to its fame and how to set it up for maximum privacy?
Video of the Week: Pets by Porno for Pyros
Porno for Pyros "Pets" (1993) is a prophetic song, presaging a time when governments would seek to RFID not just pets but their human subjects.
VOW: New Year’s Eve Bratislava 2021 Street Music
Video of Jan Nedvědi's "Máme jen sebe". Happy New Year FV Player users and lovers of good music! Much love and good cheer to you in 2022.
The Most Private Search Engine
What do we pay for having any information "freely" just a single click away? Search engines are privacy nightmares; the way out is inconclusive.
