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OS X Image Resizer Review: ResizeMe, EasyBatchPhoto, PhotoBatcher, PhotoBulk, PhotoMill, Retrobatch, ThumbsUp, Adobe Lightroom

OS X Image Resizer Review: ResizeMe, EasyBatchPhoto, PhotoBatcher, PhotoBulk, PhotoMill, Retrobatch, ThumbsUp, Adobe LightroomMy own vote was initially for the more subtle and accurate render. Now that I've studied the results more closely, the sharper and blockier render also works.

DxO PhotoLab: How to Build an Efficient Processing Workflow

DxO PhotoLab: How to Build an Efficient Processing Workflow

At feedback.dxo.com, Roseblood asked about an article on my workflow in DxO PhotoLab. I know I've written one but couldn't find it in my archives there. As I've spent countless hours improving that workflow to process artistic, football and family photos, I'm happy to share it, this time in a more permanent format.

Keep reading DxO PhotoLab: How to Build an Efficient Processing Workflow

Should iPhone users trust Apple’s promises about the iOS 13.5 Contact Tracing API?

Should iPhone users trust Apple’s promises about the iOS 13.5 Contact Tracing API?iPad and iPhone users should be very wary of upgrading to iOS 13.5. There's no path backwards: it will track and trace you in entirely new ways.

How to build user-friendly software licensing: The Newsletter Plugin vs FV Player

How to build user-friendly software licensing: The Newsletter Plugin vs FV Player

I've just had another very poor licensing experience with independent software. It's encouraged me to share some general guidelines on how to license open source software.

Keep reading How to build user-friendly software licensing: The Newsletter Plugin vs FV Player

Watch Multiple Videos Simultaneously with FV Player

Watch Multiple Videos Simultaneously with FV PlayerWe're really happy to announce that it is now possible to watch multiple videos simultaneously with the new 7.4.17.727 update!

How to convert Markdown to Wikitext

How to convert Markdown to Wikitext

We're looking at long term newsletter, marketing automation solutions now. Preferably open source. Mautic came up but there's no Wikipedia article on Mautic.*

I decided to quickly put one up.  Alas, I can't stand writing wikitext, it's very slow. I can edit it on other people's articles slowly and carefully. I wanted to write in Markdown so I did. It turns out there are no usable conversion tools. At first I was directed to Pandoc. We've got an online version which handles unlimited characters. I didn't have much success with our version. I tried the official version. No luck there either. Other people were facing Markdown to wikitext Pandoc conversion issues as well.

There's some command line utilities which have to be installed (no thanks) after installing npm first. Or there's online utilities which are no longer available. Finally I was redirected to our own Pandoc converter.

Keep reading How to convert Markdown to Wikitext

How to Protect Your Facebook Videos from Downloaders

How to Protect Your Facebook Videos from Downloaders

So you now have a website with all your videos encrypted with FV Player Pro using AWS Elemental MediaConvert, AWS Elastic Transcoder or Coconut.co (full FV Player integration coming soon )? Or perhaps your video platform is Vimeo and you can just put up FV Player Vimeo Security and stop at least the known video download tools. Bravo!

Now you want to post some of your videos to Facebook. Are your videos protected from download there? Not really, not even in a private group. Using FV Player Pro with independent hosting is not really an option. Facebook doesn't play well with independently hosted videos, you really have to upload to their platform, which we don't control.

Here's some good strategies to minimise your risk.

Keep reading How to Protect Your Facebook Videos from Downloaders

Reliability and usability fixes in FV Player

Reliability and usability fixes in FV PlayerWe haven't eased up on our work on great new features for our player. Here's a list of all new stuff that've been recently added to our player.

The State of Comments 2020: WordPress, Disqus, Medium, Typepad vs Custom Comment Systems

The State of Comments 2020: WordPress, Disqus, Medium, Typepad vs Custom Comment SystemsDue to all this dross, good and informative comments are lost and have almost no long term value. Thoughts and some solutions.

Cloud Hosting Providers where videos cannot be stored for playback on your website: OneDrive, ADrive, Dropbox

Cloud Hosting Providers where videos cannot be stored for playback on your website: OneDrive, ADrive, Dropbox

Choosing a Cloud Hosting to store all your videos on and stream them to your website may seem like an easy-to-do thing but the reality is often a totally different story.

Keep reading Cloud Hosting Providers where videos cannot be stored for playback on your website: OneDrive, ADrive, Dropbox

High ISO Noise Reduction: CaptureOne vs DXO PhotoLab

High ISO Noise Reduction: CaptureOne vs DXO PhotoLabHow much of a difference can software make with high ISO images? A lot of difference it turns out.

How to download any video on the Internet

How to download any video on the InternetIf you don't want people to use, share or save your videos, there's only one thing you should do - don't post them online.

Piping UptimeRobot alerts into Teamwork Chat

Piping UptimeRobot alerts into Teamwork ChatI hope this short essay helps anyone trying to monitor site uptime or pipe any kind of alerts into Teamwork Chat.

How to Create Burned-In Subtitles Using YouTube and HandBrake

How to Create Burned-In Subtitles Using YouTube and HandBrakeMost people, 85% of them, watch videos without sound. To make sure your message gets through, consider burning your subtitles into your videos.

Worst Services We Actually Use: Fruux Review

Worst Services We Actually Use: Fruux ReviewInsisting on changing web standards instead of supporting customers is the best example of Millennial Moronity I've seen in my career in IT.

The Definitive Guide to Deploying Apple OS X 10.13.5 High Sierra on Mac Pro 4,1 or 5,1 Silver Towers

The Definitive Guide to Deploying Apple OS X 10.13.5 High Sierra on Mac Pro 4,1 or 5,1 Silver Towers

The Mac Silver Tower 4,1 and 5,1 remain one of the most powerful Macs ever made, depending on your processor. Even the eight core 2.26 GHz version is incredibly powerful and fast, outrunning any MacBook Pro and most iMacs, as will a hexacore 3.33 GHz or 3.46 GHz. Certainly they are more expandable, repairable and upgradeable than any other Mac built since, with SATA SSD and PCI cards and graphic card upgrades readily available and easily installed. For video editors, the Mac Pro Silver Tower is one of the best computers ever built.

In terms of cost for performance, no current Mac whether iMac or iMac Pro can touch the 4,1 and 5,1 Silver Towers. What's especially wonderful is that both of them will still run the latest Apple OS and software perfectly, with just a bit of preparation. I'll take you through the steps of a successful deployment of a 4,1 Silver Tower with High Sierra.

Start by Testing Your Hardware: Apple Hardware Test

The first thing you should do is test your hardware. This is easier said than done on older hardware. Apple has some lovely software called Apple Hardware Test a.k.a. as AHT. There's no joy in suffering through crashes which are hardware related, trying to debug your OS (software).

Normally you find AHT at this path /System/Library/CoreServices/.diagnostics

Unfortunately, recent versions of the OS have not included AHT or at least not for older computers. Happily some enterprising Apple fans have collected all the versions of AHT out there for all kinds of Apple computers including Powermac, Powerbook, iBook, iMac, MacMini, MacPro, MacBook and MacBooks Pro.

Keep reading The Definitive Guide to Deploying Apple OS X 10.13.5 High Sierra on Mac Pro 4,1 or 5,1 Silver Towers

How to download all the photos from your Twitter account

How to download all the photos from your Twitter accountLooking to download all your images from Twitter? Here's a guide on how to do it.

Why You Should Buy Vimeo Pro on Sale on Mother’s Day

Why You Should Buy Vimeo Pro on Sale on Mother’s DayI worry that Vimeo Pro Pricing is so good that eventually Vimeo will remove the basic Pro account for new users. Get Vimeo Pro now at 30% off.

Apple OS X shortcomings got you down? Read some Windows 10 blog posts to cheer up

Apple OS X shortcomings got you down? Read some Windows 10 blog posts to cheer upThe price of a working computer on the "free" Windows 10? Two hours out of your life and storing all of your files on Microsoft's servers.

A billion reasons never to buy IBM services

A billion reasons never to buy IBM services
The situation is more serious than I initially thought when I wrote this article. IBM has repeatedly savaged governments around the world for sums up and over $1 billion dollars for systems which don't work and have to simply be discarded.

Winning megaprojects with low initial bids and then turning a $20 million project into a billion dollar con of the client appears to be an artform at IBM. Governments all over the world have suffered, tax payers have paid for senior IBM bonuses. Ordinary citizens have gone six months or more without their paycheques.

This behaviour appears to be IBM policy and not an accident. This very grave situation cries out for a deep investigative long form feature. Together the governments of Canada and Australia and Pennsylvania (just the ones I've found so far) likely have a case of deliberately malicious business practices.

Apparently IBM has made USD $780 million building a payroll system for the Canadian Government which does not work.

Potential Savings on Payroll

The idea was to save money by eliminating jobs. Canada has about 260,000 public servants. Over 1200 people were working on payroll (accountants, bookkeepers and managers mainly with some IT guys thrown in to make it work). This is about half of one percent on payroll. Payroll is about one third the cost of accounting in our company. I'm unable to bring our accounting costs much below 3% of turnover on a sub-million dollar turnover despite strong efforts and automated software like Freshbooks.

Keep reading A billion reasons never to buy IBM services

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