New HTML mark-up and design changes
This time we've focused on the technical background of our player and made few small but very important changes in our player's HTML code.
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New AMP Support in FV VAST
We're adding support for AMP powered sites to our FV Player VAST! If you want to find more info, check this announcement.
New Playlist Styles
New projects always bring new interesting views on our player so we're glad that we can introduce you two new styles for our video playlists!
New remember video speed feature
A brand new video playback speed feature is coming to FV Player. Check this feature announcement if you want to find more information.
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.
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New built-in video screenshot thumbnail generator
Have you ever spent several minutes just by taking screenshots and uploading them to your site to make a simple thumbnail?
Save yourself a couple of minutes per each video and use our new built-in screenshot thumbnail generator with the new FV Player version 7.3.18.727!
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High ISO Noise Reduction: CaptureOne vs DXO PhotoLab
How much of a difference can software make with high ISO images? A lot of difference it turns out.
New Chromecast feature
Chromecast is a handy casting solution developed by Google. Now also supported by both Free and Paid version of the FV Player!
New AB Loop appearance update
AB looping. It may sound simple, but the possibilities are enormous.
New multiple audio tracks support
We are happy to introduce you a support for multiple audio tracks for the FV Player! Single video, multiple audio tracks, fast and easy.
How to download any video on the Internet
If 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
I 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
Most 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
Insisting 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 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.
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How to download all the photos from your Twitter account
Looking 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
I 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
The 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
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.
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.
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How to Setup LastPass On Subdomains
What is LastPass and why you should use it
As they say, the only secure password is the one you can't remember. This is the idea that keeps password managers like LastPass going. With LastPass, you only need a one super-strong master password (there goes the name—"the last pass you'll ever need"), which can be a line from your favourite song translated to a different language you speak, a quote from a movie, or any other phrase that is not too easy to hack.
Once you've entered the master password, LastPass will let you access your credentials for every other account saved in LastPass (Facebook and Twitter logins, e-mail, etc.) or do the autologin (If you activated it. Don't do it.). This way, you can use strong generated passwords for your accounts, without having to remember them or writing them down.
The great thing about LastPass is that it stores your data encrypted online and the data is only decrypted locally in your browser with your key, which even LastPass itself does not have. This way, LastPass users are protected from hacker attacks like the ones that happened to Adobe or Apple users.
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