Apple, either let us turn off the screen when in clamshell mode, or open up the API’s to let Panaitu build a tool which will do it for us.
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WordPress 6.2 breaks many sites and plugins: here’s how to repair the damage
WP HTTP no longer sets HTTP referrer and MySQL escaping picks up new strings.
Set VAST Ads To Trigger Whenever You Want
Serve ads to your viewers easily and fairly. FV Player VAST allows for mid-roll VAST ads based on watch time.
Video of the Week: Chasing Shackleton
In 2017, adventurer and ecologist Tim Jarvis recreated Ernest Shackleton’s journey by boat from Antarctic to South Georgia Island.
How important is the difference between DxO DeepPrime and DeepPrime XD
The difference is not huge. The claims for image improvement are overblown as are the claims about false detail and imaginary textures.
Adventures in Autoplay and Sticky Video UX
Both visitor and publisher benefit from simple, intuitive rules. For a visitor to feel comfortable, it’s essential that site behaviour is predictable.
How to troubleshoot a WordPress membership website
The goal of these steps is to solve issues fast and ensure that troubleshooting causes as little pain as possible to the publisher.
Newest hosting option: PeerTube
FV Player supports a wide variety of hosting and other video-related services. The newest addition is PeerTube
Short film contest – $100K in cash prizes
Nanlite insists all the films must be new, so it won’t be other festival retreads and films from 2021. The competition is open until 31 May.
DNSmadeasy.com miscounting queries, charging thousands in dubious overages
Check your DNSmadeeasy overage charges carefully. “Our counting system is broken” is not an excuse many judges would accept.
How to Show Recently Watched Videos with Elementor
FV Player can be used to show videos which the user has started watching right in your Elementor theme.
Two ways Prompt to Continue Watching can improve your video site
Both LMS and video-on-demand sites benefit from an are-you-still-watching system, but with very different duration.
Lunar Monitor Control for M1 Macs
Lunar is powerful and ambitious software. No one else has taken on Apple’s crippling of monitor controls in quite the same head-on way.
Privatising Journaling: Ray Dalio’s big mistake in Principles: Your Guided Journal
Ray Dalio, famous investor turned non-fiction writer and historian of investment (Dalio’s descriptions of the decades through which he traded will be invaluable source of insight into the market of that half century in as little as fifty years when there will no longer be any living witnesses. He’s decided to share his system for […]
Why charee144 from Apple Discussions should be fired tomorrow
What’s wrong with Apple Discussions community forums and how to fix them.
A More Versatile Sticky Video Feature
FV Player Sticky Video feature is now activated by scrolling-up too.
Video of the Week: Sabre Dance
As excellent as the animation is the clip is basically a one-liner joke. What could have made Sabre Dance better would be a twist in the story…
How to stop an iPhone from charging past 80% and extend the life of its battery
There’s a lot of bad battery apps out there (ripoff-ware, adware, spyware) but there’s one very good one which will extend the life of an iPhone.
How AppleCare+ for Apple Watch really works with ROI numbers for Series 8, SE and Ultra
Apple wins when you use AppleCare+ and pay the forfeit. Apple wins when you upgrade. No matter what happens Apple wins. Without, you lose.
How to get rid of “iCloud for HomeKit must be enabled” alert
Notifications started after upgrade to iOS 15. Finding a solution which works has been difficult enough I’m posting it publicly to help others.
