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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.
Full YouTube Support Moved To The Free Version
You can now put fully customized player over any YouTube video for free with FV Player.
What Twilio’s acquisition of SendGrid means for SendGrid Users
Internet & technology service providers should not have political *opinions* at work. Be very careful where you set up SMTP. It’s a pain to move.
Safe upgrades for WordPress versions 3.7 through 4.0
WordPress is dropping security updates for versions pre-4.0. What if you want to move to a version before 5.8? With our BusinessPress you can.
Rumble Hosting And Live Streaming Supported In FV Player
FV Player Pro lets you effortlessly embed Rumble videos and Rumble live streams in your own player.
Odysee Live Streams Supported
FV Player lets you embed both videos and live streams from Odysee – the blockchain based peer-to-peer data exchange platform for creators.
How to efficiently track down mystery audio notifications in macOS/OS X
There’s a quick way to track down to errant audio beeps/bings/gongs via terminal, using the “lsof” command.
Simpler Caching System for WordPress: Surge
Surge promises to take the complexity out of caching with zero configuration, off-loading the heavy lifting to Linux kernel page cache.
GDPR Plugins for WordPress: No Good Options
There’s a lot of room in the GDPR space for an independent developer who creates a lightweight and easy to configure privacy plugin.
WordPress Drag and Drop Hierarchical Page Management
All three plugins are free. None of them have a pro version and are thus are hopefully free of nagware. Let’s test them against 800 pages.
Advanced Video DRM: How to Stop Video Piracy Cold
It doesn’t help publishers if stopping piracy costs more than the revenue lost to piracy. Here’s how to affordably implement advanced DRM.
How to setup fail2ban for WordPress with CDN
The key is to configure fail2ban to use `DROP` with iptables instead of just `REJECT`. REJECT allows the IP to keep using an open connection.
Airplay and AppleTV user agents
Here’s some useful AppleTV user agent strings from the excellent User-agents.net database to help with Airplay development.
Take Your Tutor LMS Video Lessons To Another Level
Tutor LMS is a great eLearning and online course solution. Take your video lessons to a higher level by using FV Player videos.
Host Videos And Live Stream With Viloud
Viloud is a great tool to run a web TV Channel. You can use FV Player with videos and streams hosted on Viloud.
