There’s a quick way to track down to errant audio beeps/bings/gongs via terminal, using the “lsof” command.
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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.
Easier Managing of Videos In FV Player Coconut
FV Player Coconut lets you easily manage the video library in DigitalOcean Spaces, by creating folders right in the WordPress Media Library.
New Feature for BusinessPress: Fail2Ban for WordPress Hack Attempts
A great place to hunt hackers is in the WordPress search field. Hackers like to search with what should be forbidden terms in WordPress search.
How to build a modern good looking table for email reports
The real trick is with the nth alignment styles which make it very easy to build well-aligned columns.
DuckDuckGo: No Tracking, No Search Bias?
DuckDuckGo is no doubt the most popular privacy focused search engine. Does it live up to its fame and how independent are the results.
How to hide ZeroHedge Sponsored Posts
Recently (April 2022) ZeroHedge has started to add very irritating sponsored posts to every page of their site. Here’s how to hide them.
Exciting day at the office
At a rally to support former Prime Minister Fico against prosecution for corruption, the focus is that Slovak social services should be first for Slovaks not for Ukrainians.
What is a Unicorn worth? Comparing startup revenue vs valuation in the USA and Europe
Are unicorns really of a profitable value or is it just a VC-boosted bubble? See how USA and European unicorns compare in valuation and revenue.
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.
