Setting up file shares in Windows 10 can be a little tricky sometimes. Here is a checklist you can go through if it fails. Remember you don’t need Network discovery or HomeGroup activated. 1. Make sure both computers are connected…
What is iTunes metadata Music purchased from the iTunes store can be downloaded as m4a files. These files are encoded MPEG-4. The files include metadata such as artist, track number, album, and so on, but they also include personally identifiable…
There are a lot of free software alternatives out there, but lately, though I have been kind of obsessed with keeping things lossless and ended up paying for “TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 6” because it was the only software that…
Want to update Windows 10 without connecting a computer to the internet? Let’s start with a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro on a virtual machine without an internet connection. Let’s run winver.exe to see which version we have first.…
If you want to enable or disable programs from starting with Windows, there are a couple of places to look. This post will show you all the places you can look for startup items in Windows 10. Startup items in…
By default, Microsoft Word will compress and resize pictures. This will permanently degrade the image quality. If you make a document, add a picture to it and then later try to save that picture to your hard drive, the picture…
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Since rotating images in Windows causes images to loose quality, I decided to use ImageMagick to rotate images instead. ImageMagick is a small command-line tool for image processing. Rotating images with ImageMagick is fairly simple: Rotate right magick convert -rotate…
Rotating pictures using the context menu in Windows will degrade the quality of pictures. ⛔ One would think that Microsoft had thought of this, right? 🤔 It turns out that this has been an issue ever since Windows XP. Back…
I just bought a shiny new Samsung Q65T TV (QE55Q65TAUXXC), only to realize that it doesn’t support the DTS (Digital Theater Systems) sound codec. DTS is an audio format used in most Blu-Ray discs today. So I even checked the…
I was recently trying to scrape a Japanese static HTML website with Python 3, requests, and Beautiful Soup. The website was a .jp-site, but the text appeared to be in English. DevTools also confirmed that the HTML markup was in…
Google Play Music will be terminated at the end of 2020 in favor of YouTube Music. Or at least that is the tone from Google in the last few weeks. Google Play Music is a music streaming service like Spotify…