I have some movies initially released in the 90s and later on re-released as Blu-rays. These videos contain a lot of picture noise. I tried two different ways to reduce noise from the videos. First with the free software Handbrake,…
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…
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…
Intune PowerShell SDK Install the Intune PowerShell SDK with the command: Give admin consent with: List all the managed Intune devices: This will get the following properties unless else specified: Get the devices of a user in Azure: You can…
What is Lenovo Vantage? Lenovo Vantage is primarily a software to get drivers for a Lenovo computer. Lenovo Vantage provides a user interface for changing hardware settings, running diagnostic scans, checking for driver updates, and more. Whereas Lenovo previously provided…
Forget about MP3, AAC, M4A, and other lossy audio codecs. Opus is the best lossy codec for interactive speech and audio transmission over the Internet! At the time of writing the Opus format outperforms every other lossy audio format, and…
Google Chromes Manifest V3 is probably going to make some consider switching browsers. At least this was the final straw in my case. Being a long-time Google Chrome user, initially, I decided to switch to Brave browser after becoming a…
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.…
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…
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for extracting data from HTML and XML files. If you have ever tried to scrape content from webpages you would know that it can be very tedious without the right tools. Especially if you…
What is youtube-dl? Youtube-dl is a command-line tool that can download videos from multiple websites including Youtube. It can also download audio, subtitles, thumbnails, metadata, and a lot more. It requires the Python 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is…