There’s a quick way to track down to errant audio beeps/bings/gongs via terminal, using the “lsof” command.
Alec Kinnear
Creative Director
Alec has been working with video since 1995. Before founding Foliovision in 2004, he worked as a Head of Television for Grey Moscow and a TV producer at Bates, Saatchi and Saatchi Russia. Alec maintains a photography and culture weblog at uncoy.com. Alec holds an Honours B.A. from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in Modern Languages and Literature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Video of the Week: Pets by Porno for Pyros
Porno for Pyros “Pets” (1993) is a prophetic song, presaging a time when governments would seek to RFID not just pets but their human subjects.
VOW: New Year’s Eve Bratislava 2021 Street Music
Video of Jan Nedvědi’s “Máme jen sebe”. Happy New Year FV Player users and lovers of good music! Much love and good cheer to you in 2022.
Privacy: Iridium, unGoogled Chromium, Brave Browser face off
All of Iridium, unGoogled Chromium and Brave Browser make bold claims for privacy. Talk is cheap and fortunately the EFF is here to referee.
How to publish full size images in WordPress
There are two choices to disable the default nanny function which limits image size in Wordpress to 2560px. There’s no GUI but here’s how to do it.
How to customise OS X safely: TinkerTool and TinkerTool System
TinkerTool offers a consistent interface to tweak OS X hidden preferences for over a decade now across a dozen OS X versions.
Choosing a working colour space for photography: sRGB, AdobeRGB, Wide Gamut RGB or ProPhoto RGB
If you can’t see it, you can’t correct it. How to navigate a smooth path between colour spaces for web and print.
How to repair broken mp4, m4v and mkv videos with ffmpeg
Batch repair with no transcoding or generation loss! Since we are already on the command line, doing it in bash makes the most sense.
VOW: Russell Brand on Apple Surveillance
Ex-comedian Brand understands that a surveillance state, where security organs enjoy powers like the KGB and the Gestapo, is no laughing matter.
