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Google Cloud reCAPTCHA Enterprise is the successor (?) to reCAPTCHA v3.  The code snippets Google supplies for integrating reCATPCHA Enterpr...

Trying to run kdenlive.exe on Windows 8.1 was silently failing (no UI error messages, etc). Turns out my antivirus (Avast!) was flagging one...

Ever needed to compute the checksum (i.e. the hash) of a file you’ve downloaded from the internet? If not, you probably should—when you can—...

Saving a video from your news feed or a group can be a little awkward because you’re operating within an authenticated environment (i.e. you...

I recently wrote about how to download and save a Brightcove video using the m3u8 format. I’ve since found an even easier method for other ...

I recently watched a free video embedded in a website and wanted to save the video itself for future reference (imagine the nerve!). The vid...

If you want to download and save a video from Facebook, right-click on the video and click the option to ‘Show video URL’; copy the link to ...

Installing KeePassHttp with a browser extension isn’t difficult. Here are the simple steps: If your portable KeePass 2.x directory doesn’t...

I started using PDFtk Free recently, which includes the PDFtk command-line tool PDFtk Server. Although PDFtk Free includes a user interface...

I recently wanted to shutdown a server on my local network ( notably a workgroup ) using the Windows shutdown command but encountered an acc...