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Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Saving videos from a web site with VLC

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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 ...
Sunday, 11 February 2018

How to Download and Save Videos from a Website

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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...
Tuesday, 5 September 2017

How to save a video from Facebook

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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 ...
Thursday, 31 August 2017

How to access KeePass passwords from Chrome

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Installing KeePassHttp with a browser extension isn’t difficult. Here are the simple steps: If your portable KeePass 2.x directory doesn’t...
Sunday, 11 June 2017

PDF Toolkit (PDFTK) Examples

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I started using PDFtk Free recently, which includes the PDFtk command-line tool PDFtk Server. Although PDFtk Free includes a user interface...
Sunday, 16 April 2017

How to specify credentials to restart or shutdown a remote host with ‘net use’

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I recently wanted to shutdown a server on my local network ( notably a workgroup ) using the Windows shutdown command but encountered an acc...
Sunday, 12 March 2017

Can’t unpin an Office item from the jump list

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I recently ran into an issue with a pinned Excel 2016 document that wouldn’t go away. I’d pinned it to the Excel jump list (on the Windows 8...
Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Windows Update errors: WindowsUpdate_80244019 and WindowsUpdate_dt000

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In Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Update recently decided to stop working and referred me to the WindowsUpdate_80244019 and WindowsUpdate_dt...
Monday, 18 April 2016

Enabling Windows File History (aka Shadow Copy on Win 8) without an external drive or network drive

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After being hit by a crypto/ransomware trojan, I’m looking at all options to make file management and backups easier and automatic. Shadow C...
Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Disconnect or remove a website from Google Analytics

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To clean up Google Analytics and remove web sites you’re no longer interacting with (e.g. client sites to which you’ve been granted access),...