On the desktop version, it's hard to find save places for Google Maps; however, it's saved with Google Bookmarks:
https://www.google.com/bookmarks/lookup?sort=
Export Quicktime MOV for Snagit Recorded Session
The issue with recoding Snagit sessions, is it puts the audio on two tracks and when uploading it to YouTube, the audio disappears. Use VLC to see how the audio would play. Using QuickTime to convert the video. iMove does the same thing too, but it takes lots of resources as it imports media into it's library.
Steps to Process with QuickTime 7
- Open Movie with Quicktime, and you are going to export the MP4 movies as a Quicktime MOV file instead. Other formats seem to lose quite a bit of quality
- Audio Channels: Mono
- Compression Typ: H.264 with Best quality (Multi-pass)
Steps to Process with iMovie
- Combine and export audio traces of MP4 Snagit Movie with Audacity
- Open media for both movie and audio, edit movie clip and drop audio
- Add audio track and export the entire movie
- Delete all off the media files and empty trash
Use Python to format JSON
Easier way to format JSON instead of JSONLINT
With Python 2.6+ you can just do:
echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' | python -mjson.tool
Rename a saved Google Map
Find you map in https://bookmarks.google.com and then rename it there.
Stabilize Shaky Videos with Youtube Editor
Fixing/stabilize your cell phone/camera shaky videos using new feature of YouTube video editor.
Making videos while holding camera or cell phone in our hand always gives us some shaky results no matter how still our hands were. This is what we call shaky camera syndrome and this effect can easily be observed while watching that video.
In Plain English… You can make your shaky videos stable by using this feature with only a few clicks.
Here are the steps:
Go to YouTube video editor.
- Drag your video to the bottom row where you can edit it later.
- After dragging the video to bottom row, hover the mouse onto the video thumbnail and click on the “Effects” button of the three buttons shown on the thumbnail.
- It will lead you to another window where you will see “Stabilize this video” option (View screenshot below)
- Just tick on the option and let the YouTube do the stabilization for you.
How To Get Cursor/Arrow Keys On Swype
Today's tip is almost a necessity because I've seen so many of you looking and asking and complaining about having no cursor keys in Swype (us EVO 4G users absolutely need them - the phone has no trackball!).
So I am here to tell you that Swype actually does have cursor keys but they're hidden away in a secret menu behind a super-secret swipe. Well, not too secret but if you haven't looked through the manual, you are probably unaware of it.
How To Get Cursor/Arrow Keys On Swype
To get to the special menu, just swipe from the lower left button (the one with the letter 'i' and a squiggly) towards the button with 'SYM' on it.
Check it out - BAM, what's that? A hidden menu.
To go back to the regular mode, press the 'ABC' button.
Open a Command Prompt From the Desktop Right-Click Menu
If you don’t already have a quick launch icon or a hotkey set to open a command prompt, there’s really quick trick that you can do on any Windows 7 or Vista computer to open up a command prompt without having to navigate the menu.
Secret Items on the Windows 7 Send To Menu
Hold down the Shift key while right-clicking on the icon, and then try the Send To menu it now has all sorts of extra options!
If you want any of those to show up normally without holding down the Shift key, you can create shortcuts in the Send To folder. Just type the following into the location bar:
shell:sendto
Trimming Whitespace with Regular Expressions
Trailing white space:
[ \t]+$
Leading white space:
^[ \t]+
Both leading and trailing:
^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$
Also use the following if you want to trim line breaks too:
[ \t\r\n]
Compare Folders
Use the diff command with the -q switch for simple output, such as:
diff -q folder1 folder2 | sort > compare.txt