Editing videos can be a huge pain if you don't have the right tools. We know that there are a lot of tools available for image editing. You can quickly crop, resize, or manipulate an image without skipping a beat, but you can't do the same for videos. Let's say you want to resize a … Continue reading How To Edit Videos Using FFmpeg
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How To Take A Screenshot On Mac OS X
One of the many good things about Mac OS X is the built in support for taking screenshots. But then again, in this day and age, what operating system doesn't? Well, this is where it differs a little. I am sure most of you know how to capture a screenshot on OS X, but there … Continue reading How To Take A Screenshot On Mac OS X
Adding Hacker News Button To Your WordPress Blog
Every blogger writing about technology or any related field knows how important Hacker News is for promoting good articles. If your article reaches the front page there, it will have a stronger effect as compared to more general sharing sites like Reddit, Digg and StumbleUpon. Hacker News junta is more tech-oriented, and so their opinion … Continue reading Adding Hacker News Button To Your WordPress Blog
Why Do We Need CocoaPods?
Linker errors are painful to deal with. When we are working on our Xcode projects and when we almost done with everything, these linker errors pop up to make their point! Even if we can see the libraries right there in the GUI, it still can't find that library. Sounds familiar? Why do we have … Continue reading Why Do We Need CocoaPods?
Display Caller Of The Current Function In Python
If you have spent enough time coding, then you know where I am going with this. As the code gets bigger, debugging gets trickier. Keeping track of everything becomes difficult, especially when you collaborate with others and your functions are being called by someone else's functions. A lot of times, you may want see where … Continue reading Display Caller Of The Current Function In Python
NTFS Write Support On OS X Mountain Lion
If you have noticed, Mac OS X doesn't support writing onto NTFS disks. But not to worry, you don't have to install any third party drivers to enable this. Mountain Lion 10.8.3 already has native write support for the NTFS. OSX Mountain Lion does have built-in support for NTFS, and it can read and write. However, Apple does not enable it … Continue reading NTFS Write Support On OS X Mountain Lion
How To Reset The Admin Password In Mac OS X
So you have finally gotten yourself in this situation! You have a Mac in front of you and you have forgotten the admin password. You don't have the cd either. What we do we do now? Well, as it turns out, there is a simple procedure to reset the admin password: Restart the macbook. … Continue reading How To Reset The Admin Password In Mac OS X
How To Convert An Existing Django Project To Eclipse Project
So you have a Django project and you want to use Eclipse IDE to modify and control it. When I say "existing Django project", I mean a Django project created without using Eclipse. If you are not sure how to use Eclipse to manage your Python project, you can check out this blog post. You … Continue reading How To Convert An Existing Django Project To Eclipse Project
How To Install Valgrind On Mac OS X
As your code gets bigger, keeping track of memory becomes critical. These things often become the source of huge crashes and annoying bugs. Detecting them manually is a very tedious process. So we need a tool to manage all this for us. This is where Valgrind comes into picture. Valgrind is a programming tool for … Continue reading How To Install Valgrind On Mac OS X
Non-ASCII Character Syntax Error In Python
So you played around with Python enough to get to this error? Good. Now let's see what happened here. When you copy something and paste it into a .py file, some of the characters may not be copied correctly. Given below is the error Python usually spews out when that happens: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character … Continue reading Non-ASCII Character Syntax Error In Python
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