this is… very good
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re-customized my musicbee. the tabbed browsing stuff didn’t make any sense to me until i realized the app really wants you to do everything in one tab, or else be constantly clicking between them like a web browser.
i wanted it to e.g. automatically switch to the playlists tab if i clicked playlists, and back to music if i click music; but instead it changes the current tab to whatever you click (like a web browser) or, if you have the current tab pinned, it keeps opening new ones.
anyway i gave in and just tried to put everything on the same screen, just resigned to using forward/back when needed. the playlist interface still sucks.
- minimal navigator – (stacked with)
- thumbnail browser sans thumbnails, displaying the tag
cAlbumArtist(a custom tag, lets me non-destructively tag any collaborators or featured artists so the album will show up under their name. also lets me avoid editing tags directly) - secondary player controls near queue
…& big artwork and L/R wave bar on the bottom
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edge-style vertical tabs in firefox (using sidebery & userChrome.css)
for whatever reason it won’t let me paste an image into the post box, even in Troubleshoot Mode, so i posted this with edge. i’m sure it’s something in my about:config…
(edit: it certainly was my about:config – the variable is dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled – you want that to be true – it allows websites to know you’ve pasted things)
Summary
Sidebery – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
create+enable userChrome.css (google it)
and add the following (via github user BrianGilbert) - Firefox userChrome to autohide Sideberry panel and hide titlebar tabs, and autohide Page Actions. · GitHubwith the following changes (ctrl+f for the relevant parts):
margin-top: 0px(originally -42) – keeps the top margin where the tab bar used to be.margin-right: 0px(originally 140)I don’t know why that was there, it creates an ugly space to the right of the menu.and adding the following to the top of the file to hide the Sidebery title bar:
#sidebar-header{ display: none }
it’s not perfect, I want to figure out a way to get the title of the Active Tab back in the titlebar, and widen the sidebar slightly, but it does pop open and shut like edge does.
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I install an extension called Font Customizer in chome, it could avoid images and only zoom in the font size.
This is much better than the whole web page zoom, now I can lay back on my chair and visit website super chill
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This program absolutely rules. I used to use IrfanView to do batch image processing but it was having some problems with transparent GIFs, so I needed an alternative. And here it is.
Basically, it lets you set up a series of instructions on how to modify the images then save them as a final file. But it can do way, way more than that, in extremely stupid ways.
One easy workflow: for Twitch, every time I add a new custom reward, I need to have icons of 28x28, 56x56, and 112x112. Don’t ask me why Twitch can’t do that, but anyway I made an ImBatch workflow that I can just drag the image onto and get the right 3 sizes. Easy.
Here’s the stupid fucked up one: I’m using FireBot on my streams, and if you’ve watched them you know that you can slam stickers up on the screen in random spots. Well, it turns out FireBot doesn’t actually have a “display random image at random coordinates” feature, so instead I came up with the extremely wacky solution of having multiple copies of the same “sticker” on canvases whose sizes have been randomly assigned. So the image is always in the lower right of the canvas, but the canvas itself is some size equal to or smaller than the width and height of my display.
Turns out ImBatch can do that because it supports variables and functions in basically every field. So I have a step like this:
And tada - that’s the sticker in a random position! And then I literally copied that action 5 more times so every image gets 6 randomized copies. Now Firebot just pulls a random image and displays it at 0x0y and it appears in a “random” spot.
Anyway if you’re like me and weirdly need to do batch image processing pretty regularly for your hobbies, I can’t recommend this enough. It’s totally free (not open source) unless you opt in to pay them, which is fine. The only feature locked behind a paywall is multi-threaded processing and I simply don’t need that at the scale I’m using these.
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Drive Snapshot - Download evaluation Software is free to use in that you can keep downloading the portable version, but costs 39EUR for a perpetual license. I’ve gotten a ton of use out of it.
I’ve used it for all sorts of maintenance, cloning, backups. The first time I used it was to fix non-booting systems where rebuilding the boot partition would not fix. Just make a snapshot of the main partition, reinstall Windows, then overwrite the new main partition with the snapshot.
It’s low overhead and super verbose with useful stats like read speed. Tonight I used it to move a 2TB media HDD with about 800GB that wasn’t passing SMART to a new one in about 2.5h. Most likely would have been an overnight thing otherwise, so I thought I’d mention it here.
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PodFriend has a super friendly interface for the podcast lover and it’s free.
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Windows 11 image viewer. I cannot Delete-key Enter to delete images in the default because the future is worse.
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ever since irfanview became a vector for spyware, I sought out a good basic image viewer and this is without a doubt the best one (better than xnview, imageglass, etc)
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Thanks! Saw you recommended something else up thread but it would require me to put money into my microsoft sccount to get.
say more???
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they started including browser toolbars in one of the versions and then it started getting flagged as spyware by various antivirus scans. No clue how bad a problem it actually is but I’d rather use something confirmed harmless than like some ancient windows 98 tech that’s gotten steadily worse over time
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Cool video about a virtual windows 98 environment on modern hardware.
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Infuse is a very nice video library/media center + player app for Apple devices. It reads files from standard network shares (I have it pointed at an SMB share from my Windows desktop), cloud storage, or media server setups like Jellyfin/Emby/Plex. Snappy, slick UI. Auto-downloads poster and screengrab images, descriptions, metadata based on filenames. Flexible homescreen layouts, can delete files right from the UI, all sorts of neat stuff going on here. Very efficient playback engine (can handle x265 encodes that choke in VLC on my pre-4k AppleTV) that can handle basically every filetype, nice upscaling if required.
Edit: some shots of how it looks in practice
Almost too good to be true? Well, it kinda is. The app itself is free but you gotta upgrade to the Pro version if you want to playback 4K HDR (4K SDR wroks in the free version) or some specific audio codecs. Paid version is…$100 if you want a lifetime license or some dumb subscription fee.
Might eventually make the paid plunge if I upgrade to an AppleTV 4k
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‘Crashd’ is an exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG WebOS TVs. Gives you an illicit appstore which you can use to install
- a bouncing DVD screensaver
- Doom
- cut-down RetroArch
- Steamlink/Moonlight clients
- a patched version of the Youtube app with adblock and ‘SponsorBlock’
- that’s about it
edit: also of interest:
http://mirrors.kodi.tv/nightlies/webos/master/
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the Jellyfin client used to be published there too, but they got it past LG’s QA finally
BoilR is a handy utility mostly aimed at scraping games from your various launcher libraries and importing them into Steam as shortcuts with automatically downloaded artwork.
But you can also use it to automatically one-click download artwork for all ‘Non-Steam’ games you’ve already added to your Library. Can also use it to quickly select new artwork for both native and non-Steam games; it pulls official and user-created artwork images from SteamGridDB.
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Procreate making an animation app “Dreams”, out in November for $20. Looks pretty nice.
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Very excited about this for hobby game dev stuff.
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