Wed: Jun 10, 2015

Fred's ImageMagick Scripts. Fred has been busy and hates writing the same thing twice.     #>


ImageMagick, four point perspective distortion in a video. That's pretty impressive, scripting a transform that lets you pull a video out of a video. There's also an Avisynth version. Even more impressive, both of those tools are free, no need to spend money to do something like this.     #>


Newsbin v6.60 Watchlists. Bookmarked more for me than anything for when they release v6.60.     #>


How To Cold-Call A Lawyer: A Potential Client's Guide. This implies you have some time to track one down, not that you are sitting in a jail cell contemplating making a phone call...     #>


h264ify Firefox and h264ify Chrome. Forces Youtube to use H.264 video (which you probably have a chip in your device for) instead of VP8 or VP9 (which you absolutely do not have a chip in your device for). Gives you much better battery and video performance.     #>


Filebot Media Organizer. Currently using a specific tool for my WDTVLive box but if I ever change to something needing Plex or some other media player I'll definitely look back into this.     #>


Easily check your IP address with Perl. This does require access to checkmyip.com (which obviously requires internet access.) I've been doing my own version of checkmyip on my own servers, partly so I can check from my laptop when I travel and partly to have something I can automate with cron from home in case my home IP changes while I'm away, I'll still be able to get to my home server.     #>


Defined by the Line: A Film About the Fight to Protect Bears Ears. This is a place, not a thing.     #>


Webcam Pulse Detector. Uses your webcam and image processing to check your pulse. I guess you can tie that in with your dead man switch?     #>


sslmate, lets you buy SSL/TLS certificates from the command line, no more faffing about with emailing requests back and forth and such. Decent pricing, $15/domain (goes way up with a wildcard cert).     #>


Why Washing Chicken before Cooking Is Unsafe. Basically the risk of splashing the salmonella around is greater than if you just kill it with fire in the oven...     #>


Sovereign. A set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud: email, calendar, contacts, file sync, IRC bouncer, VPN, and more. If you use Ansible as your auto-configuration tool this is worth looking into.     #>


Three Felonies a Day. Read this and understand how many things can be used against you by someone with a grudge.     #>


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