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februari 2021
Running Multiple Minecraft Servers

A question I get asked from time to time is how I run multiple instances of the Minecraft Bedrock server. It is quite easy once you know what tools to use. [read more]

januari 2020
Lazy hacker Sunday; A look at Zippyshare file download “security”.

Zippyshare prevents direct downloading to show you more advertisement. And who can blame them? After all they offer a free download/upload service used by millions! So how to bypass their security and create a direct link? [read more]

december 2019
Show hidden files on OsX

There is no need to use third party apps!
In your finder window press SHIFT + CMD + . [read more]

december 2019
Burn subtitles into a movie

NOTE: This solution “burns the subtitles” into the video, so that every viewer of the video will be forced to see them. Use the libass library (make sure your ffmpeg install has the library in the configuration –enable-libass). First convert the subtitles to .ass format: ffmpeg -i subtitles.srt subtitles.assThen add them using a video filter: [read more]

januari 2019
convert m4a to mp3 with ffmpeg

Ffmpeg is a great quick way to convert media files. I often use it to convert audio files to the desired format. the simplest way to use it is like the following example; In the next example I add a codec to convert to mp3; [read more]

juli 2018
youtube to mp3 download (single or playlist)

In case you want to convert a youtube video to a MP3 file, you could use one of the many online solutions. But if you don’t want all the advertising mess and are not afraid of using your terminal with bash, you can use the following solution. If you have not already installed HOMEBREW do [read more]