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]

Ever wanted to create a stop motion movie? If you are on a Mac you can do so for free from the command line. We will use imagemagick and ffmpeg available on Mac with homebrew. we need to convert our images: create the movie: [read more]

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

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]

This command finds all Flac files and then converts them to mp3 with FFMPEG keeping meta data. find . -name “*.flac” -exec ffmpeg -i {} -ab 320k -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 {}.mp3 \; [read more]