With MiniTool Video Converter, you can record any activity on your computer screen with a full-screen or selected area. You have options to record the screen with system audio or audio from a microphone.
Moreover, you can use MiniTool MovieMaker to convert video and audio formats and even turn them into formats compatible with mobile devices. You can use this program to download YouTube videos and music.
On your Mac, you can use the Screenshot toolbar (Shift, Command, and 5) or QuickTime Player to record screen. If you need other third-party applications to record your screen, you should allow for screen recording on Mac. If not, your screen recording might not work.
Another fix for QuickTime Player screen recording not working is to update Mac to fix bugs. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, click the Software Update, then click Update Now or Upgrade Now to install.
Finally, make sure to browse through the other features that your screencast software is offering. These extra features usually make a substantial difference to the overall user experience and make one software stand out from all the rest.
Riverside is an online recording studio and top-quality video creation platform. Using your browser or mobile, you can connect and record with up to 7 remote guests, livestream, and share your screen. Your screen recording can be up to 1080p and always record as a separate track. When you finish recording, you can download it as a separate MP4 or a constant frame rate MP4.
Camtasia is a dedicated screen recording software. You can create all kinds of videos, including tutorials, lessons, presentations, training videos, and more. Camtasia also offers its users video templates to make it even easier to get started.
Movavi has several tools, including a video editor, converter, and a dedicated screen recorder. Using Movavi, you can save video calls, webinars and create your own screencast demos and presentations. You can record both your screen and sound, as well as overlay your webcam.
Mastodon is shaping up to be a real Twitter alternative contender especially in the tech-sphere so I wanted to try my hand at running my own instance in Docker. The experience for getting it up and running turned out to be the most streamlined but hopefully this guide will make things a little easier for others in the future.
Also for some reason the latest version at the time of writing (4.2.1) has a docker-compose linking to mastodon 4.2.0 so update those numbers were possible. Your file should now look something like the following:
On OSX volume directories are created inside a linux VM, not on your filesystem in the expected place. I found that when I created the folder manually before firing up the container, its files appeared as expected. So create the volume folder:
As the proud owner of a Swann NVR-7090 4 security camera system, I've always had a passionate distaste for the SwannView Plus app. Not only is the app itself terribly made with a non-standard and unintuitive tooltip-free UI, but it's also not even mentioned on the official Swann website outside of some random support threads. There is a Windows version that hasn't been updated in years, and an OSX version that is 32-bit only and doesn't work on modern versions of OSX. This set of cameras does not work in any of the other SwannView apps (Why are there so many of them? They all do the same job!). Argh! The one light at the end of the tunnel is that this system supports being streamed over the RTSP protocol allowing us access with more modern apps such as VLC. There's a few things you'll need to go do get everything working and I've done my best to describe every step in detail below.
When opening a local website, the certificate should be used but you might see a NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID error. This is the case, because modern browsers/systems do not trust self-signed certificates by default. to overcome this issue, we have to add the created certificates to the macOS Keychain Access. For this, open the *.crt files in Keychain Access:
The steps above might already work for Chrome and Safari. If you have problems with Firefox, just open settings and go to Privacy & Security. Then you have to import the root certificate file RootCA.crt, so that Firefox knows about your certificate.
With Elden Ring saving every step you take and stories of hackers destroying save files with various exploits it's important to keep a healthy backup schedule. For that reason I've whipped up an improved version of my Subnautica backup script for Elden Ring.
After an unfortunate incident involving a crash and a lost save file, I decided to write a batch script to automatically back up my Subnautica 2 saves every x number of minutes. You'll need 7-Zip and PowerShell installed.
While playing around with Frontity (a react framework for WordPress) I noticed the compiled bundle size for the default Mars theme was pretty huge clocking in at an unacceptable 390KB of JavaScript. That's a lot to download before my site will appear. Below I detail how I knocked over 100KB off that size with no discernible difference in functionality simply by swapping out React with its lightweight drop in replacement Preact.
To replace React we need to modify Frontity's webpack configuration. At the time of writing it's not documented how to do that however a forum post by SantosGuillamot contains a link to a CodeSandbox showing how to do it.
For something that should be simple, importing a model from VRoid Studio into Unreal Engine 4 as of the time of writing is extremely convoluted and time consuming - even with the great tools that have been created to speed up the process.
Below I'll attempt to walk through every step I took to get things looking and working correctly as well as documenting my struggles along the way. Our basic workflow will be VRoid -> Blender -> Unreal.
With Cats installed, back in the main Blender window at the top right in the outliner under Scene Collection, right click on Collection and click Delete Hierarchy to delete everything in your scene and give you a blank slate for importing your model.
For this model, I needed to combine my materials in a specific way. Open the Optimization tab, and under Atlas click Generate Material List. To help see the material names it may help to widen the panel which you can do by simply dragging the edge of it left. My model includes 17 materials and I combined them like so:
Uncheck HAIR_01, FaceEyeline, FaceEyelash, FaceBrow, EyeIris, EyeHighlight, EyeExtra, HairBack and click Save Atlas to.. button. Create a folder called Atlas and save to there. A new material_atlas_* material will be added to your list. Rename it to material_atlas_other.
Check FaceEyeline, FaceEyelash, FaceBrow and Save Atlas to.. again. Save to your Atlas folder. Rename your new atlas material to material_atlas_eyehair. Do the same for EyeIris, EyeHighlight and EyeExtra. Name it material_atlas_eyes. You should just be left with the two hair and your new atlas materials.
Minimize the Optimizaton tab and before exporting, open the Settings & Updates tab and check Embed Textures on Export. Now back up at the top of the panel hit Export Model and save your FBX. This time, ignore the material warning and click Continue to Export. In the window that pops up just leave everything as-is and click Export FBX.
Double click the material_atlas_eyes material. This will open the material editor. Click on the material_atlas_eyes node and in the Details panel on the left set the Blend Mode to Translucent. Now plug your texture samples alpha channel into the new Opacity pin. Your preview on the top left should start looking a lot better. Hit Save up top and close the material editor.
While working through this whole process I decided to try making a quick animation in Blender to confirm Cats was correctly setting up the models rig and UE would in turn be able to play its animation.
Gutenberg may be the shiny new toy available for WordPress admin but it still feels very limiting at times - especially when trying to do things the developers don't anticipate. I wanted to add an extra button at the top of the post edit page next to the Publish button before finding out there is no SlotFill for this but once again, React has us covered with a handy little helper createPortal. createPortal allows you to place a component anywhere in the DOM of your choosing - perfect for what I wanted to do here.
This setup is quite flexible allowing you to add components pretty much anywhere on the page you like. I've commented the component as best I could. If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comments section below.
I think the reason for this is because I'm using Full (Strict) encryption mode in CloudFlare dashboard which requires a valid SSL certificate be present when communicating between my web server and CloudFlare.
The solution for this is instead of using certbot's default authentication method, we instead make use of the certbot-dns-cloudflare plugin that will handle the Lets Encrypt challenge through DNS. This works by automatically creating and deleting our CloudFlare DNS TXT record for us during the certbot renew. Let's set this up now.
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