Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Freebies”
Have you ever wanted or needed to pull (extract) audio from a YouTube video? The other day I had a requirement to do so; I thought I would share the simple process. I’m a big fan of the Command Line Interface (CLI); so I will first show you how via …
The SafairSort website has been discontinued and now redirects to this blog site. If you wish to change the URL that opens after running SafariSort please follow the steps below: Open your Applications Folder Right-Click (or Control-Click) on the SafariSort.app and Choose “Show Package Contents” Open the “Contents” Folder Open …
Dark mode is all the rage these days. With Apple adding Dark Mode to the upcoming iOS (13) I see this trend increasing in its popularity. The current Mac OS (Mojave) and current Windows OS (10) support Dark Mode themes. Several web browsers are supporting Dark Mode detection when using …
The Apple Photos application leaves a lot to be desired. Its simplistic approach is often counter productive to advanced users. Something that drives me nuts is the inability to import a folder full of images directly into Photos while maintaining the folder name as a an album in Photos. I …
I often create thumbnails for images to be posted on various webpages. Instead of using Photoshop or some other image editor I wrote a simple Automator workflow to convert an image to a nice little thumbnail with ImageMagic. Note: I prefer my thumbnails to be 150×100 pixels. You can adjust …
I have a website where I always upload image files with a standard image size, quality level and unsharp. Instead of loading Photoshop or another image editor I wrote a simple Automator workflow to convert the file with my specified parameters using ImageMagic. Requirements: Automator, ImageMagic Workflow Breakdown Ask for …
After having to manually fix the A12E1 Adobe Cloud Update issue for the umpteenth time I figured I would put together a little Automator Workflow to do the magic for me automatically. If you are a Mac user and you randomly get hit with the “We’ve encountered the following issues: …
After updating one of my OS X systems to Snow Leopard I am no longer able to run any of my $1500 Adobe CS4 Applications… WTF! I followed all the steps that the non-English speaking Adobe tech from India read word-for-word over the phone from the useless Adobe tech support …
